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postmoderntongues · 2 months ago

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Asking the James Robson Question

Ive seen like 3 posts on the subject and didnt want to hijack anybody else's old post but there is a lot of discussion in the relatively small and inactive Oz fandom about if James Robson deserved his fate in season 6. The obvious answer is, yes, it is not only morally correct but funny to rape a rapist. But even more importantly yes, because it was the right artistic choice from the writers IMHO. In a show that builds itself on being Shakespearian, this is as Shakespeare as it gets. I could draw at least some parallels between Titus Andromedas and Robson's starring arc in the same way that there are some parallels in King Lear and the plotline that follows Schillinger and his sons (that comparison is a different ramble though)

So yeah, in the episode where Robson's character debuts, the first thing that happens is he is mean to the very sympathetic and lovable elderly man in a kick the dog moment. Then he orally rapes Beecher in what is probably the most graphic onscreen sex act pictured up to that point (While we see the psychological abuse and the branding, the sexual abuse that Vern puts Toby through is conveyed through dialog and never shown on screen). We are so uncomfortable. When Beecher bites off the tip of his dick, we rejoice. It is the first time Beecher actually gets retribution against an abuser instead of just getting away. Everybody stands and claps and feels good not only because Beecher ended the attack and defended himself but because Robson is suffering for how uncomfortable we were made as onlookers by witnessing him committing his first on screen rape.

When shit starts to go south for Robson during the gum incident at the end of season 5 you absolutely want anything bad to happen to him, nothing is bad enough, he deserves literally the worst, he has not had a single sympathetic moment. From the second you see him in pain from his gums you are like "good. Literally good". You are happy about seeing anything bad happen to him at all after 4 seasons of him dong nothing but raping and killing more sympathetic characters with no consequence. Imho this peaks either at Cyril's rape or the torture and murder of the young Muslim which I would consider the most disturbing act of non-sexual violence on the show (Robson is the girl that can do both).

At most he gets a few uncomfortable shock laughs at his outlandishly, flamboyantly disgusting dialog. You feel only anxiety when he is in a scene. The only time he is not consistently hurting somebody is when he is suffering, like when Said beats the shit out of him. When Said feels bad about attacking him, which you want to happen every time he opens his abusive mouth, you as an audience are like bbygirl you have nothing to feel bad about 10/10 I support it.

Even VERN, who you think will be the most unlikable character from the first episode, has sympathetic moments by that point: during the bus crash and how often he talks about his coming granddaughter and even arguably when he makes the choice to painlessly kill his youngest son through an overdose because he believes that there is a chance that Beecher (or potentially Keller who he has a complicated relationship with and knows can be unpredictable and oh yeah also sexually abused as a minor. There is some level of if not fondness then at least familiarity between them, but we learn that Keller was a minor submitting to sex with an adult for protection and that Vern "Liked sex better if it was a power thing (forced)" so even if Keller convinces himself that he consented Vern has no way of knowing that he was doing anything other than sexually abusing a kid and actually specifically got off on the fact that it was abuse.) could eventually make good on his threats to subject Andy to the same things that Vern subjected Beecher and Keller to, and he knows that he has done things to deserve the worst retribution imaginable. After the death of Hank, Robson even completely biffs the opportunity to have the slightest humanizing moment and comfort Vern when he is in mourning. This dude is the worst. He does not a single thing to earn a good feeling in the time he is on screen.

So the brotherhood shuns him for the cadaver transplant. When hes talking to Said and says "My friends will take me back" is the first deviation from what we have come to expect every time Robson Appears on screen. (which is the first time I noticed what a good actor R E Rodgers was, the little stutter and lower lip pout twitch when he delivers the line, the man put his entire cunt into this role) he doesnt say "they" or "the brotherhood" he says "my friends". That is literally the first time we see any hint of the potential that he is capable of any form of human connection at all. Its also the first time that we see his face in distress (his face is obscured by shadow when he gets bit) in contract to what is up until now his constant cruel smirk. It is the first time that we see him show any level of vulnerability at all. And we as an audience are like fuck yeah, I want justice, I want to see him get what he deserves. We don't know what we want, but we are glad that it is happening. Maybe in this bleak-ass show the closest thing to a good thing that can happen is something bad happening to a bad person.

