My Parasocial Relationship with the Prison Break

I always wanted to write something about my parasocial relationship with the Prison Break (2005, TV Series) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455275/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1but always hesitated because I didn’t know much about the word itself. And after our class discussion I decided that now it’s time to revile an old secret. 

As it describes in the book a parasocial relationship is a one-sided relationship, where one party knows a great deal about the other, but the other doesn’t. This sort of relationship is based on a bond of intimacy. Here we can bring an example of a viewer, when he or she knows a lot about that celebrity, TV-show or whatever he or she is attached, even though he or she ‘celebrity’ knows nothing of the viewer’s existence. 

Sometimes I think we the viewers or those who have a parasocial relationship with someone or something may not realize that we do have this relationship based on one side. For example, I can bring an example of myself; I did not know that I had such a relationship until we talked about it in class. In 2005 when the Prison Break came out I was crazy about it. I always watched it and waited impassionately to watch the next show on TV. I even got mad one time when a friend of mine told me that I take too serious this ‘stupid TV-show.’ I even started to talk like T-Bag (Theodore Bagwell) even though he played an even role.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS-E8WdpqjM He was such a great actor that impressed me with how he played his evil role. Or Michael Scofield (Wentworth Millers) role, he is a great guy and such a smart person that prisons himself for the sack of his brother.

I think I liked this show due to facts that prisons are a dangerous place and not that many people can stand in the prison. He is a realistic approach to what I know and don't know about prisons. When Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) got to prison his brother Michael Scofield went prison to save him from death penalty. And just seeing everything outside of the prison so much relating to what it exists in our society depicted why I got so much close with this TV-show.