'Prison Break' Is an Underrated Crime Thriller Beloved by Stephen King

Stephen King once made a distinction between what he thinks is great television and what he actually can’t stop watching. His answer to the latter wasn’t The Wire, The Sopranos, or even Breaking Bad, which he called the finest series on television. It was Prison Break. That’s either a fun piece of trivia or a genuine reason to reconsider a show that’s been filed away under “early 2000s pulp” for too long. Let’s go with both.