6 Season
56 Episode
Oz - Season 1 Episode 1 The Routine
Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
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 non-violence and abstinence. Saïd's arrival doesn't prevent a short-fused Mafia inmate named Dino Ortolani from ticking off just about everybody—a habit that ends up burning him.
- Year: 2003
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: prison, experiment, dystopia, revenge, betrayal, racism, drugs, inmate, catholicism, aryan, prison life, abuse of power
- Director: Tom Fontana
- Cast: Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney