The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
In the "Emerald City" experimental unit of Oswald State Penitentiary, we meet some of the diverse inmates who live within a pecking order of Homeboys, Latinos, Muslims, Irish, Arya…
S01E02
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
⭐ 7.5
Jul 14, 199757 min
With Schibetta and the prison brass in a race to uncover Ortolani's killer (for very different reasons), we see how inmates react to visits from both their wives and, in one case, …
S01E03
God's Chillin'
⭐ 7.3
Jul 21, 199757 min
As friction grows in the wake of increasing deaths, Schibetta, Saïd, and Keane are brought together by Glynn, who tells them to keep their respective groups quiet or else he'll loc…
S01E04
Capital P
⭐ 7.3
Jul 28, 199757 min
Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state, and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Keane.
S01E05
Straight Life
⭐ 7.6
Aug 4, 199757 min
The infiltration of drugs into Oz has reached unprecedented levels, and the undercover efforts of McManus and Glynn to find out who's smuggling them in backfires in a deadly way. D…
S01E06
To Your Health
⭐ 8.4
Aug 11, 199757 min
Three generations of Alvarezes—all prisoners at Oz—are united when the partiarch, Ricardo, is found face down in his cell, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile, Beecher, w…
S01E07
Plan B
⭐ 7.6
Aug 18, 199756 min
A recovered Saïd ostracizes Mershah for turning his back on him when he was dying—and orders the rest of the Muslims to do the same. Impressed by Saïd's power, Groves makes a deadl…
S01E08
A Game of Checkers
⭐ 7.9
Aug 25, 199757 min
Beecher is released from the hole and Schillinger is left eyeless and weak. A riot breaks out after two white punks get into a fight over checkers. Frustration, sexuality, hate, re…