Oz | A Symphony of Brutality | Season 2 Review
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Oz is a HBO drama that was the network's first 1 hour episode series, a precursor to the likes of The Sopranos and Game of Thrones. This is my review of season 2.
Oz is praised for a great many reasons. For a TV show, especially one that first aired in 1997, it highly realistic in its depiction of prison life. I’ve seen loads of crime films and prison movies, and even still, more than 20 years later, the first season of Oz really leaves an impact with just how profane it is. The language, the violence depicted, the disregard for the value of human life by inmates and guards alike. I can only imagine how shocking it must have been back in the 90s, and the boundaries it pushed allowed other shows to pioneer and perfect the craft.
In season 2, the son of the seasoned Italian mobster from the first season arrives at Emerald City, wanting to take over from his father’s operation and avenge his death. There’s continued tension with Beecher and Schillinger, with the latter catching a dastardly plot to torture the former. Adebisi exchanges love letters with a woman on death row while having his connection with his homeland stimulated by a mysterious new inmate. Saeed battles a desire for freedom with his loyalty to his men when he is selected to be granted clemency, and Augustus becomes obsessed with escape after he has false hope of release dangled in front of him. There’s a lot of different stuff happening.
Some of the main characters are Tobias Beecher, Vern Schillinger, and Kareem Said.
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Just rewatched the first episode of Season 1. That first season really hasn’t aged as badly as I would have assumed. It was still intense and gripping and even though I knew Dino’s death was coming, it was still a shock due to all the focus they gave him as a lifer. I try to tell as many people about Oz as possible. The first two seasons still hit just as hard as if it were Boardwalk Empire or Sopranos.
Dino was made out to be the main character and it was so surprising that it grabs you from episode 1.
Yeah Dino was an awesome character 👏🏽
Strap in for season 3… they some how manage to raise the depravity of all parties. It’s brutal
All that was in season two. Sheesh , abs there's still so much more to go. Ya'll remember what Jaz and them did to the Preacher. Shubetta Jr and his unwanted lover. The shit show on a weight bench. There's so much left.
Oz writers were very creative with their assaults and death in the show. Brutal even by today's standards.
This was a time when HBO decided to push the boundaries, It was the 90's, every network was doing it but HBO realized they could go further than anyone, sometimes it worked, sometimes not so much.
They already had the freedom to do whatever they wanted since they were pay tv and to draw in the audience they started doing shows with nudity/violence/topics that wouldn't fly on network tv. Cinemax and Showtime had mostly softcore stuff while Hbo was all in on shows - DreamOn, Arliss, OZ, Sopranos, Sex&The City...
There was a bit of a risk doing it I remember reading.
Channel 4, early 2000s, we used to tape all the episodes. Brilliant.
I used to sneak down at night to watch it when i was a kid
Where I’m from HBO was channel 5!
Yip. Found it by accident on a Thursday night about 11pm. Love it.
Oz is one of those shows that cares WAY more about characters than about plot. This becomes even more evident as the series as goes on, and more eyebrow-raising storylines come about. It’s really the characters that you keep you going in this series.
LMFAO the fucking age increasing drugs shit was so stupid
I don’t care how many roles he has J.k. Will always be Schillinger
My nephew(in his 20s) only knows him from Spiderman and i like you was explaining how i always see him and showed him the pool table scene from Oz 😂
@@maniac50ae14 it would have been great to see the eye tats on the back of JJ’s head
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
“Hey Peter do you like my tattoos?”
I love Oz just wait until Querns shows up😉 It's so underrated and so many actors have gone on to become megastars or solid working character actors. My favorite game is when I'm watching other things and telling people who they played on Oz or The Wire.😂 they don't find it as amusing as I do but.
For real Oz is basically a who’s who of great actors from every great show of the last 20 years lol
I met Kirk Acevedo (Miguel Alvarez) at a Comic Con some years ago; I told him that no matter what JK Simmons does or how many Oscars he wins, he'll ALWAYS be Schillinger to me! Same with Adebisi (I'm not even going to attempt to spell out all those letters).
I can tolerate it on rewatches up until where Adebisi dies. The last 2 seasons aren't complete garbage but I only needed to see them once
Just recently watch the entire series of Oz.
