Oz

About Oz

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.

HBO's Oz is a crime series. Lee Tergesen appears as Tobias Beecher, Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill, Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reily, and Eamonn Walker as Kareem Saïd.

Its 6 seasons and 56 episodes were broadcast from July 1997 to February 2003. That is around 9 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under drugs, prison, racism, and experiment. American members can watch it on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel. It scores 8.0 out of 10 from 892 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

Orange Is the New Black, Banana Fish, and Deadman Wonderland make useful companions to Oz, all filed under inmate and prison life.