Crouch wrote, ''is a landmark for the medium.'' The critic Stanley Crouch, writing in The New York Times Magazine, praised it for its ''consistently brilliant acting - some of the best in the history of television.'' The show, Mr. So far ''Oz,'' one of HBO's highest-rated dramatic shows, has received mostly favorable reaction. There is also a chorus, in the person of a crippled convict, Augustus, played by Harold Perrineau, who narrates episodes from a glass cage. At its best, though, ''Oz'' has elements of Greek drama (including eyes being gouged out). Fontana is really trying as hard as he can.Īt its worst ''Oz,'' which begins its third season on Wednesday looks as if it had been conjured up by adolescent boys trying to gross each other out. If you have to do it, you have to do it as horrifically as it really is.'' And Mr. Fontana, who writes most of the show's episodes and is one of its executive producers, along with Barry Levinson and Jim Finnerty. ''The problem with TV violence, it's a lie,'' said Mr. Is there nothing Tom Fontana won't depict on his HBO prison series, ''Oz''?
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