There is no other possible explanation for him wearing a business suit in Season 2 with his shirt opened down to almost his navel. On the other hand, it seems the notes for his character indicate that his shirt must always be opened whenever it can be to show off his physique. His character's brother, the sentenced-to-die, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is comparatively wooden but gets less screen time. Miller, as the main character's Michael Scofield, manages to be both intense and quiet while projecting a sense of vulnerability and empathy. The saving grace is that the show's regulars, and it's a large cast are all perfectly designed to be highly watchable. This culminates in the season finale which is one of the most nail-biting cliffhangers I have ever seen in a TV show. Nothing ever goes right for the protagonists, or when something does, it collapses just as quickly – causing the situation to be built on hit-after-hit of near catastrophes. While I do not know the entirety of the original vision for the show, I suspect this experience shaped it strongly: Prison Break's foundation is a series of episode-to-episode cliffhangers. Therefore, the very first season was extended in mid-flight (apparently the hiatus caused some problems: the character was sentenced to die in 'May', and by the time they resumed shooting, it was snowing). Then, when it was finally picked up after a lot of studios turned it down because they doubted it had legs, it became popular. The show had some initial drafts as a movie. When I did some research, I discovered this was more or less exactly what happened. I commented to someone that Prison Break was taking a taut, feature-length film, and stretching it over a full season. Five seasons later, the show wraps up - so says Wikipedia - and, presumably, the chase comes to an end. Over the course of a 22-episode season, they work on the escape. The plans require the help of targeted inmates, including a man who may be the famous D.B. The brother, a brooding Wentworth Miller, is a master planner who scopes out a complex prison escape scheme - with lots of alternate plans. His brother, a genius structural engineer, tries to free him legally, but then finally decides to get arrested in order to break his brother out from the inside. Prison Break is a fairly straightforward idea: an innocent man is imprisoned due to a large and unlikely political conspiracy, and sentenced to die.
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