OZ: The Complete Second Season

Reviewed by:
Gene Newman

In season two, Oz proved it was nobody’s prison bitch, and could survive the long haul as a series: Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) turned crazy (yeah, we’d say biting a guy’s dick off is pretty damn crazy). Chris Keller (Christopher Meloni) becomes Beecher’s new roommate. Simon Adebisi (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje), still one of the most powerful characters ever on TV, rapes wise-guy wannabe Peter Shibetta (Eddie Malavarca). Ryan O’Reily’s (Dean Winters) brother Cyril (Scott William Winters) gets sentenced, which starts a whole Irish-Aryan dust-up. Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) plucks out a guard’s eyes. Almost every lasting storyline originated during the second season, which makes up for the lack of special features included on this eight-episode, three-disc box set. The commentaries are interesting, for a change, and the Oz seasons are so short, repeat viewing is more reasonable than, say, watching Felicity: Season One more than once. Speaking of plucking eyes out…

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