The dvd box sets Prison Break has a very interesting premise, one that seems more like movie material than TV show material. In it, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller) gets himself thrown in prison so that he can rescue his brother Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), a death row inmate accused of killing the Vice President's brother. Michael does whatever it takes to carry out his plan to help his brother. He pretends to have Type I Diabetes so he can get a daily visit with the prison doctor, a woman who is also the governor's daughter. He finds the whereabouts of the man who ratted on a mob boss so he can make use of his services when he escapes.

the dvd sets Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare, famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests.

As the new fish in this murky pond Paxton isn't immediately able to get chummy with cautious Scofield, so is forced to voyeuristically report on him from afar. As such, he'll need to perform certain tasks to prove his worth with the high rollers at Fox River - gigs like sneaking into the boiler room to retrieve 'C-Note' Franklin's stash, or helping out mob boss John Abruzzi by spiking 'Haywire' Patoshik's medication. As the game grinds on, Paxton (unsurprisingly) finds his loyalties shifting... though after you've duffed up your umpteenth schmoe in the silly underground prison fight club, endured countless heavy bag and bench-pressing minigames to ramp your stats up or sneaked through yet another infirmary/psyche ward/attic/ sewer you'll be begging for the lethal injection yourself.