
The show gives a no-holds-barred account of prison life with all the plots, subplots and conflicts given context and explanation by the show's wheelchair-bound narrator, Augustus Hill. Others, Corrections officers and inmates alike, simply want to survive long enough to make parole or even to see tomorrow. Others want money, either through slinging 'tits' (drugs), gambling or other scams. Some fight for power either power over the drug trade or power over the other inmate factions. Get unlimited DVD Movies & TV Shows delivered to your door with no late fees. Netflix’s series about the criminal empire of. Under unit manager Tim McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, the inmates in Em City all struggle to fulfill their own needs. Rent Oz (1997) starring Ernie Hudson and Harold Perrineau on DVD and Blu-ray. There’s nothing sexy about the war on drugs, but there’s plenty of sex in the drug war.

Oz chronicles life inside an experimental cell block in the Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility: Level Four called Emerald City. The whole thing is narrated and held together by inmates Augustus Hill, who provides the show with some context, some sense of theme, etc. Nathan), a nun/psychologist (Sister Peter Marie), a bunch of guards some honest, some crooked and of course the warden Leo Glynn. Much of the show takes place in Emerald City, an experimental unit in the facility that tries to. Besides the regular inmates, there's guest stars such as Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, etc. Inmates and correctional officers inside the Oswald State Correctional Facility, nicknamed 'Oz,' battle for power and survival amid warring factions and explosive acts of retribution.

And there's a great "everyman" character called Beecher who gives a good look at a normal man who made one tragic mistake.

There's the gangstas (Adebisi, Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keene, Supreme Allah), Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), Italians (Pancamo, Nappa, Schiebetta), bikers (Hoyt), Aryans (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), Christians (Cloutier, Cudney), Latinos (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), gays (Hanlon, Cramer) and a whole pile of others (the O'Riley brothers, Keller, Stanislovsky, etc.).

There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive. OZ chronicles the attempts of McManus (Terry Kinney) to keep control over the inmates of Em(erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence.
