Use Logic Or STFU!
I'm just in tune with my own mortality moar. Every year goes by fast since I hit 30.Originally Posted by manker
Like there's a codec section. It's not as if this forum was internets famous for making codec packs or anything.
Stop dreaming, seal-boi.
@ Busy - Oh I see, I think. I did wonder why you said 'shame'. I thought you were saying you were an angsty teenager in 2004.
Which would have kinda made and lot of things make sense
Shovel Ready
As part of my "Catching Up on Cultural Touchstones Summer Tour" I just watched all three seasons of OZ.
It was weird but I enjoyed it.
Set in a high security prison, OZ is a claustrophobic, intense yet highly stylized look at prison life, focusing primarily on the inmate's perspective.
It can be quite brutal.
There is some standout acting, my particular favorite was JK Simmons who plays a psychopathic Aryan Nation leader...he pulls a real Bryan Cranston switch from lightweight normal to relentless evil.
Edie Falco is also noteworthy.
There are only eight eps per season, so it's not a mammoth time suck and I'd recommend it.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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There were six season of Oz. Each had 8 episodes, with the fourth being 16 episodes.
an alchemist?
How much of it featured anal rape?
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Shovel Ready
Do tell.
Pretty much every episode.
Turns out that your orifice options list is pretty limited whilst in prison.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
RASPBERRY RIPPLE
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Overall, i think I must have seen about 15 randomly timed eps out of its run. Interesting drama, especially for me, it seemed ahead of its time being that I didn't know of any other HBO style-productions (they may have existed, but I didn't have cable- hence the randomness of my viewing). I've meant to return to it starting from the beginning, just haven't placed it on the top of my full-series list yet.
The one thing that did kinda drive me away was the constant anal usage for non-fecal matters. Apparently, on the "inside", no one has jeans pockets for storing things, and there's always someone interested in raping, or negotiating their position through bartering of said back pocket.
Funny how no one I've ever spoken to who's done time ever mentions the constant use of their ass.
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I watched it as it aired. Which was late night and sporadic where I'm from. It was kinda mesmerising as it occurred, not having watched TV of such intensity at that point. Overall, it was pretty compelling, if not altogether plausible.
After the third season it kinda descended into surreal, satirical farce.
Still, I see quite a lot of the peripheral actors figuring large in recent TV and film, so it's a good marker in that respect.
Use Logic Or STFU!
You have much more Oz to see....
Shovel Ready
I'm now about 2/3 through the longer season 4 (why is that?).
Chalice's use of the word "surreal" was apt...I'm still stunned by the "aging pill" experiment and can't wait to see if it makes a return or just disappears in shame.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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Without being bothered to check, I'd posit that it got picked up by an international audience and redistributed. Judging by what you've watched of the fourth season, wouldn't you agree that some angle of intensity was pushed by the networks? To the point where it lost all creditability (little as there was), and it just became a closed-spaced Sparticus with plenty of male rape and submission.
You have yet to witness the levels of crassness to which it sinks. There's a notable, mumbling IRA man in there somewhere with a questionable accent, who is a one man fucking Armageddon.
It was all I could do to watch it at some points.
Last edited by chalice; 08-02-2012 at 03:03 PM.
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