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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 17, 2016 9:13:26 GMT -5
I'm trying to get some info about the Oz show that ran from 1997-2003.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 9:59:54 GMT -5
I saw every episode when it first ran. Have not seen it since. So if you ask about some particular small plot point I probably lost that memory. Great show
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 17, 2016 10:03:45 GMT -5
My first wife had a small part of one of the episodes. She played someones grandmother when he was young( I'm guessing a flashback) and it involved him peaking in on her when she took a shower. I think it was a nude scene. Do you remember anything like this?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 15:54:56 GMT -5
I honestly can't say that particular scene is anything I can pinpoint. The series has been available on DVD for years and is quite excellent. Definitely worth watching even if you don't find that scene until the last episode. It was always a Monday water cooler discussion show at work amongst me and the others who watched it Sunday night. Great actors, outrageous plot points, great tension and even humor and kinkiness
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Post by berkley on Mar 17, 2016 17:28:51 GMT -5
I always think of Oz as the first of the new high-quality cable tv shows, the one that paved the way for stuff like Breaking Bad and Mad Men, but maybe something came before that I don't know about. I came in I think late in the first or early in the 2nd season after hearing about it from a lot of my friends. It was a very impressive series, but I thought it became a bit repetitive towards the end and I didn't watch the last season or two. I don't remember the scene you mention but as Ish said, it's well worth watching for its own sake anyway, though I suppose it wouldn't have the same impact now as it did back then. At the time, the difference in quality between Oz and most network tv was very noticeable.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 17, 2016 18:15:14 GMT -5
It's out of morbid curiosity to see my ex in her birthday suit one more time.  I was bummed when she told me she actually filmed it. I think we were separated for a while when she revealed that nugget. |
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Post by foxley on Mar 17, 2016 18:36:11 GMT -5
I can vaguely recall the scene you describe, but I couldn't tell what episode, or even what season, it occurs in.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 19:23:45 GMT -5
This might help. . tho it's a lot of reading: epguides.com/oz/guide.shtmlI loved the show, and will forever have a place in my memories for Meloni naked. in particular, the one scene of him in solitary, peeing in a bucket. yep. . I'm gay  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 17, 2016 19:43:02 GMT -5
This might help. . tho it's a lot of reading: epguides.com/oz/guide.shtmlI loved the show, and will forever have a place in my memories for Meloni naked. in particular, the one scene of him in solitary, peeing in a bucket. yep. . I'm gay Dude, Thanks for the link. I'm reading... |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 20:02:58 GMT -5
This might help. . tho it's a lot of reading: epguides.com/oz/guide.shtmlI loved the show, and will forever have a place in my memories for Meloni naked. in particular, the one scene of him in solitary, peeing in a bucket. yep. . I'm gay Wasn't Dean Withers confined to solitary and was not getting food or water and he was drinking his own piss? I seem to remember him with the jug in his hands No- I'm not gay but piss is common between any sexual persuasion |
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 17, 2016 22:55:54 GMT -5
I barely remember any of it being so long ago, but, I did watch, and love, Oz.
Great show.
Taught me what a "shank" is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 23:58:00 GMT -5
I watched the entire series through Netflix a while back. It's decent, wasn't my favorite crime drama, but it's a cut above a lot of network stuff, especially back then.
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Post by berkley on Mar 18, 2016 0:59:31 GMT -5
I watched the entire series through Netflix a while back. It's decent, wasn't my favorite crime drama, but it's a cut above a lot of network stuff, especially back then. I was wondering how it might come across to someone watching now for the first time. Yeah, I imagine it wouldn't be quite such an eye-opener as it was back when it first aired. But at the time it was really something special, for awhile, at least. I wonder if anyone's done a list of all the HBO-style series that have come out in the years since then. Was Oz the first? I never watched The Sopranos, but I understand the guy behind Mad Men came from that show. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 18, 2016 1:08:03 GMT -5
I watched the entire series through Netflix a while back. It's decent, wasn't my favorite crime drama, but it's a cut above a lot of network stuff, especially back then. I was wondering how it might come across to someone watching now for the first time. Yeah, I imagine it wouldn't be quite such an eye-opener as it was back when it first aired. But at the time it was really something special, for awhile, at least. I wonder if anyone's done a list of all the HBO-style series that have come out in the years since then. Was Oz the first? I never watched The Sopranos, but I understand the guy behind Mad Men came from that show. Oz was the first Made For HBO drama series. HBO earlier did comedy series like Dream On-the first, followed by The Larry Sanders Show and Arli$$ |
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Post by batlaw on Mar 18, 2016 2:55:31 GMT -5
Watched it in its original run and really liked it at the time. Not sure if I ever saw the final season or not? If so, I don't remember it at all. I know I had a big break from it towards the end and eventually got to check back in but remember not caring or being impressed. I think it lost all its steam real quick later on. It was intense for its day. Offered some great ideas, characters and performances / actors. Not sure how good it would be by today's standards though.
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I was bummed when she told me she actually filmed it. I think we were separated for a while when she revealed that nugget.
