“Oz” sequel “Zo” to premiere May 1st as a short film on Youtube

I hope they do homosexual things with each other!

A sequel to "The Wizard of Oz"? I can't wait to watch!

No Chris Meloni???

WTF??

I hope Tergesen embraces the gay side of his character, and finds a butch rough trade husband.

I'll miss this...

R3, he’d have to be a ghost. Chris Keller died in the series.

Who cares?

[quote] Chris Keller died in the series.

In the most petty way too, that bitch.

I expect Mayhem!

Did anybody watch this? The Winters brothers are so hot.

Dean Winters's "Mayhem" is one of the most memorable characters in advertising history.

Is "Zo" their new pronoun?

Cynthia Erivo stars.

I always hoped Tina Fey was getting some of that dick, but I think Dennis came back because Dean had a hand injury and needed the work for insurance

Are there really enough people who care about a backstory of a series that ended 23 years ago?

Evidently not of it's a 15-minute short airing on YouTube.

What's the fucking point? An audience of mental freaks who can't abide "loose.ends"?

R14 - I would have to think it's a small pilot and test run to see if there's a fan base large enough for it to be considered for production.

Smart idea if you ask me. They'll probably give it 30 days to see the view counts and demo statistics.

Why this hasn't been done before is beyond me.

will Rita Moreno make an appearance?

I hope so

“Oz” is the blueprint for premium cable. It doesn’t get the respect it deserves because “The Sopranos” and “Sex In the City” came out right after. It didn’t last as long and developed more of a cult following than mainstream following.

I don’t even know if it could have a proper reboot today that would be able to get away with the gritty reality of race, gay prison sex, and corruption the way it could in the 90s.

It was a great show for men cause it a great balance of violence for straight men and fap content for gay men.

There will never be another show like it.

R14 - you're trolling.

I'm just hearing about this for the first time. I was a devotee 20+ years ago. I still have the whole series on DVD. I've watched the series a few times over the years. There are some things you watch over and over for various reasons. I didn't watch Oz the dozens of times I thought I would. And the reason is that it haunts me. It's disturbing. It makes me ask myself uncomfortable questions about myself, right and wrong, crime and punishment, and if I take it for granted that I don't walk around looking over my shoulder all the time.

I just watched ZO because of this post. Winters remains a very talented actor. A great career was cut short when he got hurt. Casting him against Tergesen was genius, then and today. Two characters from very different worlds still command attention. And now that I've watched this piece, my skin is crawling as it did 25 years ago. Two minutes in, and I was having the feels for Tobias, all over again. A flood of memories rushed back, reminding me what a great story Oz was. I was sucked right back in to where things left off. A 30-ish fan from year 2000 is 55-ish today. And I'd watch hours and hours of whatever actors could be brought back, and act out Fontana's brilliant writing, because it still has a hold on me...all these years later.

Go back to watching "Charles in Charge," or "Saved by the Bell" reruns. You do you.

Thanks, whoever bumped this thread. The video was posted six weeks ago and if you were a fan in 2002, you'll enjoy the short. No Rita.

purely from hunger

R20 I sympathize with people like R20 and their strenous grip on reality.

If this is such a big deal, it wouldn't be a "short film" on YouTube. Nobody gives a shit about YOUR memories. I was also a huge Oz fan and also have ZERO interest in watching this epilogue ONLINE especially since 98% of the intersting characters died in the finale.

And it certainly doesn't mean that I'd rather watch "Charles in Charge"

[quote]Go back to watching "Charles in Charge," or "Saved by the Bell" reruns. You do you.

You're trolling, R20. You have the boxed set and remain the grips of a series that ended 23 years ago. Swell for you, I suppose.

I enjoyed the series in another century. I recognize it was a benchmark series in TV history. No doubt its quality withstands time. But I'm happy with what it was, and I would have been happier still had it ended a season or two sooner. The best things in life are too short, they grow better by diminishing in quality nor by circling the drain, nor by a postscript 15-minute YouTube episode. What unnecessary nonsense is that? (Or, for that matter, the two idiotic and infantile series you ascribe to my taste?)

R22 cuts a little close to your bone, I suspect, but like me he seems not to believe that 2002 was the terminus of some Golden Age that we should revive at any cost.

*they don't grow better

Oz was one of my favorite series. It was very true to the environment. I spent a month in jail.

An unexpected part of the pleasure of watching OZ was that they seemed to have the same casting director(s) as LAW & ORDER did at the time -- which meant loads of stage people turning up.

Series regulars included Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno, George Morfogen and J. K. Simmons.

We got to see the following in recurring roles — Betty Buckley . . . Charles Busch . . . Philip Casnoff . . . Sean Dugan . . . Kathryn Erbe . . . Edie Falco . . . Edward Herrmann . . . Zeljko Ivanek . . . Patti LuPone . . . Austin Pendleton . . . and more.

And let’s not forget Mary Alice . . . Becky Ann and Dylan Baker . . . Patrick Breen . . . Bobby Cannavale . . . Natascia Diaz . . . DL fave Mike Doyle . . . Charles Dutton . . . Katie Finneran . . . Joel Grey . . . UTA HAGEN, for God’s sake . . . Pamela Isaacs . . . Dana Ivey . . . Peter Francis James . . . Jordan Lage . . . John McMartin . . . Anne Meara . . . Tony Musante . . . Geoffrey Nauffts . . . Novella Nelson . . . Brían O'Byrne . . . Milo O'Shea . . . Clarke Peters . . . Larry Pine . . . Stephanie Pope . . . Roger Rees . . . Cotter Smith . . . ELAINE FREEKING STRITCH . . . Joyce van Patten . . . Ben Vereen . . . Kathleen Widdoes . . . and on and on.

It also had Kirk Acevedo at the peak of his unbearable hotness.

Fifteen minutes of them talking on the phone and not even a couple of minutes of phone sex.

Any show that features a fully nude Christopher Meloni taking a piss in a bucket and actually SHOWING THE ACT OF URINATION deserves to be celebrated for all time.

^In addition to bending over, pulling down his tighty whities, spreading his cheeks and presenting hole...

[QUOTE]Kathleen Widdoes

So nice to see Emma Snyder as Tobias Beecher's upper-crusty mother instead of down-on-the-farm matriarch in Oakdale. I'm going to watch the rest of her episodes. I think there are three or four.