Engineers and architects be warned: your career path just became sexy and dangerous. Wentworth Miller stars in “Prison Break” as Michael Scofield, an engineer helping his brother escape from a prison he designed. The show revolves around a conspiracy theory keeping Scofield’s brother, played by Dominic Purcell, incarcerated.

The series began in 2005 with only thirteen episodes planned. But due to unprecedented success, the show was extended to a full season. On Sept. 1, season four aired with intensity and one good-looking engineer donning an enormous tattoo.
What makes “Prison Break” clever is the illogical nature of every situation. Scofield just happens to be placed in the prison he designed and where his brother resides.

His full upper body tattoo has a complete blueprint of the facility with names and numbers imbedded, no detail spared. (This tattoo, by the way, takes four and a half hours to apply to Miller before shooting. If someone were to get ink like Scofield’s, it would take approximately two hours to complete and cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000.)
The show doesn’t have the same explicit appeal as other prison dramas, but it shares common threads.
Hate and violence are mainstays — any show about incarcerated criminals can’t leave these elements out. As opposed to HBO’s “Oz,” “Prison Break” uses the factors of “gangsters vs. gangstas,” white supremacists and shankings to create a smart piece of television rather than an over-the-top shocking piece of HBO.

A few things are clear about “Prison Break.” It’s intense. Action does not cease, especially with the start of season four about life outside of the joint. Viewers must comprehend the idea of the conspiracy, which seems to grow in every episode. It’s easy to watch. Miller and company are pretty good actors. “Prison Break” may just be what America needs to break up the monotony of celebrity, reality and competition shows.

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