Tanisha LaVerne Grant is one the industry's leading entertainment journalist. In this segment she catches with the cast of "OZ" for their 20th Anniversary event held at THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA.
Lot of people put Sopranos up there but honestly I wouldn't even put it in my top 5...if not for James Gandolfini it would have been a mid show. The Wire forever will be number one, maybe Deadwood is number 2 and after that it's a tough fight for the position
Sopranos gets all the damn credit, but OZ is the show that started the golden era of TV which continues today. The first to kill off it's most known actor at the time, the guy who starred in Selena, in the first season.
What About i just binge watched the whole Oz series and now im finishing The Sopranos, and I have to say that The Sopranos was the show that took tv to a whole new level. Oz was often lazy and repetitive. The formula behind Oz is very straightforward, and the characters and their development are not consistent and change to the writers whim to build up tension and spectacle for the sake of it. the formula of one guy tricks another into being good through a 3rd character that is marginally put into the mix so that it becomes a thread for a future trickster moment was okay in the beginning, but it got super repetitive and unrealistic especially since the main characters involved were always the same - shuffle and repeat, over and over again. The Sopranos is a whole diff level of writing and acting. And the proof of that is that breaking bad has sooo many similarities and inspirations from The Sopranos and that show became this generations revolutionary cinema.
@@TZMC219 It would be soo cool to see what is going on in Emerald City after all these years. Even a follow up on just O'Reilly or Beecher would be amazing
I love this show!! I just started watching this in January of 2021! I’m on season 4 right now!!! How did I not know about this show. I like that fact that I can just watch all the seasons right through and not having to wait week on week!!!
Yes, it's 2023, and I just finished. This show was phenomenal. My favorite characters were Leon, Kareem, and Beecher. But far as Kareem, his character was so strong and so real. I was upset he was killed in season 8 for the most ridiculous reason ever. Because to me he made the show and to be from England and change his accent was great. They should have had a season 7,8,9,10 like the housewifes show.
I loved oz! I owned and watched every episode and the extended finale of season 6 all the acting was spot on. I can't say a single bad thing about the show at all it was just perfect
I think its 5/5 show but i still see flaws especially in the last season. Too many rushed storylines that lead nowhere but the acting was still spot on.
Oz is so real it will make you scared and stay away from doing a crime. They portrayed their roles so well that seeing them being interviewed is a breath of fresh air. It always amuses me everytime I see most of them in cop shows now playing the cop, fbi, detectives from being a prisoner.
Yeah I tuned in looking for Adebisi. OZ was excellent television. When Beecher's kids got his hand cut off and was murdered. He was in his cell wailing. It was hard to watch. That's good acting. Chris Meloni playing the part of a gay man. When they killed off Adebisi, I actually got up off the couch and yelled at the TV "what? They killed Adebisi." Before that, I'd never seen a series with balls like that.
@@dreamquesttv I didn't even put the two together until this video. I just started on The Sopranos recently and couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity when I saw her.
Mums was a legend, when i started watching the show i was doing poetry in school and he inspired me to write. I've wrote a few songs based around things he talked about on the show, what a legend. RIP Mums
Imo the greatest hbo series ever made . God even I can't believe more than 20 years wow .. I use to watch here in uk at 11pm every Thursday night .. my fav character was adebise and Keller.. but they all where great too. They just don't make em like this anymore. And ofc the sopranos .. oz and sopranos was the 2 best Ever .. imo.
I got arrested in 1997 for 1,300$ in traffic warrants and I was put in Twin Towers for 13 days, 100 a day and was not allowed to bail out. It was my first time ever in trouble or in jail. I was frantic and bawled for 13 days and the night I was released my Dad sent a cab driver to get me and I was still in a kind of shocked state. I took a shower and sat down and turned on the TV and oh Jesus!!!!! There was OZ!!! That was the absolute last thing I wanted to see. I was traumatized still but OMFG I JUST COULDN'T KEEP MY EYES OFF WHAT I WAS SEEING AND WAS INSTANTLY ADDICTED!!!! WHAT A GREAT AWESOME DISTURBING SHOW!!!!! I LOVED IT SO MUCH AND STILL DO! GREAT GREAT WORK GUYS!!!! THANK YOU ALWAYS ❤
Oreily really looks like He has a hot temper in real life, and Kareem Said looks wise and always have his many facial expressions, like they were not really playing a rôle, fascinating...
