Oz Episode 1 Season 1 ‘The Routine’
Written by Tom Fontana
Directed by Tom Fontana
Aired July 12, 1997 on HBO
I once was asked to describe the show Oz in terms of other shows that it what I told them was that it was The Wire-in a prison meets Game of Thrones with less subtlety and more full frontal nudity. Going back and watching the pilot a few years after having finished my first run through of the series, I wasn’t far off. Either way Oz was the grittiest, darkest that show HBO had ever produced when it started in the 1996, and since its run ended in 2003 little has come in its wake to take that title away.
The pilot episode of Oz was aptly called “The Routine” and it laid out much of what would make this show memorable. In the words of narrator Augustus Hill (played by Harold Perrineau Jr) “Oz,...
Written by Tom Fontana
Directed by Tom Fontana
Aired July 12, 1997 on HBO
I once was asked to describe the show Oz in terms of other shows that it what I told them was that it was The Wire-in a prison meets Game of Thrones with less subtlety and more full frontal nudity. Going back and watching the pilot a few years after having finished my first run through of the series, I wasn’t far off. Either way Oz was the grittiest, darkest that show HBO had ever produced when it started in the 1996, and since its run ended in 2003 little has come in its wake to take that title away.
The pilot episode of Oz was aptly called “The Routine” and it laid out much of what would make this show memorable. In the words of narrator Augustus Hill (played by Harold Perrineau Jr) “Oz,...
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