Oz

Name: Oz
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.

Oz (1997-2003)

Сезонов: 6, серий: 56

Хронометраж серии: 60 min

Средний рейтинг: 8.6/10 126 421

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Actors and characters

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Премьера

1997-07-12

Последняя серия

2003-02-23

Status

Ended

Country

United States

Телесеть

HBO

Production

Rysher Entertainment, The Levinson/Fontana Company

Genre

Crime, Drama

Website

http://www.hbo.com/oz/index.html

Создатели

Tom Fontana

Actors

Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno, J.K. Simmons, Kirk Acevedo, Craig muMs Grant
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Tom Fontana, Sunil Nayar

Producer

Irene Burns, Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, Jim Finnerty

Camera operator

Composer

Editing

Whole Team (34)

Short description

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1 Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or "Oz." As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn. Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or …	8	1997-07-12	7.7
Season 2 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 cu…	8	1998-07-11	6.9
Season 3 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.…	8	1999-07-14	6.7
Season 4 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. P…	16	2000-07-12	7
Season 5 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. …	8	2002-01-06	7.1
Season 6 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 …	8	2003-01-05	7.3

What's left behind the scenes

In the fourth season, it is mentioned that Officer Whitely moved to London. This is because Eddie Falco left the series to first appear in the play 'Side Man' and later as Carmela Soprano in 'The Sopranos' (1999).
Tom Fontana wrote two endings for the fourth season because it wasn't certain whether the studio would renew the series for a fifth season. In the alternative ending (had the series been canceled), Beecher was released from prison. Since the series was renewed for a fifth season and Tom really liked the release scene, he used it as one of Beecher's dreams.
The final episode is titled "Exeunt Omnes," which literally translates from Latin as "everyone leaves." It is a theatrical term meaning that all characters exit the stage.
In the first season, Jefferson Keane was executed because Leon decided to leave the series.
Before the start of the third season, Tom Fontana asked the actors if they had any boxing experience. Everyone answered in the affirmative, but it later turned out that only Chuck Zito actually knew how to box.
In the opening credits, the viewer sees a tattooed male hand. This is the hand of the series creator, Tom Fontana.
Chuck Zito and Mums Da Shamer were the only actors playing inmates who had actually served time in prison.
Four actors from the series 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' appeared in 'Oz': Christopher Meloni, Dean Winters, B. D. Wong, and J. K. Simmons.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje left the series to film 'The Mummy Returns' (2001).
Brothers Ryan and Cyril O'Reilly were played by brothers Dean Winters and Scott William Winters. A third brother, Brad Winters, is one of the series' writers.
Many of the actors playing inmates noticed that if they were late to filming, their character would either die or be raped in the next episode.
The prison sets were built in an old warehouse, which Tom Fontana renovated at his own expense.
Originally, the action was meant to take place in a medium-security prison.
In the first season, the full name of 'Oz' is 'Oswald State Correctional Facility.' However, the name was later changed to 'Oswald State Correctional Facility, Level 4'.
Terry Kinney (Tim McManus) and Catherine Erbe (Shirley Bellinger) were married.
At the end of the fourth season, Christopher Meloni left the series because he could not physically manage working on both 'Oz' and 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (1999) simultaneously. The show stated that Keller had been transferred to another prison. However, Christopher later decided to return to the series, believing that the significant physical and emotional strain was worth the experience of filming two shows at once.
The series was originally going to be called "Club Med."
Most of the actors who played inmates have played police officers in other series.
Initially, Chuck Zito auditioned for the role of one of the bikers. However, due to his build and New York accent, Tom Fontana felt he would be a perfect fit for the role of the Italian.
The first hour-long drama on HBO.
Mums Da Shamer, who played the Poet, wrote all the poems that the Poet recites in the series himself.
Kirk Acevedo is practically absent from the first half of the fourth season, as he was filming 'Band of Brothers' (2001). In the series, his absence was explained by Miguel Alvarez's escape. Kirk returned in the second half of the fourth season. However, he soon landed a role in 'Third Watch' (1999) and left 'Oz' again. This time, Alvarez was placed in solitary confinement.
Before converting to Islam, Karima Said was named Goodson Truman, and Zahira Arif was Jerome Van Dyke.