I'm just watching this serie and i can say that IT'S A GREAT SHOOOOOW I'm really impacted about how all actors did a great job and those naked scenes by all cast are super hard even for the 90's
Une grande série que je regarder tous les soirs très tard diffusé en France à époque à 00h00 ils n'ont jamais diffusé la fin de saissons car trop agressivité par la suite plusieurs acteurs que je suis dans d'autres séries bravo à tous et merci s'était une série très bien réalisée et très vraie 🌹🙏🇫🇷thanks you ❤️
Eddie Falco is pretty amazing, 2 of the best show's in history OZ and Soprano's she's been a part of, not a lots of actors/actresses can succeed like that. plus she's was in Nurse Jackie another heavy hitter.
I live in Brazil and this show was broadcasted by SBT over here back in the early 2000s and I can remember I was a kid back then and got really scared by the show! But I used to love that when I was a kid and now more grown up I've watched the show and oh my God....it's amazing!
For me i fall in love with killer and his smile , cried alot for ceral o riely , admire rebedo , the body of adebesi , the kindness if sister peter marry , the love of ryan to his brother , mother of ogustes, and chaky 😍😍🤗
OZ was a great show and far ahead of its time. How frequent do you see homosexual romance portrayed openly and intense back in the days? If the show is released today, pretty sure it's gonna be a mega hit. Truthfully, the show is underappreciated. Great to see the cast is looking good!
Oz is one of my favorite shows of all time. A true successor to Homicide (another great show)! It sucks that the Sopranos still gets caught all of the credit for HBO being for considered as a channel for a premium content.
Great video! Your channel is inspiring. As a drone videographer, wanna be actor, content creator and editor from Atlanta you’ve inspired me to Trey and branch out. I loved and still love the show. You’ve done a great job and keep up the good work. If you’re ever in Atlanta we’d love to work with you. Frank and Gina. 🎥😎
One of the things oz did that many shows even now just cant do is develop and create a story of many characters, there were soo many characters in oz that we got to see
The real star of the show was Adebisi’s hat.
How the heck did that stay on his head?
tom palushock “Velcro?”
- Nino Sciabetta.
U ain't never lied 😂😂
@Tamu Malone 👀
😂😂😂Hilarious!!! So true!!!
Oz and the Sopranos were the best series ever. Amazing characters, plots and storylines. Both were so addictive and ahead of their time.
You forgot The Wire, and Breaking Bad
@@PharoahsKingdom none of them better than Sopranos. Just my opinion 🤷♂️
Facts
Lot of people put Sopranos up there but honestly I wouldn't even put it in my top 5...if not for James Gandolfini it would have been a mid show. The Wire forever will be number one, maybe Deadwood is number 2 and after that it's a tough fight for the position
@@TxxT33 L take
One of the greatest shows if all time. I fell in love with Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reilly .....but ALL the actors were simply AMAZING
Every single one of them
And in you tube Pics I fell in love with you. ❤ woo woo lol
It’s true, this show honestly might have the best over cast of any show.... so much fucking talent
Je confirme une série que j'oublierais jamais et les acteurs bravo à tous 👏🙏🌹🇫🇷💋
Sopranos gets all the damn credit, but OZ is the show that started the golden era of TV which continues today. The first to kill off it's most known actor at the time, the guy who starred in Selena, in the first season.
