Oz

[Sut]

My mate's lent me the first season.

He reckons its good stuff.

Am I going to be wasting 8 hours of my life?

[bigredruss]

never heard of it

[Sut]

This prison drama from HBO with Winston Zedmore from Ghostbusters as the Governor and Mrs Soprano as a guard.

[BENIRL]

Good show, rough as fuc!

[The Chief]

My mate's lent me the first season.

He reckons its good stuff.

Am I going to be wasting 8 hours of my life?

 

Definitely not mate, it's a fucking BRILLIANT show.

[co1-lfc]

It's brilliant, I have every series on dvd, slightly disappointing conclusion but only to leave the door open for a return, seasons 1, 2 and 3 are eye openers.

[Thants]

I've seen season 1 & 2. Fuckin intense brilliant drama. It influenced many dramas after.

[Paul]

It is fucking ace - the original HBO "Bloody hell, they just said 'cunt' on telly!" drama. It is exceptionally bleak at times and has some utterly grotesque characters. It's not for the squeamish viewer at all, as barely an episode goes by without a brutal and sadistic rape or murder, often of a character you really like. Overall it is superb with some great characters.

[Thants]

Even though he's also the editor of the spiderman newspaper he still sends a shiver when i think of him

[Sut]

"I only ate my mom. I was saving dad for Thanksgiving."

Any show that has a line like that can't be bad.

[Section_31]

Been watching this again, it really is amazing telly. The T-800 of HBO dramas.

 

The characters are immense, but Kareem Said and Chris Keller stand out for me in terms of their sheer complexity, very very few characters come close in televeision history for me in terms of sheer depth and sophistication.

 

 

[Adebisi]

It might not be the most realistic, or the best written and the acting ranges from brilliant by some, to average by others, but what an excellent show.

 

It has everything you could want and then some. Even when the quality dropped, it was still a great watch. One of my all time favourite shows.

[Section_31]

This clip never fails to have me in absolute stitches.

 

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With regards the writing, I think it's fucking superb. Considering it was mostly one man doing it, the number scenes, plot threads and characters was incredible. The way you can never see where a plot is going too, is amazing. You'll hear two characters plotting something, you're expecting it to go a certain way, then one of them just falls down the stairs and dies - plot thread ended. Considering it predates the Sopranos - a show which single-handedly changed American television and the perception of what television could do in terms of drama, it deserves a special place in TV history.

[Jackie Moon]

Great shoe Ryan O Reilly has to be one of the most slippery manipulative characters in television history

[Lee909]

Going to pick this up on friday

I didnt have enough to get in when HMV had there winter sale,it was Oz or the Wire and Sons of Anarchy.

£36 now at Amazon for those interested

[Em City]

One of the greatest shows in tv history. Is there a character more evil than Vern Schillinger?

[Welsh]

Just started watching this again, on the second season now...The riot episode has to be one of the best episodes ever.

[Kevin D]

I watched 5 seasons in something like 3 weeks. It was class, but the level of brutality makes Saw look like a bukkake party and I just couldn't watch any more. Keep meaning to go back to it, which I might do when I finish Firefly.

 

My favourite scene is with Said and the Governor at the end of S2. I also miss Augustus's informative fact of the day monologues; quite a few things about the prison-industrial complex which I simply hadn't considered.

[KinskiRage]

I've just watched the first episode of this last night. Too pissed to watch one tonight, but I'll be watching this now for sure. I already love JK Simmons' character, although he seems kinda hideous. And unlike most TV, the first ep looked like it was genuine, bonafide quality. Maybe not the quality of The Wire, I don't know, but quality nonetheless.

 

Looking forward to it, especially since I've been thinking there's fuck all TV about that I'd watch and haven't seen. But this is from the late 90s which is a bit odd, dunno why I haven't watched it before now...

[Unrighteous]

It's ace.

[Pony Princess]

I think I'm gonna watch all the way through once I'm done with The Walking Dead.

[Iantn]

15 years ago today this piloted on HBO. Madness. Looking forward to watching more than a opening two that I've seen.

[James Dean]

Just ordered the complete boxset. Can't wait.

[Pony Princess]

Just started season three as I've been watching Oz all the way through again.

 

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The scene where Peter Schibetta and Chucky try and double team Adebisi in the kitchen in revenge for killing Nino. Adebisi beats the shit out of them easily, bends Peter over the dinner table, puts his walkman on and bum-rapes him. The dirty fucking legend.