other unanswered questions

why is fox's new show "prison break" so compelling? why do my girlfriend and i find ourselves transfixed on monday nights, unable to pull ourselves away from this television drama whose concept is so outlandish that it could have only been written by a structural engineer high on the fumes of industrial cleaners?

synopsis: a young structural engineer is convinced that his brother, who is on death row, has been framed for killing the vice president's brother, so smarty pants stages a bank robbery to get himself into the same prison. see, smarty pants helped design the building, so he thinks he can help his brother bust out of the joint. meanwhile, the death row inmate's ex-girlfriend becomes the defense attorney and begins to uncover a massive conspiracy headed by the highest echelons of government. sexual tension starts to fly. somehow, the mob gets involved, and throw in a hot young female prison doctor and a few angry neo-nazis -- and you get great television.

it is completely absurd.

so yeah, i don't get it either, except that i can't stop watching.