Oz - Series 2 Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Kansas is far away

Oz is the most gritty, sinister and downright subversive prison drama I have ever seen.

That is where its brilliance lies.

It doesn't show prison as a hideaway camp where pesky types go and attempt to get over the wall, it shows people (mostly horrible) being in a place where most of them deserve.

One note: This is not a series for the faint hearted or easily offended. This is hard as nails, gritty drama. (is it realistic? I don't know - never been inside)

If ever there was a show that might keep your kids on the straight and narrow, this is it. Just make sure they become thugs after they are old enough to see it.

In conclusion, makes Prison Break (a fine show) look like Porrige.

[Highly rated reviewer]

poor

oz series 1 brill, series 2 rubbish

It's got everything

Seriously, this show has it all. Prison is the perfect setting for a drama with so much scope for twisted, interweaving plotlines and diverse and contradictory characers. It constantly keeps you guessing. It's got a style unique to TV. It repeatedly manages to shock. It's superb. This second series follows on directly from the first so you do really need to start at the beginning. If you liked the Sopranos and need something else, this is it.

Another HBO triumph

The HBO channel has by far produced some of the best TV in years, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Six Feet Under and the brilliant Deadwood. Oz is up there in the same calibre as all these dramas. There is no dumbing down of language or sexual content or violence, especially as Oz is a prison drama, the content is in your face and hard to escape!

Excellent and hard to beat!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Great series so far

was hopping this series would be as good as the first, it seems even better so far, very graphic in places.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Hard hitting and Excellent

I love programs and series that hold no punches. I thought Season 1 was fabulous and I think Season 2 is brilliant also. Watch this and expect no quarter given.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Brilliant!!

One word for this series BRILLIANT!!!! It has a bit of everything going on in it and looking forward to watching the rest of the series.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Fantabulous!

The show just gets better and better, and Series 2 is right up there with Series 1 in terms of writing, characterisation and downright gritty nastiness! Once again, I was so hooked that I watched each disc in its entirety, getting each of the 3 discs in this series immediately after each other. Brutal, unflinching and gripping - roll on Series 3!