I didn’t realize Ryan O’Reilly was “Mayhem” until the most recent commercial. I was like… he reminds of… oh, it IS him!
Yeah. I definitely agree with that. There's way too much going on. Especially for prison, especially in comparison to real prison. Any convicts will tell you, most of jail is boring AF....The writers have even went on record saying attacks/grapes were actually just punishment for actors not doing what they were supposed to. Whether it made sense story wise or not.
If a real life prison was as violent as OZ, they'd be on permanent lock down. They had more murders in a month than most prisons have in a decade. As a, highly fictionalised, critique of America's correctional system, it had it's merits though. There was never a dull moment, that's for sure.
I've read somewhere that whoever comes late to work, his character gets raped.
The first three seasons were the best in my opinion, I mean, they’re all amazing but these ones really hit home
When the Sopranos finally brought in the New York mob characters, I wished they’d used the Italians from Oz.
Oz is so out of pocket and corny sometimes but damn I love it for how much personality it has
If I could sum up my feelings for the show it'd be just like that, lmao
Schillinger knew Beecher would latch onto the first person who was kind to him. It's a bit Bond villainesque, but genius as well. He wanted to break Beecher's spirit, not just his limbs.
Dude you're the only one reviewing this series. Appreciate the retrospective!
Glad that you acknowledge that OZ is the grandaddy of em all.
I watched this show when it was new. Always loved it but honestly, can only watch a few episodes at a time. Keep the videos coming!!!
Currently watching this again for the first time since it aired, series is hard to find online. Couple episodes into S4 at the moment and will return to this vid series when I’m done. I wish more people were aware of this series
Im ready to breakout the old hd and start watching OZ❤
It’s a shame the show didn’t have a better story line, but the characters are so well played that you keep coming back for more.
Oz gives new meaning to the term "spooning"
The best guy was Kenny. Hilarious
I thoroughly enjoy your reviews have you ever thought about doing some reviews on Showtime shows like Dexter, Homeland, sleeper cell or Huff?
Finally someone talking about Oz 😭
Binge watching this can literally feed your depression and anxiety lol.
You should do a series about
sons of anarchy, that was a great show, I think you'd make a great observations
Schillenger loathed Beecher and wanted to make his life a living hell. He does so out of jealousy, hatred and self loathing. Plus Beecher was unaffiliated and therefore an easy target to screw with.
Beecher was the opposite of Schillenger, a rich white liberal given every opportunity to succeed in life and still messed up, ofc there's the Aryan angle of punishing him for killing a white girl. His only plan was to torment and humiliate Beecher at every opportunity. There was no plan expect for the current one set in motion.
Bets show ever for me
Thanks again young man and keep it coming please Sir 👍 📚
you should do videos on HBOs the corner
Ngl this show legit scared me
I love oz even though it’s unrealistic
To put it lightly lol. It almost resembles a bad dream more than it resembles real life at times.
It got further away from reality in each passing season (Death Row Maxim photo shoot anyone?!) but it was always entertaining.
@@ngkngk875 the surreal aspect of the show is what i love
I show up in season 5.
It's supposed to be chaotic, jarring, breakneck in pace, absurd, and surreal, that's exactly how it accurately portrays much of how it feels to be incarcerated despite being technically insanely inaccurate.
Another thing they do repeatedly, ya rarely know what it is or isn't true and who can or can't be trusted. Like the situation with Beecher's wife, there's a ton of uncertainty where it's almost 50/50 between her taking her own life or Vern sending people to do it to her. We never know, we never find out anything really and only the question remains. There's just nothing else like it, no other show would leave this much up in the air and uncertain.
Gloria was not a nurse she was a doctor.
I finished this series faster than I did for any other show lol
that was me with the shield but this one too it seems lol
I always imagined the young guy who's in Oz and the wire ended up in Oz after the wire
Bodie?
