It's easy for me to define why "Oz" is perhaps tied with Six Feet Under for the most amazing television (series or movie) ever made. HBO has a suberb, laudable committment to fine visual prose, and there have been SO many lines and moments in Oz that have made me stop, put a hand over my mouth in awe, take the time to copy the words down, and be so damn glad someone else out there has their eyes open. For those of you that haven't seen Oz, it is fruit. It is a window into an anthropological experiment, a social petri dish. It awakens every question of the human character, through a perspective alien only in the physical respect to many of us (prison) but not the soul (we all have demons). Here's another amazing quote:

"It's a widespread agreement that retarded people are less accountable for their crimes than people of average intelligence. But if so, someone or something has to be held accountable, has to pick up the slack, has to take the rest of the blame, right? After all, these victims still die heinous deaths, and families still grieve. If the retarded person is not fully at fault, than who, or what, shares the responsibility? God? Human nature? Society? Maybe the question is: who isn't to blame? "

Accidents are the fifth leading cause of death. But you know as well as me, there's no such thing as an accident. That's just some bull**** word we used instead of blaming ourselves, because no matter what damn lie you've been told, we're the leading cause of death. Mankind. And there's no cure for us.

-Dino Ortolani, OZ