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DVD Oz - The Complete First Season
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. --Sean Axmaker
After watching two seasons I can see why so many people are addicted to this fantastic drama.
Recommended for adults. Edie Falco ;) The big black guy Echo from Lost and the other guy with the dog that never loses weight - all here!
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Oz - The Complete First Season
This is a good series I'm glad I watched season one first.
No Yellow Brick Road Here
This DVD edition of OZ, THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, complete with cast biographies and deleted scenes, is proof once again that HBO is on the cutting edge of TV drama and often is so much better than anything that you will see in your local theatre. Oz is the short name for Oswald Maximum Security Prison where in one section of it, Emerald City, Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) attempts, often with little if any success, to rehabilitate prisoners rather than just house them.
We certainly are not in Kansas here although there is no yellow brick road either. The film is graphic, brutal and intense. There are rapes, drug deals, racial tension, murders and suicides and guard misconduct; but there is also a decent Asian Catholic priest as well as a nun social worker (Rita Moreno) in addition to Tim McManus who tries so hard to do the right thing. While some of the action is predictable-- we are convinced that this is the way life really is in a maximum security prison-- the plot moves quickly as the episodes are short. The story is framed by an African American inmate, confined to a wheelchair, who speaks directly to the viewer, giving his commentary on the action as well as providing the background from time to time with flashbacks as to what crime each prisoner committed to get him sent to Oz.
The critics are right about this one. It is as good as this sort of drama gets. In a word, OZ is addictive.
If the title of HBO's brutal prison drama suggests a fairy tale, be warned that this Oz lies on the other side of the rainbow. This gritty portrait of men behind bars is a testosterone-driven soap opera packed with murder, suicide, sadism, and savage battles for dominance in the concrete jungle.
Season 2 opens in the wake of a prison riot that shut down the experimental cell block known as "Emerald City" among the inmates, but it doesn't take long to build a whole new head of steam after prison reformer Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) reopens the unit. The drug wars pit the Italians against the blacks, the Aryan Brotherhood re-establish their campaign of intimidation, and Alvarez is pushed to desperate measures when he's ousted by the new Latino leader (Luiz Guzmán). Even more... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Tergesen DVD Release Date: Released the 07 January 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A volatile men-in-prison soap opera, fueled by testosterone and lubricated by blood, HBO's Oz is addictive viewing. The third season of the most violent show on cable TV, set in a cage of concrete and steel and glass, opens with echoes of violence past. Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) is in solitary confinement for brutally blinding a guard, one-time drug lord Simon Adebissi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) mourns for his murdered father, and Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) nurses bones broken by Aryan Brotherhood leader Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) and a heart broken by the betrayal of Keller (Law and Order: SVU's Christopher Meloni). Their stories of vengeance, redemption, and forgiveness anchor this season.
The show races through each episode with a driving pace that only... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Tergesen DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The heightened reality of Oz remains consistently engrossing in the fourth season of HBO's volatile prison drama. All 16 episodes were written or cowritten by series creator Tom Fontana, and are bookended by the wisely sardonic observations of paraplegic prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau), whose terse, philosophical ruminations about life in "Oz" give the series its literate edge. The 2000-2001 season finds Oz in the wake of racial warfare; tensions remain high among the factions that make the "Em City" cell block a hotbed of seething animosity among the skinhead Aryans led by Shillinger (J.K. Simmons); Muslim splinter groups led by Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker), the fearsome Adebisi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Supreme Allah (Lord Jamar); and the resident Mafia, Latinos,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Tergesen DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Raw, uncompromising, and brutal, the fifth season of Oz represents a turning point for the series, tying up loose ends and preparing for the closure of season 6. As with all previous seasons of HBO's hard-edged prison series, the outbreaks of violence, racial tensions, emotional bleakness, and full-frontal male nudity ensure that Oz is decidedly not for the weak of heart. Simmering animosity between the Aryans, Muslims, Sicilians, and Latinos continues unabated; these eight episodes include numerous shankings and slashings, a severed arm, strangulation, a stabbing with a crucifix, and the death (among others) of one of the series' most prominent characters. As Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) and his skinheaded Aryans exploit a naive pair of new inmates, tensions mount between the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Tergesen DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The sixth and final season of HBO's prison drama Oz--which aired in 2003--is brutal, passionate, and gritty. Compellingly addictive with taut storylines and superb acting, each of the eight episodes on this 3-disc set nicely paves the way for the series finale, which wraps the show up in a satisfying (and surprising) manner. Often told through the eyes (and voice) of deceased prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau, Lost), Oz isn't an easy show to watch. Inmates are routinely raped, tortured, and killed--not out of need, but out of boredom and cruelty. And in a corrupt system where too few bureaucrats actually care about these men's lives, few are willing to do anything about it. Those that do give a damn--Sister Peter Marie (Rita Moreno, West Side Story),... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gregory Dark - Adam Bernstein DVD Release Date: Released the 05 September 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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