It's true. Someone recently posed a question on social media. "What's the first show that comes to mind when you think of HBO?" My answer was and is Oz.@@angusmerriweather1589
@@angusmerriweather1589when people say "The Sopranos and the Wire are the greatest shows ever made!" I always make sure to say "yeah, but if not for Oz, they don't happen.
@@TheStopmaybe with Bunk and McNulty, who else is still around? Maybe the kids from S4, Namond might be a cop, Michael still ripping and robbing drug dealers, Dukie might off the drugs after all these years and Randy is definitely a wild card not sure about him
Tobias was the smartest guy in Oz in the sense of being book smart and Ryan was the smartest guy in Oz in the sense of being street smart. If these two get together as a crime unit to survive life after getting out of the prison, that's the show I'd like to see.
@@lonelylad9818 Yes but as a vague premisse. Beecher is a lawyer and not a chemistry, in a kind of spin off he would be more cutted to be a kinda of better call soul, and Ryan is way more Street smart than Jesse. What i mean is that even If we have this premisse of duo like in breaking bad It would never be as breaking bad since they back ground is really different. Beecher roughed up in prision and Ryan take Care of his steps different of Jesse wich is kind of naive sometimes. Imagine breaking bad but Walter bitted the tip of a Man member. See the diference? Btw, dont take this as a internet beef. I love Oz and love to talk about It so as long as you keep commenting i'll keep the conversation.
This show has a special place in my heart, but it wasn't the strongest of the HBO original series. There were some ridiculous storylines that were poorly written and executed. No need for anymore Oz.
@@YaowBucketHEADOz in its peack was really great. And kinda molded a way that HBO writes series like the wire. Like the unrealistc parts that made It good so you could see a kind of analogy to other things in life, some phylosofical thing too sometimes. The 2 last Seasons were kinda bad, but yo the game IS the game.
@@juniorii8277 In interviews Tom Fontana has talked about how he and other writers would come up with some crazy stuff because they would get bored of writing the same kinds of scenes over and over again. As a viewer I appreciated that kind of stuff because I got bored sometimes seeing the same tropes over and over again. So I was almost always down with whatever off-the wall stuff Fontana and company came up with.
The way insecure Ryan tried to bully weak Tobias only for him to turn it around was so on point, they both know each other so well and it actually felt like the characters. Great stuff
@@Provos7777 can you remind me what exactly is O'Reily's problem with Beecher? He was friendly to him in the first season to sell him drugs, they were kinda like buddies though O'Reilly didn't give a shit, then they barely interracted as far as a I remember
When I first saw this in my suggested feed I thought, "Damn it. The A.I. scum have come for my beloved Oz." But thankfully that was not the case. It was Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, two ex-cons, and a credited production crew showing up to entertain me with familiar faces, stories, and even a hint of music by the end. To everyone who made this: thank you.
It didn't get released until recently, it was filmed years ago but it was like, a private short film show only at festivals exclusively or something to that effect. I remember reading about it a couple years ago when I first watched the show
I’m assuming their beef is over something that occurred after the finale. My money says Beecher discovered how Adebisi kept that hat on his head and refused to tell O'Reily.
While I wish they mentioned what I'm glad it happened offscreen. They were supposedly in prison for 20 extra years after the ending of course other shit would've went down since then
@@noahmclaughlin7921 good point. Beecher's original sentence was 15 years, and he did 5 or 6 during the series, when he went back to prison for parole violation he must have got more time for doing something else
@@jaroncreed Probably drug possession with the parole violation. He was bringing some drug to a friend of Keller's when Keller ratted him out. Then he likely got death row for Keller's death off the balcony in the finale.
Mr. Tom Fontana: I sorely hope you continue this. It was so good to see where Beecher and O'Reily are at in 2024. You know we wondered for 21 years. Whoosh. This is great. It puts the characters in a position they've never been before. I would love to see where this branches off to. Thanks for this!
This film is absolutely _unreal!_ The way Tergesen & Winters just step into their roles after all these years is stellar! I’m mesmerized by the return of O’Reilly & Beecher in this setting & of course Fontana’s lurid dialogue is captivating as ever! I especially love the references to the show! This is a dream come true! Thank you _so_ much for the sequel to *OZ!*
Wow this felt like a authentic continuation like they haven’t missed or skipped a single beat. The audio, the focus on one locked in location and the city backdrop setting, Ryan wearing the clothes he was wearing when he was locked up, and even the actors still slip right back into their roles. I had a grin creep onto my face when I saw Tobias start fighting back on the phone. Beecher and Ryan always were the most dangerous on the show. They weren’t exactly out of their way to be malicious but if you crossed them…
The faces, the voices, even the weird ethnic percussion in the end and suddenly It all came back to me, the feeling of watching a new OZ episode again. This was perfect, I hope they continue it. Although, I feel a little bad about Beecher and Ryan ending up as enemies. I liked when they were allies. I guess we'll never know what happened between them. Or will we?
Can't believe I'm getting Oz content in 2024. Was my favorite show back in the day and I was annoyed how it ended. I remember he said he might write a story sometime in the future and never thought I'd get one 20 years later.
They are on the outside and you still feel the claustrophobic nature of their conversation. The unsaid nuances and terrifying implications as they play psychological chess over the phone. Man, never escaping the web because you are the web. That was the most terrifying part of that show.
Dean Winter (O’Reilly) was my crush on this show. I love watching him as mayhem in the all state commercials. I would watch this if was made into a show.
Tom, I could not love this more. These two guys... damn! The script is dynamite, Christoph's work is great and I love that Irene and Ivan produced, too. Makes me want to come back for more. Lots more.
I ALWAYS thought Oz had so many great, Oscar caliber performances. But of course, prison is scary, especially back then, and a show that authentic, that visceral was a real hard pill for many to swallow. So, of course, Oz went on to be so underappreciated. But it definitely paved the road for The Wire, The Sopranos, and many other shows that would go on to get the recognition they deserved.
