Just watch the way ruthless killer Ryan O'Reily takes care of his retarted brother.

This doesn't mean they are some emotionaless robots: they also have feelings. Everyone there's a criminal and deserves to be there. One thing I really like is this realism: There are no stupid heros that shouldn't be in prison. There is wonderful acting, GREAT srorylines, characters that are just perfect and of course the cold reality of the show. So what's so excellent in the show? Everything. Nathan storyline have watched every episode and the last couple of months I've done nothing else that expected the next episode. I ended up watching OZ as probably many others: I opened the tv on one monday-tuesday night and there was 'nothing on' (really surprising: the clock was around 1 at night.)I wasn't instantly hooked: it took me couple of weeks. and ties everything together really nicely. 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. Besides the regular inmates, there's guest stars such as Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, etc. 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.

Oz series trailer