We see Vern betray him in a very bizarro-christ-in-the-garden-of-Gethsemane-way when he favors former prag Franklin Winthrop when Robson gets physical with him. Winthrop is an interesting character in this conversation because he and Gunzel are a taste of how good it can feel when we see rapists get what a large portion of the audience feels like is even justice for not only their crimes but what a dick Gunzel is when Beecher tries to protect him/bragging to the bikers about the crime (and our desire to see the advancement of the love arc between Keller and Beecher through Schillinger's offer). Their fate is satisfying on both a moral and narrative level. Like Robson in season 2, the audience also wants to punish the characters for what they had to witness. Their joint assault on their female victim is the 2nd most graphic SA scene on the show. The last time we were made this uncomfortable, somebody lost their mushroom cap. It sets a pattern of expectations, sort of a horrible version of the fairy tale rules of three, with each incident in a sequence of three following the same pattern and escalating.

Then Pancamo gets out if the infirmary ready to completely FSU and Robson has nobody. Hes not a small dude, hes pretty fit, but Palarmo is not only larger but has numbers to back him up. We see Robson have a lot of physical altercations and come out the less damaged party about 50% at the time. When he loses in the boxing match to Cyril earlier in the show, again, a triumphant moment of not only bad guy Robson and the Aryan antagonists not persevering but getting to watch Cyril have a victory over at least one of his rapists. Hes not somebody who can always physically defend himself even with the brotherhood to back him up. He holds Pancamo off with a book cart until the guards break it up and rescue him. Then we see him bug the fuck out. He is wide eyed and terrified and breathing heavy and looks like hes about to burst into tears.

He goes to Cutler for protection, who we know nothing about other than that he is a nazi who killed a man by burying him alive with his head exposed and running over his head with a motor cycle. Robson stabbed a stranger, which is unforgivable, but its also only a choice he was able to act on on impulse. Cutler's victim was prepared in a way that would be extremely time and labor intensive just to enjoy the act and do something uniquely deranged, which is significantly scarier and requires an even longer and more intense period of autonomous choice to do something evil. May I introduce the new most unlikable and unsympathetic character, Wolfgang Cutler. When Robson approaches Cutler, he offers to hurt anybody Culter wants him to hurt in any way Cutler wants him to hurt them. Cutler's response is that Robson is the person he wants to hurt, and he wants to hurt him in the worst way possible, in a way that he genuinely has to calculate if it is worse than a violent death.

When we see him talking to sister Pete he is absolutely pathetic, and confesses that he has lived his entire life in fight or flight waiting to be hurt/killed. He is torn on which fate is worse. You still don't feel bad for him, but you're not sure how much you want to watch. Maybe it would be better to just watch a death scene. But didn't you want justice? And you're like yeah, I guess if it has to happen again on the show the character that I would be least upset to see it happen to would be Robson. So he goes back to Cutler, and in THE top most disturbing, graphic, and drawn out SA scene in the series, he is violently sodomized with a metal spoon. Suddenly, Cutler is the perpetrator that subjected us as an audience to the new most uncomfortable scene, and our laser ray of hate becomes focused on him.

We see a completely fallen Robson feminized and humiliated. Cutler is publicly parading around the fact that he is raping Robson, and all of his fellow prisoners join in degrading and mocking him over the fact that he is being raped. Nobody is helping him. Even when Cutler protects him, he is faced with the realty that the only person who gives a fuck about keeping him alive for any reason is a rapist who wants to use him as a sex toy. Is this fate actually better than death? If death would have been better, has he already submitted to too much in his attempt to stay alive that he can't go back on it even if it means he gets to die in relative peace?