Just imagine the possibilities and plot lines for this potential spin-off! For example, right after Beecher gets off the phone with O'Reilly, he makes a call to the only person he can think of that may talk to him / help him, Tim McManus! He goes to see McManus at his bachelor pad only to find him drunk and wallowing about his days as Unit Manager at Emerald City in Oz and Diane leaving him to marry some English guard. McManus discloses that he ended up getting a job at Lardner but got canned when he tried to sleep with every female employee there like he did at Oz to which Beecher yells at him to snap out of it and to stop the booze citing his own history with alcohol. He warns McManus about O'Reilly's threat and that he may come after him too later and so enlists his help. Meanwhile we see O'Reilly walking into some dark alley to meet someone, who turns out to be none other than Miguel Alvarez! We find out here that the SAME dirty cop who testified at O'Reilly's trial just so happened to be the same cop that handled Alvarez's case. Lo and behold he is now on the outside as well, having been drawn back into the Latino gangs as he is unable to find work or live a normal life. O'Reilly pulls his usual manipulation techniques to convince Alvarez to help him kill Beecher in exchange for telling his old Irish-Mafia contacts to let the Latino gangs operate on some of their turfs. Beecher in the meantime befriends a sympathetic attractive girl named Jenny at his AA meetings who gives him courage to re-connect with his daughter Holly, and over a course of a few days he falls in love with Jenny. But Beecher keeps her at a distance knowing the impending danger with O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Alvarez conjure up a plan to kidnap Beecher's youngest son Harry from college and lure him into Riverside Park where they plan to kill him. Before they commence the plan, O'Reilly states he has to see someone before he does, we see him go to a clinic where he wants to speak to one of the doctors there, Dr. Gloria Nathan! Gloria is shocked to see him there, and he tells her he hasn't stopped thinking about her. He finds out Gloria never really connected with anyone after her time in OZ, and had pretty much dedicated her life to serving the public in the clinic and remained single. Old emotions run high and memories between the two re-surface and they have a full make-out-love session right there in her office. She is open to settling down and having a relationship with him now, but he tells her that he needs to do something and will never see her again after this and bids her farewell, leaving her heart-broken. Beecher finds outs from Holly that Harry has been kidnapped from NYU, and he is crushed again remembering what happened to his first son Garry. He then gets a text from O'Reilly to meet at Riverside Park alone! Jenny warns him of the danger but he doesn't care, he goes and she calls McManus, warning him of the danger. We then see Beecher arrive at the park where O'Reilly and Alvarez surprise him and he sees Harry tied up in Alvarez's car. Beecher demands for Harry to be released and Alvarez complies. We then find out what was O''Reilly's grief with Beecher: at the prison where they ended up after Oz, Beecher got back on the moonshine again and accidentally let it slip to Chucky Pancamo that O'Reilly spiked his drink with heroin during the boxing match with Cyril in season 3, Pancamo is PISSED and he and his wise-guys had then beat the shit out of O''Reilly and almost killed him. It took him months to heal and be able to walk again and he's vowed revenge on Beecher ever since! Alvarez and O'Reilly then jump Beecher with knives only for McManus to show up with his old friend, ex-CO Sean Murphy who is now working for the NYPD! They get into a big lengthy brawl with Beecher knocking O'Reilly down and about to use the knife on him, but at the last moment throws it away, tells him he is done with all this crap, he will not take someone's blood again, and that he feels he finally has a chance at life again, and for O''Reilly to grow the hell up and maybe do the same. O''Reilly has a moment of clarity, and realizes that he does wants to live a normal life again and with Gloria, he shakes hands with Beecher. Alvarez is like WTF, we had a deal for our turfs, O''Reilly tell him to get lost, then Alvarez attacks him but is subdued by McManus and Murphy. Murphy puts the cuffs on him and hauls him off to prison telling him he's going to solitary, after which Miguel screams in anguish! On account of their Irish backgrounds and old friendship, Murphy lets O''Reilly off with a warning. McManus tells Beecher and O'Reilly that he's proud of them, and to stay clean. He also shares happy news that he got another Unit Manager job at a women's prison (which makes him jump with glee). As they all leave the park, we see the ground opening up in an empty area of the park, a hand comes out of the ground and then a now 80+ year old Agamemnon Busmalis comes out of the ground as well and yells "I'm free!" O''Reilly goes back to Gloria, and Beecher goes to Jenny's apartment where he thanks her for helping saved his life, and then they sleep together. Jenny then says in bed that it's all she ever wanted for him, to fix him up after he was so broken, make him love again, and then to just take everything away from him again. Beecher is confused and says "what?" after which Jenny shanks him right in the gut, as Beecher lays dying he musters "why Jenny?" to which she replies that her friends call her Jenny, but that her real name is Jewel...............Jewel Schillinger! and that "this was payback for my dad and granddad, prag!". Jenny/Jewel is then arraigned. Holly, saddened by her father's killing, intentionally robs a store in order to get sent to the same Women's prison as Jenny/Jewel is (co-incidentally being the same prison where McManus now works and is trying to bed not only every female CO, but every prisoner once in a while too). And then we find out that the name of this prison is the Zohara State Penitentiary, also known as ZO!!! End season 1! 😂
@@brenteusmaximus Lee Tergesen is great, but when I see him play a straight-up heavy like in guest-starring roles in Defiance and Person of Interest it feels a little weird because I remember back when Tobias was more vulnerable.
I loved Dean's stint on Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I think it showed he could still be a great actor without having the O'Reily mannerisms.
Im currently re watching OZ. It is truly one of the greatest shows of all time. It never got the respect it deserved and paved the way for raw uncut television. A reboot would be incredible. Please return us to EM City
Ryan O'Reilly was a one of the dozens of great characters on this show. I was happy to see so many of these actors get other roles. I today just realized the Fire Chief on Chicago Fire is Kareem Saiid. WE NEED A SPINOFF ASAP
A reboot couldn't work. Oz was a product of its time and utterly unique in its presentation and setting. If anything, the best course of action would be a continuation of this short or at least follow the lives of more Oz characters after (if) they got out
ATTENTION!!!!! TO ALL OZ FANS.......WE NEED TO FLOOD THIS COMMENT SECTION WITH PRAISE!!! THIS IS THE EXACT TYPE OF THING THEY WILL BE LOOKING FOR TO HELP THEM DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO BRING BACK THE SERIES. SO EACH ONE OF YOU SHOW THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE (OZ FANS) AND TELL THEM TO ASK TO BRING BACK THE SHOW. OZ IS DEFINITELY A SERIES THEY CAN BRING BACK BUT WE NEED MORE COMMENTS. HIT the LIKE BUTTON IF YOU'RE ON BOARD!!
He's a regular at the upscale deli my younger brother works at in San Diego. Makes me so jealous. But I did get to meet Gene Wilder while working at an Albertsons back in 2008 so I guess it's a fair trade.
I watched when it was aired on HBO, I watched religiously. I bought All seasons on DVD. Been a fan for literally decades......And embarrassingly, it wasn't until last year because of an insurance commercial I realized Ryan and Cyril were real brothers, and I felt like such a moron.....And I love Dean Winters!
THANK YOU to Tom, Lee, Dean, & Christoph for doing this. I'm sharing this as much as possible, just hope it bears fruit in the vein of a resurgence of THE original HBO series that started it all.
I love THIS!!!! I love how they addressed certain things throughout the show without naming names or being too specific. For true fans of the show, we knew exactly what they were talking about. It was like we were serving time right alongside them. This was a perfect duel between two of Oz's main characters. At first, you think O'Reilly will wipe out Beecher with no problem. But then when you really reflect on Beecher's own journey we saw a privileged member of society initially getting thrown into the mix with the most hardened of criminals and at first the results are what one would expect. Beecher became Schillenger's "prag." But as the show went on, Beecher became the man he had to become to survive the deadly trenches of Oz, and by this, he became a survivor and ended up becoming someone not to cross. In a way, this was a much earlier version of Breaking Bad's Walter White.
Every so often since the year 2003 I wonder what happend to the beautiful twisted mind of Tom Fontana. MAX might not be its home anymore but I could see it on MGM or one of the up and coming streamers. We NEED more OZ related content.
Ok now I REALLY want an Oz Reboot or Season 7! This was pretty decent for a short film and actually gave some juicy details to close a few loose ends. Good work as usual Mr. Fontana!
That was amazing, please bring something back or any kind of spin-off series. I’d absolutely watch anything put out for it at this point. I heard about this film a few years back and have wanted to see it ever since, with that my expectations have grown exponentially. Even that being said this still managed to exceed my expectations, a perfect Segway to whatever comes next
Absolutely no. Oz ended because Tom Fontana had run out of stories to tell, and this short certainly didn't show that he has come up with new ideas during the last 20 years.
Sarebbe stupendo riprendere la serie OZ, io l'ho vista quest'anno 2024 non la conoscevo in Italia non è tanto famosa ma l'ho trovata attuale e realistica come non mai. Viva OZ ed i suoi insegnamenti e viva Fontana per il suo coraggio di organizzare uno show di questo tipo, la realtà delle carceri. Ancge questo corto è toccante grandi e complimenti!!
One of the best shows ever gets a well deserved epilogue, continuing the story of the two most interesting surviving characters. I would watch the hell out of as much of this kind of content that gets made. Bravo. Lee and Dean kill it again.
Loved the video. However, it is a few years old, and judging by the number of views there is only a small niche of us Oz fans, not enough to bring the show back. Still, HBO could give it one last season after everything Oz did for them. This is the show that made them prestige television!
Because it's not being advertised properly. It should be promoted by literally everyone who was in the show. It's in everyone's best interests to bring the show back.
Can we get more of this. I just finished watching OZ. This show came out when I was in high school but we didn't have cable. Im just getting around to watching it and I loved it and I hate that it's over. I needed this short film but it left me wanting more.
So what I get from this shirt is that if we assume this timeline is our current timeline, Beecher got sentence to time for the death of Keller but eventually gets let out by the governor assuming he’s the same gov from the show, also around the same time as oreily. This would make a great spin off sequel with plenty of off potential
For everyone wondering what feud they're talking about: from the way the dialogue is phrased, it would seem they're talking about something that happened after the end of the show but before this short.
Love this! But we need a sequel. O Reily just threatened Beecher and his family. Something tells me the fire truck is on the way to the home of his family. O Reily probably arranged their house to be burned with them inside
I dont care what anybody says, OZ was a series that started it all for HBO. That series was OUTSTANDING and Broke ALL the RULES. Plus quite a few stars rose from that series. I would like to see an OZ spin-off if done right. This short film has its potential to start something. But lets put it together NOW.
Some people fell in line with the Soprano crew..... Some people decided to live life down to The Wire.... Or maybe a person decided to grab three friends, form an Entourage, or live the socialite's life in The City.... but us, the real OGs, we've been doing time in Oz and we know that there's no place like home.
@@swampghost72 Yeah when I first started watching HBO in 1980, it was popular for the movies and sports like boxing and Inside the NFL and then they started doing these intense, interesting documentaries like High on Crack Street. And then in 1983 they did the satire show Not Necessarily The News and in 1984 moved into scripted shows with the T&A football comedy 1st and Ten and the sitcom Dream On in 1990.
And With that said....go forth....and May the road rise up to greet you, and KNOW you are safe because the lord is holding me in the Hollow of his hand.....
And now I want to know what happens... THANKS! Don't get me wrong, this was beautiful! But now I'm hooked again. Damn it. Gonna have to go back and watch the whole series again. Thanks for filming this guys.
