Questions about Oz

[Guest the 1inch punch]

Can anyone help me find a decent site recapping Oz in easy to understand bits

 

While I'm at it

 

1. The last episode shown on E4 was the Irish Terrorist(were not all terrorists ya know) attempting to blow up the place, failing, only to have O'Reily do it(by accident) .How recent is this.

 

2.Whats so special about the prison in the first place

 

3.What did Beecher do to be put there , i know SK and others have alluded to his mistake, but what was it

 

4.Who the fuck is Morales, everyone says he's fucking evil, but the only characters I can identify without my head explosing are Beecher, Vern, Vern's sidekick(name?), Augustus, Said and Adebisi (who's dead, i know)

 

5. Whats this "anti-aging drug" story people talk about

 

Thank you for your co-operation

[Guest saturnmark4life]

morales is the guy in my avatar. LOVE THE BASTARD! He killed that asylum seeker with the stapler. The drug program aged prisoners, so they would be freed but aged. A bit dumb. Beecher i believe went DWI and ran over a little girl. I haven't seen that bomb episode yet cos i don't have e4, but this is the 4th season, the 5th has finished in the US and season 6 will be the last one. They've only just released season 1 on vid/dvd in the US, which is a bitch. Hope that helps. Oh and go to hbo.com/oz they have back catalogues on all the episodes and stuff.

[Guest the 1inch punch]

Cheerz

[Guest saturnmark4life]

no problem, i'm a recent convert myself. It pisses me off how slow they are getting the dvds out though.

[Guest art_vandelay]

1. The last episode shown on E4 was the Irish Terrorist(were not all terrorists ya know) attempting to blow up the place, failing, only to have O'Reily do it(by accident) .How recent is this.

 

This happens in the last episode of Season 4.

 

2.Whats so special about the prison in the first place

 

Oswald Penetentiary is a Level 4 maximum security prison. The Em City unit within Oz is an experimental project created by McManus.

 

3.What did Beecher do to be put there , i know SK and others have alluded to his mistake, but what was it

 

Like saturnmark said, Beecher killed a little girl while driving drunk.

 

5. Whats this "anti-aging drug" story people talk about

 

It's not an anti-aging drug, but the opposite. What it was supposed to do was make people grow old. It was being tested on volunteering inmates in return for a reduction on their sentences. After one of othe inmates died because of the experiment, the entire thing was put to an end.

 

Here are some helpful Oz links:

 

 

http://www.durfee.net/oz/

 

Oz forums

 

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowM...vlet/showid-108

[Guest the 1inch punch]

The Em City unit within Oz is an experimental project created by McManus.

Thanks very much Art, really helpful, the links are great( as is the hbo link saturnmark)

 

One last question

What makes it an experimental project? The fact the there are no bars on the cells, just glass?

[Guest art_vandelay]

The Em City unit within Oz is an experimental project created by McManus.

Thanks very much Art, really helpful, the links are great( as is the hbo link saturnmark)

 

One last question

What makes it an experimental project? The fact the there are no bars on the cells, just glass?

Yeah, I'm assuming that's why. The fact that it's one big room where all the inmates are free to roam around in. As one of the officers described it, "In Em City, you get a lot of leeway, but you have more responsibilities as well." I'm paraphrasing, but that's the jist of it.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

that's the only thing that really bugs me about Oz, cos surely with the insane levels of violence and drug trafficking in Em City they'd have abolished the system by now. But hey, i need my weekly fix of racially motivated shankings so i don't mind.

[Guest art_vandelay]

that's the only thing that really bugs me about Oz, cos surely with the insane levels of violence and drug trafficking in Em City they'd have abolished the system by now. But hey, i need my weekly fix of racially motivated shankings so i don't mind.

Oh I know. Like when they hired Querns to reduce the violence in Em City and (though he used some questionable tactics) managed to do a pretty good job of it. But when he was fired and McManus returned, within 5 minutes 4 people died. But if I'm willing to be a wrestling fan, the suspension of disbelief required for Oz is no big deal.

[Guest converge241]

this season is the last

 

if hbo would get behind it like they did sopranos it would have done better

 

but in a way it is time to kill it, but they blew their best ending (Beecher gets paroled and we see the outside for real (not in flashbacks to explain the crimes)).

 

my problems with the last 2 seasons:

 

the age drug.

i mean come on. the idea itself and then especially the fact that they could reduce their sentences.

 

the prison was supposed to be totally new after the explosion per show creators. So it gets rebuilt and its exactly the same!!!

 

speaking of the explosion, so the bomb is averted but coincidentally the gas was still on! oh how shocking, please i dont want stupid swerves in the OZ writing

 

the totally cliche character turn of Leo's nephew into black militant with the african dress and new name.

 

Im guessing it now ends with some final, final, final showdown between verne and toby.

[Guest the 1inch punch]

speaking of the explosion, so the bomb is averted but coincidentally the gas was still on! oh how shocking, please i dont want stupid swerves in the OZ writing

It wasnt a swerve, one of the Italians chewed out O Reilly for leaving the gas on before he went to stop the bomb, but he ignored him and ran off, the Italian just didnt turn it off