Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.9 / 5.0

No offense but...:

..there were 6 seasons of Oz, only ending last year (2003). Each consisted of 8 episodes with the exception of the fourth season which was broken up in two parts and had 16 episodes in it. There were a total of 56 episodes. I'm personally glad they ended it when they did, as the plots were getting a little thinned out--they'd pretty much done all they could do with the series. What I'm not glad about is the frequency of the series being released to DVD. Every Sopranos season is already on DVD and they come... more info

Great set...more please...:

I don't spring for the pay channels, so I'm one of those that missed the show's entire run and only heard how great it was. I also heard how harsh it was, so when the DVD's started coming out I was hesitant to buy them, afraid that I'd hate the show and end up stuck with the DVD's. Luckily that wasn't the case. Yeah, it's harsh. VERY. But it's also one of the best-written shows I've seen in a long time. Beats the heck out of most network junk. I just wish the 'seasons' had been longer. I didn't want them to... more info

A Good Show If You Can Suspend Disbelief As You Watch It:

First of all, this review is really for the first three seasons of Oz, not just the first. I have to say that I never watched a single episode of Oz in its six year run on HBO. But one day at the video store, I couldn't find anything to rent, so I picked up a couple of discs of the first season of Oz. I was hooked within a couple of episodes. A story about life in a prison doesn't sound very entertaining, but it is. The cast is one of the biggest you'll see and since it's a prison, characters are getting... more info