Oz (TV Series)

[Freakbro]

Has anyone seen this?

Oz - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/ Rating 9.0/10

Storyline

Oz chronicles life inside an experimental cell block in the Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility: Level Four called Emerald City. Under unit manager Tim McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, the inmates in Em City all struggle to fulfill their own needs. Some fight for power; either power over the drug trade or power over the other inmate factions. Others want money, either through slinging '****' (drugs), gambling or other scams. Others, Corrections officers and inmates alike, simply want to survive long enough to make parole or even to see tomorrow. The show gives a no-holds-barred account of prison life with all the plots, subplots and conflicts given context and explanation by the show's wheelchair-bound narrator, Augustus Hill.

I have just recently come across this and started watching it, 4 episodes in so far and it seems an excellent series.

Pretty brutal and uncompromising, but off-set with quite a humorous and off the wall way of narrating the story by the wheel chair bound Augustus.

This ran from 1997-2003, 6 seasons but only 8 episodes / season. (Amazing to see how 'old' 1997 looks already! )

So if you like your prison based drama, check this out - you won't be disappointed

 

[maun]

Loved this series when i watched it a few years ago, really gritty and i did actually care/worry for some of the characters at times.

I belive series 3 (or 4) is a longer series, 16 or so episodes i think.

 

[SB118]

Cracking show.

Don't go hoping for a winner though, everybody gets done over at some point!

 

[Sutters]

Yeah best series ever, seen it 3 times.

Like most stuff though the first few seasons are the best.

 

[richthomuk]

Really great show, I usually go from this to The Wire to The Shield, in that order when I go on a TV series binge and can't find anything else to watch.

 

[RobDogDog]

Amazing series. Ryan O'Reilly is the man!

 

[jackthezipper]

Cracking show.

Don't go hoping for a winner though, everybody gets done over at some point!

This.

 

[Uncle Petey]

Definitely one of the best shows ever made.

 

[Pestilence]

Definitely one of the best shows ever made.

+1

Really need to pick up the boxed set at some point.

 

[SixTwoSix]

Definitely one of the best shows ever made.

What this fella said!

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Just started watching this the other day, picked it up for €30 based on all the love it seems to get. The box itself is crap, the discs were all over the place when it arrived but so far the show seems really interesting.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

The first time I discovered Oz was when channel surfing, to immediately be greeted by several naked large men fighting in a group shower. Needless to say I was instantly a fan.

 

[Salsa]

Loved the show when I watched it a few years ago. Adebisi is one of the best tv characters ever!!

/Salsa

 

[THMRK]

I keep meaning to revisit this. Maybe I will one of these days...

 

[cm1179]

there's a thread on this show somewhere and it is indeed a fantastic show.

as others have said, the first 3 seasons are the best but it's still great viewing overall.

chris keller is immense and the long running beacher and shillinger rivalry is brutally intense. loads of other interesting stories throughout too.

 

[CaNsA]

I've posted about it a few times in people's "spec me a telly prog" thread.

Cracking series, the one that started it all for HBO.

 

[doodah]

Simon Adebisi > all

 

[Vanilla]

This show was my 'The Wire' ..............before The Wire....

ADEBISI LIVES!

 

[RoachycaL]

Another vote here. Its an amazing TV show and I've seen most of the popular stuff.

 

[the shadow]