Jon Seda
Dont forget, The Wire
@@jermaineserrano6552 OZ first then the wire
Yes but Sopranos took it to the next level story wise
What About i just binge watched the whole Oz series and now im finishing The Sopranos, and I have to say that The Sopranos was the show that took tv to a whole new level. Oz was often lazy and repetitive. The formula behind Oz is very straightforward, and the characters and their development are not consistent and change to the writers whim to build up tension and spectacle for the sake of it. the formula of one guy tricks another into being good through a 3rd character that is marginally put into the mix so that it becomes a thread for a future trickster moment was okay in the beginning, but it got super repetitive and unrealistic especially since the main characters involved were always the same - shuffle and repeat, over and over again. The Sopranos is a whole diff level of writing and acting. And the proof of that is that breaking bad has sooo many similarities and inspirations from The Sopranos and that show became this generations revolutionary cinema.
RIP to the following OZ actors (as of July 2023):
*Dana Reeve ('Wendy Shultz') - 2006 (late actor Christopher Reeves' wife)
*Steve Ryan ('Officer Mike Healey') - 2007
*Tony Hoty ('Lionel Kelsch') - 2008
*Oni Faida Lampley ('Rev Truman') - 2008
*Zakes Mokai ('Kipekemie Jara') - 2009
*Tony Musante ('Nino Schibetta') - 2013
*Milo O'Shea ('Dr Frederick Garvey') - 2013
*Edward Hermann ('Harrison Beecher') - 2014
*Matthew Cowles ('William Brandt') - 2014
*Curtis McClarin ('Officer Lonnie Smith') - 2014
*Emmanuel Yarborough ('Clarence Seroy') - 2015
*Anne Meara ('Aunt Brenda O'Reilly') - 2015
*Sean Whitesell ('Donald Groves') - 2015
*Kristin Rhode ('Officer Claire Howell') - 2016
*Frank Senger ('Frank Manhardt') - 2016
*John McMartin ('Lars Nathan') - 2016
*Tomas Milian ('Ricardo Alvarez') - 2017
*Reg E Carthy ('Martin Querns') - 2018
*Luke Perry ('Jeremiah Cloutierre') - 2019
*George Morfogen ('Bob Rebadow') - 2019
*Dick Boccelli ('Heinrick Schillinger') - 2019
*Kevin Conway ('Seamus O'Reilly') - 2020
*Anthony Chisholm ('Burr Reading') - 2020
*Craig MuMs Grant ('Poet') - 2021
*Granville Adams ('Zahir Arif') - 2021
*Lance Reddick ('Desmond Mobay') - 2023
*Mark Margolis ('Antonio Nappa') - 2023
Wow never knew that many have passed
@@mikecotton9103yep. And we lose another one, added to the list. RIP. They made the show incredibly special.
*O.L. Duke (Paul Markstram) - 2004
@@LadyDuchess @51 from car crash.
many n their 50's when they passed.
Great interviews, wish more people knew about OZ. Also Eamon Walker's accent always throws me. He will always be Said for me lol
Thank you so much for watching.
@J T Sāid
I always see him as the warlord from lord of war
I can't believe he isn't American.. Dude does a perfect accent.
He was my favorite character from the get go! Not to mention how attractive he is. Full of class.😊
Incredible that Ryan and Poet were based on the actors character...a real hustler and a real poet!
I just finished OZ! What a masterpiece of a show. Thank you for this interview!
5:17
No wonder Ryan O’ Reilly was so damn convincing. Dean really had that hustling personality.
This is a show that I am suprised I did not watch until literally just now. Still stood strong. Timeless in that environment
My man Busmalis is so underrated, he managed to escape, give him credit lol
One of the best
you know??? exactly! he's the MOLE 😅👏🔥
We need oz again was so fukin good
Or a sequel
@@TZMC219 It would be soo cool to see what is going on in Emerald City after all these years. Even a follow up on just O'Reilly or Beecher would be amazing
@@whatamievendoing or Alvarez
OZ: Cell Block W. . .The Women's version!!
They ended the when it good. If they keep the show going its gonna get really bad. Don't get me wrong that would be dope AF!!!!!!!!
This show is definitely the first to push the envelope for television, I been binge-watching for 2 days now.
OZ was the show that really started HBOs glory days
I know I'm five years too late but these were some great interviews
THANK YOU! Perfect timing
This show deserves more attention 💚
What do you mean damn their everybody know about o.z. what more attention does it need
@@nilevalleyafrican9451 i think the same, im brazilian and nobody heare knows about oz, what is a shame
@@D.K.93. I once heard someone say in the Comment section people give The wire and sopranos more respect than oz
@@nilevalleyafrican9451 oz, the wire, sopranos, 7 feet under e the office are all in number 1 spot
@@nilevalleyafrican9451surprisingly not many people No about oz
We want Oz back
Travis Walsh hells yea
I don't think that's going to happen because the show is so old and the actors are getting older.
There’s no reason they couldn’t do a reboot
Trump in Oz
I love this show!! I just started watching this in January of 2021! I’m on season 4 right now!!! How did I not know about this show. I like that fact that I can just watch all the seasons right through and not having to wait week on week!!!
Yes, it's 2023, and I just finished. This show was phenomenal. My favorite characters were Leon, Kareem, and Beecher. But far as Kareem, his character was so strong and so real. I was upset he was killed in season 8 for the most ridiculous reason ever. Because to me he made the show and to be from England and change his accent was great. They should have had a season 7,8,9,10 like the housewifes show.
I think it's safe to say OZ is one of the most influentel tv series of all time.
Jesus, such a Gorgeous black woman--
💯
Loved this show. Up there with the wire and sopranos for me.
I loved oz! I owned and watched every episode and the extended finale of season 6 all the acting was spot on. I can't say a single bad thing about the show at all it was just perfect
will lynch Where can I find the extended finale? I own all 6 seasons on dvd. Is it on one of those dvds? I’m too lazy to check right now.
@@Jpmd3000if your still too lazy to check its on the final disc of season 6
what about the musical episode and the aging pills they totally write out of the story pretty quickly
It was good but had alot of flaws and could be flat out silly sometimes
I think its 5/5 show but i still see flaws especially in the last season. Too many rushed storylines that lead nowhere but the acting was still spot on.
This show need a to come back
I don't know how But needs to come back !
Oz is so real it will make you scared and stay away from doing a crime. They portrayed their roles so well that seeing them being interviewed is a breath of fresh air. It always amuses me everytime I see most of them in cop shows now playing the cop, fbi, detectives from being a prisoner.
Just rewatched the whole show from start to finish for the 3rd time and just finished the finale and came to this! It’s fascinating seeing them again.
I love this so much! Tom Fontana is an amazing writer and OZ is incredible. You did a great interview and Eamon Walker is brilliant!
I watched OZ from day one. Just watching the tv a t the right time. Amazing.
Said
It was clemensy
Best show ever! I’m rewatching for the third time and I just can’t get enough!
Kinda feels like Devlin should have been a prisoner.
The character development on this show was unreal soooo many top draw performances
I finished in 2022 this show is addicting
oz is on of the great shows on HBO
In my opinion the best
Yeah I tuned in looking for Adebisi. OZ was excellent television. When Beecher's kids got his hand cut off and was murdered. He was in his cell wailing. It was hard to watch. That's good acting. Chris Meloni playing the part of a gay man. When they killed off Adebisi, I actually got up off the couch and yelled at the TV "what? They killed Adebisi." Before that, I'd never seen a series with balls like that.
Chris Keller was actually bisexual. Meloni did a fantastic job with the role.
Sarcastically Deranged he was also a sadistic sociopath…that little smile he does. It’s amazing. He killed quite a few people
I did not expect poet to sound like that lol
Netflix needs too bring back Oz
It's on Amazon. Worth the price just for this series.
Hbo/max
@KryofFear 1337 no its not
Only if you add hbo/max to your Hulu account
Netflix lmfao no
Awww, Poet. RIP.
O 'Riley Brothers 4 Life!
Bring this show back
Great interview. You asked some good questions. I finished watching the series against last week, and it's just fantastic!
Oshun Rose Thank you so much for taking the time to watch it.
Ryan o riley still got that lip biting thing. I love that
This was great but I was REALLY let down that Adewale akinnuoye-agbaje (Adebisi) was not at three union.
I WAS glad to see Edie Falco attended. A lot of people don't even know she was on Oz pre-Sopranos. Good to remind people of that.
@@dreamquesttv I didn't even put the two together until this video. I just started on The Sopranos recently and couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity when I saw her.
@@Skotch_Korean she was also on another hit show on Showtime, “Nurse Jackie”. I’ve never seen it but it was on for 7 seasons. ‘
I’ve recently started watching the series all over again. I would plot to be home in time to watch Oz on Sunday night back in the day!
mUms's Poetry still strong today
He died recently right?
I had no idea the actor playing Said is British! Amazing actor.
Mums was a legend, when i started watching the show i was doing poetry in school and he inspired me to write. I've wrote a few songs based around things he talked about on the show, what a legend. RIP Mums
Eamonn Walker Is so damn good looking ;) even in his "older years" lol. He's a very talented & fantastic actor as well.
He looked great on Cadillac Records
Imo the greatest hbo series ever made .
God even I can't believe more than 20 years wow .. I use to watch here in uk at 11pm every Thursday night .. my fav character was adebise and Keller.. but they all where great too. They just don't make em like this anymore. And ofc the sopranos .. oz and sopranos was the 2 best Ever .. imo.
I would love to see Oz back 🥰🥰🥰
Best tv show of all time!!
I got arrested in 1997 for 1,300$ in traffic warrants and I was put in Twin Towers for 13 days, 100 a day and was not allowed to bail out.
It was my first time ever in trouble or in jail.
I was frantic and bawled for 13 days and the night I was released my Dad sent a cab driver to get me and I was still in a kind of shocked state. I took a shower and sat down and turned on the TV and oh Jesus!!!!! There was OZ!!! That was the absolute last thing I wanted to see. I was traumatized still but OMFG I JUST COULDN'T KEEP MY EYES OFF WHAT I WAS SEEING AND WAS INSTANTLY ADDICTED!!!! WHAT A GREAT AWESOME DISTURBING SHOW!!!!! I LOVED IT SO MUCH AND STILL DO!
GREAT GREAT WORK GUYS!!!! THANK YOU ALWAYS ❤
Ahead of its time.
Oreily really looks like He has a hot temper in real life, and Kareem Said looks wise and always have his many facial expressions, like they were not really playing a rôle, fascinating...
Jk Simmons and Beechum were the best onscreen couple.
Ryan o riely looks the same age.
Probably because he manipulated the Aging too :D
@@dovukeyn that's because he got placebo, the rest got the real aging pills ;)
He is SO fine! I saw him at JFK airport once and totally fangirled out and he was so friendly and took a pic with me.
Good interviews are hard to come by, but this woman is a great at what she does!
Dean is amazing
Bloody amazing series just watched all 6 series again since i was 16.Takes me bck.
Ryan o riley in dis could be jessy pinkmen's dad
Wow! I wish I could've attended this event! Great interviews!
LOVE seeing the actors again!! But why did she ask Dean of he watched Issa Rae's "Insecure" lol. She didn't ask anybody else that 😂😂😂
Years later I just finished the series, WOW GROUNDBRAKING!
Oz,The Wire,Sopranos and Breaking Bad the best of the best.............Great interviews by a brilliant and stunning interviewer.
Thank you so much..
Nino schibbetta, Chucky Pancamo, And Antonio Nappa. Some of the best group of wise guys to hit TV
Forgetting good old Pete schibbetta
Oh and also Dino Ortolani and frank Urbano
Tanisha is a very pretty woman.
🖤 started watching this show in 6th grade now own every episode in Amazon..
6th grade????
My favorite show EVER. I always thought it was better than The Sopranos and The Wire IMO.
Indeed better
Way better
The wire were so well written.
My travel begun with oz this week i'm in s2e5 and it's the best ever series i've ever seen
I'm just watching this serie and i can say that IT'S A GREAT SHOOOOOW I'm really impacted about how all actors did a great job and those naked scenes by all cast are super hard even for the 90's
If the amazing Adewale showd up he might have shown Tanisha how he got that famous Adebisi velcro hat trick effect 🎓❤😘
Dean looks exactly the same
Bom demais que pena que acabou a miniseri aqui no Brasil
no he doesn't
Une grande série que je regarder tous les soirs très tard diffusé en France à époque à 00h00 ils n'ont jamais diffusé la fin de saissons car trop agressivité par la suite plusieurs acteurs que je suis dans d'autres séries bravo à tous et merci s'était une série très bien réalisée et très vraie 🌹🙏🇫🇷thanks you ❤️
Wait a minute Said is British? That's crazy. And unlike McNulty and Stringer from the Wire I never heard his accent slip out on the show
Eddie Falco is pretty amazing, 2 of the best show's in history OZ and Soprano's she's been a part of, not a lots of actors/actresses can succeed like that. plus she's was in Nurse Jackie another heavy hitter.
*Edie
Oz is art
😮 I never knew the actor that played Said was from London. What a great actor.
So was the actor who played Adibisi.
I live in Brazil and this show was broadcasted by SBT over here back in the early 2000s and I can remember I was a kid back then and got really scared by the show! But I used to love that when I was a kid and now more grown up I've watched the show and oh my God....it's amazing!
Damn Craig "Poet" Grant (19:45) passed away this year, crazy he seemed so happy.
Los amo!! son grandes los admiro unos grandes actores!! la mejor serie de television de HBO its not tv is HBO!!
Love the interviewer as well. Edie falco is one of the greatest actresses of our time simple as that. She’s fire
Ryan Oreiley was my favorite. Next was Adebisi.
Very good interviews. Questions as great as the show. Like straight away.
Don't think Americans realise the effect of popularity this show OZ had in the UK. waz an amazing over here att. They'll never be another OZ
love these interviews
For me i fall in love with killer and his smile , cried alot for ceral o riely , admire rebedo , the body of adebesi , the kindness if sister peter marry , the love of ryan to his brother , mother of ogustes, and chaky 😍😍🤗
I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!!!!
Said has a British accent lol
he is British lol
Said and Adebisi talking about tea and crumpets and the queen would be hilarious.
would be hilarious, ya they probably do, knowing now both Eamonn Walker and Adewale Akiinouye Agbaje, are both British!!
"Do you lak yo kek?"
@@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants Adebisi has an accent in the show too.
My mother put me on this show and I enjoyed every episode
Tom Fontana, the genius.
i miss oz
OZ was a great show and far ahead of its time. How frequent do you see homosexual romance portrayed openly and intense back in the days?
If the show is released today, pretty sure it's gonna be a mega hit. Truthfully, the show is underappreciated.
Great to see the cast is looking good!
Oz is one of my favorite shows of all time. A true successor to Homicide (another great show)! It sucks that the Sopranos still gets caught all of the credit for HBO being for considered as a channel for a premium content.
I still watch OZ today I have the box set on DVD
I wish tom make alternate ending for oz.. i am still heartbroken of how it ends..
Great video! Your channel is inspiring. As a drone videographer, wanna be actor, content creator and editor from Atlanta you’ve inspired me to Trey and branch out. I loved and still love the show. You’ve done a great job and keep up the good work. If you’re ever in Atlanta we’d love to work with you. Frank and Gina. 🎥😎
Fabulous interviewer Ms. Grant
Thank you so much
Great interviewer. Good questions and phrasing. A rarity these days.
Bring it back
Where can I find the full Reunion Show online I'm willing to pay for it
ryan o reily ı missed you so much
One of the things oz did that many shows even now just cant do is develop and create a story of many characters, there were soo many characters in oz that we got to see
I loved this series. It gave u the idea of what prison life was like without actually going to prison.
This show scared the fuck out of you growing up what to do and not to do going to Jailhouse 😬🤷🏿😂😂😂😂😂😂😂