Oz

I'm verra verra happy. There are two shows on HBO that I really like: Oz and Six Feet Under. After waiting months, it looks like Oz is going to be starting up Season 5 on January 6, 2002 and I can't wait. I don't know what it is about this show, but it's highly addicting. If you haven't seen it before, basically, the show is about a prison called Oswald State Penitentiary, specifically an expermiental unit of it called "Emerald City". The whole premise is that they combine different groups of inmates and force them to live together so that they can get used to living that way once they leave prison. Great idea in theory. Doesn't work too well in practice. It's incredibly graphic and violent, and yet for some reason I can't stop watching it. If you haven't seen it before, turn on HBO at 11pm on Wed. nights, they are currently showing season 4 over again. The good thing about this is that you can jump into Oz at any time and pretty much figure out what is going on, they are very good about explaining the story line. The other cool thing to know about this show is that the actors don't know if they are going to get killed off until they read the script for that episode.

Check it out if you get a chance. Please don't let your kids watch this show, though, it's definetly not suitable for them unless you want to scare them about prison.