Tom Fontana and HBO seriously need to reunite and create a reboot of Oz (1997-2003). It's been 21 years since Oz ended and we need to revisit Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary.
I'd watch an Oz spinoff in a heartbeat, this show broke the mold in so many ways.
It truly was one of the two shows that put truly HBO on the map and unfortunately never mentioned when discussions about "prestige" TV shows are had.
It's true. Someone recently posed a question on social media. "What's the first show that comes to mind when you think of HBO?" My answer was and is Oz.@@angusmerriweather1589
@@angusmerriweather1589when people say "The Sopranos and the Wire are the greatest shows ever made!" I always make sure to say "yeah, but if not for Oz, they don't happen.
@@footguy215 Exactly. People act like Oz doesn't exist when it had 6 seasons.
Prequel series with O'Reilly brothers
Not one single name was mentioned, yet "Oz" fans knew exactly every reference. :)
imagine if they did this for the wire
@@TheStopmaybe with Bunk and McNulty, who else is still around? Maybe the kids from S4, Namond might be a cop, Michael still ripping and robbing drug dealers, Dukie might off the drugs after all these years and Randy is definitely a wild card not sure about him
Goddamn straight!!!!
Hell yeah!!
Shows Tom still has the magic touch.
Why isn't someone promoting this? 2 months this had been out?? I'm glad I looked up my favorite old show
I agree😊
Wierd
@@jjdillon1207 *weird
@@javismontgomery7073 *wired
Dude, I just now found out by looking up The Tobias character wiki and was wtf is Zo? Here I am.
Tobias was the smartest guy in Oz in the sense of being book smart and Ryan was the smartest guy in Oz in the sense of being street smart. If these two get together as a crime unit to survive life after getting out of the prison, that's the show I'd like to see.
… If they don’t whack each other that is.
I mean that's kinda what Breaking Bad is
@@lonelylad9818Jesse was never a Ryan. Tobias Will never be Heisenberg.
@@juniorii8277 It's still the same concept. Street smart + book smart = unstoppable criminal duo.
@@lonelylad9818 Yes but as a vague premisse. Beecher is a lawyer and not a chemistry, in a kind of spin off he would be more cutted to be a kinda of better call soul, and Ryan is way more Street smart than Jesse. What i mean is that even If we have this premisse of duo like in breaking bad It would never be as breaking bad since they back ground is really different. Beecher roughed up in prision and Ryan take Care of his steps different of Jesse wich is kind of naive sometimes. Imagine breaking bad but Walter bitted the tip of a Man member. See the diference? Btw, dont take this as a internet beef. I love Oz and love to talk about It so as long as you keep commenting i'll keep the conversation.
We need to petition HBO to allow for Tom Fontana to write a spin off series !
We better hurry up, guy is 72 years old bro
This show has a special place in my heart, but it wasn't the strongest of the HBO original series.
There were some ridiculous storylines that were poorly written and executed.
No need for anymore Oz.
@@YaowBucketHEADa brutally realistic prison drama without the ridiculousness would be absolutely welcome to me.
@@YaowBucketHEADOz in its peack was really great. And kinda molded a way that HBO writes series like the wire. Like the unrealistc parts that made It good so you could see a kind of analogy to other things in life, some phylosofical thing too sometimes. The 2 last Seasons were kinda bad, but yo the game IS the game.
@@juniorii8277 In interviews Tom Fontana has talked about how he and other writers would come up with some crazy stuff because they would get bored of writing the same kinds of scenes over and over again. As a viewer I appreciated that kind of stuff because I got bored sometimes seeing the same tropes over and over again. So I was almost always down with whatever off-the wall stuff Fontana and company came up with.
Crazy Dean Winters is 60 years old. Guy always looked like he was drinking from the fountain of youth. Always wanted an O’reilly brothers prequel
So sexy! I met him at JFK Airport maybe in 2009. He took a selfie with me. He is just as cool in person!
60🤯
He acts like Ryan O’Reily in everything he does. He's a horrible actor.
@@gilson1982 I wouldn’t say that. Perhaps he’s been type cast
@@Boobalopbop - Watch anything he’s ever been in. He walks, talks, and makes facial expressions just like Ryan O’Reily.
It’s been 26 years since the first episode and we still yearn for more
Let’s go!!!!!!!!!
Best show ever written!
The way insecure Ryan tried to bully weak Tobias only for him to turn it around was so on point, they both know each other so well and it actually felt like the characters. Great stuff
The two best wrote out characters on the show. This was brilliantly done. In these 15 minutes we got to see all sides of these two.
O’reilly helped Beecher during the series. He gave him the pcp to kick Schillinger’s ass
That laugh said it all bruv
@@Provos7777 can you remind me what exactly is O'Reily's problem with Beecher? He was friendly to him in the first season to sell him drugs, they were kinda like buddies though O'Reilly didn't give a shit, then they barely interracted as far as a I remember
@@thevideocommenter3061 i forget too, was hoping to find a reminder in the comments
OZ is the show the world needs right now.
This is unironically so true
@@birdhead9943 100%
When I first saw this in my suggested feed I thought, "Damn it. The A.I. scum have come for my beloved Oz." But thankfully that was not the case. It was Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, two ex-cons, and a credited production crew showing up to entertain me with familiar faces, stories, and even a hint of music by the end.
To everyone who made this: thank you.
How have I missed this until now!? Winters and Tergesen haven't lost a step, this was fantastic.
Right? I always looks for Oz clips and never was this sugested ir shown before. They were straight A on act.
I had no idea this existed until a friend told me, either. Awesome short film
It didn't get released until recently, it was filmed years ago but it was like, a private short film show only at festivals exclusively or something to that effect. I remember reading about it a couple years ago when I first watched the show
@@jacobhernandez323 Do you have more info?
