Vikke
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I'd binge watch the entire show if HBO put out a re-mastered version of it.
Tried to watch it a year ago or so, and the SD quality just put me off.
Tried to watch it a year ago or so, and the SD quality just put me off.
TV: OZ
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Always takes some time getting used to it again. But I'd say it totally fits to the series. Re-mastered version would take away a lot, if you ask me.
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brendan
rip bruv/cudi
Mantis
I am a doctah
Ya that was so dumb. Most of the series was good though.
Gotta love all the man on man prison loving!
brendan
rip bruv/cudi
seriously
he gets out of prison and gets caught with that drug deal or whatever it was.
McMozesmadness
5-14-6-1
Mantis
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Jumptheshark
Rebooting myself
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Why were a bunch of posts randomly deleted for no reason?
Edit: I am dumb, and didn't see that there are 2 Oz threads right now
Edit: I am dumb, and didn't see that there are 2 Oz threads right now
hototogisu
Poked the bear!!!!!
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especially that wolverine kill
That was ridiculous, and was even in season 2 when the show was still serious. By the time the later seasons came around it was essentially a parody of itself.
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Was such a great show.
Maybe was the first show I watched that every episode merged to the next and season to the next. Maybe. But it was so great at the time. I always loved Kareem Said - when he denied clemency blew my mind ha.
A cheap version of the show is the Australian Wentworth show - same idea.
Maybe was the first show I watched that every episode merged to the next and season to the next. Maybe. But it was so great at the time. I always loved Kareem Said - when he denied clemency blew my mind ha.
A cheap version of the show is the Australian Wentworth show - same idea.
HBO2 did a random marathon of season 1 this weekend. Enjoyed it, definitely could process a little bit more being able to binge it. Plus I suppose I could appreciate certain aspects of the writing/acting more than I did as a teenager ~20 years ago.
Pacing did seem a bit off. Ie, Donald Groves kills a guard and gets executed as a result all within an episode.
It probably had been about 20 years since I saw some of these episodes. And likely due to the lack of DVR, I probably didn't catch all of season 1. I remembered Dino Ortolani's demise, but I didn't have much recollection of Groves. And I knew Rick Fox (bigger deal in 1997) had been on the show, but I didn't recall seeing his character until now.
Looking back at it now, I must have started watching more religiously with season 2 which probably makes sense given that was my clean slate summer between high school and college.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, watching it in standard def took a little getting used to. Now I might be motivated enough to finish the series. The last episode I can recall was the mid-season finale for season 4.
Pacing did seem a bit off. Ie, Donald Groves kills a guard and gets executed as a result all within an episode.
It probably had been about 20 years since I saw some of these episodes. And likely due to the lack of DVR, I probably didn't catch all of season 1. I remembered Dino Ortolani's demise, but I didn't have much recollection of Groves. And I knew Rick Fox (bigger deal in 1997) had been on the show, but I didn't recall seeing his character until now.
Looking back at it now, I must have started watching more religiously with season 2 which probably makes sense given that was my clean slate summer between high school and college.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, watching it in standard def took a little getting used to. Now I might be motivated enough to finish the series. The last episode I can recall was the mid-season finale for season 4.
clefty
Retrovertigo
It gets...pretty bad after that, I'm afraid.
I thought one of the show's flaws was that it became too cavalier with character deaths. While I understand the appeal of not knowing if characters are going to survive each episode, early on the consequences of inmate deaths are profoundly serious. In the first episode Dino, the false protagonist, is murdered leading to a chain reaction of events culminating in a full-scale riot. This brings in the Feds, the Governor, an independent investigation (the episode with Charles Dutton guest starring, probably my favourite episode) and the resulting ramifications arguable impact the show til the final episode.
Halfway through the show's run however, inmates die and it's all, "Welp, them's the breaks," and everyone moves on as if nothing ever happened.
Not to mention Beecher's father getting stabbed to death in the prison. A civilian death inside Oz should've had that place locked down for good.
Another thing I just couldn't buy was Dr. Nathan basically falling in love with O'Rielly, after she find out that he had her husband killed.
I did still enjoy the show after it became so ridiculous, just not on the same level. It basically became a murder oriented soap opera.
Yup, so I've heard. I think that's what has stopped me from doing it previously. I think I missed half a season and the show felt completely different just from the one episode I caught of season 5.
Also enjoying some of the random appearances. There's one actor with a prominent recurring role in a current HBO show Silicon Valley who popped up as a prison guard in the season 1 finale.
