Genres

Oz chronicles the attempts of McManus (Terry Kinney) to keep control over the inmates of Em(erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence. There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive. There are the gangsters (Adebisi, Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keene, Supreme Allah), Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), Italians (Pancamo, Nappa, Schiebetta), bikers (Hoyt), Aryans (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), Christians (Cloutier, Cudney), Latinos (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), gays (Hanlon, Cramer) and a number of others. (the ORiley brothers, Keller, Stanislovsky, etc.). In contrast to the dangerous criminals, recurring character Tobias Beecher gives a good look at a normal man who made one tragic mistake. The episodes are narrated and held together by inmate Augustus Hill, who provides the show with some context, some sense of theme, etc.