Oz

Oz

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.

TV-MA 1997 · 6 seasons · 56 eps · ★ 8.1 · 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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