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Oz is the name on the street for the Oswald State Penitentiary. Our wheelchair-bound narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.) takes us through the wacky world of Emerald City, the experimental unit started by Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). There's shankin' and lovin' and cussin' and fightin' but in the end, HBO makes a damn fine prison drama. It's gritty. And there you have it.

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S 6 : Ep 8	Exeunt Omnes	Aired 2/23/03	go HBO GO Subscription Amazon Buy iTunes Buy VUDU Buy
S 6 : Ep 7	Junkyard Dawgs	Aired 2/16/03	go HBO GO Subscription Amazon Buy iTunes Buy VUDU Buy
S 6 : Ep 6	A Day in the Death...	Aired 2/9/03	go HBO GO Subscription Amazon Buy iTunes Buy VUDU Buy
S 6 : Ep 5	4 Giveness	Aired 2/2/03	go HBO GO Subscription Amazon Buy iTunes Buy VUDU Buy
S 6 : Ep 4	A Failure to Communicate	Aired 1/26/03	go HBO GO Subscription Amazon Buy iTunes Buy VUDU Buy

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Scott William Winters	Cyril O'Reily
Ernie Hudson	Warden Leo Glynn
Rita Moreno	Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
J.K. Simmons	Vernon Schillinger
BD Wong	Father Ray Mukada
Lauren Velez	Dr. Gloria Nathan

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great tv

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By gregpearson18, Jan 19, 2013

oz is an excellent show! from episode one it's in your face, raw and ugly, very unpc and with plenty of dark dry humour!! it has some great characters and concentrates on the inmates and staff, each episode devotes say 15 minuites to a current storyline and has a great narration by augustus hill on a topic like death, television and society! what's great about oz is that despite all the murders and mayhem there's plenty of morals too!! what the show does best is mix terrible violence, racism and villainy with plenty of dark humour! i also recommend the governer, the wire, underbelly and the shield!moreless
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excellent show

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By TinaCowanDaw, May 09, 2012

gives you a idea of what life is like in prison couldnt stop watching
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Best tv series

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By AichaAgne, Feb 14, 2012

This is the best tv series ever. I can believe how it could have so much real prison life facts and also be so theatrical, I know many peolpe from jail personally and I cannot believe how much these tv series can reflect so clearly and perfectly. I love it because it is not fuc*ing commercial shit, fiction like prison brake. I like this reality witch is provoking and showing that we are all the same. We all want to love, we all full of rage and jealousy, competition, that we are all humans and equal, what is more it shows that everyone could change his inside world and become a better man and we all deserve for a chance.moreless
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an incredible show

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By tesrgone, Jan 12, 2012

it I finally bought the series "Oz" on dvd. I'd heard about about it for many years, but I figgured that was just hype! I was wrong. The show was amazing, especially in the way the show was unafraid to show what went on in that prison. The charactrer I was especially drawn to was Tobias Beecher. He was the average joe stuck in the middle of all this craziness. Season one was good in how they protrayed him, but after season two I couldn't take my eyes off of him. He seems to have gone crazy just to survive, but then enters Chris Keller. Not only did he bring Toias back to some from of normalicy, he took him to the edge of distruction. After that, I just wanted to see what would happen next to them. As a gay man, I musrt say that this was one of the most honest and unflinching portrayal of a gay couple I have seen on tv. The way the writers of the series went about showing them together and the lengths they went to be together was amazing. I wasn't even disappointed in that you didn't see them get it on unlike the way they showed the heterosexual sex. It was unneeded. The chemistry between the two actors and they way they constantly showed them watching each other no matter what went on between them showed more that any sex scene could do. And for the ending between them was as satisfying as the rest of the relationship. I mean the way Chris Keller went after Beecher, it was only a matter of time before one of them died, and I could believe that Keller would kill himself in a way to get back at Beecher for his final rebuffing of him. To be honest, I couldn't see Keller wanting to live without Beecher loving him.moreless
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Excellent show!

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By frenioz00, Jul 22, 2009

This was the prison series I decided to watch and I must say I was extremely pleased. The story, the plot and the characters in "OZ" are awesome and I believe they couldn't have done it better. Of course life in a prison isn't supposed to be sweet but it most certainly is interesting. Also, the whole idea of Emerald City, a modern unit for prisoners, is a very interesting take on how prison life can be improved. My favorite characters and actors were Kareem Said played by Eamonn Walker, Augustus Hill played by Harold Perrineau Jr., Vernon Schillinger played by J.K. Simmons and the best, Ryan O'Reily played by Dean Winters. I strongly recommend this show!moreless
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Exeunt Omnes

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tobias was an idiot
how many times does this dude have to screw himself over or have someone else do it to get it? that guy chris, then hinself? what ...

By roscopicosound, Dec 16, 2006

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Should they bring OZ back? POLL
I used to love watching OZ... heck, I STILL love watching OZ. I must have watched all 6 seasons at least five times now and I neve...

By BSGprophecy, Dec 09, 2011

03/12/13

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Who is the main character?
I started thinking about this yesterday. It seems like the writers purposefully do not favor any one character. They introduce cha...

By wr8280, Jun 28, 2007

01/19/13

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Not one good thing coming out of this...
I don't understand why not even one good thing could come out of it. I've almost finished watching the sixth season and Tobias jus...

By Gridje, Jun 19, 2008

01/18/13

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Least Monstrous Inmates
I watched this show, and I realized that several inmates weren't that bad. Here's mylist of the least monstrous inmates. 1. Karee...

By MegaOsric, Mar 22, 2012

01/18/13

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