wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S6E05: 4Giveness

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Storylines

Schillinger sons guest narrate
Robson is welcomed back to the Aryans for killing Cutler; Cutler leaves all his belongings to Miguel; Robson’s wife visits;
Augustus Hill’s book is released; Arif is stressed about the book binding finances; Redding tries to get Reggie and Kenaniah back on his side; Redding makes a deal with Pancamo to keep the Homeboys from dealing; t
The Homeboys blow off Omar; Idzik arrives at Oz and is placed in Unit J; Arif tells Omar nothing will be done to avenge Said; Schillinger asks Idzik why he killed Said and gets a cryptic answer; Omar wants to meet Idzik and McManus refuses
Oz is hosting the prison warden’s something or other; Murphy confesses the crimes of the COs to Glynn; Glynn tells Morales he’s released from Solitary; Morales mentions being suspicious of Nurse Grace
Brass tries to get Rebadow to hate Morales; McManus and Murphy fight and make up; Nurse Grace kills Morales;
Norma & baby visit Agamemnon an they get re-engaged; Rebadow no longer wants to work at the library; Stella learns Rebadow’s grandson died of leukemia; Pablo offers to beat up Rebadow for being rude to Stella
Willy Brandt confesses to the murder of Wilson Loewen and points the finger at Johnson;
Mrs Kirk (Jessica) meets Hoyt to try and assuage her guilt and wants to volunteer at Oz as a nurse; Hoyt sweats blood out of stress;
Cyril is put in the hospital for observation and has an accident; Neema blows of the Homeboys as well as Redding; O’Reily tries to get Redding to kill Neema; Redding tells O’Reily to tie him to Suzanne’s crimes if he wants revenge
Keller and the FBI guy fight; Beecher visits Stanton in the hospital ward as a consultant; Keller expresses boredom to Sister Pete; Beecher visits Keller and Keller tells him he killed Winthrop. Keller wants Beecher to gets drugs for his “dying” ex-wife; Beecher is arrested for parole violation

We're back! After a week off because I was too busy with other crap last weekend!

I feel like this is the episode where things really start to take a downturn in this season. Controversial thing to say, maybe, considering that Said was killed in episode 3. But to me, this is where all the unsatisfying bits of s6 start to really get set up to go absolutely nowhere. While I didn't like Said dying, it's starting here where I feel the show takes that second wrong turn because if there was going to be any saving some of the absolutely nothing burger plotlines of s6, this probably would've been the episode to do damage control, or rather, spin out what's happened so far into something truly interesting. We could've skipped the Mrs Cutler stuff; could've dialed back the Robson plotlines now that Cutler is dead—or done the sensible thing and shown that he would not have been welcomed back into the Brotherhood; that he would've killed his rapist but lost the protection as well, dooming him to fend for himself; could've continued setting up something actually interesting with Neema and Redding and the Homeboys/Muslims rather than bring O'Reily into the mix. Could've done away with Idzik coming to Oz as well, or at least done something more interesting with Omar & the Muslims because of this. Morales dying a pathetic death (third this season) is another negative point for this episode. At least make his strife with Nurse Grace something that lasts more than like 2 scenes! The Mrs Kirk stuff doesn't add anything to the show other than to give Mukada something to do. But what I think Mukada SHOULD be doing is investigating Cloutier's vanishing, which could still involve Hoyt's plotline without spending so much time introducing this new random lady. Her role in the last episode was enough. -_-

Bringing Beecher back in this episode was good drama, at least, so I wouldn't change that, I guess. But there's a lot of other things here that just... yeesh.

Sister: He’s like a tired high school teacher.

Sister: The girls they get in here all look the same… and, like, she and the daughter-in-law (Carrie Schillinger) look like high schoolers. [Robson kissing wife] Eugh! Also this is supposed to be the early 2000s, right? She looks like she’s in the 80s…
Me: Maybe she’s an 80s kid and hasn’t grown out of her high school cool girl aesthetic…

Me: Whining to a guy who's literally in prison for life and also whose money you ran off with... I don’t really get what Brass was trying to do..
Sister: Trying to get Rebadow to kill Morales for him? Although he got too impatient to actually make the suggestion.

Sister: Does she hate Latinos or something? Prison full of white supremacists and she only goes after Martinez and Morales? Grace: You’re just like Martinez, a nasty man who deserves to die.
Sister: I don’t know, he’s been nothing but polite to her from what we’ve seen! He said 'please' when he asked for juice! I think she just doesn’t like Latinos…

Sister: ...Your Asian father?
Me: Do you think his father was a priest, too? Or does he mean The father…? Oh wait, his dad probably wouldn’t have been a priest…
Sister: Maybe a late in life priest, LOL.
Me: What a random detail…

Sister: After [Beecher] left, I don’t have any interest in this romance. I just want him to stay out and every time he comes back to the prison, I get worried something’s going to happen to him.
Me: … Did you have interest in this romance before?
Sister: No, but now I have negative interest! Get him out of here!

Sister: Who’s that?
Me: Holly’s teacher.
Sister: [pauses] [scrunches face] Is he supposed to be a catch?
Me: 😂
Sister: He’s dated so many people on this show…
Me: So has McManus.
Sister: The confidence of the white man...

Stray Thoughts

McManus mentions he’s known Murphy from sixth grade
There’s a CO named Officer Schwartzmyer lol
An inmate-orderly in the hospital is referred to as Machelo (in the cc)... (Marcello, I'm guessing it's supposed to be)
Sister: Tobias should’ve gone to visit Bonnie and verify the situation first.