I really love the idea of tv shows have two-parter episodes, however this episode felt too long for what was happening. Too many similar shots of the prisoners rebelling/yelling/breaking in, just very repetitive and kinda bad storytelling, if you need to emphasise how big their take-over of the prison is by showing them do the same thing multiple times. I reckon a good 10 minutes could've been shed from the runtime.
That being said, T-Bag is so freakin' annoying and it definitely feels like a heavy coincidence that the CO landed in Michael's cell, and happened to grab the sink. Again, if it was just to reveal the breakout plan to more unnecessary people and for the main group to have to deal with it, it's just kinda lazy.
I also realised the guy who looked at the tapes and gave a professional opinion plays Joe Cruz in Chicago Fire, and CO Keith Stolte plays Mouch in the same series. Matt Olmstead was a producer for both those shows, so slight surprise there, was just trying to figure out who they were before I had to look it up!
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I really love the idea of tv shows have two-parter episodes, however this episode felt too long for what was happening. Too many similar shots of the prisoners rebelling/yelling/breaking in, just very repetitive and kinda bad storytelling, if you need to emphasise how big their take-over of the prison is by showing them do the same thing multiple times. I reckon a good 10 minutes could've been shed from the runtime.
That being said, T-Bag is so freakin' annoying and it definitely feels like a heavy coincidence that the CO landed in Michael's cell, and happened to grab the sink. Again, if it was just to reveal the breakout plan to more unnecessary people and for the main group to have to deal with it, it's just kinda lazy.
I also realised the guy who looked at the tapes and gave a professional opinion plays Joe Cruz in Chicago Fire, and CO Keith Stolte plays Mouch in the same series. Matt Olmstead was a producer for both those shows, so slight surprise there, was just trying to figure out who they were before I had to look it up!