Oz
Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
TV-MA 1997 · 6 seasons · 56 eps · ★ 8.0 · Crime, Drama
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The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Created by Tom Fontana
Network: HBO
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Lee Tergesen Tobias Beecher -
Harold Perrineau Augustus Hill -
Dean Winters Ryan O'Reily -
Eamonn Walker Kareem Saïd -
Ernie Hudson Leo Glynn -
Terry Kinney Tim McManus -
Rita Moreno Sister Peter Marie Reimondo -
J.K. Simmons Vernon Schillinger -
Kirk Acevedo Miguel Alvarez -
Craig muMs Grant Poet -
BD Wong Father Ray Mukada -
George Morfogen Bob Rebadow
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