wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S3E04: Unnatural Disasters

Plotlines

Andrew Schillinger in Oz; Schillinger is upset; Keller, O’Reilly, and Beecher plot
Howell sues McManus for sexual harassment and is reinstated at OZ
Said’s sister comes to visit him to ask about Patricia; Poet asks for permission to write again; Said meets with Patricia again
Sister Pete: meets with Chris Keller, meets Miguel to propose the prison-victim program
Out of Solitary, Miguel is recruited to fight for the Latinos in the boxing match against Cramer
O’Reilly running bets; fixing the fights; drugging the players; Miguel loses to Cramer
(mini) Cudney gets in front of the TV during Miss Sally
Hughes stuns El Cid with a smuggled stun gun; Glynn gives him a slap on the wrist
Hanlon gets off Death Row and is killed by Stanislofsty
In Unit E, Nappa talks to Mukada and decides he wants to confess his sins before he dies
Kenny turns 18; his mother visits with bad news about his baby and girlfriend/wife; Kenny schemes to have his girlfriend and her new boyfriend killed

I liked this episode overall, I'd say. I feel like Andrew Schillinger arriving to Oz is a fun plot point, especially with the way that everyone starts conspiring against him. Like, he never got a chance, but it's also pretty entertaining and I like seeing the Keller/Beecher/O'Reily team up, especially Beecher's turn toward being more calculating and vengeful while also being uncaring. It's just more exciting to me than when some of the drama/guilt/fallout stuff is happening. More straightforward action, basically. I enjoy the scheming and plotting and being determinedly two-faced because I think Toby is a little smarter with the way he goes about things (at, least when he's doing evil lol; his plots to do good have negative consequences).

Sister: Ok, that was a pretty good cut. I’ll give them one point.

Sister: doesn’t he looks like an earwig? I mean, doesn’t he look a little buggy up top?

Sister: Why does he still not have a mustache? He looks like if he was in an animal cartoon, he’d be a badger. And with the cane, too? I know he'd be a woodland creature with a cane.

Sister: Can you? You don’t have a mustache. You can’t even help yourself.

Sister: Whaa?

Sister: Why do they keep giving Said so many life lessons? He’s like nonstop educational after school specials. This episode’s moral was like “You must be true to your heart”. It's like that puppet show they watch. Everyone else just gets to be the boobies and he’s out here having to learn the lessons. Why don’t they give O’Reily a life lesson for once? He hasn’t learned anything in this show.

Sister (muttering): Not eye-to-eye?

Sister: you know, I had a dream the other night that we were in a tour group for something and they were offering tours with language options in Mexican Spanish, Castilian Spanish, and Catalan, and everyone was so happy that Catalan was being included because it was like they never had that option.

By the way, after some investigation, I believe he is saying “Tu error, mamao” right here --> “your mistake, stupid”. Mamao is Caribbean Spanish slang from "mamado", and as slang, means something like "stupid".

Sister: I thought they were going to steal his towel like some kind of dumb high school hazing thing but then I realised that would be stupid because their showers already have a bunch of windows.
Me: I could see him doing that just to be petty…

Sister: (sighing) Maybe Alvarez won’t be thirsty. He’s been in Solitary. He’s been drinking pee. He’s lost his taste for water.

Sister: You know, the problem with this is that usually in boxing there’s a story so you can get behind someone. Here, they don’t tell you any story.
Me: The story is that Alvarez needs to regain his honor.
Sister: No, but I mean like usually they wear costumes and stuff and have characters.
Me: That’s professional wrestling.
Sister: What’s this? Are they allowed to kick?
Me: No. This is boxing.
Sister: I’m reading a manga right now where they’re allowed to kick, though. And the sabotage is a lot better. They do the drugging the water thing just like this, too, but then another guy drinks it and passes out and they realise it's drugged.
Me: That’s probably MMA, not boxing.
Sister: What's the difference? 😔

Sister: Maybe his liver and kidneys are super-powered now. They’re so used to him drinking his pee, they’re just like “mm toxins everywhere!” Maybe this won’t affect him.

Sister: He’s gonna snap that dude’s neck.

Stray thoughts:

Sister was very distressed by Beecher’s lack of mustache (“I guess he’ll grow a mustache once he has his next mood change”)
I liked Said’s sister. I never noticed in previous watches that she was wearing a clerical collar; google says that women in the Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches were clerical collars so I guess it’s one of those
Sister, who is very into Ancient Egyptian history, kept heavy sighing during the Narrator monologues when he was wearing that Party City pharaoh costume lmao
Sister on Tina Rivera: Why’s there always a yelling family member whenever tough decisions need to be made? Like in medical dramas? The patient is always chill and then there’s like a mom or wife flying off the handle and being a shrew.
Sister: They include the captions of the guy yelling about the orgasm, which you could barely hear, but for the Spanish, they just wrote “speaking Spanish”...

Final Thoughts:

Sister thinks the water drugging boxing plot is really dumb because the drug they’re using (chloral hydrate) is a apparently very bitter tasting sedative; “They should be dying with how much he’s dumping in the water”; “I guess the water in Oz just tastes that bad??”; “Also, it’s a sedative, so even if they don’t overdose on it, shouldn’t the guards find it odd that the losers are always falling asleep like 5 minutes after the match ends? I mean, they should be like passing out on the walk back to Em City, right???”
Sister enjoys Nappa (“Mr. Carrot”) a lot; his scene talking to Mukada is the only time she’s specifically commented positively on the acting in this show
Sister thinks Ryan should be forced to go in the ring and fight someone because Cyril already beat up someone so technically he’s already proven himself lol