Oz reminded me of my High school a lot.
Maybe you should have called someone if it did.
Oz started Ok. But then watching straight men pretending to be bi or gay and lots of homoerotic prison sex got rather old , rather quickly. While the show tried to offset it with straight couplings, unless you were “into “man on man” the show becomes difficult to watch.
Also, as someone stated above, Oz was such a poorly run prison that in real life it would have been shut down shortly after Season 1. The rampant murders and overall violence would have made the news and resulted in either investigations or lawsuits if it wasn’t brought under control.
It was a good idea that was poorly executed.
I always stayed away from this show because it struck me as something that was trying to be “premium cable shocking” for its own sake. But I’ve been reading Alan Sepinwall’s book about the rise of premium TV, and he cites this as a forerunner to The Sopranos et al, so I had become a little curious now that it’s on Amazon Prime. This thread though has made me mostly go back to my original attitude.
I think it isn’t that bad if you look it at more like a dramatization. Stuff that happened in Oz has all happened in real prisons, but it goes a bit overboard to the point of stupidity sometimes. Maybe like, some 1970s, early 80s prisons were similar. Back then was some scary shit still, no DNA evidence, and not a lot of surveillance. There were a lot of people coming into prisons, or the streets that previously were locked in mental health institutions. They closed a lot of them down around the mid 1960s, and started handling things kind of more “humanely”. Even to this day there are a couple shitty prisons around still. I kinda liked the story of Beecher. He was so cute (no 4omo)
No, it only got worse and more ludicrous.
…I saw this thread while scrolling today and thought “Didn’t I start a thread like this years ago?” Oh…I did.