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Series Details & Credits
| HBO | Release Date: July 12, 1997 |
Starring:
Sean Whitesell, Robert Clohessy, Scott William Winters, Ernie Hudson, Rita Moreno, J.K. Simmons, Lauren Vélez, Philip Casnoff, Christopher Meloni, Dean Winters, Luis Guzman, Stephen Gevedon, David Zayas, Kathryn Erbe, Harold Perrineau Jr., Željko Ivanek, Edie Falco, Kristin Rohde, Lee Tergesen, George Morfogen, Kirk Acevedo, J.D. Williams, Chuck Zito, Terry Kinney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eamonn Walker, Granville Adams, Charles Busch, Michael Wright, Anthony Chisholm, muMs, Sean Dugan, Evan Seinfeld, James Palacio, Steven Wishnoff, BD Wong
Summary:
Genre(s):
Drama, Suspense
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In a stifling summer of same-old, same-old on the tube, HBO's Oz is a shock of ice water in the face, a kick in the stomach, an exciting, exhausting, horrifying, mesmerizing trip to hell, operating as the Oswald Maximum Security Prison...For adults who choose to go to hell and (not quite) back, Oz is just about as powerful as TV drama gets. [10 July 1997]
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It's as though Levinson and Fontana decided to throw everything onscreen that they're not allowed to show on broadcast television. But pushing the boundaries doesn't make Oz better or more realistic than "Homicide." If anything, it infringes on the storytelling. It's one thing to shock viewers for the sake of drama, quite another to frighten them into worrying about what visual affront to their senses will pop up next...If you can get past all that, Oz does tell some intensely interesting tales about life in a modern maximum-security prison, stories vastly different from the ones used in the average prison movie or cop show. [11 July 1997, p.47]
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The problem is people; the characters are interesting, but that's pretty much as far as it goes. Whether they live, die, are brutalized, treated fairly or unfairly it all comes at you in such a rush that you don't know what to make of it, if anything...That's a serious flaw, although there are signs in the first two episodes that the problem could be remedied as the series proceeds. If it is and I'm intrigued enough to keep watching my like could conceivably turn to love. [10 July 1997, p.106]
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A pretentious exercise in cheap thrills, by great talents who've been allowed to run amok. [11 July 1997, p.D1]
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Air Date: January 19, 2003
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Air Date: January 5, 2003
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