Oz

Lucifer MorningStar

I see it's back on our TV screens, CBS Action, channel 148 every weekday at 10 pm, it just started on Monday so I just thought I'd let you folks know in case some of ye haven't seen it yet. It's a show definitely worth checking out.

CastorTroy

Have been recording them. Is it edited?

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I own the DVD's, but nice to see it's being re-broadcast to draw in some newbies...

One of the greatest TV shows of all-time. Paved the way for The Sopranos, The Wire etc.

Plus you'll recognise pretty much every actor from TV & Films they went on to do afterwards.

arcticmonkeys

Thanks for that wouldn't of spotted it otherwise. Only on episode 4 as well so haven't missed out on to much. CBS were showing repeats of Dexter just before Christmas, good to see they've got another quality show on at the moment.

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arcticmonkeys wrote: »

Thanks for that wouldn't of spotted it otherwise. Only on episode 4 as well so haven't missed out on to much. CBS were showing repeats of Dexter just before Christmas, good to see they've got another quality show on at the moment.

I just cringed a little when I saw Dexter and quality show in the same sentence. Maybe if it had ended after season 4, when it was at it's best, I'd remember it more fondly, but the four years of tripe that followed have left a bad taste in my mouth where Dexter is concerned. Not to mention, worst ending to a television series ever...

tvnutz

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I just cringed a little when I saw Dexter and quality show in the same sentence. Maybe if it had ended after season 4, when it was at it's best, I'd remember it more fondly, but the four years of tripe that followed have left a bad taste in my mouth where Dexter is concerned. Not to mention, worst ending to a television series ever...

Seasons 1,2 and 4 I could probably say are quality, as you mentioned, the rest...how can a tv show go so bad? I have to agree it is probably one of the worst endings to a tv show ever!

Xenji

Terrible ending, but it was a great show with some fantastic actor's in it, I remember watching it years ago on Channel 4.

arcticmonkeys

Xenji wrote: »

Terrible ending, but it was a great show with some fantastic actor's in it, I remember watching it years ago on Channel 4.

I only ever seen a couple of episodes of the last season and the last episode which was of course complete ****. But I thought it was a really good show up to about season 5 although season 3 was a slight dip season 4 being the highlight.

WinnyThePoo

Watched it all last autumn. Extremely violent and disturbing at times. So many faces in you'll know from tv and film. Vernon Schillinger, what a man. Come here prag!

Skerries

I've just come off of a binge of it, I was watching it on the train to and from work so had to hold the phone close to me for some of the scenes

Whatsisname

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I just cringed a little when I saw Dexter and quality show in the same sentence. Maybe if it had ended after season 4, when it was at it's best, I'd remember it more fondly, but the four years of tripe that followed have left a bad taste in my mouth where Dexter is concerned. Not to mention, worst ending to a television series ever...

You'll be happy to know CBS Action haven't ever shown anything past Season 4. They've had it on a constant loop for about 2 years now, with a few months break in between.

But back onto Oz, watched the 1st season and loved it, only got an episode into the 2nd and all the other shows I watched came back and it got pushed out. Definitely have to try get back into it.

Lucifer MorningStar

CastorTroy wrote: »

Have been recording them. Is it edited?

I don't think so

zzfh

just finished the box set last night :0 :0

awful ending leaves brings the show down a point/point and a half for me.



p.s
'this is the best miss sally ever'

PropJoe10

A fantastic show in its day. How Adebisi kept that hat on his head is still a mystery to me!

johnpatrick81

As it ends badly, would ye recommend giving the last season or so a miss then, or is it literally just the last episode which is crap?

K4t

Skerries wrote: »

I've just come off of a binge of it, I was watching it on the train to and from work so had to hold the phone close to me for some of the scenes

I'd be holding the phone as far away from me as possible for some scenes in OZ tbh..

sonofenoch

Great show back in the day....has it started from the beginning ie series 1 episode 1?

One of the few Yank dramas I followed from beginning to end, the only other being the Walking Dead......believe it or not I've never watched 1 episode of Sopranos or anything else on Sky atlantic

Jofspring

Gutted I've missed out that it was back. I haven't seen it since it's original broadcast on tg4 when I was only about 13. I can't even remember most of it to be honest. Definitely have to pick up the box set now that it's back in my head.

