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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 3961
Released: March 19, 2002 |
| Our Price: $14.27 |
| Used Price: $9.81 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner) and Tom Fontana, 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 wake-up call.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Two audio commentaries by series creator Tom Fontana and star Lee Tergesen
Biographies
Deleted Scenes:WIth commentary by Tom Fontana
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Featurette
Music Video
Scene Access
Description of Oz - The Complete First Season:
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
Oz - The Complete First Season Reviews:
oz-the complete first season 
2009-07-14 - love this series gritty and entertaining,take the sopranos and place them in a high security prison you've got oz. one of my favorites.
WARNING: Region 2 & 4 fans of HBO's "Deadwood" and "Oz". 
2009-05-21 - WARNING:
Customers from outside of North America considering whether they will buy the Region 1 versions or the Region 2 & 4 versions of HBO's "Deadwood" and "Oz" may be interested to know that the Region 2 & 4 versions of these series do not contain audio commentaries.
If audio commentaries are an important feature for any fans of the series then I recommend purchasing the Region 1 versions. I do not know if any other HBO TV series have suffered the same fate as these ones outside of Region 1. My only question is why? Why rip off consumers from other countries? It's not like audio commentaries take up a lot of disc space. Shame on HBO.
Bottom line:
As I enjoy audio commentaries I will buy the Region 1 versions of "Deadwood" and "Oz" as I refuse to be cheated out of my money.
P.S. I'm not sure if the new Region 2 & 4 21 Disc "Oz The Emerald City Collection" suffers the same fate as the earlier releases.
OZ Second season
2009-03-23 - I ordered this item in error, I didn't think I had it but found it after I ordered it. I then asked the seller for a refund, they were very prompt in their response and very helpful in my returning the item. I would recommed buying from them.
One of the main reasons I had HBO
2009-02-26 - If you have never seen this series, rent it first. It is very graphic, but a very good show. This and The Wire were the only reasons I had HBO. One down side is that this season is only eight episodes. One of the best things about this series was the character development. Only gave four stars becasue of the length of the season, would have loved to see this one last a lot longer
OZ - A great series to have on DVD
2008-12-24 - This HBO series is so addicting! The characters are original, and the stories and writing are unique and interesting. It's a very gripping show. There's not much on TV these days that I like, so having this on DVD is great. I'm already on Season 5. My husband and I are really enjoying it.
