'Escape at Dannemora': Episode 2 finally offers glimpses of Richard Matt's conning skills that aided infamous prison break

Benicio del Toro's Richard Matt is no longer just a prison inmate with a passion for the arts and painting; his manipulative skills come through with the new episode of the show.
PUBLISHED NOV 26, 2018

The hundreds of speculative theories about Showtime's latest prison drama from Ben Stiller, 'Escape at Dannemora,' have been answered a fair bit with the release of its second episode that aired Sunday. For one, we know the show - even though pacing out quite slow - is gradually exposing the sinister side of inmate Richard Matt, a character and plot both based on the real-life incident of the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility prison break in New York.

The real-life Matt was serving a life sentence in prison for murder, but the premiere episode of 'Escape at Dannemora' only explored the artistic side of the inmate, with his passion and enthusiasm for painting being laid down throughout the episode.

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