Oz - Complete Season 1-6 DVD Boxset £31.97 at Amazon
Fine, fine TV series
HBO's violent men-behind-bars drama is an addictive, testosterone-driven soap opera for guys. The eight episodes of the first season set the style for the show: a massive cast of a vivid characters on both sides of the bars, four or five stories unleashed at a breakneck pace and framed by angry, oddball introductions, and a soaring casualty rate. Created by Homicide producer Tom Fontana, this drama quickly earned its rightful reputation as the most brutal show on TV. It's simple chemistry: combine volatile ingredients in a confined space, shut tight, and shake.
The yellow brick road of the Oswald Correctional Facility (affectionately known as "Oz" among the inmates) leads to "Emerald City," an antiseptic cellblock of cement and glass overseen by prison-reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). The first episode introduces its two most compelling inmates: meek lawyer Beecher (Lee Terguson), who transforms from a vulnerable lamb to a fearless, drug-addicted wildcat, and Muslim activist Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker), a fiercely non-violent leader whose campaign for reform explodes in a season-climaxing riot. The stunning first-season cast also features Ernie Hudson (the warden), Rita Moreno (a worldly drug-counseling nun), and Edie Falco (who jumped from her role as a single-mother prison guard to mob wife in The Sopranos). It carries no rating, but the drug use, nudity, and brutal violence make this highly inappropriate for young viewers and unsuited to the squeamish. Oz pulls no punches in its portrayal of prison violence and predatory abuse.
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A quiet vote for supernatural and MacGyver.
It says it all that it's been going for 6 series yet neither I nor anyone I know knows anything about this show.
It says it all that it's been going for 6 series yet neither I nor anyone I know knows anything about this show.
Your loss
It says it all that it's been going for 6 series yet neither I nor anyone I know knows anything about this show.
its okay, you probably haven't heard of it as it's not aimed at people who enjoy Glee.
smoking hot deal.
Right up there with The Wire as one of the best tv's ever made
It says it all that it's been going for 6 series yet neither I nor anyone I know knows anything about this show.
It ended almost a decade ago. Not sure if it was even broadcast in the UK, an American friend put me onto it. Did it really take you two hours to ask EVERYONE you know about this show? Didn't they think it was an odd question for a Monday morning?
As odd as it sounds not sure if this is something I would want to own however. It is a great show but I suspect the re-watch-ability is somewhat lacking.
for those that havent seen it - buy it
They used to show it back on Channel 4 in the last 1990's around 12am, very gritty show and you will see alot of the cast turned out in The Wire and other popular TV shows now and Hollywood films etc.:p
It says it all that it's been going for 6 series yet neither I nor anyone I know knows anything about this show.
Its one of the most pioneering shows in TV history, aimed strictly at the open-minded, so going by your dismissive comment, it definitely won't be your thing.
One of the landmark series of the past 15 years or so. Brutal and brilliant.
Edited By: Ennui on Aug 20, 2012 12:27
I've not long finished watching the last season that was aired in the States. Season 7 I think is out this winnter and the final season next year. If you've not seen it I would highly recommend it.
Sounds as though it suffers the same trait as the above though. Not really rewatchable.
Here's a good option though! Watch seasons 1 to 3 on Netflix using the 1 month free trial. Its got every episode of Red Dwarf on it too.
Edited By: Schadenfreude on Aug 20, 2012 12:51