Oz Season 1

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
You're inside now.

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.

S02: All that glitters is not Emerald City. Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survived in the experimental unit of Oz. The Aryan Schillinger still butts heads with Beecher. The mob, led by Schibetta, continues to find its business cut into by the cold-hearted Adebisi. Warden Glynn and Tim McManus struggle to do the right thing for their prisoners, facing adversity at every turn from Governor Devlin.

S03: The name on the street is Oz, but the name on the wall is the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary - or it was. Now it's being changed to the Oswald State Correctional Facility. Maybe by getting rid of the word "penitentiary," the state is finally admitting that nobody's penitent. Nobody's sorry. NOBODY.

S04: The Millennium ended with a bang at Oswald State Correctional Facility, Level Four - aka, Emerald City - as racial tensions reached an all-time high. Now, following a two-week lockdown and the appointment of a new Unit Manager, things are definitely changing, but not necessarily for the better. Prison officials are looking for ways to end the hostilities and return Emerald City to normal... but when was Em City ever normal?

S05: It's a new year...but just another day in Oz. The renovations following the fire are complete: the walls are cleaner, the cafeteria is bigger and everything seems fresher...everything on the outside that is. Inside the hearts and minds of the prisoners, Oz is just as dark and raw as it ever was. Emerald City may look new, but the old, festering feuds are always just around the corner.

S06: On the surface, not much has changed inside the walls of Oswald State Penitentiary. Schillinger has revenge on his mind, Cyril is facing execution, Beecher is hoping for parole, and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. But there's toil and trouble brewing in the Oz cauldron, as the Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the climactic final act.

• Type
  series
• Premiere Date
  Jul 12, 1997
• Country
  • United States of America
• Language
  • English
• Genre
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller
• Cast
  • BD Wong as Father Ray Mukada
  • Christopher Meloni as Chris Keller
  • Edie Falco as Officer Diane Whittlesey
  • Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill
  • Kathryn Erbe as Shirley Bellinger
  • Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
  • Chuck Zito as Charles 'Chucky' Pancamo
  • Blake Robbins as Officer Dave Brass
  • Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
  • Steven Wishnoff as Tony Masters
  • Eamonn Walker as Kareem Said
  • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Simon Adebisi
  • Robert T. Bogue as Jason Cramer
  • Lee Tergesen as Tobias 'Toby' Beecher
  • Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reily
  • Philip Casnoff as Nikolai Stanislofsky
  • Anthony Chisholm as Burr Redding
  • Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn
  • J.K. Simmons as Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger
  • Evan Seinfeld as Jaz Hoyt
  • R.E. Rodgers as James Robson
  • Tom Mardirosian as Agammemnon Busmalis
  • Mark Margolis as Antonio Nappa
  • George Morfogen as Bob Rebadow
  • Otto Sanchez as Chico Guerra
  • Luna Lauren Velez as Gloria Nathan
  • David Zayas as Enrique Morales
  • Zeljko Ivanek as Governor James Devlin
  • J.D. Williams as Kenny Wangler
  • Kristin Rohde as Claire Howell
  • Robert Clohessy as Sean Murphy
  • Michael Wright as Omar White
  • Craig muMs Grant as Poet
  • Luis Guzmán as Raoul Hernandez
  • Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
  • Granville Adams as Zahir Arif
  • Scott William Winters as Cyril O'Reily
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