Prison Break Is Back

It turns out he looked familiar for a reason, Wentworth and I are around the same age and he went to my rival high school in Pittsburgh. I'm sure I'd seen him at a party or two. So, I tune into the first episode to check him out and then bang, I'm hooked on the show. It helps that Wentworth is cute but the show really is one of the most suspenseful on TV. It's insane that the writers can actually get you to care about a bunch of convicted felons but you do. And yes Wentworth thought I looked familiar too when last I interviewed him. So, I'm officially not crazy.

Now, if you haven't seen the show then you have a chance to get caught up before it premieres. The season one DVD is in stores right now. Go out and buy it and then stay home this weekend and watch a PB marathon. It's only 22 episodes. Minus the commercials that's only like 19 hours of TV watching. Besides after you pop in episode one, I guarantee you'll be hooked and won't want to turn it off.

However, should you find yourself with no time to catch up this weekend then have no fear, I promise you won't be lost when you watch the season premiere episode. There are plenty of flashbacks, as seen through the eyes of Veteran actor William Fichtner who joins the cast as FBI agent Alexander Mahone. He'll slowly piece together how Michael Scofield masterminded the escape.

Being the ultimate TV couch potato, I always like to know a few little teasers about my favorite shows. Who doesn't love watching the "coming up next week" clips at the end of the episode. I don't want to be a plot spoiler here (like some of those TV reviewers out there) but I'll give you a few tidbits since I have seen the first two episodes and interviewed all the guys. Getting any dirt out of the guys on the new season was difficult though. They all spoke very cryptically about what will happen. Dominic Purcell's Lincoln Burrows has the most at stake since he was hours away from being executed and desperately needs to get to his son LJ, who has been falsely accused of murder, "We are on the run obviously. The show itself is looking amazing. There is a lot of scope to the show this year, a lot of action, and it's interesting to see what the characters are like outside of the walls."

Eventually the gang will disband and go their separate ways but hot on the escapees' heels the entire time is Wade Williams Officer Bellick, "Nothing is sacred, anybody could die at any time or get captured and get sent back to jail." Shotgun in hand, Bellick will be a one man hunting team this season after a huge reward for the escapees is posted.

As had already been rumored someone will get the ax in the first couple of episodes but c'mon you know it won't be Wentworth Millers' Michael Scofield, "The sad truth is no one's job is safe which is a reality of a show like 'Prison Break.' I love working with my castmates hopefully they love working with me but we all know that anyone of us could go at any given time because its a show about prison. It's a show about convicts its a show about good men gone bad and bad men becoming badder. So in order to keep the stakes as high as they've been people need to go from time to time."

When I spoke to Robert Knepper who plays the ruthlessly scummy, T-Bag, he had his hair bleached blonde. It didn't quite dawn on me why until I saw the first episode. The mystery surrounding T-Bag is can he survive after John Abruzzi chopped his hand off in the season finale' "You are going to find out really soon cause there is only so long you can live without a hand before that hand finally goes. So, I actually called my doctor up in Beverly Hills. I always call him up for research questions and this one was 'doc how long can how long can a hand last if it cut off'' He said twelve, eighteen hours or something like that. Put it on ice you'll be fine"

He does indeed find some ice but you'll have to tune in Monday night to find out how. For more of my interviews with the "Prison Break" cast Click Here.