first of all and season 1 be intolerably bad . the prison be ridiculously unrealistic and the character be so two dimensional theyre nearly transparent and and the direction be terrible . it run like a bad video of a junior high school play and character wander past the camera and uttering highly time and rehearse line and pass off a random prison talk . soon the show get well and but not by much . the return from the commercial break be always accompany by some ridiculous monologue by wheelchair bound augustus hill and who be play impressively by harold perrineau . the only time his character be consistently bad be during the bad performance art monologue and most of which take place in an inexplicable rotating glass cube and generally have nothing to do with what take place in the show . unfortunately and the bad idea in oz could fill an encyclopedia of several volume . consider the whole situation and first of all . prisoner be able to hang out in plain sight get drunk and do drug and and they not only have cd player ( cd . they might as well pass out steak knife ) and but all incoming mail be thoroughly examine by prisoner . christ and the place be like a men club with guard . guard that do not do much . near the end of season two and an old prisoner grandson be diagnose with leukemia and and all of the prisoner pitch in thick wad of $ 20 and $ 50 bill to help send him to disneyworld to fulfill his die wish . these have to be the rich prisoner in the world . every single prisoner in oz all of a sudden become care and love guy except kenny wangler and an irritating character but one of the only one who be consistently convince . even adibisi want to be nice . but that okay and because there be no order or sense in the show and so even this be not much of a distraction . later and shockingly and there be a box scene in which one inmate be wear an i love cop t shirt . in prison . can you imagine . i have a cousin who be in prison a few year ago . i send him an old picture of u with some friend in high school and and in the picture and one of my friend be hold an i love cop bumper sticker and and one of the wood ( guy who have be in prison for year and year ) saw the picture but just grab it and rip it to shred . my cousin get lucky . kenny wangler also constantly berate the guard and even more senior officer for not call him brick . one of them even try to bribe him to go to an english class . you may lose track of who be in charge and the prisoner or the guard . more than one investigator and for example and go into the prison undercover and get kill try to stop the drug trade . personally i would just stop let prisoner inspect incoming mail rather than risk the life of investigator . let see and what else . shillinger son od in solitary and no one think to ask the guard how he get the drug . he just . get them and i guess . and make sure to pay attention and otherwise you will miss the reason why the prisoner have enough money to be able to afford ascellular dermal graft when they get bad gum . i do not know guest in maximum security prison be afford such luxurious treatment option . how about this and when robson ask about dr. faraj schedule so he can ask what race of gum he be give and faraj be so terrified that he go to the warden and quit his job on the spot . do doctor and dentist not have the right to request not to see certain prisoner . after poet and oreilly make the announcement to the entire prison and robson asks to see dr. faraj and and be escort to his office and brought in without knocking and and the guard promptly leave without a word . they might as well give him a gun . i shouldn not go on about stupid idea in this show and but it like a flood and i can not stop it . who think of the chinese refugee who can not speak chinese and who disappear en masse from sight unless theyre need . who think of the goofy religious war and all the reverend prisoner . who though of robson gum transplant . what the deal with busmalis and agamemnon . agamemnon because he clearly doesn not belong in prison and busmalis because of the whole thing with his grandson . macbeth and because it be nothing but a ridiculous mean to an end and a it be . but what be the bad idea . thing that go nowhere and which be constant . an irish man come to the prison and build a bomb . he threaten to blow up the entire prison and the bomb turn out to be a dud and and the episode end with him be lead away by the bomb squad after the entire prison be evacuate . nothing be ever hear from him or about the whole situation again . it like it never happen . in one episode and prisoner be give dog to train . what the hell . if that wasn not bad enough and during one training session and a guard fire his gun inside the prison wall a a training exercise . no one seem to mind . i also like how anytime some kind of altercation break out and the culprit be pull aside and they do not say anything and and the guard or warden or sister pete or whoever always say and i hope you do not think i be gon na let this go . and then they walk away and let it go . the audience would not remember . maybe i be spoil by prison break and but oz be just a goofy prison drama that might be well a a play . a short one . at least a low budget movie . there be just not enough here to sustain a multi season tv show . then again and i watch six season of it on dvd . sometimes i do not understand myself .