"Prison Break" cancelled "before it became a parody" -- ha! too late

That was the immediate reaction as news circulated among TV critics gathered here Tuesday that Fox was cancelling "Prison Break," a once-interesting idea that, last I checked in a year or so ago, was already sinking in a muck of inscrutable govmint-blackwatery intrigue and are-you-my-mother guessery. (Just reading the Wikipedia season four recap makes my head hurt.) Here's a nice post mortem with reaction from the show's creator.