Why it may be worth watching
- Oz combines Crime and Drama storytelling.
- The principal cast includes Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters.
- Viewers currently rate it 8.0/10 from 892 votes.
TV series
Oz
Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
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.
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Cast
Lee TergesenTobias Beecher
Harold PerrineauAugustus Hill
Dean WintersRyan O'Reily
Eamonn WalkerKareem Saïd
Ernie HudsonLeo Glynn
Terry KinneyTim McManus
Rita MorenoSister Peter Marie Reimondo
J.K. SimmonsVernon Schillinger
Kirk AcevedoMiguel Alvarez
Craig muMs GrantPoet
BD WongFather Ray Mukada
Tom MardirosianAgamemnon Busmalis
Christopher MeloniChris Keller
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Who may enjoy it
Best suited to viewers looking for Crime, Drama. The available catalogue spans 6 seasons.
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A regional age classification is not currently listed. Metadata signals include violence or peril, substance use. Ratings vary by country; use this as a quick screening note rather than a complete parental guide.
Themes and topics
prisonexperimentdystopiarevengebetrayalracismdrugsinmate
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