Prison Break is a show that suffers from its own success. Season 1 was so perfect and complete that subsequent seasons struggled to justify their existence.

: Michael Scofield deliberately enters prison to save his brother, Lincoln Burrows, from a wrongful death sentence.

Season 1 is arguably one of the best single seasons of television in the 2000s. The premise is simple, brilliant, and claustrophobic: Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) gets incarcerated in the same prison where his brother is on death row, intending to break them both out using a tattoo hidden on his body.