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johnpatrick81 wrote: »

As it ends badly, would ye recommend giving the last season or so a miss then, or is it literally just the last episode which is crap?

With Oz it's not a case of the final season being a build up to one big reveal or anything, because there's so many storylines going on. The only bad thing really is that the showrunners didn't know it was going to be the final season, so there's no big ending like you'd get with The Sopranos or Breaking Bad who knew when they were wrapping up.

I'd still watch it right up to the end though.

Fr Tod Umptious

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I own the DVD's, but nice to see it's being re-broadcast to draw in some newbies...

One of the greatest TV shows of all-time. Paved the way for The Sopranos, The Wire etc.

Plus you'll recognise pretty much every actor from TV & Films they went on to do afterwards.

The oddest of these I think is Eamonn Walker, who played leader of the Muslims Kareem Said in Oz, and Winston, in In Sickness and in Health.

darkdubh

I used to watch it on TG4 when they first started showing it.One of the things that stood out about it was they used to unexpectedly kill off characters who you thought were going to be in it long term,sometimes in the same episode where they make their first appearence.

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Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

The oddest of these I think is Eamonn Walker, who played leader of the Muslims Kareem Said in Oz, and Winston, in In Sickness and in Health.

Eamonn Walker is also currently in Chicago Fire for the past 3 years. He's such an intense actor and lends a lot of gravitas to whatever he's in.

arcticmonkeys

A lot of people praise GOT for killing characters of in unexpected ways out of the blue but Oz seems to to this every other episode. A major character gets killed of in the most spectacular way at the end of the fourth season when the show was at its best, really over the top LOL. The forth season is actually 16 episodes.

thegreatgonzo

arcticmonkeys wrote: »

A lot of people praise GOT for killing characters of in unexpected ways out of the blue but Oz seems to to this every other episode. .

Well that's prison for you:eek:

I used to watch it from behind the couch when it was on TG4. I really really can't handle rape scenes or very graphic violence but I wanted to follow it so I wish there was an edited version.

DaBlackMask

First HBO I ever saw thought it was great though season 1-4,

But yay horrible ending Suda wrapped it up after season 4,

Great cast of actors

sonofenoch

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Well that's prison for you:eek:

I used to watch it from behind the couch when it was on TG4. I really really can't handle rape scenes or very graphic violence but I wanted to follow it so I wish there was an edited version.

Never even knew TG4 aired it...I watched religiously on Ch4 when first shown in the late 90's.......I like the fact CBS now repeat this series at 1am, just seems a better time to watch for me

lertsnim

sonofenoch wrote: »

Never even knew TG4 aired it...I watched religiously on Ch4 when first shown in the late 90's.......I like the fact CBS now repeat this series at 1am, just seems a better time to watch for me

It was on Thursday nights at about 11pm. They showed it before C4 as far as i can remember

GreNoLi

TG4 was ahead of the curve.

O'Reilly definitely the best character.

sonofenoch

lertsnim wrote: »

It was on Thursday nights at about 11pm. They showed it before C4 as far as i can remember

Don't think so....from a little research it seems they first showed it around 03 ...http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=187914

Chan4 definitely first aired around 97/98

Yamanoto

Between Cyril O'Reilly & Agamemnon Busmalis, the show turned into a bit of a tedious soap opera & lost momentum - so much so that I really struggled to finish it out.

Also thought the guy who played Tim McManus just didn't have the gravitas to carry it off. He always struck me as the kind of actor you'd see in a ropey Stephen King TV adaptation.

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GreNoLi wrote: »

TG4 was ahead of the curve.

O'Reilly definitely the best character.

While O'Reilly is certainly one of the best, I think Adebisi and Schillinger were just that little bit better.

darkdubh

sonofenoch wrote: »

Don't think so....from a little research it seems they first showed it around 03 ...http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=187914

Chan4 definitely first aired around 97/98

I know for a fact that TG4 were showing the first series in 1999,I remember seeing it first that year(I know it was that year because quite a lot of significant stuff happened in my life).They aired the final series in 2004.If memory serves me correct they may have aired the whole series more than once.

kumate_champ07

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Eamonn Walker is also currently in Chicago Fire for the past 3 years. He's such an intense actor and lends a lot of gravitas to whatever he's in.

he was in the final episode(tv movie) of Homicide Life On The Streets but wasnt given enough screen time. that show was a huge disappointment(just finished watching every episode)

OZ has its faults but is definitely one of the best shows ever, not just as a part of tv history, but as a piece of entertainment

I watched the Expendeables again last night and 'Morales' was the Latin Dictator!

