DVD 100 min. IMDB 9.3

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Drama

Dean Winters	Ryan O'Reily / ...
Philip Scozzarella	Officer Joseph Mineo
Scott William Winters	Cyril O'Reily / ...
Terry Kinney	Tim McManus
Harold Perrineau	Augustus Hill
Lee Tergesen	Tobias 'Toby' Beecher
J.K. Simmons	Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger
Otto Sanchez	#96G522 Carmen 'Chico' Guerra / ...
Ernie Hudson	Warden Leo Glynn
Eamonn Walker	Kareem Said

OZ chronicles the attempts of McManus (Terry Kinney) to keep control over the inmates of Em(erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence. There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive. There's the gangstas (Adebisi, Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keene, Supreme Allah), Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), Italians (Pancamo, Nappa, Schiebetta), bikers (Hoyt), Aryans (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), Christians (Cloutier, Cudney), Latinos (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), gays (Hanlon, Cramer) and a whole pile of others (the O'Riley brothers, Keller, Stanislovsky, etc.). And there's a great "everyman" character called Beecher who gives a good look at a normal man who made one tragic mistake. Besides the regular inmates, there's guest stars such as Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, etc. and a bunch of prison staff doctors (Dr. Nathan), a nun/psychologist (Sister Peter Marie), a bunch of guards some honest, some crooked and of course the warden Leo Glynn. The whole thing is narrated and held together by inmates Augustus Hill, who provides the show with some context, some sense of theme, etc. and ties everything together really nicely.

Episode 1: The Routine
Episode 2: Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
Episode 3: God's Chillin'
Episode 4: Capital P
Episode 5: Straight Life
Episode 6: To Your Health
Episode 7: Plan B
Episode 8: A Game of Checkers