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Oz Season 1 was the first "season" of a tv show I ever owned.
The show is amazing, the characters are very believable. I've never seen another episode after season one, but I can say that season one is excellent!
Great prison drama!
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I had heard a lot of good reviews about this show from various people over the years. I have to say I was very disappointed. The story lines aren't very engaging. The characters are very stereotyped. The acting isn't very good. In one sense regret having bought this but in another at least I know I haven't been missing anything.Oz
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In the past I avoided the HBO channel, its movies and shows because of their consistent anti-Americanism and hard-left bias. But "The Sopranos" lulled me into a false sense of security, so I decided to rent "Oz" because it looked interesting and because I like Ernie Hudson. However, instead of a hard-hitting, character-driven prison drama, too often I got issue-driven speechifying and a post-modern politically-correct guy in a wheelchair inside a spinning glass cube.
Here's an example from episode 4, titled "Capital P," that deals with Jefferson Keane's execution. First this gem between the pro-death penalty governor and a reporter:
Governor: "The people want the death penalty...They need a sign that something's being done."
Reporter: "Even if it's been proven that capital punishment has no effect on crime?"
Governor: "Especially if has no effect. These days murders are random, senseless. Maybe the punishment should be too."
To call the above exchange a straw man argument wouldn't do justice to scarecrows. That has got to be the stupidest, most ridiculous lie a liberal has ever come up with on this issue.
"Capital P" has many other idiocies besides the almost perfect one described above. For example, the wheelchair guy claims that the state is going to "put down [Keane] like a rabid dog." How many rabid dogs get automatic death penalty appeals? Also, since when can a prisoner in general population (or even "Emerald City") waltz into death row (which amazingly, also happens to be the protective custody unit -- what luck!), chat with the condemned prisoner, then waltz out again?
What hurts most is that some of stories are really good. When the show doesn't flaunt its cultural liberalism, the characters are outstanding. But I just can't take the B.S.
Rating: -
Im only writing this to warn anyone who has a problem hearing and needs closed caption..... IN ENGLISH.... then you are out of luck. The only closed caption on this dvd is in Spanish... I had to return this because I have a hearing problem and need the closed caption...in English..
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Prison rape, beat downs, riots, and rival cliques: this is perhaps the first show to begin the truly gritty standard of drama in the 21st century. Before The Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, or The Shield there was Oz, a show which proved that cable could create viable, original programming of a graphically adult nature. Following the subplots of various inmates, one isn't expected to love these people. They are horrid, vile individuals. But they are human. There is Beecher, the lawyer who drove drunk and killed a girl landing him on the inside for vehicular manslaughter. You can only watch as he gradually falls apart under the stress of prison life only to gradually find himself anew as a bizarre, near insane lunatic who everyone comes to fear. There's Ryan O'Reily, manipulating every faction in order to further his own interests even if that means others have to die for actions he is culpable for. There is McManus, one of the prison's officials who hopes to create programs in order to rehabilitate inmates in order to prevent them from reoffending. These men are but a few of the complex and intriguing characters peppered throughout the show. Watching them change throughout the seasons...this is true drama where anything goes. Death is always around the corner. It all started here folks.
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starring: Ernie Hudson, Harold Perrineau, Lee Tergesen, J.K. Simmons, Dean Winters
directed by: Alan Taylor, Darnell Martin, Gregory Dark, Jean de Segonzac, Larry Williams
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783120669
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783120664
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 451 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1997
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