I’m assuming their beef is over something that occurred after the finale. My money says Beecher discovered how Adebisi kept that hat on his head and refused to tell O'Reily.
Maybe Beecher eventually confessed to someone that O'Reily was responsible for planning the murders of Mondo Browne and Nate Shemin in season 4?
While I wish they mentioned what I'm glad it happened offscreen. They were supposedly in prison for 20 extra years after the ending of course other shit would've went down since then
@@noahmclaughlin7921 good point. Beecher's original sentence was 15 years, and he did 5 or 6 during the series, when he went back to prison for parole violation he must have got more time for doing something else
@@jaroncreed Probably drug possession with the parole violation. He was bringing some drug to a friend of Keller's when Keller ratted him out. Then he likely got death row for Keller's death off the balcony in the finale.
I think it's velcro but some racist told me that
Mr. Tom Fontana:
I sorely hope you continue this. It was so good to see where Beecher and O'Reily are at in 2024. You know we wondered for 21 years. Whoosh. This is great. It puts the characters in a position they've never been before. I would love to see where this branches off to. Thanks for this!
Amazing! Bring OZ back!!
Agree
or ATLEAST complete this short
I vote to be Schillinger’s punk rock anti facist nephew who fights the Nazis any chance he gets.
@@tanneredge9774I’ll be the biker that claps your cheeks for Vern
This film is absolutely _unreal!_ The way Tergesen & Winters just step into their roles after all these years is stellar! I’m mesmerized by the return of O’Reilly & Beecher in this setting & of course Fontana’s lurid dialogue is captivating as ever! I especially love the references to the show! This is a dream come true! Thank you _so_ much for the sequel to *OZ!*
I would watch an entire season each with 1 hour episodes just of Beecher and O’reilly on the phone!
Same😂
Me too and that's no lie.
@@RPKGameVids fancy seeing you here, love your videos
From "My Dinner with Andre" to "My phone call with Toby" :)
Ryan was such a devious smart cunning criminal and wow it's weird seeing this twenty yrs later please bring this back
FINALLY. swear to god I’ve missed tobias beecher more than I miss members of my own family. awesome, perfect, tremendous, more please.
lol I miss ALL of them. Remember Alvarez? Man he got put through the wringer.
@stevefrank3599 keep those D tabs comin baby
Wow this felt like a authentic continuation like they haven’t missed or skipped a single beat. The audio, the focus on one locked in location and the city backdrop setting, Ryan wearing the clothes he was wearing when he was locked up, and even the actors still slip right back into their roles. I had a grin creep onto my face when I saw Tobias start fighting back on the phone. Beecher and Ryan always were the most dangerous on the show. They weren’t exactly out of their way to be malicious but if you crossed them…
They were the whole reason to watch the show tbh!
Return to Oz!
Hey man I absolutely love your videos! Can't wait to see more Oz videos from you in the future! :)
@@RevisedGames Thank you!
I’m going back and watching OZ again cause of this. Bro you should do some more videos of OZ. Love your Sopranos reviews
@@CineRanter I was watching your videos about the wire and Oz and this got recommended. Thanks for the content.
20 fuckin years and not a peep
Tim Fontana said that this is considered CANON to the series! Really hoping for a follow up and maybe a short serial!
The faces, the voices, even the weird ethnic percussion in the end and suddenly It all came back to me, the feeling of watching a new OZ episode again. This was perfect, I hope they continue it. Although, I feel a little bad about Beecher and Ryan ending up as enemies. I liked when they were allies. I guess we'll never know what happened between them. Or will we?
Can't believe I'm getting Oz content in 2024. Was my favorite show back in the day and I was annoyed how it ended. I remember he said he might write a story sometime in the future and never thought I'd get one 20 years later.
I just rewatched every OZ and discovered this gem. Dean looks incredible. I would watch
Anything from/with these people.
this is sad that so much fans of the show don't know this exists.
I just discovered this because of a youtube comment on a different video lol
They are on the outside and you still feel the claustrophobic nature of their conversation. The unsaid nuances and terrifying implications as they play psychological chess over the phone. Man, never escaping the web because you are the web. That was the most terrifying part of that show.
This is a new Oz lore I never knew I needed
I'll never forget the scene where Beecher has Schillinger trapped on the weight bench.... This show needs to come back!
Dean Winter (O’Reilly) was my crush on this show. I love watching him as mayhem in the all state commercials. I would watch this if was made into a show.
Tom, I could not love this more. These two guys... damn! The script is dynamite, Christoph's work is great and I love that Irene and Ivan produced, too. Makes me want to come back for more. Lots more.
Ryan is still a complete bastard. And Tobias is still not one to be F'd with. Omg I love this.
Truuuue! Tobias is an explosion waiting for someone to push the right button - and Ryan loves himself some buttons!
It's so sad that so many of the actors on this show have passed away.
That why if they want to do a reboot or continuation of the series, the time is NOW before more of them sadly pass away :(
wait who?
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I ALWAYS thought Oz had so many great, Oscar caliber performances. But of course, prison is scary, especially back then, and a show that authentic, that visceral was a real hard pill for many to swallow. So, of course, Oz went on to be so underappreciated. But it definitely paved the road for The Wire, The Sopranos, and many other shows that would go on to get the recognition they deserved.
I rewatch Oz like 4 times a year. Finishing up again. Had no idea this existed until today.
This fills my soul.
Just imagine the possibilities and plot lines for this potential spin-off! For example, right after Beecher gets off the phone with O'Reilly, he makes a call to the only person he can think of that may talk to him / help him, Tim McManus! He goes to see McManus at his bachelor pad only to find him drunk and wallowing about his days as Unit Manager at Emerald City in Oz and Diane leaving him to marry some English guard. McManus discloses that he ended up getting a job at Lardner but got canned when he tried to sleep with every female employee there like he did at Oz to which Beecher yells at him to snap out of it and to stop the booze citing his own history with alcohol. He warns McManus about O'Reilly's threat and that he may come after him too later and so enlists his help.
