# Does anyone else here watch Oz? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953 "2002-09-27T23:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/1 "2002-09-27T23:51:05Z")
Man, is Oz the best show on TV now or what? Does anyone else watch it? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/2 "2002-09-28T00:40:49Z")
It’s a great show indeed, but the new season (Season 5 here)doesn’t start until January. ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/3 "2002-09-28T00:44:08Z")
I think we’re still on Season 4 in the UK. But I’ve only been watching it for about a year anyway so I could be wrong. I’ve been looking for it on video but can’t find it anywhere (unsurprisingly) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/4 "2002-09-28T00:50:36Z")
Love it. I also think the opening song is ten times better than _The Sopranos_, _Sex and the City_, _Curb Your Enthusiasm_, etc. Can’t wait til January. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/5 "2002-09-28T00:59:07Z")
Season 1 is on DVD here in the States, and Season 2 will be released in January, timed to coincide with the season debut. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/6 "2002-09-28T02:15:15Z")
I’m a total Oz addict. Mr. Sea calls it my porn. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/7 "2002-09-28T04:27:26Z")
Best? Hardly. but I watch it regularly. It was important to realize that _Oz_ bears about as much similarity to realistic prison life as _Ally McBeal_ did to the legal profession. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/8 "2002-09-28T08:23:34Z")
Scuse my ignorance, what is **Oz**? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/9 "2002-09-28T08:24:02Z")
I read that this might be the last season…the original screenwriter claims he has said everything he wanted to say and that will be the end. I hope not. First of all, half of New York actors would be out of work. Secondly, a great series would end. Thirdly, it would be a blow to gay soft-porn. Forthly, don’t make a pun about thirdly. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/10 "2002-09-28T09:31:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ninevah \* > \*\*Scuse my ignorance, what is **Oz**? \*\* A drama set in a prison. It’s on Cable only. Optus has it, not sure about Foxtel. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/11 "2002-09-28T22:36:27Z")
To explain a little further, Oz takes place mostly in “Em City”, an experimental unit where lifers mix in with other criminals and everyone lives in see-through “pods” (cells). I definitely recommend renting the first and second season DVDs for anyone who’s never seen it, as Oz is hands down the most underrated show on television (I’m convinced the only reason Lee Tergeson and Eamonn Walker- Beecher and Said- haven’t gotten Emmy’s is because most judges were horrified by the first five minutes of the tapes they were given to consider). Still, part of me is glad that things are coming to a close, as some of the storylines are getting a bit too ridiculous. I really hope Beecher gets released in the last episode (that fantasy bit with the parole board was such a tease). ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-watch-oz/129953/12 "2002-09-29T03:21:49Z")
_Oz_ is very well done. But I’ve seen about half a dozen episodes.