The Routine

Oz: Season 1: Episode 1

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Oz: Season 1
The Routine

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HBO | Air Date: July 12, 1997
Starring: Sean Whitesell, Scott William Winters, Ernie Hudson, Rita Moreno, J.K. Simmons, Lauren Vélez, Dean Winters, Harold Perrineau Jr., Edie Falco, Lee Tergesen, George Morfogen, Kirk Acevedo, J.D. Williams, Chuck Zito, Terry Kinney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eamonn Walker, Granville Adams, muMs, Evan Seinfeld, Tony Musante, Eddie Malavarca, Leon, Tom Mardirosian, BD Wong
Summary: We're introduced to the newest crop of inmates to enter Oz. Miguel Alvarez is promptly stabbed in the chest while waiting to enter Oz, a harginger of things to come. Tobias Beecher is a naive, pale and hopelessly out of place lawyer accused of killing a little girl while driving intoxicated. Donald Groves is a cannibal who ate his motherWe're introduced to the newest crop of inmates to enter Oz. Miguel Alvarez is promptly stabbed in the chest while waiting to enter Oz, a harginger of things to come. Tobias Beecher is a naive, pale and hopelessly out of place lawyer accused of killing a little girl while driving intoxicated. Donald Groves is a cannibal who ate his mother (he was saving his father for thanksgiving) and Kareem Said an outspoken and much-respected Muslim leader who tells the warden and McManus upon his arrival that "as of today, I run Oz." … Expand
Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
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