@@blksheep176 ye I have not seen either series in ages but yes 😆 even though he is older in the wire when I was watching the wire I always imagined he would end up in Oz (I watched Oz first)
Unfortunately he got picked up by another HBO show... Six Feet Under
I think S1 is the best the first episode alone and then all the stuff with that guy who's girl comes to see him and the guards make him kill a a guy I found all really powerful stuff
Oz was pretty good the first few seasons and they have some amazing characters but the later seasons plots get kinda ridicules
I still watched and enjoyed it, but there was some pretty stupid stuff in there. Like the drug that would make you age to an amount that was commensurate with your sentence in exchange for a shorter sentence. That was like Philip K Dick on dumb dumb mode. Always made me laugh though.
6 was the only season below good
@@lifeisberserk9566 I honestly can't say it was a realistic portrayal of life in American prisons, but it was a great show and one of the best from that period. Even when it ventured into pure fantasy, there was still an energy and vigour to it that kept you gripped. I also agree that it mainly dropped off towards the end, and was mostly good through out.
I met the actor who played Richard L’Italien, Eric Roberts. Let me know if you’re curious as to what he was like.
I never understood y poet went back I mean the guy pulled a gun on him that’s self defense the only thing I can think of is maybe an illegal gun charge in which case he probably didn’t get much time
He was using still, and wasn't allowed to have a gun since he's on probation.
on to season 3, and the 16 episode season 4, in my opinion, the prime of the show. some really good stuff to come. love that youre reviewing this show. it kind of gets overlooked, but was really great.
Yea I agree. I try to have people watch but they refuse because all the prison rape
I was in 7th/8th grade and me and my friends loved Oz.
There was too much butt fucking tho.
Yea it was pretty unrealistic.
I caught HBOs The Corner over here in England before the first airing of The Wire on BBC 2, I was mesmerised.. 😂
Awesome timing. I just wrapped a rewatch of S2 last night.
Not an HBO show, but I do hope you consider "Justified" as a show to look into. Funny, I just rewatched "OZ" and "Rome" within the last few months.
I think your best chance to stay alive and impenetrable would be to befriend Cyril O’Reilly.
Ryan could be decent to those who posed no threat to him and if he saw you treated his brother well, might be a good ally. Unless, of course, you became crucial to him pulling off one of his schemes. Then you might get in deep $#!+
Couldn't make it past three episodes, too corny.
This show was so good! Really good cast! And well written!
SECOND!!!
It's totally gay 😮
Probably tied with season 3 as the best. 2 has more realism which is a touch and go thing with this show
I saw Oz in my twenties in 2014 as a former oxy addict just turned heroin addict. I had a warrant that I had to get an attorney to find out for me and since I was a heroin addict I didn’t want to go to jail withdrawing.
I was in fear daily watching that show as to what would happen to me once I actually got to jail, not prison.
I was only in there for a day and it was one of the worst jails in the US and I did withdraw the whole time but obviously it was nothing like Oz.
My only complaint about Oz is how unrealistic everything is. From the brutality of the deaths, to how exaggerated, brutal and consistent the deaths are. Even how easily people are able to quit “tits” or heroin is just ridiculously unrealistic.
It is entertaining though and it’s by far the most violent show in the history of television. The show peaks at around between seasons 3-4 IMO.
I like how the 2 guys from diff insurance companies are enemies
Hus finished the show after first vid it was the shit violent yet had emotional n funny moments is good shit 😂
Have been also binging this show for the first time, currently only 2 episodes left in the final season
SOOOOO many good episodes left.
Brilliant vid as ever!
Its weird going back and watching this series and seeing JK Simmons be so unrepentantly evil after seeing him play so many good or grey characters in other series.
Huh? Schillinger is one of the only good guys in the show.
Yea he does evil stuff but show me one character who doesn't.
I stopped watching this series after season four. I tried to pick it pack up a decade or so later, but still was not able to finish it.
The second 8 of 16,think it was the first time a drama had a break mid season but also doubled the content. Resulting in one of the worst seasons, I think, in television history. Real shame how it never reached the peak of the first three after that. 5 and 6 are better then 4b, but not as thrilling or edgy.
And before Oz there was Lost.
And it sucked lol oz was ok if your into black prison shows lol im good
That whole "getting you to fall in love with a guy in order to fuck you over" is less James Bond villain than you think. Rather than break your arms and legs like in the show, they use the "girl" to clean out all your money.