Season 1
🎬 8 Episodes 📅 1997 ⏱ 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
1997
Year
60
min / ep
8
Watch Hours
1/6
Season No.
⭐ 8.4
Best Episode
Ep. 6 · To Your Health
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🎬 Episodes 8 episodes
1
⭐ 8.0
The Routine
In the "Emerald City" experimental unit of Oswald State Penitentiary, we meet some of the diverse inmates who live within a pecking order of Homeboys, Latinos, Muslims, Irish, Aryans, and Wiseguys. No clear-cut leader emerges—with the possible exception of Kareem Saïd, a Muslim author who preaches n…
🎬 Darnell Martin ✍️ Tom Fontana
2
⭐ 7.5
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
With Schibetta and the prison brass in a race to uncover Ortolani's killer (for very different reasons), we see how inmates react to visits from both their wives and, in one case, family members who are also in prison.
🎬 Nick Gomez ✍️ Tom Fontana
3
⭐ 7.3
God's Chillin'
As friction grows in the wake of increasing deaths, Schibetta, Saïd, and Keane are brought together by Glynn, who tells them to keep their respective groups quiet or else he'll lock the prison down. The tension increases following a visit from Governor Devlin, who was responsible for the ban on smok…
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Tom Fontana
4
⭐ 7.3
Capital P
Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state, and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Keane.
🎬 Darnell Martin ✍️ Tom Fontana
5
⭐ 7.6
Straight Life
The infiltration of drugs into Oz has reached unprecedented levels, and the undercover efforts of McManus and Glynn to find out who's smuggling them in backfires in a deadly way. Despite a lockdown in Emerald City, the drugs continue to trickle in—and the blame shifts from prisoners to corrupt offic…
🎬 Leslie Libman ✍️ Tom Fontana
6
⭐ 8.4
To Your Health
Three generations of Alvarezes—all prisoners at Oz—are united when the partiarch, Ricardo, is found face down in his cell, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile, Beecher, who as Schillinger's "prag" has been forced to wear women's clothes, flips out after taking PCP.
🎬 Alan Taylor ✍️ Tom Fontana
7
⭐ 7.6
Plan B
A recovered Saïd ostracizes Mershah for turning his back on him when he was dying—and orders the rest of the Muslims to do the same. Impressed by Saïd's power, Groves makes a deadly decision in his honor. Meanwhile, Beecher, transformed by prison life, finally gets revenge on Schillinger.
🎬 Darnell Martin ✍️ Tom Fontana
8
⭐ 7.9
A Game of Checkers
Beecher is released from the hole and Schillinger is left eyeless and weak. A riot breaks out after two white punks get into a fight over checkers. Frustration, sexuality, hate, revenge, racism all rear their ugly heads, causing the violence to escalate.
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Tom Fontana