The story of the little girl Dorothy setting foot on the Emerald City where the magician OZ lives in order to find her way home. Along the way, she met a smart scarecrow, a tin man who hopes to have a heart, and a cowardly lion. A warm and lovely fairy tale, seems to have nothing to do with the heavily guarded four-level prison, murderers, robbery, drugs, and rape. Perhaps the so-called utopia is indeed an unrealizable dream.
Tim McManus:
Although the founder and manager of Emerald city use one sentence: idealists seem to be able to sum up Tim , but it is still more verbose. In the first season, I thought he was the saint who created the Emerald City. With a good heart, he built a transparent city in the heavily guarded prison to save this group of sinners. He had suspected, made many mistakes, and even handled his personal problems in a mess.
Later, his personality and handling method even more and more resembled a prisoner in custody: irritable, stubborn, and perhaps a touch of madness. But he still insisted to the last moment, to build a place of freedom in the impossible oz, even if the price is so heavy.
Beecher&keller: A model of sadomasochism
"When God was designing the universe why did he make something so wonderful so fucking painful?"
Beecher originally did not belong to this world. In OZ, Beecher, who had not survived a week, became the protagonist of this group drama one. At the beginning, he deserves 100% sympathy from the audience, because he is like us: abiding by the law, the closest thing to a crime is probably receiving a parking ticket.
He is kind, smart, and cowardly, so how can Beecher, who has experienced mental violence, rape, broken limbs, and the tragic death of his family, survive in OZ? His answer is: crazy, he began to revenge wildly against the people who had hurt him, including the one he loved: keller.
To a certain extent, Keller is a bastard, but at the same time, he has a dangerous charm. He made Beecher fall in love with himself in just a few days, and then broke his limbs and destroyed his spirit. Then, just like the old story, he found that he fell in love with Beecher. Their love runs through the whole show, distorted to suffocating, lies, conspiracy, hypocrisy, trust, care and sacrifice are constantly intertwined.
Finally, Beecher said: I love life, but with you there is only death. So they were separated forever. And in the end, Beecher said again, I know he really loves me, and I love him too.
Oz's six seasons, 56 episodes, one hour in each episode, at least hundreds of characters have appeared, and there are too many people worth mentioning, such as the most distressing Miguel and the two brothers O'Reily who are also heartbroken. The natural spiritual leader said, the evil complex adebisi...It is still the same sentence, with limited space, wonderful stories, and no matter how many descriptions, it is better to see it in person.
Everyone in OZ is trying hard to escape from death every day. You don’t know if there will be a cold blade instead of innocuous soap when you take a bath. You don’t know if the mashed potatoes are mixed with drugs or when you eat. It’s glass slag. I don’t know if the "brothers" who sleep under the bed will suffocate you with a pillow tonight...
This world is so dark, and every episode is a war, but again, the light is always there. Father, Sisters and doctors are representatives of goodness, and the most important protagonists: prisoners, will also show humanity rather than animality at a certain moment.
This is the ancient Roman Colosseum, this is a place forgotten by God, here is full of corpses, this is the most real world, this is called OZ.
The last sentence, tribute to the great HBO, It's not TV. It's HBO.
from One and Seven
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