Oz
1997–2003 · TV · 6 seasons · 56 episodes · TV-MA
CrimeDrama
"Life's not a word. It's a sentence."
Overview
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Ratings
IMDb
8.7/10
Cast
- Lee TergesenTobias Beecher
- Harold PerrineauAugustus Hill
- Dean WintersRyan O'Reily
- Eamonn WalkerKareem Saïd
- Ernie HudsonLeo Glynn
- Terry KinneyTim McManus
- Rita MorenoSister Peter Marie Reimondo
- J.K. SimmonsVernon Schillinger
- Kirk AcevedoMiguel Alvarez
- Craig muMs GrantPoet
- BD WongFather Ray Mukada
- Tom MardirosianAgamemnon Busmalis
Stills
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Themes
prisonexperimentdystopiarevengebetrayalracismdrugsinmatecatholicismaryanprison lifeabuse of power