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Kelly (279 KP) rated Prison Break - Season 1 in TV

Nov 23, 2018  
Prison Break - Season 1
Prison Break - Season 1
2005 | Action
10
8.7 (19 Ratings)
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A well thought out and intelligent series. (0 more)
Non - stop tv!
Contains spoilers, click to show
I have to confess that I came across Prison break only recently. Despite a number of recommendations from friends to watch the series, I had never quite gotten around to it. The only thing that stops me regretting this, is that I am now able to binge watch the series as a box set.


Wentworth Miller acts the role of Michael expertly, the slightly eccentric brother, who aims to break his brother out of prison. Soon joined by characters such as T-bag and Sucre, all having their own complex backgrounds, we are teased throughout into trying to decide whether these characters are going to double cross Michael at any point in time. The writers play on our emotions as to whether the criminals with whom Michael connects are actually good at heart or nasty individuals.


In the background, we also have the relationship between Michael and Sara developing, which adds yet a further element to the story. Realising all along, that if Michael’s plan is ever to succeed, he will at some point have to double cross Sara, we are gripped as to how the plot line will play out. We also have Lincoln’s legal team, slowly unravelling the story as to Lincoln’s wrongful arrest and the murder of his ex-wife, and subsequent criminalisation of his son, extending the plot line from the walls of the prison.


The series itself has so many twists and turns, that you feel like you cannot take your eyes off the screen for a minute without missing an element of the plot. The series has been well wrote and intelligently thought out, from the use of Michaels tattoo’s to map out the prison, to the fooling of Lincoln’s electrocution with a dead rat, I couldn’t help but be hooked.


I effect, the writers have us routing for Michael and Lincoln to escape from prison, despite the fact that this will mean that they will also need to take some hard level criminals with them. I can’t wait to see what season 2 brings.
  
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Dean (6925 KP) rated The Green Mile (1999) in Movies

Sep 7, 2017  
The Green Mile (1999)
The Green Mile (1999)
1999 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
9
8.9 (76 Ratings)
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Great cast (1 more)
Based on a Stephen King short story
Very long film (0 more)
Moving story
A great and very original film based on a Stephen King story. Also directed by the same director as @The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Also set within a Prison as a guard tells his story of working on Death row and the inmates he came across.
  
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Domonique (0 KP) rated The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in Books

May 12, 2018  
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
Michelle Alexander | 2012 | Essays, History & Politics
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
This was interesting, informative and a bit depressing because I didn't realize just how many of our black men are in prison. And the fact that people don't see how mass incarceration is a form of racism and segregation is baffling to me. I think this is a book that all people should read so they can understand how justice really works.
  
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Ted recommended Tango & Cash (1989) in Movies (curated)

 
Tango & Cash (1989)
Tango & Cash (1989)
1989 | Action, Comedy, Drama
6.9 (8 Ratings)
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"This is like Road House in stereo. You get a badass Stallone and a badass Kurt Russell as buddy cops who get framed and sent to prison. John and I used to pretend we were Tango and Cash when we were kids. In fact, we still do whenever we watch it, which was as recently as last week. It just never gets old."

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