Meanwhile we see O'Reilly walking into some dark alley to meet someone, who turns out to be none other than Miguel Alvarez! We find out here that the SAME dirty cop who testified at O'Reilly's trial just so happened to be the same cop that handled Alvarez's case. Lo and behold he is now on the outside as well, having been drawn back into the Latino gangs as he is unable to find work or live a normal life. O'Reilly pulls his usual manipulation techniques to convince Alvarez to help him kill Beecher in exchange for telling his old Irish-Mafia contacts to let the Latino gangs operate on some of their turfs.
Beecher in the meantime befriends a sympathetic attractive girl named Jenny at his AA meetings who gives him courage to re-connect with his daughter Holly, and over a course of a few days he falls in love with Jenny. But Beecher keeps her at a distance knowing the impending danger with O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Alvarez conjure up a plan to kidnap Beecher's youngest son Harry from college and lure him into Riverside Park where they plan to kill him. Before they commence the plan, O'Reilly states he has to see someone before he does, we see him go to a clinic where he wants to speak to one of the doctors there, Dr. Gloria Nathan! Gloria is shocked to see him there, and he tells her he hasn't stopped thinking about her. He finds out Gloria never really connected with anyone after her time in OZ, and had pretty much dedicated her life to serving the public in the clinic and remained single. Old emotions run high and memories between the two re-surface and they have a full make-out-love session right there in her office. She is open to settling down and having a relationship with him now, but he tells her that he needs to do something and will never see her again after this and bids her farewell, leaving her heart-broken.
Beecher finds outs from Holly that Harry has been kidnapped from NYU, and he is crushed again remembering what happened to his first son Garry. He then gets a text from O'Reilly to meet at Riverside Park alone! Jenny warns him of the danger but he doesn't care, he goes and she calls McManus, warning him of the danger. We then see Beecher arrive at the park where O'Reilly and Alvarez surprise him and he sees Harry tied up in Alvarez's car. Beecher demands for Harry to be released and Alvarez complies. We then find out what was O''Reilly's grief with Beecher: at the prison where they ended up after Oz, Beecher got back on the moonshine again and accidentally let it slip to Chucky Pancamo that O'Reilly spiked his drink with heroin during the boxing match with Cyril in season 3, Pancamo is PISSED and he and his wise-guys had then beat the shit out of O''Reilly and almost killed him. It took him months to heal and be able to walk again and he's vowed revenge on Beecher ever since! Alvarez and O'Reilly then jump Beecher with knives only for McManus to show up with his old friend, ex-CO Sean Murphy who is now working for the NYPD! They get into a big lengthy brawl with Beecher knocking O'Reilly down and about to use the knife on him, but at the last moment throws it away, tells him he is done with all this crap, he will not take someone's blood again, and that he feels he finally has a chance at life again, and for O''Reilly to grow the hell up and maybe do the same. O''Reilly has a moment of clarity, and realizes that he does wants to live a normal life again and with Gloria, he shakes hands with Beecher. Alvarez is like WTF, we had a deal for our turfs, O''Reilly tell him to get lost, then Alvarez attacks him but is subdued by McManus and Murphy. Murphy puts the cuffs on him and hauls him off to prison telling him he's going to solitary, after which Miguel screams in anguish! On account of their Irish backgrounds and old friendship, Murphy lets O''Reilly off with a warning.
McManus tells Beecher and O'Reilly that he's proud of them, and to stay clean. He also shares happy news that he got another Unit Manager job at a women's prison (which makes him jump with glee). As they all leave the park, we see the ground opening up in an empty area of the park, a hand comes out of the ground and then a now 80+ year old Agamemnon Busmalis comes out of the ground as well and yells "I'm free!"
O''Reilly goes back to Gloria, and Beecher goes to Jenny's apartment where he thanks her for helping saved his life, and then they sleep together. Jenny then says in bed that it's all she ever wanted for him, to fix him up after he was so broken, make him love again, and then to just take everything away from him again. Beecher is confused and says "what?" after which Jenny shanks him right in the gut, as Beecher lays dying he musters "why Jenny?" to which she replies that her friends call her Jenny, but that her real name is Jewel...............Jewel Schillinger! and that "this was payback for my dad and granddad, prag!". Jenny/Jewel is then arraigned. Holly, saddened by her father's killing, intentionally robs a store in order to get sent to the same Women's prison as Jenny/Jewel is (co-incidentally being the same prison where McManus now works and is trying to bed not only every female CO, but every prisoner once in a while too). And then we find out that the name of this prison is the Zohara State Penitentiary, also known as ZO!!! End season 1! 😂
While I don't see things shaking out exactly like that, there's no denying that I was hooked on every word wrote there.
Nicely done!
LOL, seriously I enjoyed that!!! 😂
Season 2 plot line, NOW!!!😅
Haha. Amazing!
Take my money!
Dean winters is so fucking underrated. He could be an amazing leading man
Same for Lee Tergesen
@@brenteusmaximus Lee Tergesen is great, but when I see him play a straight-up heavy like in guest-starring roles in Defiance and Person of Interest it feels a little weird because I remember back when Tobias was more vulnerable.
I loved Dean's stint on Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I think it showed he could still be a great actor without having the O'Reily mannerisms.
He really really is, and I don't get it.
Im currently re watching OZ. It is truly one of the greatest shows of all time. It never got the respect it deserved and paved the way for raw uncut television. A reboot would be incredible. Please return us to EM City
This was a fan's dream! Even if only a small minisode this was FANTASTIC! I'd watch any OZ show or spinoff in an instant!
All the references were so golden 😂 the Cyril , Gloria, Keller , and Robson getting bit😂😂
And of course Beecher starting out being old Vern's bitch which caused Beecher to turn into a force of nature when provoked.
