We revisit HBO’s sterling and seminal prison drama Oz on the run-up to its 20th anniversary…
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Certainly nothing to match its bleakness, verisimilitude or narrative-framing-flights-of-fancy.
Of course it isnt just polite society or its authoritarian instruments that act against the inmates.
Sometimes the show could be wilfully ridiculous, particularly in its later years.)
We aint ever gonna change.
In the end, Dino was wrong.
The inmates did change: they got worse.
Who would live in a Big House like this?
Em City seems to be in a perpetual state of flux, of war.
Inmate vs inmate, guard vs inmate, tribe vs tribe.
Its the latter Cyril we first meet inOz.
Thats for you to decide.
The story of both men together highlights the ultimate tragedy and futility of vengeance.
Dig two graves, as the old saying goes.
In their case, they needed a lot more than two.
Or we could be, given a simple twist of fate.
In truth, we couldve been any of them.
Thats the savage point.
How he dies, thats easy.
The who and the why is the complex part the human part, the only part worth knowing.
You wont regret it.
