| | |  | GIFT SETS | Home » » Oz: The Complete First Season | | | | | | | Description: | | Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Lee Tergesen, Eamonn Walker. The gritty, graphic and gripping HBO series about life inside the experimental prison unit nicknamed Emerald City." Includes all eight first-season episodes. 8 episodes on 3 DVDs. 1997/color/8 hrs/NR/fullscreen. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Jr. Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker | | Format:
| Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 3 | | Studio:
| Hbo Home Video | | Run Time:
| 480 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 19, 2002 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 136 reviews |
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60 of 66 found the following review helpful:
 OZ--The Heat Is Just Getting Started!Mar 09, 2003
By James McDonald
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!
29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
The best show on HBOSep 11, 2004
By N. Durham
"Big Evil"
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.
26 of 27 found the following review helpful:
The first season, the best seasonFeb 18, 2002
By Charlotte Vale-Allen
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.
34 of 38 found the following review helpful:
BUY THIS ONE NOW!!Jan 25, 2002
I give this 5 stars only because I can't go any higher! Anyone who has watched this HBO original series knows that the acting is incredible, the story lines are as true to life as you can get, and is one of the most overall hard-hitting shows ever to come to American TV (albeit cable). Unfortunately, the show doesn't get the recognition of The Sopranos or Sex in the City because prison dramas don't draw the same overall audience. You have to see this to believe it! One of the most requested HBO series finally comes to DVD and I can only hope that HBO releases the other seasons as well. The best part is, the cast is filled with actors you may not initially recognize, but will later identify in other projects. Be prepared for a series that doesn't shy away from strong language, adult themes, frontal male nudity, and yes, even prison rape! AWESOME!
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Welcome To Oz, Bitch.May 23, 2005
By Arthur Kicker
"Ragged, Tagged, and Bodybagged"
The first season of 'Oz' introduces the viewer to a prison filled with low-life thugs, criminals, rapists, and all around nasty men. Throw in some full frontal nudity, man rape, tons of cursing, double-cross upon double-cross and what do you get? One of the grittest, most realistic, and most satisfying shows on television.
Everyone is represented in Oz: the Aryans, the Italians, the Muslims, the Gangstas, the Latinos...pretty much every facet of a prison population. The cast of characters is huge so get prepared to pay attention to who's who and who's doing what and why. Don't be deterred though...just pay attention and you will reap the rewards of this fine show. Every episode focuses on numerous different characters but most of the main ten or so receive about equal time.
The first season is excellent: Tobias Beecher(Lee Tergeson)is a mild-mannered lawyer, sent to Oz on an involuntary manslaughter charge, who is befriended in a not-so-nice way by Aryan leader Shillinger(JK Simmons)who has a beef with the Gangstas who have a beef with the Italians who are all scared of the weird guy who ate his parents...and on and on and on. The season is filled with layer upon layer of conflict and gives a very real sense of what life in a maximum security prison must be like. And there's not only the prisoners, there are the employees of the prison: numerous guards(including a pre-'Sopranos' Edie Falco), the warden(Ernie Hudson), priest(BD Wong), etc. who all deal with not only the prisoners' issues but their own as well. Through the myriad of conflict over the course of the season, the tension builds up to a massive riot taking over the prison. Oh, and don't get too attached to any one character because people, prisoners and guards alike, in 'Oz' die all the time and are soon replaced with new blood.
All in all, the first season of 'Oz' is great. My only qualm being that its much too short(8 one-hour episodes)for much too high a price(as all HBO DVD sets are). Even so, its still worth it. There's not much in the way of extras but the quality of the episodes make up for it. This series was one of the best on recent television and definitely worth seeing. You really owe it to yourself to check this and the four other seasons of 'Oz' out.
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