So worth a watch if you've already seen all of Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, the Wire, Oz, Lexx, the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Spartacus, Lost, Rome, even Game of Thrones and I'm sure a few more I'll kick myself for forgetting. I'm on Season 3 now which is even more ridiculous, but the characters who have shown staying power (not killed off yet) are really growing into their roles. I have to say that ALL the negative comments made about it are true, but once I got over comparing it to OZ and other class acts like the Wire and Lost etc, and accepted it for what it is, " nonsense on stilts' as one reviewer described it, then it became quite good fun, especially after they get out the prison in Season 2. Much more fun for me than say Mad Men, Deadwood, and Boardwalk Empire, all of which I found a stone bore. VERDICT (for anyone who can't be bothered reading any more, and why would you.) : RUBBISH BUT GOOD FUN. It's a complete joke compared to Oz, HBO's first series (also set in a prison, with a budget on about the scale of Prisoner Cell-Block H), though it looks like it cost about 100 times as much to make.īut I've got to say I eventually ' got into it' a bit. But the whole thing just seems juvenile, for the computer-gamers - expensive production aimed at 7-year olds.
The problem is the appalling wooden acting maybe - that's certainly part of it. It barely held my attention at first - I kept having to replay bits because my mind wandered.
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