I rate this episode higher than the first two ones (they've got 4 from me) only for Alex and, to some extent, his interaction with Linc. He's probably the only reason I'm still here wasting my time watching the show. He has a strong motivation, and I really sympathize with him and can't wait for him to make that agent pay for what he's done. William Fichtner definitely killed that last scene.
But other than that, episode has almost nothing to offer. They try to play like stakes are extremely high, but in fact they're not. The Company wants brothers (and now Alex) dead and is after them - that's not new, we've been down that road, or at least thought so. Sucre doing what he can for the baby and his loved one is also the exact same motivation as all the seasons before. And I'm okay with that, but it all is just getting too repetitive. Also, the story itself has an assumptions that I find too hard to ignore. And, I guess, my main complain here, when it comes to Shut Down, is the meeting with all the Card Holders. Just why? It doesn't make any sense. It would've been so much more rational for The Company to give all the cards to different people who had never met each other in order to keep it all in secret. But without that the story can't happen, huh? Though the show has had these 'lucky coincidences' before, it had been much more clever. Now, the events just adjust the characters, not vise versa, as it's supposed to be. I've also noticed that characters became too nervous and irritable this season, someone just has to scream and pick a word fight in every single episode. I'm getting tired of it and is kinda dissaspointed, since most of the time Michael is the one who does that. Speaking of him. I feel like he's slowly becoming less interesting, his plans still work, but I don't really have the feeling, that he's always one step ahead, anymore. It's not like he's always been before, but, for instance, I really find it hard to believe that he hasn't at least tried already to find a way to get rid of those GPS trackers. There's always a way. And I expected Michael to be ready if something went wrong.
Overall, I still have a hope that it'll get better, but so far it's only getting worse. Too bad for the show with an excellent 1st season, where it's extremely hard to find any filler or useless or boring episode.
But other than that, episode has almost nothing to offer. They try to play like stakes are extremely high, but in fact they're not. The Company wants brothers (and now Alex) dead and is after them - that's not new, we've been down that road, or at least thought so. Sucre doing what he can for the baby and his loved one is also the exact same motivation as all the seasons before. And I'm okay with that, but it all is just getting too repetitive. Also, the story itself has an assumptions that I find too hard to ignore. And, I guess, my main complain here, when it comes to Shut Down, is the meeting with all the Card Holders. Just why? It doesn't make any sense. It would've been so much more rational for The Company to give all the cards to different people who had never met each other in order to keep it all in secret. But without that the story can't happen, huh? Though the show has had these 'lucky coincidences' before, it had been much more clever. Now, the events just adjust the characters, not vise versa, as it's supposed to be. I've also noticed that characters became too nervous and irritable this season, someone just has to scream and pick a word fight in every single episode. I'm getting tired of it and is kinda dissaspointed, since most of the time Michael is the one who does that. Speaking of him. I feel like he's slowly becoming less interesting, his plans still work, but I don't really have the feeling, that he's always one step ahead, anymore. It's not like he's always been before, but, for instance, I really find it hard to believe that he hasn't at least tried already to find a way to get rid of those GPS trackers. There's always a way. And I expected Michael to be ready if something went wrong.
Overall, I still have a hope that it'll get better, but so far it's only getting worse. Too bad for the show with an excellent 1st season, where it's extremely hard to find any filler or useless or boring episode.