  Prison Break |
What follows is a confession that will bring my card-carrying status as a male into serious question.
Action-based shows usually leave me cold.
But notice the use of the term "usually" in that last sentence. When it comes to Prison Break, which returns to Global and Fox with a new episode tonight (8 p.m.), past behaviour apparently has little bearing on current behaviour.
Tonight actually is a monster night for Global, which also has the return of everybody's new favourite show, Heroes, at 9 p.m. If you were watching in the U.S., you'd have to make a choice between Heroes (on NBC at 8 p.m.) and Prison Break, but north of the border Global provides the opportunity to watch them back-to-back.
First up comes Prison Break, and we have to say, our heart almost jumped out of our chest at least three times when watching tonight's new episode, titled John Doe. Even if you aren't an action connoisseur, this really is what action TV is all about.
Now, it's true that Prison Break leads the league in gun-pointings. If a gun went off every time a character in Prison Break pointed a gun at another character, there would be no characters left. But if you can accept that, it's a wild ride.
Without revealing too much, the most electrifying moments in Prison Break tonight are centred on these high-risk showdowns:
- Imprisoned guard Brad Bellick (played by Wade Williams) versus bulky, bullying inmate Banks (Lester Speight).
- Terrence Steadman (Jeff Perry) versus the people who find him annoying, which is just about everyone.
- And T-Bag (Robert Knepper) versus the terrified Hollander family.
You just gotta love T-Bag's combination of low-life desperation and smarmy Southern cool. For example, as he's going through a photo album in the Hollander house, he says to Susan (K.K. Dodds), "If memory serves, I was at Storytime Village that day, too ... And I'm not in any of these pictures? ... I'm just teasing, baby ... Every woman has burned the photographs of her paramour only to later realize her love burns even hotter than the flames she used."
Speaking of hot, no show could be much hotter than Heroes these days. But it has a lot of characters and it hasn't been on TV for more than a month, so one of the biggest challenges when watching tonight's episode, titled Godsend, is trying to recall just where the story left off for all of them.
Just to throw another fish into the pool, at the end of tonight's episode yet another character is revealed to have super-powers.
Apparently the writers and producers of Heroes don't have super geographical powers, though. During tonight's episode a policeman describes the discovery of a dead body this way: "They pulled her out of Lake Ramsey, in Sudbury, a hundred miles out of Ontario."
Say what? Last time we checked Sudbury was a city and Ontario either was a lake or a province. In this case, neither makes sense.
Normally we sensitive Canadians would take offence. But dang it, we like Heroes too much to hold a grudge.
Just don't do it again, eh?
