Talk:Oz (TV series)

message: In the episode "Straight Life" a new inmate is brought in.  It was his third conviction and so he got life in prison, the words actually used were "three strikes."  Is it possible that it may take place in California because that is the only state I know of that has the three strikes law.
Raabbasi 03:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was always believe the setting was New Jersey...I know at least the show was filed there (in Bayonne). ShawnHill (talk) 23:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

text: i'm pretty sure its in and around NYC --Zaferk (talk) 02:47, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

text: Personally i don't think it's important. I think it's more any maximum security prison, USA. I do think Devlin was a republican. We could also state it's a state that still uses capital punishment. Phil Nolte (talk) 11:53, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

text: I am 100% sure that the location of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary is in Delaware, USA as shown in the 5th episode of the 2nd season of the series. Hualda 02:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: Anyone know why this brilliant show was cancelled? - EZtaR 02:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why was it cancelled?

message: Who decided what each of the gangs in Oz were called? The Muslims and the Aryans are pretty straight forward, but the Italians have been more often been refered to as the Wiseguys, the Sicilians, or the Mafia; while the Homeboys are frequently called the Gangsters, and the Bikers are sometimes called the Angels. How were the current names decided on? Was it just tallied up which names were used the most, or what? --Dark_Wolf101 00:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prison Gangs? 

message: I'd like to see this article improved. Currently the coverage of Oz on wikipedia is a bit too in universe. My main problem in aiming to improve it is a paucity of sources, any suggestions would be highly valued. Perhaps someone with access to find articles might be able to help? I've added a to do list to the top of the page to help co-ordinate our efforts.--Opark 77 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article improvement

message: At the start of Season 2 McManus stated that each prison gang in oz would be represented by four Emerald City inmates. If Beecher, Hill, Rebadow, and Busmalis represented The Others, then what gang was Keller affiliated with?
:I think McManus' idea of having each gang represented didn't last very long. But I would place him with the others, as he was Beecher's roomate. I think Shillinger pulled some strings to get him into Emerald City, so that might also explain it. (Narkstraws (talk) 06:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on the Gangs 

message: I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 17:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series 

message: In the forth season of NBC's "Will & Grace" one of its main characters, Jack, makes fun of "Oz". While watching the show on HBO OLE he says "prision sex" is funnier in Spanish.
85.219.42.27 (talk) 10:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference also in Will & Grace 

message: The article Joseph Howard (Oz) has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
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message: See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles#Oz_.28TV_series.29, JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 12:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete & Redirect per [[WP:FAILN]]?

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message: I never saw this show but it sounds like it broke new ground of television broadcasting. It would be really helpful to have a section on the popular and critical reception of the series in the U.S. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 18:59, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *Agreed. I came here looking for that as I was considering watching this show. I'm surprised to see that minutae like who owns the distribution rights is included but there isn't a single word about critical reception. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:16, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's actually what i was looking for too. Good inclusion.Flagpolewiki (talk) 11:54, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical reception 

message: Currently reads:
Oz took advantage of the freedoms of premium cable to show material that was too excessive for traditional American broadcast television, including elements of coarse language, drug use, violence, male frontal nudity, homosexuality and male rape, as well as ethnic and religious conflicts.
There's a lot i don't like about it. 1) it's not appropriate for the episodes section 2) 'too excessive' is grammatical nonsense 3) 'excessive' is a judgement.
It needs to be phrased better. Or even better replaced with something to the effect of oz ran for 56 episodes from July 12, 1997  to February 23, 2003. Flagpolewiki (talk) 13:59, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Episodes Section

message: Was this really a dark comedy?  I doubt Oz is a Dark Comedy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jawz101 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre Dark Comedy

message: I think this part of the article could use updating. It's basically just a few blurbs about the first couple seasons.
For a long-finished, fairly impactful show like this, I think much of the "Critical Reception" section should be retrospective.
Perhaps a "Legacy" section is necessary instead. I don't really know. I'm not a Wikipedia wizard, but I do know there's something lacking in this article vis-a-vis reactions. 174.96.196.189 (talk) 08:18, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical Reception section 

message: There was Dream On and 1st and Ten before it.
Maybe the first drama. 2601:18F:E02:5C30:46E:3EBF:FEA9:A463 (talk) 16:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oz was NOT the very first show on HBO.