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Oz

 
 
Foust is SO authentic
02:18 / 07.12.02
Year long hiatus aside, this is surely one of the coolest shows to hit TV in the last decade. In case you aren't away, Oz is a story about the inhabitants of the Oswald State Penitentiary. Inmates, guards and management struggling for control and sanity on a weekly basis. Some truly compelling characters and plots.

Sure, there's the occasional lemon. One or two plots would be more suited to Twin Peaks. But when the tension really builds up, great TV ensues.
 
 
Ganesh
14:36 / 07.12.02
Oz: Overstyled Zoo...
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:19 / 12.12.02
Oz: Oh my, it's one of Ze best TV dramas ever made.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:30 / 13.12.02
It is excellent, and gruesome. The male rape cliché is, I think, balanced by the interesting things they do, plotwise, with the homoerotic undercurrents.

Shame about the late and erratic scheduling and I really don't like Terry Kinney. And the episode with the ageing drug was just silly. But it has some great acting and the boys are better looking than Jimmy Cagney.

Think evil, tattooed bear started a thread about this show not that long since. Will look for it.
 
  
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