Prison Break (TV Series) The Message (2007) User Reviews

A Giant Setup?

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 23 October 2008]

In Cutback, Montana, Kellerman lures the police and Michael and Lincoln abduct the cameraman Greg of Fox News and succeed in escaping from the siege. Michael and Lincoln decide to tape a message to be released in the Breaking News. Mahone is back in Chicago and analyzing the message; he interrogates Greg and he tells that he had overheard Michael tell that they should cover 460 miles in six hours. Mahone deducts that they intend to meet President Caroline in Denver. Wheeler discusses with Mahone and yells that the internal affair asked him to follow all moves of Mahone. Bellick is badly wounded in the infirmary of Fox River. Sucre befriends an old passenger in a bus to Ixtapa; however the driver asks him to leave the bus in a small town and Sucre robs the Volkswagen of the old man. In Algoma, Winsconsin, Haywire befriends a young couple and the girl has bruises on her arm; she tells that her abusive drunken father uses to beat her.

"The Message" is the weakest episode of the second season of "Prison Break". The situation of Haywire is silly; Sucre has a lesson of life in a corny and unbelievable part of the plot; the exaggerated cleverness of Mahone is irritating and they guy forgot that he was shot in the two last episodes. How could a statement like the message of Michael and Lincoln be simply suppressed without any consequence? Is Kellerman plotting a giant setup to Michael, Lincoln and Sara? My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Mensagem" ("The Message")

The Company gets a description

[thankyou61 · 7/10 · 31 March 2013]

The most significant event in this episode is that Lincoln tells the world, as well as us, what "The Company" is. "They are a group of multinationals with corporate interests." "They are working with the highest levels of government, including the president of the United States." I believe Prison Break is one of the earlier shows that came up with this idea. Heroes's version of The Company developed in about 2007 and 2008. 24's version of a group of people who control the government and the President of the United States appeared in 2006 and 2007. Prison Break, on the other hand, had this idea from the beginning, and here, during the 15th episode of season 2, it finally gave "The Company" a formal definition, through the words of Lincoln and Michael.

The characters continue to live in a very dark state, and the cast really look believable in their performances. Bill Kim never gets a break in his life, does he? It's like he has to respond to every event that ever happens in the world. Bellick just keeps getting into trouble and yet keeps finding ways to improve his situation. He's becoming a lite version of T-Bag, who just keeps surviving under horrible circumstances. How does Bellick even know all that about the Alcoholics Anonymous book anyway? Either he is an incredible reader who knows about a lot of books, or he has been in the AA program himself. Either way, it adds tremendous depth to his character. When you think about it, it makes sense that none of the federal agents in Mahone's office knows about this book. They are professionals who don't have drinking problems. When Bellick works with Mahone and provides his "street wisdom", that the academic people don't have, you see the strength of the low-lifes.

Finally, Haywire is still alive. The writers decided to keep him going for a good part of the second season. There's a moment of foreshadowing in this episode. When Lincoln talks about Alex Mahone's history with the fugitives he has gone after before, we see Haywire on screen. Eventually Mahone will find Haywire, and history will probably repeat itself again. Before the inevitable downfall of Haywire, the writers gave him a moment to shine, to kill an abusive father and restores at least some amount of justice to this dark and desperate world.

Kaley Cuoco's appearance in this episode was forgettable. She just doesn't fit in a show with such strong acting. Her character, like most characters on the show, has dark issues. But unlike other characters, she wasn't able to convey that in her performance. This was Kaley before The Big Bang Theory, her big break. Maybe she got better as an actress in that show. I don't know. Actors do get better sometimes. Wentworth Miller also couldn't act when he appeared on Ghost Whisperer and still couldn't act during season one of Prison Break. This year he got a lot better. I believe that working with so many talented actors, especially William Fichtner, has pushed him to develop his skills.