"That's Prison Break , baby."

He called his old college roommate, Derek, who had a full sleeve of Prison Break tattoos (including a tiny, inaccurate map of Fox River).

"Five seasons," he muttered, scrolling past a chaotic Reddit thread. "No—four. Wait, some guy says five, but then a special thing called The Final Break ."

Underneath, he added: "Don't argue. Just watch."

Derek laughed, the sound of a man who had spent years defending the show's convoluted timeline. "Depends. Do you count The Final Break as a movie or a season five prequel?"

A pause. "Five. But tell her season four has about six fake endings, and season five is a short one—nine episodes. And that the original run was four seasons. Then the revival."

"Derek. Help me. How many series?"

Leo hung up and grabbed a marker. On his whiteboard, he wrote in bold block letters: