OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Oz is a diamond in the rough, you just have to see through that nineties vibe. That in itself shouldn't be a huge challenge, because nowadays everything is retro. Retro is cool. Retro is like all the way, you know. Oz picks up where The Wire leaves off. Showing HBO in The Wire, the gritty street life and the cat-and-mouse game with justice, in Oz you get an impression of what the failed gangsters have to endure when they have to shower daily with 50 other sexually frustrated guys. Halfway through season 1, you wonder why they even have chairs in Oz, because sitting must be almost impossible. If you're thinking, “Oh my, a prison series! I absolutely loved Prison Break too!" Then know that Prison Break is Wibi Soerjadi who politely comes to ask for your daughter's hand and Oz is more like Charlie Sheen who picks up your underage daughter in his Mustang from school to get into a shabby motel to snort coke from her belly button.