Prison Break

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Season 4
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 29, 2005
Season #: 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
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Critic Reviews

  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Aubry D’Arminio
    83
    Three major characters are killed tonight within the first hour of a pretty stellar premiere.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    80
    Now it must find a way to become more than a routine action drama pitting plucky good guys against amoral, robotic bad guys. It's got the characters who can do that, though, and it's also streamlined its story enough so even a new viewer can figure out what's going on from tonight's back-to-back premiere episodes.
  3. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    60
    It’s especially good when the mission is as preposterous as this one. True to Prison Break form, the new season is laid out as a series of tasks, the retrieval of The Company’s most vital information, stored on what is essentially a digital black book (as opposed to hole).
  5. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    50
    The frantically violent mayhem, including a tasteless cannibalism gag, is paced swiftly enough that you can almost ignore the silliness of a show that isn’t above resurrecting characters long thought dead. Still, it beats last year’s miserable detour in a Panamanian sweatbox.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    30
    I only made it through the first hour and then I gave up.

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User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 235 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 121 out of 235
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 235
  3. Negative: 75 out of 235
  1. ck
    Sep 18, 2008
    10
    One of the best shows on tv.
  2. avirocks
    Jun 25, 2012
    0
    one of the finest shows all time ever....mike should not 've died there should be sequel to PB5 i'm waiting for it...is there any other showone of the finest shows all time ever....mike should not 've died there should be sequel to PB5 i'm waiting for it...is there any other show which can beat PRISON BREAK?????? other than SHERLOCK… Full Review »
  3. Marc
    Aug 31, 2009
    9
    Excellent show, fantastic cast and what a finale. The fina feature lengthl show was brilliant especially how they explained how Micheals Excellent show, fantastic cast and what a finale. The fina feature lengthl show was brilliant especially how they explained how Micheals character made his final break.… Full Review »
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