Oz: The Complete Sixth Season
List Price:
Our Price: $11.66
You Save: $18.32 (61%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.65 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Ernie Hudson, Jr. Harold Perrineau, Kirk Acevedo, Rita Moreno, Terry KinneyBrand: HBO Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 520 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 99027
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- On the surface, not much has changed inside the walls of Oswald State Penitentiary. Schillinger has revenge on his mind, Cyril is facing execution, Beecher is hoping for parole, and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. But there's toil and trouble brewing in the Oz cauldron, as the Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the climactic final act.Running Time: 520 min.
Movie Reviews of Oz: The Complete Sixth Season
Movie Review: The final season of HBO's "Oz": will anyone get out of there alive?
Summary: 5 Stars
I swear that by the time I was halfway through watching the sixth and final season of "Oz" that I was thinking to myself that there was going to be nobody left alive in the place by the time they faded out on the HBO series. Usually I am not so surprised when I am proven to be right. At HBO's website for the show they have a Rest in Peace section that shows the body count season by season for who killed who and how, and see the victim's crime scene in Oz. They have FIFTEEN of these for Season 6, although some of them (e.g., Rev. Jerimiah, Augustus Hill) happened in previous seasons but have repercussions in this final season. Besides, more than fifteen people die in the final season of Oz. Hell, more than that many people die in the final EPISODE of the series. No wonder the season opens with "Dead Man Talking," where Augustus points out that being dead is no reason for him to stop serving as the omniscient narrator of the series, and establishes a theme for the dead of seasons past to show up throughout the final season and help him with that narrative duty.
There was a potent irony at towards the end of the season when Augustus kept bringing up real world examples of what is happening in prisons, because such polemical observations ring a bit hollow against a series whose penal model is closer to "Escape from New York" than it is to the real world. Do you know how many prisoners are murdered in prison each year since 2000? Four. On average fifteen prisoners will commit suicide. In the real world if four prisoners died at the same prison in a year the warden would be gone and there would be some significant changes in policy at that prison. But even with the high body count Tim McManus (Terry Kinney), the Emerald City Administrator, keeps not only his job but also his faith in the system. If you think about things logically, then you might start wondering if maybe McManus has set up an environment where it is easier for inmates to kill each other.
The master metaphor for "Oz: The Complete Sixth Season" is the maze that McManus paints on the floor of the gym based on ancient yoga teachings: you walk into the maze with a problem and by the time you reach the center a solution will have been created. Several characters walk the maze during the final season, but clearly most of the characters are the sort who would walk directly to the center, do not pass go, so on and so forth. However, there is that tension throughout the season, which starts with Alvarez and Schillinger being released back into the general population.
At the bi-annual review of solitary prisoners, the board decides to release Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) and Vern Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) back into gen pop. Alverez is willing to try and find a better bath, but Schillinger is listening to the deal Winthrop (Andy Powers) wants to make regarding Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) ("Dead Men Talking"). Irony continues to dodge Schillinger and Beecher when Mayor Wilson Loewen ends up in Oz, and Burr Redding (Anthony Chisholm) commits the Homeboys to telemarketing ("See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil"), while Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker) wants the Muslims to publish Augustus Hill's memoirs at Oz ("Sonata da Oz"). Chris Keller (Chris Meloni) and Beecher work out an arrangement ("Failure to Communicate") that has big repercussions immediately ("4giveness") and for the rest of the season.
The inmates support Ryan O'Reilly (Dean Winters) as the execution date for Cyril O'Reily (Scott Winters) comes ("A Day in the Death"). Ryan and Cyril's mother, Suzanne Fitzgerald (Betty Lynn Buckley) is directing an inmate production of "MacBeth," with Schillinger as MacBeth, Beecher as MacDuff, and Keller making sure the final scene of the play will be memorable ("Junkyard Dawgs"). Then we get to the grand finale, "Exeunt Omnes" (to wit, the stage direction "exit everybody"), which has a couple of key scenes beyond the sudden curtain on the production of "MacBeth." Do not expect everything to be wrapped up, because there are just way too many plot lines going on to come any where close to that, but a few loose threads are tied off. Basically, "Oz" goes out the same way it came in, with horrible things happening to horrible people.
Ultimately, "Oz" is one of those shows that will reinforce the beliefs of people at both ends of the political spectrum. Liberals will deplore the inhuman conditions and shake their heads at every story about the real world that Augustus Hill throws at them, while conservatives will find confirmation that criminals are not like ordinary people and that tossing them in prison and throwing away the key is a great idea. Liberals will hate Governor James Devlin (Zeljko Ivanek), Office Claire Howell (Kristin Rohde), and the corrections officers who take bribes to look the other way, while conservatives will be sick and tired of McManus, Sister Pete (Rita Moreno), and Father Ray (B.D. Wong). Both sides get enough victories and defeats to keep them watching until the bitter end. Despite the high body count, that ending was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, which was pretty bad given everything we sat through for six seasons. However, if there is any constant with "Oz" it was that there were solid performances by an impressive cast that created memorable characters that we will remember for a long time.
Summary of Oz: The Complete Sixth Season
OZ:COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON - DVD MovieSimilar DVD Movies
The Shield: Complete SeriesSony; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $94.35
Price in other shops:
Six Feet Under - The Complete Second SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2004-07-06; DVD
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops:
Carnivale: Complete Second SeasonWarner Bros; Release date: 2010-11-16; DVD
Best price: $14.94
Price in other shops:
Carnivale: The Complete First SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2004-12-07; DVD
Best price: $15.60
Price in other shops:
Six Feet Under: The Complete SeriesHBO Home Video; Release date: 2009-10-06; DVD
Best price: $89.99
Price in other shops:
Oz: The Complete Fifth SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2005-06-21; DVD
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Oz: The Complete Third SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2004-02-24; Published: 2004-02-01; DVD
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Oz: The Complete Fourth SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2005-02-01; DVD
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Oz: The Complete First SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2002-03-19; DVD
Best price: $12.74
Price in other shops:
Oz: The Complete Second SeasonHBO Home Video; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $11.53
Price in other shops: