I've just watched episode 6 of Season 2. I'm addicted! It's so weird seeing Christopher Melloni as a prisoner, not a policeman, but he's great. Loving Beecher and O'Reily too.
Got the boxset of this from HMV yonks back. I to used to watch this at 1:25am on Channel 4, its regular time slot I think they daren't air it before that time and you can see why
Love it to death though, gritty and graphic, brutal and epic.
Got the boxset of this from HMV yonks back. I to used to watch this at 1:25am on Channel 4, its regular time slot I think they daren't air it before that time and you can see why
Love it to death though, gritty and graphic, brutal and epic.
Yeh!
It's so rare to find a tv show that is brutal, yet you like the characters you are meant to hate even when they have no redeeming features purely because they are intriguing. I still can't get over Mr Eko from Lost being the horrible Adibisi.
i keep telling my mates about this show...it is my favourite of all time....it was hard for me to watch L&O:SVU at first as i couldnt see meloni as anything other than a bisexual serial killer so hard to conceive he'd be trying to arrest them.
Anyone who has watched both shows though....have you noticed the FBI agent trying to convict keller in Oz is also the Internal Affairs officer in SVU who hates stabler? he also played bart bass in gossip girl!!
quite a few crossovers between both shows...Dean Winters, BD Wong, JK Simmons (Scott Winters in two eps also) as well as a few cameos (most noticeably season 14 Cassidys lawyer was called martin querns who was also Martin Querns in Oz!!
Thought the first couple of seasons were very good but it descended into 'Introduce new character, give him a dilemna, kill him' formula for each episode.
i keep telling my mates about this show...it is my favourite of all time....it was hard for me to watch L&O:SVU at first as i couldnt see meloni as anything other than a bisexual serial killer so hard to conceive he'd be trying to arrest them.
Anyone who has watched both shows though....have you noticed the FBI agent trying to convict keller in Oz is also the Internal Affairs officer in SVU who hates stabler? he also played bart bass in gossip girl!!
quite a few crossovers between both shows...Dean Winters, BD Wong, JK Simmons (Scott Winters in two eps also) as well as a few cameos (most noticeably season 14 Cassidys lawyer was called martin querns who was also Martin Querns in Oz!!
Wow there's more crossovers than I thought. I know Lee (Beecher) was in an episode a few years back and had some interrogation scenes with Stabler!
I also watched the very first episode of SVU recently again and it's great seeing Dean as Brian and not Ryan!
Wow there's more crossovers than I thought. I know Lee (Beecher) was in an episode a few years back and had some interrogation scenes with Stabler!
I also watched the very first episode of SVU recently again and it's great seeing Dean as Brian and not Ryan!
If you take law and order criminal intent into account theres more....Eames was shirley bellinger and Gorens Mother was Sister Pete.
Oh and in season 14 of SVU the episode about the rapes on a uni campus, the campus security guy that covered them up played sean murphy in oz
Just realised I watch wayyyy tooo many tv shows lol
If you take law and order criminal intent into account theres more....Eames was shirley bellinger and Gorens Mother was Sister Pete.
Oh and in season 14 of SVU the episode about the rapes on a uni campus, the campus security guy that covered them up played sean murphy in oz
Just realised I watch wayyyy tooo many tv shows lol
Ah right, I haven't seen Criminal Intent. I'm only on Season 7 of SVU but I'll look out for Murphy - I've just watched the first 3 eps of Season 3 and so have just been introduced to Murphy. I love Keller and Beecher although not much has happened there yet.
What about Simon Adebisi? :D:D There was a character for you.: And a Brit too.:D
I hated him at first but then grew to love him purely as a character, not for all the stuff he did! Fantastic actor - can't believe he's the same actor who played Mr Eko in Lost! I keep watching Mr Eko and Michael scenes from Lost just to see them both post-Oz!
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The final series was also I think on E4 (after it had become freeview) but for some reason Channel 4 repeated in the middle of the night over Xmas.
Love it to death though, gritty and graphic, brutal and epic.
Prison break wasn't mean to be realistic anyway, as it was all about revenge.
Yeh!
It's so rare to find a tv show that is brutal, yet you like the characters you are meant to hate even when they have no redeeming features purely because they are intriguing. I still can't get over Mr Eko from Lost being the horrible Adibisi.
Yeh and I think that the prison life you saw was 'made for tv' rather than realistic like Oz (or so I imagine).
Anyone who has watched both shows though....have you noticed the FBI agent trying to convict keller in Oz is also the Internal Affairs officer in SVU who hates stabler? he also played bart bass in gossip girl!!
quite a few crossovers between both shows...Dean Winters, BD Wong, JK Simmons (Scott Winters in two eps also) as well as a few cameos (most noticeably season 14 Cassidys lawyer was called martin querns who was also Martin Querns in Oz!!
Wow there's more crossovers than I thought. I know Lee (Beecher) was in an episode a few years back and had some interrogation scenes with Stabler!
I also watched the very first episode of SVU recently again and it's great seeing Dean as Brian and not Ryan!
If you take law and order criminal intent into account theres more....Eames was shirley bellinger and Gorens Mother was Sister Pete.
Oh and in season 14 of SVU the episode about the rapes on a uni campus, the campus security guy that covered them up played sean murphy in oz
Just realised I watch wayyyy tooo many tv shows lol
Ah right, I haven't seen Criminal Intent. I'm only on Season 7 of SVU but I'll look out for Murphy - I've just watched the first 3 eps of Season 3 and so have just been introduced to Murphy. I love Keller and Beecher although not much has happened there yet.
Agreed! T-Bag aside you never really saw the harsh reality of prison.
I think you have to be in the right mind-set to watch it. I sometimes don't want to watch it as I don't want to watch people get killed all the time!
I hated him at first but then grew to love him purely as a character, not for all the stuff he did! Fantastic actor - can't believe he's the same actor who played Mr Eko in Lost! I keep watching Mr Eko and Michael scenes from Lost just to see them both post-Oz!
Wait till you see the episode in season 6, when posh boy Franklin Winthrop spits out what Shillinger's just given him.:eek: