This isn’t that interesting a story, but I’m rewatching Prison Break and I guess feeling nostalgic and sentimental, so I thought I’d post about how I first encountered the show.
I was on my way to or from (I can’t really remember) soccer practice and my teammate and her mom were talking about this show they loved called Prison Break. They had watched the first season and were excited for the second season to start. I was 12, almost 13, and I guess something about what they said piqued my interest so I decided to tune into the season 2 premiere. I was instantly hooked. I begged my parents to take me to Blockbuster to rent the first season. I remember having an assignment to finish before the start of 7th grade and having to balance that with my binge watching.
It was 2006, so when I say I binged what I really mean is that I had my dad take me to Blockbuster after every 4 episodes to get the next disc. It was excruciating when my parents wouldn’t budge on spending another $5 on a rental but in the one or two weeks before 7th grade I finished the first season.
It’s the first television show I ever loved and it’ll always be so special to me. Watching it now, close to 20 years later is wild. I’ve seen it countless times, but I’m always reminded of the anticipation I felt on Mondays throughout middle school. It was a pretty unbearable time in my life, but Prison Break was the one bright spot during the week.
It was also the first thing that brought me to the internet. I met so many people on YouTube and various forums I no longer remember, it was such a bright spot in my life.
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Prison Break (2005) - Whump List
List by StayDandy
Synopsis : Michael Scofield is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother, Lincoln Burrows, was convicted of a crime he didn't commit and put on death row. Michael holds up a bank to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary, then sets in motion a series of elaborate plans to break Lincoln out and prove his innocence. Once out of jail, their perils aren't over — the brothers must flee to escape recapture and battle an intricate political conspiracy that endangers everyone's life. (Wiki)
Whumpee : Michael Scofield played by Wentworth Miller (right)
• Lincoln 'Linc' Burrows played by Dominic Purcell (left)
Country : 🇺🇸 America
Genres : Action, Crime, Thriller
Notes : This is a Partial List - I didn't list every bit of whump, just what caught my attention the most
• The show ended with 4 seasons in 2009, but was revived about 8 years later in 2017 for a mini 5th season of 9 episodes. Supposedly a 6th season was also in development, but that never came to fruition.
• The episode list is formatted season-episode : 00-00
• TW : Setting is prison, filled with criminals who are convicted of and talk about all kinds of nasty crimes, including child abuse & SA
Episodes on List : 19
Total Episodes : 90
Total Seasons : 5
*Spoilers below*
01-03 : Michael Scofield’s toe is cut off
01-04 : Bangs his own head against steal bars until he's bleeding
01-13 : Lincoln Burrows takes a pill that gives him food poisoning
01-15 : Michael is severely burned, his cellmate has to rip off melted-on clothes
01-17 : Put in solitary ... Punches a brick wall till his hand bleeds ... unresponsive
02-12 : Recalling childhood trauma ... Linc & Michael in a car crash
03-09 : Michael is put in a hot-box (plastic lined box large enough for 1 man, in the middle of a hot courtyard)
04-02 : Starts to suffer migraines & nosebleeds
04-03 : Stuck in a room that is loosing oxygen because of a fire security system ... migraines
04-05 : Nosebleeds
04-09 : Collapses, seizure
04-10 : Collapses, treated at a hospital ... (he's an awful character, but I do like the speech/poem TBag gives @ 22:30)
04-11 : Migraines
04-13 : Collapses
04-14 : Tries to run away, heavy nosebleed, collapses, captured
04-15 : Surgery
05-02 : Burns his head to fake fever, beat up
05-06 : In a fight, stabbed with a knifed dipped in antifreeze, poisoned ... wanders in the desert, sick, unsteady
05-07 : Severely sick
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