Oz

Titre original : Oz

Genre : drame

6 Saisons - 56 épisodes - Arrêtée en 2005 - Crée en 1997

Origine : Usa - Format : 50 mn

Crée par : Tom Fontana

Avec : Eamonn Walker, Dean Winters, Harold Perrineau Jr, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Lee Tergesen

Vidéo : L'impact de Oz

Vidéo : La violence dans Oz

Vidéo : Les relations entre détenus

Synopsis : Oz dépeint le quotidien des détenus de la prison d'Oswald, dite Oz. Subissant maintes violences morales et physiques, les prisonniers se regroupent en camps (musulmans, mafieux, noirs, aryens, latinos, blancs...) et doivent gérer les tensions internes et surtout survivre !

Notre avis : Attention série mythique !! Des personnages très charismatiques, des situations tendues -les scènes sont très dures, parfois ultra-violentes-, un rythme qui ne s'essouffle jamais, un scénario très fouillé, des répliques cultes, des acteurs tout simplement parfaits...

On s'immerge totalement dans l'ambiance de la série et on finit même pas s'attacher à l'ensemble des personnages.

L'une des séries les plus addictives... Un véritable chef d'oeuvre !!

Franchement, en ce qui nous concerne, s'il ne devait en rester qu'une.. ce serait OZ !  

Répliques cultes :

Tim McManus: You must think I'm an idiot. You want me to move Keller out of your pod and put Andrew Schillinger in?
Tobias Beecher: You're wondering if I'm going to harm the son of the man who double fucked me.
Tim McManus: The thought had crossed my mind.

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Kenny Wangler: [après avoir été violé par Adebisi] Why don't you just kill me?

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Vernon Schillinger: So the state's gonna let Keane choose which way he's gonna go out. Me, I'd take hanging.
Mark Mack: What about lethal injection?
Vernon Schillinger: That's for pussies.
Donald Groves: They say that lethal injection causes no pain. How do they know? Did someone come back from the dead and say they didn't feel anything?

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Augustus Hill: When Napoleon died in Exile, the doctors cut off his dick. They put his dick in an ornate jar and gave it to his priest; don't ask me why. Over the years, Napoleon's dick was sold and sold again to the highest bidder. To this day, at least three people claim to own Napoleon's dick. But you see, it's not important who owns the real dick. The big question is, well... who the fuck do those other two dicks belong to?

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Judge Grace Lema: Mr. Beecher, I appreciate you taking the time to see me.
Tobias Beecher: Well, you know, it's a nice break from getting fucked up the ass.

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Augustus Hill: So, what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us so different? We're the only species who put our own kind in cages.

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Ryan O'Reily: "Lights out" means "Shut the fuck up".

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Augustus Hill: Do we care for people when they're sick because we actually care about them? Or do we care for them because when our time comes, we want someone to care for us? Or does it matter? At least you got your health. Don't you hate it when people say that? I mean, you lose your job, you lose your wife, you're in prison, and some punkass dude gonna say, "At least you got your health." Like that's supposed to make me feel better. So what if I'm broke? So what if some drug dealer wants to cap my ass? At least I ain't got a tumor. I swear, the next person that says ALYGYH to me, I'm gonna make sure they ain't got their health much longer.

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Agamemnon Busmalis: You a Russian?
Nikolai Stanislofsky: Yes.
Agamemnon Busmalis: From Russia?
Nikolai Stanislofsky: Yes.
Agamemnon Busmalis: You were born in Russia.
Nikolai Stanislofsky: Yes.
Agamemnon Busmalis: Wow.

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Tobias Beecher: [à Schillinger] Whatcha readin'? Mein Kampf? Well, let me tell you how it ends. The Aryans get their asses kicked!

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Augustus Hill: In my hood, you had to learn to run, before you learned to walk.

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Nino Schibetta: Adebisi, that ends with an "I". You sure you're not Italian?
Simon Adebisi: Schibetta, that ends with an "A". You sure you're not African?

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Tobias Beecher: Who are you?
Agamemnon Busmalis: Agamemnon Busmalis, aka The Mole.
Robert Rebadow: The Mole?
Agamemnon Busmalis: I dig. I can dig anywhere. I'm gonna dig my way out of Oz.

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Augustus Hill: The Vikings, their brutality aside, had their moments of brilliance. At one point, they were such great shipbuilders, that Leif Ericson and his crew sailed all the way to America. Some people say that he probably went as down south as the New York harbor. Here's where the brilliance comes in- they took a look and went back.

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Beecher: You've got to transfer me to another cell block.
Tim McManus: All the other cell blocks are full.
Beecher: Well transfer me to another prison.
Tim McManus: Do I look like a travel agent to you?

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Miguel Alvarez: Hey, will you shut the fuck up? I'm trying to masturbate!

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Officer Claire Howell: You know what your problem is, Diane? You try to be everybody's best pal.
Officer Diane Whittlesey: You know what your problem is? You try to be everybody's worst nightmare.

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