Though a deleted scene exists in which Kosygin is "taken out" by a mysterious woman called Lana Keese, who claims to be visiting him from the State Department, that explanation was cut from the episode, leaving his fate unknown.
William Giles was an Oz mainstay for much of Season 2 through 5. Neither insane nor mentally deficient, Giles remained a strange enigma, splitting his time between one-word riddles and acts of unspeakable violence. Created as a means to ease overcrowding, the experiment seemed to be going fine at first but then the test subjects began dropping like flies.
Sensing, perhaps, the outlandish nature of what they were proposing, the storyline was dropped, never to be spoken of again. An intriguing character and plot ultimately reach a dead end, however, when Burrano disappears. This follows a botched attempt at taking out Simon Adebisi that ends in grim and humiliating fashion for Peter Schibetta and Pancamo.
Quite where Burrano went or why is never explained. Over the course of Oz , any prisoner offing another inmate usually ended up in the chair. Yet Urbano is the exception and it is never explained why. Simmons, and Perrineau all going on to successful careers; others, like Ernie Hudson and Rita Moreno, were already well-established. Not all of them were relegated to the margins: Chuck Zito, who had a recurring role as Italian mafia heavy Chucky Pancamo, was a then-member of the Hells Angels and had served six years in prison for various offenses.
More notably, he received press coverage for allegedly knocking out Jean-Claude Van Damme at a strip club in Like many of the performers on Oz , Akinnuoye-Agbaje was expected to be comfortable with frontal male nudity—both his own and that of his castmates. Remember the musical episode of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer?
Or Scrubs? Oz did it first. With a cast taken in large part from the New York theater scene, the series was able to assemble an impressive all-song-and-dance episode in The seasons of Oz were all planned to be eight episodes long.
The sole exception is season 4, which is sixteen episodes. Part way through season 4 HBO found out that the Sopranos would not be producing a season that year. With the money which they would have spent on that season of the Sopranos, HBO decided to buy extra episodes of Oz.
This is why season 4 is twice as long as the other seasons and why it's structure is somewhat more disjointed, with two major arcs. Tom Fontana only found out about the extended season after production had begun and he had to write extra episodes for the season. In some regions, the season 3 DVD wasn't formatted properly. So while most people who buy the DVD will skip over the opening credits, it will take you straight to the beginning of the episode, but with this season, it skips the first 10 minutes of every episode!
So just remember to check the time counter on your DVD after you skip the credits. Also keep in mind that every episode opens with Augustus Hill talking to the camera. So if you don't see that, chances are you skipped something.
Tom Fontana has always said that he willingly sacrifices factual accuracy for dramatic purposes. In particular, Fontana has indicated that he believes that maximum security wings like Emerald City are significantly safer than depicted on his show. Chuck Zito, who plays Chucky Pancamo on the show, and who is one of only two cast members the other is 'muMs da Schemer' to serve prison time, has commented that Oz is a heightened version of the reality of prison.
The amount of violence, sexual assaults, and drug abuse which is depicted on the show is far in excess of reality, but most of the activities depicted have a basis in fact. A constant source of speculation for both fans and characters such as Martin Querns, is how Adebisi manages to keep his hat on his head when it's cocked to the side.
Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, the actor who plays Adebisi claims to have based the hat on real African gangsters who he knew while growing up in London.
Supposedly the more crooked you could manage to wear it, the higher status you were. It's short for "prison fag" which generally relates to prisoners who aren't gay, but commit homosexual acts while inside prison. Also it is usually said by the dominating inmate to refer to the submissive.
As said by the C. These perks come at a price however, you're required to attend therapy sessions, classrooms, and there is a zero-tolerance for fighting, drug use, or sexual assaults. Getting caught doing any of these results in getting sent to "the hole" or "the cage".
If your infractions are frequent enough or severe enough you get sent to solitary or to Gen pop General Population. Where you have to wear prison issue jump suits and all or most of your perks are taken away. It's interesting to note, that during all the flashbacks that show the crimes the characters commit that gets them sent to Oz, Kareem Said is the only one who isn't shown on camera actually committing the crime. All that is shown is a building exploding.
He claims he is a political prisoner, but aside from this he never denies guilt for his crimes. Meaning he likely was guilty. However, one glaring contradiction is the fact that he is a pacifist. Nobody was killed in the explosion, so it's likely he waited until the building was empty before destroying it. It should be noted that Tom Fontana has commented that he attempted to pointedly contrast other fictional representations of prison, such as The Shawshank Redemption, by not having a wrongfully convicted character.
The hole is meant as a punishment. Being locked in a cold, dark, dank room with nothing but a bucket to relieve yourself in, also being completely naked without being able to take a shower or shave for the duration of your time in the hole.
The conditions of the hole are to deter inmates from breaking the rules. Being naked is probably also to keep the inmates from using their clothes to fashion a noose to commit suicide with if they have a mental breakdown.
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