Oz (TV Series)

[Freakbro]

Has anyone seen this?

Oz - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/ Rating 9.0/10

Storyline

Oz chronicles life inside an experimental cell block in the Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility: Level Four called Emerald City. Under unit manager Tim McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, the inmates in Em City all struggle to fulfill their own needs. Some fight for power; either power over the drug trade or power over the other inmate factions. Others want money, either through slinging '****' (drugs), gambling or other scams. Others, Corrections officers and inmates alike, simply want to survive long enough to make parole or even to see tomorrow. The show gives a no-holds-barred account of prison life with all the plots, subplots and conflicts given context and explanation by the show's wheelchair-bound narrator, Augustus Hill.

I have just recently come across this and started watching it, 4 episodes in so far and it seems an excellent series.

Pretty brutal and uncompromising, but off-set with quite a humorous and off the wall way of narrating the story by the wheel chair bound Augustus.

This ran from 1997-2003, 6 seasons but only 8 episodes / season. (Amazing to see how 'old' 1997 looks already! )

So if you like your prison based drama, check this out - you won't be disappointed