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Summary: OZ--The Heat Is Just Getting Started!
Review: OZ--The Prison Drama that airs on HBO--Home Box Office. If you have never seen OZ, THIS IS FOR ADULTS ONLY. The episodes contain male full frontal nudity, sexual situations, violence and mature themes. The acting is incredible. The situations,the dialogue and the sets are realistic. This drama is gritty. A plus to the cast is Academy Award Winner Rita Moreno. If these episodes in the Season One collection don't get your heart startled. It's only the beginning. Get involved in the storyline. Watch every episode in proper order. And after you are finished with all eight episodes of Season One. Buy Season Two and get ready for a more mature hard-hitting season. And remember, ADULTS ONLY!
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Summary: Dark History
Review: Either you are fascinated and blown away by this remarkable groundbreaking series, or it horrifies you to the core of your being. I myself am fascinated, own this DVD set, and plan to acquire the entire series (just concluding on HBO as of this writing). The interactive menus, zooming through Emerald City, Gen Pop, Solitary, etc., are lots of eerie fun. The brief "making of" short is excellent as far as it goes, but WAY too short for my tastes. The disk's best supplement is the round table discussion with cast members and Tom Fontana. Again, I could have used about 10 times as much of this as is included on the disk...but not everything can be the LOTR Deluxe DVD set, I suppose! Just to have a permanent high-quality record of these searing episodes is enough.
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Summary: "Oz" In prison life end's for you! Via- TATTOOTIMM211
Review: When I 1st saw Oz on HBO I could not miss a episode. I thought that's how prison life was, fight's, stabbing's, drug's, sex, gang's ect. Well when I ended up going I was suprised to find out it was somewhat but not that bad. Oz is a great look into how prison used to be and could be all over again. Lot's of violance & so realistic! The day I bought the 1st season I sat down and watched it(all 3 disc)w/o leaving my living room, couldn't tare myself away from it. When I was done I went out and got the 2nd season and can't wait for 3rd and final seasons! Griping mini-series, changed the way I thought about being locked down for a few years and fighting everyone for everything everyday besides your cellie. Oz set the standered for anyother up comming prison movie's. I'm really going to miss Oz when it's off the air after this season, Thank GOD for DVD's uh! I'm off to watch 'em lead up to the riot again. I can't get enough of this show! It will have you craveing more, more NOW! You'll see what I mean, just try and stop watching half-way through. You won't be able to do it. I'm hard to impress also and I was hooked for a life sentence the first 15 minutes. You never know who your friend's are behind the Wall's of prison especaily Ozwald Correction's Facilty! Don't trust just anyone w/your life and sleep w/one eye open at night in there, keep your frog sticker real close too.
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Summary: Best Drama Series
Review: OZ is the best drama series I have had the pleasure to watch. The writing and acting far outdo any network program and it's insights and themes keep you thinking long after watching. I don't understand why The Sopranos has grabbed all the glory - this show has kept me enthralled for years and saddened by it's ending; I got bored with the Sopranos after one and a half seasons. Yes, the violence may be to graphic for some; but it's not gratutious, this is a series set in a mens prison with violent offenders. These are not, for the most part, what we see as "good people"; but step into their lives in OZ and you'll stay with them throughout.
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Summary: - The real deal
Review: This series is no fairy tale. Its realism makes it one of the best series ever.
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Summary: Maimum Entertainment
Review: I always thought it was hilarious when the guy who play Schillinger said in an interview that it's a little unsettling to hear himself described as the guy who plays the bad guy in a show set in a prison. I mean, aren't they all bad guys? But he does play a bad guy- the worst guy- and he plays him well.OZ is scary. Oz is uncompomising. And Oz is unstoppable. WHo'd have believed this show would last more than one season? It's a soap opera set in prison. Pretty near unresistable. The best part of this set is the unfolding of the Beecher Saga. And with voice-over from Lee, you get insight as to how the charactarization took form. You won't watch this just once.
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Summary: The best TV drama ever, even better than "Homicide."
Review: I'm with James Fearn, Oz is the best TV drama ever. So why does this series, with its harsh, violent, brutal characters and unrestrained language and violence rate so high? Oz is about the two most important issues we all face: sin and redemption. And not sin and redemption in a Catholic or Christian sense, but in the sense of how we all belong to and participate in humanity. To address these issues most directly, the writers (most of the time, the brilliant Tom Fontana) and producer (Barry Levinson) go to the worst sinners of all and those most in need of redemption, the prisoners (and their jailers) at Ozwald State Correctional Facility, a mythical maximum-security prison in New York. Fontana and Levinson have dealt with these issues before, most notably in "Homicide," but this time all the stakes are doubled. In Oz, violence and survival are minute-to-minute issues. So how, in the midst of such violence and brutality, does one find one's way back to a place in humanity? Some of the characters struggle to redeem themselves, some get by from day to day, some have just given up, and some go mad, like the chronically depressed and desperate Alvarez. Of these, some even attain true redemption, coming at last to a kind of peace and reconciliation. And then Levinson and Fontana remind us of the true dilemma of redemption: it's just so damn fragile. Some of the most dramatic and heartbreaking moments of all are when we see the best characters, those who have found their fragile peace, descend once again into the violence they (and we) thought they had escaped. Because redemption isn't absolute. Like the prisoners and jailers in Oz, it lives moment to moment, and at any time we can lose our grasp on it and fall back into pit. It's safe to say that no television drama has ever addressed these issues so directly or in such harsh, unremitting terms. Oz should stand as a classic in drama, right along with the works of Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks. Besides, once you start watching it, you just can't stop.
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Summary: Gritty Prision Drama!
Review: I saw one episode at my hotel while in Florida for a conference a few years ago and I was hooked. Since I don't have HBO, I waited for the DVD release. I purchased it as a prebook item so I would get it right away. Glad I did. One of the best prision dramas I have ever seen.
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Summary: Best Tv Drama Ever
Review: Oz is hands down the best tv drama series ever! I started watching it midway through and on the Showcase network (Don't get HBO in Canada) and I instantly became hooked. The storyline is something you just don't see anywhere else on television. It is hard hitting and very raw. What I like best is that no one person is the star. It is an a large cast and everyone is important to the show. The first season sets a lot of seeds for future happenings, but it is a fine season on it's own. You just never know what will happen. I never saw the first 3 seasons, I watched 4 and 5 and have seen some repeats of the first 3 so watching this DVD set was a huge treat for me. The Show is very easy to follow, has a ton of great acting and is just plan amazing. I would suggest this to anyone who likes drama's. Yes the language is hard and there is some nudity (mostly male) people need to remember that this is a prison setting and that is what would happen in any prison. Sit back and enjoy. I can't wait for season two to come out in January.
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Summary: Better than 90% of the movies currently being shown
Review: HBO produces original shows that outshine the [movies] hollywood is currently displaying at your local cinema. I'll take believable characters and interesting stories like this over special effects and shameful movies with mass market appeal (like "Sweet Home Alabama") any day of the week. Can't wait for the release of season two.
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