I didn't even know this came out!! Oz deserves it's flowers
This is phenomenal. Dean and Lee haven't lost a beat with these characters.
I love how you know who they are talking about without the names being mentioned.
I think they legally couldn't mention the names do to copyright from HBO
@@MichelangeloVA I thought it was brilliant.
I thought the same thing
Tobias Beecher and Ryan O'Reily are back!
If it's a start to a new TV show, I would watch it for sure!
O’Reilly’s outfit is awesome.
Thank you Mr Fontana for releasing it!
We need a Blu-ray version of Oz now!
Ryan O'Reilly was a one of the dozens of great characters on this show. I was happy to see so many of these actors get other roles. I today just realized the Fire Chief on Chicago Fire is Kareem Saiid. WE NEED A SPINOFF ASAP
First watched Oz in early 2022 and finished on July 15th of that year, seeing this today really brightened up my day. A reboot would be killer.
In 2022? For the first time??? Wow. thought it was gonna say 2002 😂
A reboot couldn't work. Oz was a product of its time and utterly unique in its presentation and setting. If anything, the best course of action would be a continuation of this short or at least follow the lives of more Oz characters after (if) they got out
Watch all of their series. Spartacus in particular
ATTENTION!!!!! TO ALL OZ FANS.......WE NEED TO FLOOD THIS COMMENT SECTION WITH PRAISE!!! THIS IS THE EXACT TYPE OF THING THEY WILL BE LOOKING FOR TO HELP THEM DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO BRING BACK THE SERIES. SO EACH ONE OF YOU SHOW THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE (OZ FANS) AND TELL THEM TO ASK TO BRING BACK THE SHOW. OZ IS DEFINITELY A SERIES THEY CAN BRING BACK BUT WE NEED MORE COMMENTS. HIT the LIKE BUTTON IF YOU'RE ON BOARD!!
Good stories, engaging characters, good acting, writing and filming. Please bring this show back!
I saw J.K. Simmons once on the subway in New York going to Times Square. It was awesome, I’m a huge fan of Oz
You are so lucky
Even tho i hated Shillinger i love JK Simons xD
To this day, I have trouble not thinking of Schillinger when I see Simmons. To most people, I think he's J. Jonah Jameson.
Did you say "Hey Schillin-jer"... and then he shouted back "It's Schillin-ger, goddammit!"
Probably search for spider man
He's a regular at the upscale deli my younger brother works at in San Diego. Makes me so jealous. But I did get to meet Gene Wilder while working at an Albertsons back in 2008 so I guess it's a fair trade.
Jesus this is more riveting that 90% of what is on TV right now.
I watched when it was aired on HBO, I watched religiously. I bought All seasons on DVD. Been a fan for literally decades......And embarrassingly, it wasn't until last year because of an insurance commercial I realized Ryan and Cyril were real brothers, and I felt like such a moron.....And I love Dean Winters!
I had the duckskin.Please mr.Fontana...we need OZ BACK.PLEASE.PLEASE.DO IT FOR US!
Thank you. I recently rewatched all 6 seasons on DVD. A spin off would be AWESOME!!!
Yes!! Return to Oz! Let's do this. Bring it back!
THANK YOU to Tom, Lee, Dean, & Christoph for doing this. I'm sharing this as much as possible, just hope it bears fruit in the vein of a resurgence of THE original HBO series that started it all.
I want more. I need more. I have to have more. Please Mr. Fontana. Give us more. Please.
Dean Winters has been so great in so much work since this show that I briefly forgot how terrifying Ryan O’Reilly can be.
On the final episode McManus said “We’ll be back again, someday”.
Like frosty
I love THIS!!!! I love how they addressed certain things throughout the show without naming names or being too specific. For true fans of the show, we knew exactly what they were talking about. It was like we were serving time right alongside them. This was a perfect duel between two of Oz's main characters. At first, you think O'Reilly will wipe out Beecher with no problem. But then when you really reflect on Beecher's own journey we saw a privileged member of society initially getting thrown into the mix with the most hardened of criminals and at first the results are what one would expect. Beecher became Schillenger's "prag." But as the show went on, Beecher became the man he had to become to survive the deadly trenches of Oz, and by this, he became a survivor and ended up becoming someone not to cross. In a way, this was a much earlier version of Breaking Bad's Walter White.
So so amazing we need this show back
Oz forever
Best show (Oz) ever put on television/cable, even to this day. I would welcome a new Oz with OPEN ARMS! BRING IT ON!
Yes!!!!!! Amazing to see Beecher and o’Riley on the outside. Please make more of this!!!
Greetings from Greece
I would pay to watch a new season of OZ
Best TV series of all time.
Blessings 🙏🏻
Ellines for Oz !!!!!
This TV series is such a Masterpiece.
Father Mukada and Sister peter mary were my favorite Characters
Peter Marie was hot for an old broad
I just re-watch Oz by third time and still being one of best TV series ever made. This short film is really precious gift. Thanks ✌️
Every so often since the year 2003 I wonder what happend to the beautiful twisted mind of Tom Fontana. MAX might not be its home anymore but I could see it on MGM or one of the up and coming streamers. We NEED more OZ related content.
Fontana did a show on AMC that aired earlier this year called Monsieur Spade. Good stuff.
The sound effect from the original show when Beecher talking about O’Reily’s brother execution
Ok now I REALLY want an Oz Reboot or Season 7! This was pretty decent for a short film and actually gave some juicy details to close a few loose ends. Good work as usual Mr. Fontana!
That was amazing, please bring something back or any kind of spin-off series. I’d absolutely watch anything put out for it at this point. I heard about this film a few years back and have wanted to see it ever since, with that my expectations have grown exponentially. Even that being said this still managed to exceed my expectations, a perfect Segway to whatever comes next
Bro, OZ was and is one of the best shows ever
This is like catching up with an old friend and finding out what theyve been doing
Amazing! It feels exactly the same, no one can escape OZ. How does this only have 52K views? Great show, more please.
