Season 2
🎬 8 Episodes 📅 1998 ⏱ 60 min
Within the brutal confines of Emerald City, survival becomes a daily negotiation between rival factions bound by blood and belief. Oz strips away every pretense of civilization, revealing the raw humanity beneath the uniforms and bars. In this experimental unit, loyalty is currency and betrayal carries the heaviest price, forcing each man to choose between his code and his conscience.
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8
Episodes
1998
Year
60
min / ep
8
Watch Hours
2/6
Season No.
⭐ 7.7
Best Episode
Ep. 5 · Family Bizness
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🎬 Episodes 8 episodes
1
⭐ 6.3
The Tip
In the aftermath of the riot that killed six inmates and two officers, Oz is locked down, and Emerald City prisoners are sent either to solitary or "gen pop." A special committee is appointed to investigate the riot and Governor Devlin's handling of it. The committee's leader is law-school Dean Alva…
🎬 Nick Gomez ✍️ Tom Fontana
2
⭐ 6.4
Ancient Tribes
Ten months after the riot, Em City re-opens. A recovered McManus creates a council of group representatives to keep order, and initiates GED classes to help inmates get high-school equivalency diplomas. Having been told by O'Reily that Adebisi was responsible for his father's death, Peter Schibetta …
🎬 Uli Edel ✍️ Tom Fontana
3
⭐ 7.4
Great Men
Alvarez knows who raped Glynn's daughter, but refuses to tell the warden. Wangler is making progress at school, but his cellmate, Adebisi, isn't a fan of higher education. When Augustus Hill's judge is convicted of accepting bribes, Said takes up Hill's case to get him a second trial. Diagnosed with…
🎬 Bob Balaban ✍️ Tom Fontana
4
⭐ 6.0
Losing Your Appeal
Augustus Hill's court appeal is denied, despite the efforts of Said, who has better luck getting Poet's poems published. Meanwhile, O'Reily survives his lumpectomy, and now focuses his attention on Dr. Nathan. Trying to cut a deal after killing an Aryan inmate, Richie Hanlon is forced instead to adm…
🎬 Keith Samples ✍️ Tom Fontana
5
⭐ 7.7
Family Bizness
With their enmity at a boiling point, Adebisi poisons Schibetta -- but not fatally. Now that his brother has turned himself in for murder, Glynn no longer owes Schibetta any favors. Sister Peter Marie figures out that Giles witnessed who killed her husband. Poet, now a published author, gets his par…
🎬 Kathy Bates ✍️ Tom Fontana
6
⭐ 6.3
Strange Bedfellows
Schilinger enlists Said to get him out of jail, but Said backs out. McManus decides not to incriminate Wittlesey in Ross's death. A recovered Schibetta edures more pain after being raped by Adebisi. Meanwhile, Alvarez is bumped out of the Latino power seat by Raoul Hernandez, a.k.a. El Cid. New inma…
🎬 Alan Taylor ✍️ Tom Fontana
7
⭐ 6.8
Animal Farm
Cyril O'Reily, Ryan's brother comes to Oz and is immediately violated by Schillinger. Ryan tries to get him away from OZ, but Cyril instead lands in the hole. El Cid tells Alvarez the only way he can "stay in the game" is to "pluck out" the eyes of a prison guard, Rivera. Bellinger and Adebisi excha…
🎬 Mary Harron ✍️ Tom Fontana
8
⭐ 7.6
Escape from Oz
Wittlesey is transferred to Gen Pop and replaced by Karl Metzger, a Nazi. Mack and another Aryan try to escape through Busmalis and Rebadow's tunnel but the tunnel collapses and kills the two Aryans. Hill gets the idea of escaping Oz by hiding in a coffin. Sippel re-enters Oz because he can't deal w…
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Tom Fontana