The story is idiotic and for 10 year old kids, people from 50 years ago are rocking in this world,they don't have problem with any of the new age gadgets,computer is no problem naturally, a prisoner learning violin in no time, character Soto is disaster, knows each prisoner's number.Finding people is no problem for these guys, one of them was kidnapping the right person on the road. Not to mention that there is no dynamic in the episodes. All in all disaster. The only thing this serial is good is for sleeping, you will fall a sleep in 10 minutes. I'm very disappointed I watched this

I never wrote any kind of review, but after watching every episode of Alcatraz, I couldn't help myself."Alcatraz prison was allegedly shut down in 1963 due to unsafe conditions, its prisoners and staff transferred. However, both the prisoners and guards really disappeared and begin to reappear in present-day San Francisco with a new dangerous agenda and only 4 people in an agency can track them down."This is the main idea of the Alcatraz, which is funny and also stupid, why is that? well the main lead is Emerson Hauser, who recruits an FBI agent, Rebecca Madsen (which miscast) to work with them on such important matter. Then they (only 3 of them) start working on their first case,and somehow Rebecca decides to get help from a comic book writer who wrote a book about Alcatraz!!! they get along and solved the case and Hauser says to Rebecca: "You need a partner, you want him?" you kidding me? seriously?anyway the prisoners keep coming back to present and do the exact same crime as they have done 50 years ago, using same patterns and even the same number of victim!The other funny thing here is that how they get their clues to get an arrest,well, let me explain it to you: "They have a super smart computer with a super Data-base which knows everything and functions like a charm", like they have a 50 years old photo of 2 people standing in front of a door, then they give it to the system and whoa, they have the address. how it works? well as I'm a programmer let me explain it to you,the software compare the architecture type of the building with 50 years ago neighborhood and gives you the address.another example,someone somewhere upload a video in a website, suddenly the browser came up on screen playing the video! another funny thing is Dr.Sodo is a comic book writer, he uses their software like he has a PhD in IT.and everything they wanna do like zoom on a picture, compare with data- base and lots of other super cool things works with an Enter on keyboard. on the last episode of season 1, when Rebecca wants to arrest Tommy Madsen, he was on the ground she says "Get up!!!!" and then he stabs her with a knife etc. but in all other arrests she says "Get on the ground and then handcuffs the suspect".basically they ruined the idea with such story lines and absolute lack of logic.

When I first heard about "Alcatraz," I was intrigued by the notion of mixing a typical procedural with J.J. Abrams' brand of Shyamalan-style crypto-nonsense. It would, I thought, at least keep the new show from becoming the drawn-out exercise in downright silliness that "Lost" became just because it had to keep raising the stakes to create and keep secrets.Then the show started. After a few episodes, I started to realize that in addition to plot holes that would have negated the whole series, the show also suffered from just not being that good. At least as a procedural. When I finished the season, I realized that I was right. The big "secret" had been pushed off-screen most of the time to make room for a police drama that just wasn't compelling. Having carried over the mystery to a (presumed) second season, the bulk of the show's running time is given to a big who-cares game of "will they or won't they" with this week's escaped criminal.What is eventually revealed about the incidents of this fictitious version of Alcatraz may be fascinating. But so far, the producers have been so free with the chase-the-bad-guy part and so tight-fisted with the rest of it that I no longer really care. I'm not willing to sit through another season of a third-rate cop show just to discover the Big Truth. It just couldn't be worth it.

I had great expectations of the show.But I was very disappointed. What is it about? Not even to be considered a B-rate TV-crime-show!I do not really understand the concept.Am I supposed to write 10 lines? Sorry! This show does not deserve 10 lines. I have already written too much! This show sucks! There is no other short way to express it!OK! Here we go! The show sucks! The show sucks! The show sucks! The show sucks!Enough lines for you to get the message?