I wish that they would make a prologue miniseries or movie in this style.
Please, release OZ in a brand new HD or 4K master!
And I would not say no to a sequel either !
Take my money Tom ! Take it god damn you !
I pray that theres some form of a reboot of OZ now. This has got me pretty hyped.
Same
wishful thinking... Oz wouldnt fly today
@@stevefrank3599yes it would. No idea wtf you’re talking about
@@stevefrank3599 Fuck the PC world, people need to stand up to it.
Absolutely no. Oz ended because Tom Fontana had run out of stories to tell, and this short certainly didn't show that he has come up with new ideas during the last 20 years.
Great stuff! Can’t wait for the full series!
Please keep this going, I’ve been waiting 20 years!!!
Sarebbe stupendo riprendere la serie OZ, io l'ho vista quest'anno 2024 non la conoscevo in Italia non è tanto famosa ma l'ho trovata attuale e realistica come non mai. Viva OZ ed i suoi insegnamenti e viva Fontana per il suo coraggio di organizzare uno show di questo tipo, la realtà delle carceri. Ancge questo corto è toccante grandi e complimenti!!
One of the best shows ever gets a well deserved epilogue, continuing the story of the two most interesting surviving characters. I would watch the hell out of as much of this kind of content that gets made. Bravo. Lee and Dean kill it again.
I’m gonna go back and watch OZ again. This shit just brought me back to the late 90s. Lfg!!
Loved the video. However, it is a few years old, and judging by the number of views there is only a small niche of us Oz fans, not enough to bring the show back. Still, HBO could give it one last season after everything Oz did for them. This is the show that made them prestige television!
Yeah, you're not wrong. We can still try, though. I'm posting the link on as many Oz videos on youtube where I think people will see.
Because it's not being advertised properly. It should be promoted by literally everyone who was in the show. It's in everyone's best interests to bring the show back.
Can we get more of this. I just finished watching OZ. This show came out when I was in high school but we didn't have cable. Im just getting around to watching it and I loved it and I hate that it's over. I needed this short film but it left me wanting more.
I do agree such an Epic Show is never to late to watch it
Fingers crossed that this gets picked up for a revival show, mini series or a spinoff movie.
A show would be far far better than a movie...IMO Movies are over-rated
So what I get from this shirt is that if we assume this timeline is our current timeline, Beecher got sentence to time for the death of Keller but eventually gets let out by the governor assuming he’s the same gov from the show, also around the same time as oreily. This would make a great spin off sequel with plenty of off potential
For everyone wondering what feud they're talking about: from the way the dialogue is phrased, it would seem they're talking about something that happened after the end of the show but before this short.
Yeah. I started to think I was slipping in my old age.
really! Shit never would of guessed if you didn't tell us 🤦♂️
This is so cool, just finished my first rewatch of the show. This is perfect timing
Love this! But we need a sequel. O Reily just threatened Beecher and his family. Something tells me the fire truck is on the way to the home of his family. O Reily probably arranged their house to be burned with them inside
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I started recognizing the streets and knew that's what was up! 👏🏽👏🏽
I dont care what anybody says, OZ was a series that started it all for HBO. That series was OUTSTANDING and Broke ALL the RULES. Plus quite a few stars rose from that series. I would like to see an OZ spin-off if done right. This short film has its potential to start something. But lets put it together NOW.
Some people fell in line with the Soprano crew..... Some people decided to live life down to The Wire.... Or maybe a person decided to grab three friends, form an Entourage, or live the socialite's life in The City.... but us, the real OGs, we've been doing time in Oz and we know that there's no place like home.
Sorry as much as I like oz and other HBO Shows oz didn't start it for HBO.. HBO was huge long long before oz was ever conceived.
@@swampghost72 Yeah when I first started watching HBO in 1980, it was popular for the movies and sports like boxing and Inside the NFL and then they started doing these intense, interesting documentaries like High on Crack Street. And then in 1983 they did the satire show Not Necessarily The News and in 1984 moved into scripted shows with the T&A football comedy 1st and Ten and the sitcom Dream On in 1990.
And With that said....go forth....and May the road rise up to greet you, and KNOW you are safe because the lord is holding me in the Hollow of his hand.....
And now I want to know what happens... THANKS! Don't get me wrong, this was beautiful! But now I'm hooked again. Damn it. Gonna have to go back and watch the whole series again. Thanks for filming this guys.
So much character reference without name dropping. Your brother, your boyfriend, she loved me.... ❤
Superb! Please bring back OZ. Though they never named names just situations to tell us a portion of what has happened and what may come.
More episodes!!! Please tell me this cliffhanger isn't the end!!
Best tv show ever !! All the memories that it brings back to me...
Thank you for not only writing this, but sharing it.
Tom Fontana and HBO seriously need to reunite and create a reboot of Oz (1997-2003). It's been 21 years since Oz ended and we need to revisit Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary.
An d star exactly who? All stars of the original are dead or way too expensive now
Why can't I remember their interaction being this social, from the show? Feels weird watching them chat this long.
Yeah. Beecher and O'Reilly were never this social. Also O'Reilly had years added for murdering Gloria's husband.
@@jorysmith1986 didnt he admit to it towards the end after his brother died?
@@StruggaBuggahe admitted to it before his brother was executed and got additional years for it. Just rewatched that episode the other day.
This seems to be relating to something that took place after the series finale. When they were transferred to another prison.
@@stephaniehoward7459 Ah, makes sense, since they don't exactly mention the name of the prison they were released from.
I love Dean Winters! This was so good 🙌
Now this leaves me wanting more!!!
Please make more of these, how awesome
Busmalis is gonna save the day
This is the best Miss Sally schoolyard ever
He's tunneling to Toby as this conversation took place.
@@guysomebody1145😂😂😂😂
Keller will
@@pepejimenez9295from the grave?