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Oz: The Complete First Season (2002)

Ernie Hudson , Terry Kinney  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Jr. Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker
  • Producers: Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana
  • Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English (Unknown)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Hbo Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: March 19, 2002
  • Run Time: 480 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005Y6YJ
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,132 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Oz: The Complete First Season" on IMDb

Special Features

  • All 8 episodes on 3 discs
  • Two audio commentaries by series creator Tom Fontana and star Lee Tergesen
  • Deleted scenes with audio commentary
  • Featurette
  • Music video
  • Episodic previews
  • Index

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Oz Season 1

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HBO's violent men-behind-bars drama is an addictive, testosterone-driven soap opera for guys. The eight episodes of the first season set the style for the show: a massive cast of a vivid characters on both sides of the bars, four or five stories unleashed at a breakneck pace and framed by angry, oddball introductions, and a soaring casualty rate. Created by Homicide producer Tom Fontana, this drama quickly earned its rightful reputation as the most brutal show on TV. It's simple chemistry: combine volatile ingredients in a confined space, shut tight, and shake.

The yellow brick road of the Oswald Correctional Facility (affectionately known as "Oz" among the inmates) leads to "Emerald City," an antiseptic cellblock of cement and glass overseen by prison-reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). The first episode introduces its two most compelling inmates: meek lawyer Beecher (Lee Terguson), who transforms from a vulnerable lamb to a fearless, drug-addicted wildcat, and Muslim activist Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker), a fiercely non-violent leader whose campaign for reform explodes in a season-climaxing riot. The stunning first-season cast also features Ernie Hudson (the warden), Rita Moreno (a worldly drug-counseling nun), and Edie Falco (who jumped from her role as a single-mother prison guard to mob wife in The Sopranos). It carries no rating, but the drug use, nudity, and brutal violence make this highly inappropriate for young viewers and unsuited to the squeamish. Oz pulls no punches in its portrayal of prison violence and predatory abuse. --Sean Axmaker

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Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, but definitely for those who appreciate cutting-edge drama that jolts, provokes, and challenges preconceptions. The setting is a prison ward, where hardened criminals exist in a heightened state of rage, revenge, and terror. What members of the various factions, divided mostly by race, do to one another and themselves forms the basis for each episode of this controversial HBO original. Potent language and no-punches-pulled violence. 8 hours on 3 DVDs. Simon Says: Though definitely modern and American, Maupin also shares something with Old World giants such as Dostoyevsky and Dickens: legions of devotees who map and tour the real-life locales of his books. And all of the above authors had their work serialized in newspapers, Maupin's in the San Francisco Chronicle. Now, which way to 28 Barbary Lane?

Customer Reviews

This show will remind you why prison is a place NO ONE wants to go to. HotShot  |  25 reviewers made a similar statement
This is one of the best series I've ever seen. Michelle  |  32 reviewers made a similar statement
One of the most requested HBO series finally comes to DVD and I can only hope that HBO releases the other seasons as well. "esummers@buckeye-express.com"  |  25 reviewers made a similar statement
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66 of 72 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars OZ--The Heat Is Just Getting Started! March 9, 2003
Format:DVD
OZ--The Prison Drama that airs on HBO--Home Box Office. If you have never seen OZ, THIS IS FOR ADULTS ONLY. The episodes contain male full frontal nudity, sexual situations, violence and mature themes. The acting is incredible. The situations,the dialogue and the sets are realistic. This drama is gritty. A plus to the cast is Academy Award Winner Rita Moreno. If these episodes in the Season One collection don't get your heart startled. It's only the beginning. Get involved in the storyline. Watch every episode in proper order. And after you are finished with all eight episodes of Season One. Buy Season Two and get ready for a more mature hard-hitting season. And remember, ADULTS ONLY!
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best show on HBO September 11, 2004
Format:DVD
From Homicide: Life on the Street creator Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, Oz is one of the most compulsively violent and addicting shows to hit HBO. While the Sopranos garnered most of the attention from HBO viewers, the primal nature and sheer unpredictability of Oz made the series the definition of must see TV. Taking place in the Oswald Correctional Facility (known to the inmates as Oz) these eight episodes revolve around Emerald City: a cellblock overseen by prison reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) and the warden Leo Glynn (Ernie Hudson) who is desperately trying to keep the peace among the inmates as the governor bans privlages including smoking and conjugal visits. We are introduced to a cast of compelling characters whom be both pity and despise, including meek lawyer Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) whose transformation from frightened new convict to drug raddled madman must be seen to be believed, white supremicist leader Vern Schillinger (J.K. Simmons), backstabbing and double dealing Ryan O'Reilly (Dean Winters), the cocky and self loathing Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo), wheelchair bound narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau), and Muslim activist Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker) whose extreme policy of non-violence explodes in the season ending riot that sets the stage for season two. The rest of the cast, including Rita Moreno, the Sopranos' Edie Falco, and John Seda (even though he only appears in the first episode) does brilliant work, all of whom help make Oz unforgettable. If you've never seen Oz, you should definitely check it out and see for yourself one of the best and underrated shows on HBO and maybe even TV history, but do be warned, this series is not for the squeamish.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The first season, the best season February 18, 2002
Format:DVD
Oz is decidedly not for the faint of heart. That said, the first (and best) season's episodes were beautifully constructed, exceptionally well-written, and wonderfully cast. The inside/outside viewpoints offered by the wheelchair-bound narrator provide not only the backgrounds of the inmates but also the philosophical point of each episode. There is much graphic violence, moments of such painful truth (Tergesen in paricular turns in an award-winning performance throughout) and such horror, that one is utterly drained by the emotional turbulence. Next to Six Feet Under, HBO's other brave and clever award-winning show, Oz is one of the best examples of what television can be when the targeted audience is more than eight years old. Most highly recommended.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Still entertaining!
After all this time, I can still watch this and be entertained. (It's been so long, that I didn't remember all the details)
Intense & Addictive. 2nd season, coming soon!
Published 10 days ago by Forte_Fanatic
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Bla bla bla! No review just stars! Job and greet phases to get my pilots and greet the walking dead. A minimum on words? W.T.F?
Published 21 days ago by Jacob Kent
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Show!!!
I loved this series and had to watch the whole thing when I got it. I really enjoyed the action and drama.
Published 26 days ago by Michelle A. McKeever
4.0 out of 5 stars Great show
Anyone who wants to know what it is like being locked up with murders and rapist, this is a show for you.
Published 1 month ago by Heath Stevens
1.0 out of 5 stars really boring
I was so surprised that this wasnt exciting. it just was boring and kind of sucked. not much happened and now it seems dated.
Published 1 month ago by D
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly addictive
OMG it's worse than a soap opera! Much better and more realistic than 'Prison Break' was. I don't know why I didn't see it when it was first on.
Published 1 month ago by Phurface
4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty entertainment
The acting and directing in this show is fantastic! Great story lines, that really move along, too. This series is not for the faint of heart. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. E. Leopard
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay..
I watched the first epsiode and really enjoyed it, but after that the series got old fast, I dont plan on watching any of the other seasons, I would rank this as one of the weaker... Read more
Published 2 months ago by llama999
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense and gritty
Haven't watched the whole season, only a few episodes but it's engrossing so far. The characters are well developed. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Marianne
5.0 out of 5 stars death by prison
i watched this series many years ago and was totally intrigued by the characters, the violence , the scheming that was behind all the murder, drug deals and day to day life in oz.
Published 3 months ago by june hebert
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subtittles???????...
The Season 1 has NO subtitles. Neither English nor Spanish.
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