

Oz takes murderers, rapists, thieves, and even a rich lawyer who ran down a young girl in a drunken stuper, and makes them likeable and forgivable. But when it comes to his brother and doctor Nathan, and more recently the priest he befriended, he is a warm and caring person who's pain you empathize with. Ryan O'Rielly, for example, is a cold-blooded killer. Tomatometer Not Yet Available TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 0 Show all Cast & Crew. They do terrible things, but they are not all bad. But the magic of this show is that these terrible people become understandable. Oz is amazing because almost every charachter in it's sea of people is in some way a terrible human being. And the other people who watch HBO (those who don't like all the violence) whould much rather watch Ferris Beuller's wife in SEX AND THE CITY, which I will NEVER watch. It doesn't get the press of the Sopranos. It might well be the best thing on television.

On HBO, all the Emmy's for hard core drama go to THE SOPRANOS, and I dont' think that's bad. The ensemble cast included Christopher Meloni, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Eamonn Walker, Rita Moreno, John Lurie, Terry. and ties everything together really nicely. Oz is in upheaval following the return of Martin Querns Howell and Robson receive troubling medical news Alvaraez succumbs to an enticing offer. The whole thing is narrated and held together by inmates Augustus Hill, who provides the show with some context, some sense of theme, etc. Nathan), a nun/psychologist (Sister Peter Marie), a bunch of guards some honest, some crooked and of course the warden Leo Glynn. Besides the regular inmates, there's guest stars such as Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, etc.
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And there's a great "everyman" character called Beecher who gives a good look at a normal man who made one tragic mistake. Before Meloni became a huge network star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, he joined the cast of HBO’s jail drama Oz.The series frequently had fights in the shower, graphic nude scenes, and. There's the gangstas (Adebisi, Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keene, Supreme Allah), Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), Italians (Pancamo, Nappa, Schiebetta), bikers (Hoyt), Aryans (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), Christians (Cloutier, Cudney), Latinos (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), gays (Hanlon, Cramer) and a whole pile of others (the O'Riley brothers, Keller, Stanislovsky, etc.). There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive.

OZ chronicles the attempts of McManus (Terry Kinney) to keep control over the inmates of Em(erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence. The ensemble cast includes Christopher Meloni, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Eamonn Walker, Rita Moreno,Terry Kinney, Betty.
