wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S2E08: Escape From Oz

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I accidentally started season s6e8 when we sat down to continue the watch today. While we were watching the opening titles, Sister and I started discussing a Butt that showed up. Sister wondered if we would be seeing that butt in this episode and I tried to remember if there would be any. Chris Keller, maybe? I recalled that he was getting out of Solitary this episodes—but no, the episode where he pees in a bucket is not this one. In the back of my mind, I sort of recognised The Butt in question as Miguel’s from when he was jerking off in solitary and then I got confused, because he isn’t in Solitary yet. Was the Miguel Butt was from season 3 and not season 4 like I thought? Had they filmed a season in advance and used future season footage for the opening titles, and I just hadn't noticed before? NOPE!

I didn’t realise that I’d started the wrong episode until Jahfree Neema crossed the screen. Then I was like OH NO. Funnily, though, I guess Augustus Hill being at the beginning of that season 6 episode will lull Sister into a false sense of security when it comes to his death in season 5.

Anyway, a lot happens in this episode, and I feel like all of it is pretty interesting. We see three deaths, Sippel got nailed to the floor, and Toby got all his limbs broken. Even though I maintain that Said refusing his pardon is soooooooo dumb on a practical level, it was kinda fierce in a stupid way and it's a funny way for him to cap off his failed efforts all season. I remember a couple episodes back, I said that I couldn't remember what all his unfruitful projects were building toward... Well, it was that, LOL! Overall, I think season 2 had a strong beginning as well as a strong end!

Storylines:

Rebadow and Busmalis’s tunnel is found out by the two nazis, who subsequently
(mini) Augustus continues to contemplate escape; Poet comes to work at morgue
Sippel returns to work at the prison, gets attacked by Schilinger
(Mini) Shirley and Gloria
Miguel takes Rivera’s eyes out
Chris gets out of Solitary and breaks all of Toby’s limbs
Adebisi connects with Jara; Jara dies
Said and McManus talk about Said’s regrets; Said is offered clemency for Ramadan and refuses

Sister, about Metzger just openly having a white supremacist tattoo: Whaaaaaaaat?

Sister: Ohhhh they’re so stupid! What if they die, Wawa?! You can’t get a crane down there! There’s gonna be dead bodies! (pulling blanket over her head) It’s gonna stink under the floors! Oh NOOO!

Sister: I wonder how they got the bodies out…

This is not the only time Poet talks about being a girl with Augustus. Hm. The misogyny?

Sister: That’s a terrible plan. I don’t think he was even listening to that plan. I think he was just staring at Augustus.

Me: I feel like Mukada’s office isn’t messy any other time we see it in the show….
Sister: Maybe he trashed it beforehand so it wouldn’t be so awkward when he said it was such a mess.

Sister: They look exactly the same 😭

Sister: I don’t know. I just find this sort of moral conundrum stuff tiring. Like, take a look around. It ain’t like they’re at an Applebees, so why is she always randomly judging people? Like, umm, ma'am? This is a prison.

Sister: I would have preferred to see more butts, Wawa. This episode has too much blood… Although, couldn’t they just put his eyes back in? If you get your dick cut off, you can put it back on.
Me: I mean, you could probably pop ‘em back in, but if the optic nerve is severed, I guess it'd be hard to reconnect them.
Sister: That’s probably why they didn’t show it happening… Because it’d be too easy to laugh at how ridiculous it is that Miguel managed to pop out both eyes while also keeping him quiet... He'd have to pin him down or get his hands controlled and then make sure he wasn't screaming the whole time... How would he even do that? He'd have to be sitting thighs to eyes.
Me: Thighs to... huh?
Sister: He'd have to have been sitting on the hack's neck or something so he wouldn't be able to kick him off or use leverage to throw him off while he dug those suckers out. Thighs to eyes.
Me: I think he just stabbed him in the eyes a couple times and pulverised them into jelly. I don't think he actually took the time to neatly cut the eyeballs out...

Sister: Why are they keeping him in this sad place? They aren’t equipped for this.

Sister: Alvarez?
Gloria: I found a prisoner with the same blood type. [sighs] Ryan O'Reily.
Sister: Aw :(
Me: ...If Oz has a prison population of 1400-1700 prisoners, is it really that likely that O'Reily and Rivera are the ONLY people with AB negative? Why didn’t they look for anyone with O negative?? Dumb.
Sister: That’s why she’s a doctor at a prison, I guess. Wait, they're so dumb. They didn’t even bother searching for A negative or B negative… Oh no! Dumb! I think they googled ‘what is the rarest blood type to have’ but didn’t check which one is the hardest to receive for… 😭😭😭 They should’ve made him O negative or something… So dumb... Maybe she’s in on the assassination plot. The blood bank is "empty"? Sure... She’s just making shit up.

Sister: … I mean, I guess this gives him some leverage but I feel like it would’ve been more poetic if it was Alvarez. Now I gotta put up with this bullshit tension.

Me: He kinda sounds like Tim Roth when he has an American accent right now.
Sister: Who’s that?
Me: Guildenstern.
Sister: I thought he was Rosencrantz.
Me: No, he’s Guildenstern. Didn’t I say that?
Sister: Who’s Rosencrantz?

Sister: (nervous silence)(convincing herself) …I feel like I saw him in a later season so I have no concerns. As his guardian angel, I shall watch him through this.

Sister: Nope! Nope!
Gloria: Yeah.
Sister: Nope!

Sister: What’d he say? My ears just sort of closed when he started talking. The nazi looks so pale in this scene, like a vampire.

Sister: He’s showing his boobs to his ancestors… (nervously) And his other stuff? I don’t wanna see that. Ok, whew.

Sister: …Letting prisoners out?

Sister: It’s kind of bullshit for him to decide not to leave, because what about all the people who’ve been working on the outside trying to get him out so he can be a community leader? (At Said) Are you dumb? That’s not a sick burn, sir. You’re supposed to own him and then LEAVE.

Stray thoughts:

Sister: I feel like they should just stop letting blonde people be guards
“Boobies!” count this episode: 1
Sister called Toby seething in the hospital “Angry Michelin Man”
When I was screencapping for this write-up, my sister walked into the room behind me as I was screencapping Gloria talking about the blood types. Sister, cackling as she walked away again: "Oh, the stupidity! She shall never live this down! I will remember it in everything else she does!"
“He’s a dumbass. Trick him!” —Sister about Kenny
Arif telling Bismilla "it's all about Said" looks like that Draymond Green/Kevin Durant meme...
Sister: everyone’s story line had someone who got maimed or died, except Said, who maimed himself.
I’m sure this is something literally no one else would have picked up on, but Chico wears 3 different outfits in this episode.