HBO Oz Appreciation/Unappreciation Thread

[Payroll]

Show could have been great if it had decent writers.

 

[Megadeus]

as soon as I watched Invincible and heard Omni-Man's voice first thing i thought was
SCHILLINGER. Now I KNOW he wouldnt take this role if the character wasnt on some fxck shyt.....

After 1 episode turns out i was right.

 

[Money Be Green]

Never watched this show until recently &


The nikka in the wheelchair was annoying as fukk

The ending made no sense

 

[Piff Tannen]

Zahir Arif

 

[boogers]

Never watched this show until recently &


The nikka in the wheelchair was annoying as fukk

The ending made no sense

how could you hate on Hill?? he was cool

i thought Burr was unappreciated.. tho he did have to come after Adebisi, one of the GOAT HBO characters

yea the writing could be kinda bad. Oz took a lotta chances and created some of the greatest TV fukkery ever. shyt was like Gay Shakespeare In Prison. as ridiculous as some of the scenarios were, it was more about the characters anyway.

EDIT: im actually watching right now. i didnt realize the lil asian homie from the immigrant ship was the same cat from Sopranos.. the one that beat up Uncle Junior in the home

 

[boogers]

i didnt know craig grant aka mums aka Poet from Oz died recently.. sad. his cigarette poem was my favorite, lol. from what i've read, mums wrote all of poet's poems himself.

I coulda sworn I seen the motherfukker in my cell, going through my personal effects
He fingers, fingering my cigarettes
Came out like nothing was happening whistling his tune
So I mushed his ass, like, Move, motherfukker, make room
Hey, ain't that my cigarette hanging off the tip of your lip?
I didn't even give him a chance for any confession
Just leveled his ass with all that aggression
Left, right, to the dolex
Foots to the chest
Uppercuts to the grill
I'm like Kill!
He's like Chill!
Take that for even being in this place
Take that for that fukking CO baton across my face
Feel that for that lawyer who don't give two fukks about me
And feel this, feel this for me being enslaved by poverty, motherfukker
Gimme them damn cigarettes
Oh, these are Marlboros. I don't smoke these.

everyone on the cast was dope, but Poet was one of my favorites. RIP

 

[KingsOfKings]

"If there's anyone who knows anything about the grim uncertainty of purgatory, it's actor Harold Perrineau starring in three shows where time spent in those environments felt like an eternity in Oz, Lost, and the current horror mystery series From. While promoting the EPIX series, the actor spoke with TV Insider about the legacy of the revolutionary HBO prison drama that ran from 1997-2003, if a reboot is possible, and if he would return to serve as narrator. During the HBO series created by Tom Fontana, Oz is short for the Oswald Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison where the lives of inmates and staff are the focus of dealing with sociological issues of incarceration in the criminal justice system. Perrineau played Augustus Hill, an inmate serving his own sentence that also serves as an anthology-style narrator breaking down episode themes.

"[The way 'Oz' pushed boundaries as a drama] was exciting and interesting and scary, and nobody knew where it was gonna go," Perrineau said. "I feel really lucky to have been able to be part a part of that, we had many, many times where executives from HBO would walk in, and they'd look at whatever we were doing, just kind of shake their head. 'They're on a leash? Whatever it is, just let them do it.'"

Perrineau credited how HBO's creative autonomy allowed Oz to thrive. "That was a really interesting thing to watch, but they were letting us experiment. I'm really glad that we would get to experiment with an actual topic that makes sense in this country that we live in. You know, prison reform, what prison is about, what it does versus what we might want it to be, and how it affects us," he said. "We certainly had to be entertaining, but we could also point the finger at or point an eye toward some of these things. Especially for me, for the community I grew up in, it felt really good to be able to say something about it. Not just sitting around and talking about it, but actually having a real look at this. Let's see how that happens. Let's see what violence really looks like. For all those people who think violence is cool, or whatever, like, we got to show you 'yeah, no, no, this isn't cool. This is scary shyt here.' So we should remember that. It's really good to be part of something that says something."

When it comes to whether Oz could be rebooted today, "I think we still have tons of questions about what we're doing with the prison system here in this country. I think we still have questions about how it affects the African American community; we have questions about how it affects the American community as a whole," Perrineau said. "So I think there could always be a fresh reboot of 'Oz.' I mean, until we figure out what we're doing [and] when we need it. Look, it's still a question for me. There are times I'm really like, 'prisons work.' And there were times where I'm like, 'yeah, lock them up,' because I'm personally affected by it. I recognize that the questions live in me as much as they live in our country."



Whether Perrineau would return, "I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis, but I would certainly be honored if anybody found a way to rewrite Augustus Hill back into it just a little bit," he said. "But, you know, since then, I've done a couple of a number of different things in prisons. And I've said to myself, I don't need to be in a real or fake prison, I don't think, anymore my whole life." For more, including the possibilities in play for season two of From and reflecting on his time on Lost, you can check out the complete interview here.
Harold Perrineau Reflects on Society as 'Oz' Turns 25

Oz: Harold Perrineau on HBO Series' 25th Anniversary, Reboot Rumors[/QUOTE]

 

[Milk N Cookies]

I’d be interested in a reboot. Yeah it’s a show about dudes in prison but how would they bring Oz back since it was closed for anthrax? Obviously the world bounced back but I wanna see how they did it.

 

[Erratic415]

how could you hate on Hill?? he was cool

i thought Burr was unappreciated.. tho he did have to come after Adebisi, one of the GOAT HBO characters

yea the writing could be kinda bad. Oz took a lotta chances and created some of the greatest TV fukkery ever. shyt was like Gay Shakespeare In Prison. as ridiculous as some of the scenarios were, it was more about the characters anyway.

EDIT: im actually watching right now. i didnt realize the lil asian homie from the immigrant ship was the same cat from Sopranos.. the one that beat up Uncle Junior in the home

Father Phil was the SWAT team guy getting questioned by Charles Dutton (who also appeared on The Sopranos) about the riots. Lord Jamar and Treach appeared on both shows.

There was a lot of actors who were on some combination of The Wire/The Sopranos/Oz. JD Williams killed people in all 3 of them lol

 

[boogers]

i didnt know craig grant aka mums aka Poet from Oz died recently.. sad. his cigarette poem was my favorite, lol. from what i've read, mums wrote all of poet's poems himself.





everyone on the cast was dope, but Poet was one of my favorites. RIP

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

pause that last Poet vid @ 1:32........................... is that Snoop??? from The Wire??

it looks like her...

but hey, who knows. would be dope if it was lol

 

[Red Shield]

Don't think a show like this could be remade or hell even made

 

[boogers]

bumping this thread instead of creating another

can anybody vouch for the existence of a 'season 7' bootleg dvd?

Down the Oz Rabbit Hole: The Strange Story of the Lost Episodes of Oz!

 

[zayk35]

bumping this thread instead of creating another

can anybody vouch for the existence of a 'season 7' bootleg dvd?

Down the Oz Rabbit Hole: The Strange Story of the Lost Episodes of Oz!

If it's true it's crazy that the episodes have never been leaked. I'd definitely check it out

 

[Uncle Baby Billy]

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Rewatching.

So much fukkery and crazy shyt every episode. One episode is like a whole season for other shows. I forgot how much shyt happened. O'Reilly having his brother kill Gloria's husband. Adebisi raping Italian boss. Smh. Lol

That's like one episode lmao