One might hope that this 'event series' would rectify these seriously debilitating issues but if anything, the latest episodes of Prison Break move further toward total self-serious male fantasia than the initial seasons. We don't know her, or many of the regular figures in the series, as characters outside of their relation to these brothers. And for all the dependence that all these characters seem to have on one another, the only things we truly know about a character like Sara, beyond some largely irrelevant backstory, is how she feels about Scofield and Burrows. Rather, 'family' and its assumed facet of loyalty are seen as the obvious, necessary other against the thorough evil and betrayal-heavy doctrines of the government.

In fact, it's pretty clear that no one in the writers room of this show was ever genuinely interested in the details and real work that goes into maintaining a family unit. If one wishes to see this as 'love conquers all,' that's all well and good, but for all the talk of the importance of family, there's little over the last four seasons - or the four episodes of Season 5 that were made available to critics - that seems to give insight into what keeps Scofield, Burrows, and Calles' Sara bonded as a family. Mind you, this is a series in which a well-trained, brilliant female doctor ( Sarah Wayne Calles) sets fire to her career and risks a lengthy prison sentence for the possible love of a vaguely attractive, condescending prisoner and his brother.

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