wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S4E09: Medium Rare

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Plotlines

TV producers come to Oz;
Omar White introduced
Beecher and Keller are interviewed; drug counseling is filmed; Sister Pete is interviewed; Unit B tours, Schillinger interviewed
Ryan hooks Omar up with drugs in exchange for a future favor
TV producer interviews Poet and learns about Adebisi’s tapes
Jack Eldridge interviews Ryan, learning nothing; Eldridge interviews Said, trying to learn about the videotapes
McManus talks to the producer, telling her about Querns; Querns tells Glynn to destroy the tapes
Glynn talks to Eldridge; he decides not to pursue the Adebisi angle
Ryan tries to set Omar up to kill Eldridge, but Omar freaks out too early, and Eldridge’s overnight stay is switched to Cyril’s cell; Cyril remembers Eldridge and starts beating him; the story isn’t aired

Sister: Of course he’d know what it’s called. He’s had like every facial hair.

Sister: (distraught, disgusted, and heartbroken sounds for like 3 whole minutes)
Me: Speaking of facial hair…

Sister (still bemoaning): Why did he shave his mustache... Was he sad or something? Did his wife leave him?

Sister: WHAT? And Shirley stayed on Death Row for so long? And we didn’t even get to see his trial.

Sister: That’s true. ABC always does some grandma stories. People were dying and they did this whole story about a dog.

Sister: Why does everyone have such ugly arm tattoos?
Me: The 90s….

Sister: I thought they didn’t have the tapes.
Me: Yeah, LOL... it’s like when they kept the tapes around in season 1 and only destroyed them once it occurred to them that someone was trying to find them.

Kind of a bullshit takeaway about being bad at your job where you are responsible for thousands lol. What, that's supposed to make it better? Being the self-aware evil you know, so to speak? The funny part is that he doesn't like... make any effort to do better despite knowing that he sucks. So the whole conversation with Eldrige was just an ethos play or some this. When Glynn smiled and said "no comment" in this scene, even Sister said "he's smiling because he's playing the game".

Sister: Mm… I wouldn’t say that. Do you know how many people have been stabbed in the night here?

Final Thoughts

Sister: When’s my guy coming back? We haven’t seen him in forever.
Me: I think he comes back next episode.
Sister: NOOO! He should’ve been free longer. He was so good at hiding.

Stray Thoughts

“Up Your Ante” is introduced this episode
Sister was really confused about Morales being
Hacks named: Willard, Jake
Penis Count: 1
It’s mentioned there are 10 other units like Unit B
Sister recognized the producer lady as the actress from the Breakfast Club
So many dated celebrity references that flew right over our heads
It’s mentioned that that lights are out at 9pm now, different from s1 when they were out at 10. Lights on at 6.
Narrator stands up in a monologue, marking the 4th instance of Narrator/Augustus hill standing up in the show