not for the first time and i be out of kilter with the majority view . oz be a dreadful and pretentious and voyeuristic series . the maker have their cake and eat it . oz and em city and etc be use a ultra crude signal that the apparent grittiness be complete fantasy . this allow viewers the feeble of intellectual excuse to watch soap operatic nonsense spice with everything that be bad about human being . when you watch an episode and please remember that while the foul mouth and violent and absurdly convolute and unconvincing and sick and imaginary drama unfolds before your approve eye and several hundred infant in poor part of the world have die from bad food or water . oz be exploitative drama at it bad . it appeal to the base instinct but pretend to be serious and meaningful . it blow hot and cold and change from fortissimo to pianissimo more often than a mahler symphony . dialogue be unrelentingly ugly and utilitarian . the liberty take with reality be stupid . here a nightclub owning dandy and arrive at oz in his foppish finery and complete with a ridiculously cloudy contact lens in one eye and brandish a stash of drug that nobody detect . here a murderous wimp bleat about the heat death of the universe and begging to be kill and but of course be refuse by the brute he approach and do a bit of improbable throat cut himself . the action race on at a pace fast enough for the voyeuristic and dim witted viewer to be think always about what happen next rather than the rubbish that have just be show . don not worry and a betrayal and a murder and a sex scene will be along within a minute or two . finally and oz be obviously pretentious . you do not have to feel embarrassed about be carry along by it flow . you can watch it and tell yourself that the producer and writer and actor be do everything with a huge wink ( or same word but for a change of vowel ) to the audience . yes and you can be a nasty mind viewer and excuse yourself on the ground of the cleverness and post modernistic and etc skill of the oz production team . they appeal to the low common denominator while pretend to operate on a high plane . truly and a despicable series . and every hour it show and reward it maker and actor and and generate advertising revenue for the channel that show it to people who have nothing well to do than watch something so ugly and unnecessary and another few hundred child die whose life could have be save by the dollar spend by this horrible and successful and widely praised series .