‘Breakout Kings’ Series Premiere Review

If it takes a thief, a thief, then the criminal is caught huge ensemble Breakout Kings overqualified. The base reads like someone had suggested a cross between the leverage, flight, and Criminal Minds.

U.S. Marshals form of a special Task Force to understand high-profile convicts to escape pursuit. To achieve this efficiently, they ask former services ... Convicts. The prisoners make the team as a carrot and stick immediately known - to help the government representatives, and they get a reduced sentence in a minimum prison. Try to escape or otherwise out of line, and they are back in public.

Place the half of the team is legitimately from straight laced Charlie investigators made (Laz Alonso, Southland) and shoot-first, ask questions later-pound ground-Ray (Domenick Lombardozzi, The Wire). Quiet, Julianne fragile (Brooke Nevin, The 4400) The analyst / coordinator. Three disadvantages
them in their tasks: psychologist Lloyd neurotic genius (Currach Simpson, it's always Sunny in Philadelphia), Enterprise Gang Banger Shea (Malcolm Goodwin, Leatherheads) and seductive Philly confident woman (Nicole Steinwedell, device). After the pilot Philly goes back to the big house, and the subsequent manic murderer Erica (Serinda swan, Smallville and Tron magician Zatanna: Gem Legacy's sultry siren). Executive producer Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora are aware of the area, with cutting their teeth on the well-preserved Prison Break on Fox.

Premiere is the hook of the series: U.S. Marshal Charlie Duchamp finally gets moving from a large experiment, marshals a team together on the ability of law enforcement experience, and the crafty old runaway. His only choice for the project Zancanelli Ray, a marshal rebellious and sullen that (naturally) gets the job done. Ray's had his own run-ins with the brass and it is not too keen to play guinea pig, but it is between Duchamp and a hard place. Charlie chooses the inmates, all of which Ray is chased down and started one or two times The deal team was reduced conviction rate for the first runner up, a bank robber hell-bent on murder of his former accomplices.

Fans can see a return to racing dark drama follows a disappointment to the king of Breakout carefree week case, the formula used by the police shows the most. However, sitting on the original basis jaded enough note to fans of police procedural rules (eg for real) and. A & E should be for the opportunity to truly original idea in a sea-Census me also praised.

On Breakout kings, almost the entire cast - would antagonists on other TV shows - including police officers. Each character suffers from his own psych-pop illness, happy by former Professor of Psychology and around Creepster Lloyd says. He is clearly unstable version of Dr. House and The Mentalist's Patrick Jane modeled. Lloyd jumps on the opportunity, their colleagues and their prey classify, dishing six therapeutic observations on the slightest provocation. It is easily the drug, the observed most of the cops and the cons, and by far the most fun.

The second major change theme episode, more to the dark morality and deputized less on the antics of criminals fun. It keeps the flash from the pilots, but it focuses more on character drama. Unfortunately, they are not only multi-dimensional enough to worry about when they stop working frantically the bad guys and play each other. Maybe will change during the season, but I would not hold my breath. The whole show feels like a dysfunctional family sitcom show superimposed over a police officer, not a bad thing, but try to make it into a grim crime drama a la The Wire and The Shield is not only the ideal character.

Overall, the show is very entertaining when it focuses on the chemistry between the bulls and disadvantages, and it can be the emotional tension. The cop drama's better left shows just how the quality of the code of Chicago - Breakout Kings are in the same category as wide the Castle, The Mentalist and medium-sized enterprises as a standard police procedure hook.

If they keep their dysfunctional humor and excellent speed and hold a weakened psychologically tortured melodrama, Breakout Kings can be at least as comfortable as his contemporaries. With the standard tires and fun dialogue, the premiere is definitely worth seeing for fans of the genre ... I just hope the rest of the show can keep up Freshman Season.