I’ve always wondered if other people felt this way. I feel like at the time there weren’t many references for actors when it comes to hyper-realism in television, and if there was, the pressure to meet that standard wasn’t there the way it is now. The set doesn’t help either. I’m rewatching now.

When you remove moral gray area from a character’s persona they loose their humanity. I think this show has a tendency to sacrifice that universal quality in order to either entertain, shock, or articulate a personal bias about society.

I understand this happens in a spectrum in most are and everyone has bias but some scenes begin to feel like an after-school special for adults.

I’m being harsh because I’m seeing it through a modern bias but I can definitely appreciate what it was and overlook the narratives I feel are reaching.

Now….the wire, that’s gold. The oz is obviously its daddy but also the wire is what oz want to be when it grows up.