Liam McPoyle

My favourite tv show of all time. I stumbled upon it on tg4 after reading about it in the Sindo.

Bizarre magazine once referred to it as a nasty prison bum rape drama, while that is true, it was also a helluva lot more.

While not as technically spectacular as say The Sopranos, it's still the show I've watched in it's entirety most, prolly at least 7 or 8 times now at this stage.

I love it.

kumate_champ07

my favorite villain from Boardwalk Empire had a part in OZ for a few episodes, both very different characters, anyone know who Im talking about?

kumate_champ07

arcticmonkeys

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

I remember when he first appeared in Oz, took me a while to work out where id seen him before.

shazzerman

GreNoLi wrote: »

TG4 was ahead of the curve.

O'Reilly definitely the best character.

Which one?

kumate_champ07

both O Reilly brothers were in separate Homicide episodes

shazzerman

When Cyril was introduced in Oz, I initially got confused and thought that it was the same actor playing both roles... silly me. Good to see Dean Winters in John Wick recently - the Iago of Oz and a definite contender for the greatest character in that particular pugilistic penitentiary.

PropJoe10

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

While O'Reilly is certainly one of the best, I think Adebisi and Schillinger were just that little bit better.

I really liked Augustus Hill and McManus. Lots of great characters though.

sonofenoch

darkdubh wrote: »

I know for a fact that TG4 were showing the first series in 1999,I remember seeing it first that year(I know it was that year because quite a lot of significant stuff happened in my life).They aired the final series in 2004.If memory serves me correct they may have aired the whole series more than once.

Well if we're going down the facts road, remember getting the first playstation released in 97....I'd play that and watch Oz late on Ch4......means nothing other than to say I'm certain they aired it before TG4

kumate_champ07

sonofenoch wrote: »

Well if we're going down the facts road, remember getting the first playstation released in 97....I'd play that and watch Oz late on Ch4......means nothing other than to say I'm certain they aired it before TG4

TG4 could get HBO shows at a discount rate as the purchase fee of a show was based on how many viewers a network has, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had it before CH4.

darkdubh

sonofenoch wrote: »

Well if we're going down the facts road, remember getting the first playstation released in 97....I'd play that and watch Oz late on Ch4......means nothing other than to say I'm certain they aired it before TG4

I never said they showed it before C4,was just correcting your assertation that the earliest TG4 showed it was 2003.

batistuta9

CastorTroy wrote: »

Have been recording them. Is it edited?

they're showing it in 16:9, it's filmed/released in 4:3

sonofenoch

How would the Muslims in this show related to todays world if set in the now......think they'd take on a whole new meaning

kneemos

Love the Beecher character,funny and crazy.
Looks like he's going to have his ass whooped.

take everything

So many great actors in this show.
J. K. Simmons is a brilliant actor. From this to the dad in "I love you man" for example.

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take everything wrote: »

So many great actors in this show.
J. K. Simmons is a brilliant actor. From this to the dad in "I love you man" for example.

He's great in whatever he does. Hopefully now after his performance in Whiplash he'll get even bigger roles. If you haven't seen Whiplash already, any J.K. Simmons fans should check it out.

Charlie19

Business Cat wrote: »

My favourite tv show of all time. I stumbled upon it on tg4 after reading about it in the Sindo.

Bizarre magazine once referred to it as a nasty prison bum rape drama, while that is true, it was also a helluva lot more.

While not as technically spectacular as say The Sopranos, it's still the show I've watched in it's entirety most, prolly at least 7 or 8 times now at this stage.

I love it.

I've watched three episodes of both Sopranos and now the OZ and I think I'm going to continue with OZ. I like OZ a bit more, but the Narrative parts from the guy in the wheelchair is a bit od.

drugstore cowboy

Charlie19 wrote: »

I've watched three episodes of both Sopranos and now the OZ and I think I'm going to continue with OZ. I like OZ a bit more, but the Narrative parts from the guy in the wheelchair is a bit od.

The show gets very surreal at times.