OZ

The only major cultural artifact which is allowed to get away with "And then I woke up" as the underlying plot dynamic.

BONUS MARVELLOUS LAND POINT! Is the wicked witch in it not called MUMBA??

Is there much compare'n'contrast work betwixt Narnia and OZ as they both seemed relatively similar in their genesis - and both ostentatiously spinning out of their respective cultures (Narnia is sooo English, and Oz soooo 'Merican).

"Oz" the HBO show is regularly disturbing and unsettling.

PHWAR. I can not wait! Tonight episode ONE. Wooooo

OMG season 1 of OZ is, imo, the best single season in television history. Holy shit, I wish I could watch it for the first time all over again.

hey, two guys from "oz" were on "fringe" last night. that was neat.

xpsot I AM CREAMING MY PANTS IN ANTICIPATION.

okay, as a woman this may comes over as oO

Season TWO! The guy quotes GARBAGE!

How did it take you so long??? I finished it in like 3 days. Was it not one of the best-edited television seasons you've ever seen?? and OH MY GOD, THAT CLIMAX!!!!

whose climax?

*sigh*

>: |

DON'T BE CRASS.

this is a tv show about men in prison with sex and full frontal nudity - crassness is definitely not out of place.

last night i watched s6e6 and cried like a freaking baby.

*SPOILERS*

the whole mentally retarded persons being held liable for crimes thing really got to me because i have a cousin with downs who is 18 now and has been "running away" and getting brought home by the police who find him when he does so for his whole life, and who doesn't understand what is appropriate behavior and what is not, and who regularly gets kicked out of school for inappropriate behavior, and who should be in a group home by now but isn't because of ridiculous circumstances/opinions of people close to him that don't really get what's best for him and just (@#*%. that episode *really* fucked with me. when he was 13 or so he set my grandparents' house on fire without realizing what he'd done, and even though i know he is a good kid at heart, i don't think it's extraordinary to think that one day he could do something really horrible without really comprehending what he's done and the idea that people can be executed for that is just so heartbreaking to me.

How did it take you so long??? I finished it in like 3 days. Was it not one of the best-edited television seasons you've ever seen?? and OH MY GOD, THAT CLIMAX!!!!

Two kids, household, shop, we're also watching Homicide as well,... Busy life, dude. :-)
We've put it on hold since the download of S2 was fucked up. :-(

you need to show "oz" to kids more than once before they really "get it" ime, but it's totally worth putting the time in.

how unique & amazing was the incidental music on this show!! i started thinking about it after a ladyrap song just sampled it (check ilm electrik red thread if interested). i remember it seemed jarring and weirdly flamboyant to me at the very beginning but really it was so crucial to like framing everything in soapy pulp, and instantly establishing the vignettey episodic editing rhythm - the horn twirls are like danger, mocking comeuppance, twist!, shank, curtains up/down all at the same time.

haha imagine lost with oz music!! someone so needs to youtube that.

maybe not just "soapy pulp" actually - it more kind of underlines the almost theatre-troupey meta thing it all had. (also augustus greek chorus, musical episode, the tv they all watch etc.)

to this end (and i've said this before) the show's weird half-life of oz actors showing up in other stuff all the time and always seeming like alternate versions of their oz characters continues to reward.

o'reilly on "30 rock" always made me really nervous.

"hey dummy" (garrottes liz lemon)

lol

love that adebisi's in this

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xomga_dawn-penn-you-dont-love-me-no-no-no_music

have such fond memories of the anticipation felt at hearing that initial "urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" of the oz theme at like 1am or whatever ridic time it used to be on tv

man remember those days when you could stay up til 3am watching tv and still get up for school the next morning without feeling like you're gonna die

i can still do that if i haven't been drinking

to this end (and i've said this before) the show's weird half-life of oz actors showing up in other stuff all the time and always seeming like alternate versions of their oz characters continues to reward.

There was an episode of SVU this season where Stabler spends the weekend in solitary, and it's basically Oz-lite.

I was JUST raving to someone yesterday about how good Oz's incidental music is!! I really should just rewatch the whole thing.

Beecher and Keller, together again.

I think SVU is just daring the viewers to write fan fic/slash.

This will not make your sides split but I found it at least smirkworthy

http://flimmr.passagen.se/movie/snl_seinfeld_in_oz.action

I have never seen any of Oz. Starting it right now w S1E1.

JK Simmons!

Oh man envious, thi show is so so good

I still think S1 of Oz is the single best season in TV history. This is totally my favorite show. You are in for such a treat.

Wow there are a whole lot of people I had no idea were in this popping up in just the first two eps.

ya. alot of recognizable faces.

95% of L&O SVU's penises make an appearance, IIRC

I heard a rumor that there'd be some naked Meloni but I'm assuming it's not a sexy kind of naked.

Depends on how you feel about sociopaths and rape.

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BOOOOO BEE doo DOO
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BAH DUM bah BAHHHHH
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this gets really bad in season 4. the basketball sequence where the sacramento kings scout nods his head after the security guard makes a layup was the worst thing I've ever seen in an HBO series.

and the 'twist' concerning beecher's parole. how can this last two more seasons? they should have quit after 3.

Oz is being repeated in the UK 10pm, CBS action. First EP currently on.