OZ 1-6 Season 21 DVD

Oz is an American television drama class created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. It aired for six seasons between 1997 and 2003.

Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison (level 4) at an undisclosed location. Many of the plot arcs are set in Emerald City ("Em City"), an experimental unit of the prison in which the unit manager attempts to emphasize rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration. Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment where there are a controlled number of members of each racial and social group.

Oz is primarily narrated by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau), former drug dealer, convicted murderer and former crack addict. Now confined to a wheelchair, he appears in surreal segments and introductions that usually relate to an overall theme of the episode, setting up scenes, introducing characters, or adding epilogues. When necessary ¡ª usually when a character is introduced ¡ª Hill appears as an omniscient narrator. Used as a literary tool of the writers, he narrates the details of characters' lives, their prison number, their crimes, and their sentences. Hill appears as a recurring character within the show's story lines until the sixth season, in which narration by various deceased characters was added to the narration by Hill.

These narrations by Hill break the fourth wall, in that Hill addresses the camera (and thus the audience) directly, out of the fictional context of the scene. Hill also appears in scenes where he interacts with other characters in the story (in which he does not address the camera). Only once in the series did Hill appear to address another character with one of his narrations: in the Season 3 episode "Unnatural Disasters", the character Adebisi turns on a computer and sees Hill¡ªdressed as a pharaoh¡ªspeaking to him. (This unusual sight is discounted by Adebisi as a drug-induced hallucination, and he never speaks of it again.)

Augustus Hill's narration over the course of the series is similar in purpose and execution to those of the Greek chorus in ancient theater. Hill's narration provides plot exposition, as well as commenting upon the events of the stories. The narration thus provides the audience a clearer understanding of the narrative's moral and thematic standpoints. Oz was nominated for several Emmys but never won. You will be glad to own this tv shows dvd. Welcome to order our cheap dvds.

Format Drama
Created by Tom Fontana
Starring Kirk Acevedo
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Ernie Hudson
Terry Kinney
Rita Moreno
Harold Perrineau
J.K. Simmons
Lee Tergesen
Eamonn Walker
Dean Winters
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 56 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Jim Finnerty
Editor(s) Deborah Moran
Running time approx. 55 min.
Broadcast
Original channel HBO
Original run July 12, 1997 ¨C February 23, 2003

OZ 1-6 season 21 DVD Details:

Format: All Region Code, Play on any DVD players
Number of Discs : 21 DVD
Brand New sealed in factory box
Language : English
menu: English
Subtitles : English/French/Chinese/Korean (on/off)
Oversea release.