In his conversation with Sister Pete, he breaks down in tears and admits that he was a CSA victim and feels like he can't defend himself now any more than he could defend himself when he was a 6 year old little boy getting "fucked in the shed". Understanding the full significance of this means knowing a little bit about the pop psychology climate of the very early 00s. To some audiences at the time, this revelation is the missing puzzle piece that explain why Robson does what he does for 4 seasons. It was a commonly accepted theory that sexual abusers were acting out of sexual trauma, abusing others as a way to take the power back that was stolen from them when they were abused. Robson has lived "shacked up with a psycho", as he later sobs to Sister Pete, for every moment of his existence that is accounted for in the narrative: First with his father, then as Vern's lieutenant, and now as Cutler's prag. This confession also carries the weight of the fact that in submitting to his abuse at Cutler's hands, he is not only reliving his most painful and shameful childhood trauma, but he cannot even experience it as a secret. We wanted to see him hurt, but this is a lot. It kind of isn't satisfying anymore. He can't get much more broken and pitiful. We don't feel any better about seeing him in this state than Said felt about punching him so long after he was passed out.

We see Cutler humiliate him in the gym and then leave him behind for the Italians to intercept, which he responds to by freezing in panic and staring at nothing with dissociated eyes. Does he care if they end his suffering at this point? Was it worth what he went through if he only survived a few miserable days extra before the Italians get their revenge on him anyway? But they don't kill him, they tell him he can redeem himself by killing Cutler and in exchange they won't kill him. The audience is almost as relieved as the character.

Not out of the woods yet though, because we are then subjected to the most graphic (not the most disturbing but 100% the most explicit) scene of any sort of sex act in the series. Nothing is left to the imagination. It shows more than viewers at the time thought even an HBO show could show and still be considered art. It is disgusting and relentless and you want it to stop but didn't you want to see him endure the worst fate possible for his crimes? Did you ever think you would be capable of feeling any pity for the most evil character on the show until Cutler's introduction? Because holy shit you feel bad for him. Even his method for murdering Cutler involves sexually degrading himself in order to convince Cutler to put a noose around his neck (IMHO it is also pretty punk rock and symbolic to kill a white supremacist villain by hanging because of the historical connotations with nooses and racial violence by lynching). When it is over, the worst person in Oz is dead and you are happy about it. Did Robson deserve to get abused? Another question you could ask is, did you like seeing him suffer at the hands of somebody you liked even less? Did you like seeing Cutler swagger and parade him around and get off? If a bad person is hurt by a worse person is your instinct to hate the perpetrator or celebrate that he abused the "right victim"?

Still not over. Unable to accept his rape, he ruins his relationship with his wife and crosses the only line he has ever expressed having. With everything he's done, he now reveals that he does have some moral limit in his mind, he does have some sense of shame (he also expresses shame about what he's done to others when talking to sister Pete). He's not happy about the people he hurt. He doesn't feel good about it. He hurt all those people trying to feel better and it didn't even work. He is then diagnosed with HIV, which had a very different prognosis in 2000 than it does today in 2024. Finally we get a silver lining, a tiny chance at the potential for some sort of redemption; he joins a support group for rape survivors and seeks professional help for his trauma.

That is his last plot point on the show, but the deleted scenes extend the nightmare and I think one in particular is important to mention. In the scene, he is cornered in a bathroom stall by Clarence, who we recognize as the man who originally threatened Winthrop with rape in order to get Winthrop to submit to the Aryans for protection. At best he is a rape enabler, but we come to find that he intends to rape Robson. Robson agrees not to resist, saying it is because he knows he couldn't beat Clarence in a fight. Again, devastating scene. Robson looks so hopeless and literally asks Clarence point blank if he's about the be raped, and when Clarence confirms you want to see the now-healed Robson fight back and it is tragic when he doesn't. Wasn't the last time supposed to be THE last time? Back in the pod, Vern approaches him about a rumor that Clarence was spreading that he fucked Robson, which Robson confirms is true. Vern is disgusted (always weird what he shows disgust/outrage at and what he normalizes/justifies he has very shifty moral goalposts from one episode to the net). Vern asks why he let it happen (Which he really couldn't have prevented it Clarence was 3x his size and he was unarmed and alone). Robson replies that it was for "retribution". When Clarence passes by the cell and mocks Robson, Robson reveals that he was infected with aids and he infected Clarence. For the first time he can make an abuser pay for abusing him without having to be violent himself. This last time WAS the last time it was ever going to happen because now nobody would ever do that to him again without dying a horrible death. He announces with his final line that he is moving to the HIV unit. I have no idea why they deleted this scene.

We hate Robson for nearly his entire run on the show, and while I don't think this arc makes him sympathetic, it forces us to confront what we thought we wanted/what we thought would be justice. When the arc starts you want to see literally every bad thing ever happen to Robson to punish him for all the atrocities he commits with no consequences. It forces us to ask ourselves if we really wanted "equal justice" if it meant having to be so intimately involved with the most repulsive parts of it. At a point you feel bad about wanting what you wanted, there is a limit, you want it to stop. But until you have to watch Robson get his "justice" no matter how pitiable and human he becomes, you think nothing would be too bad for him.

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ozimagines · 5 months ago

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Tobias Beecher dating Chris Keller in prison would include…

It was Oz. Some men loved men, right? Only Beecher wasn’t always sure he liked men. He’s gotten crushes here and there but always told himself he just wanted to be like those men, not fuck them.

That was until Keller. Keller was everything Beecher found detestable yet all he could do was hold the other man close.

Keller on the other hand always had a clue. Since forever. Had a thing for his high school quarterback when he was receiver. Julien Maye or something to that effect.

Keller was only sorry he never got to fuck him.

They never had the conversation. Am I yours and are you mine? Are we each others? No; they don’t say it, because they both know it.

So they make the best of it in Oz.

Saturdays are Date Day. There’s no class or visiting, and some prisoners even got a break from their jobs.

Saturdays, Keller would wake Beecher up with a kiss, or if Beecher got up, he would say the names of foods he would cook for Chris, pretending their smells were wafting through the house and waking him up. 🥹

Beecher isn’t ever allowed to say “burgers” though. Because as Keller said, “it’s just cruel if you don’t actually have one.”

They held hands and walked the perimeter of Em City, Chris usually narrating like they’re walking through a city.

“I’d love to take you on my motorcycle, y’know. Open road, your arms on my waist. And we’d just cruise. Till we couldn’t go any further. Just you and me.”❤️

They always sat together at lunch, touching knees under the table.

“Fishsticks. I’d go a head and bet there’s no fish in here.” Toby muses at lunch. He wishes that they’d had a nicer date meal.

“Happy date day, baby.” Keller passes him something under the table. Beecher unwraps the package. There’s lemon and a tiny bottle of olive oil, barely a couple of ounces.

Beecher spends ten minutes peeling the breading off his fish, adding the condiments to it.

Still sucks but was much more appetizing this way.

He kissed Keller in the janitor’s closet later to thank him.

They’d make the day theirs.

On Saturday mornings they would request cartoons. They didn’t have any cereal but Wacky Races was fun either way.

Keller couldn’t care less, but Beecher got this cute little giggle every time Muttley laughed his signature laugh. Just a little crease in the corner of his eye and a smirk. But Keller just loved seeing Beecher happy.

Schillinger always tries to ruin it. Either in person or by proxy with one of his aryans in Em City.

He’d try everything. Having Robson mail his own shit. Call in a contraband so that Em City was in lockdown.

Little did he know, Toby called Lockdowns “rainy days”. He’d pretend that they were just stuck in doors all day, and cuddly Chris, playing with his neck and shoulders.

“Tomato soups and grilled cheese.”

“I look like a drive through to you?”

“My mom would make that every rainy day.” Beecher mused into Chris’s back. “Just the canned stuff. When I went to college, I tried to make it from scratch. Three types of fresh cheese, sourdough bread, roasted tomatoes and peppers. The works. You know what?”

“Hm?” Chris mumbles, not really listening, but enjoying the sound of Beecher’s voice.

Beecher rests his head on Keller’s, pressing his lips to the other man’s ear.

“Never tasted any better than the canned stuff.”

A silence falls over them, and Keller can tell Beecher is thinking about the life he lost.

“Never had canned grilled cheese.” He says after a moment.

Beecher is starts to chuckle and the laughter grows and grows until he’s full on cackling and crying at the same time.

Keller holds him, laughing and wiping his tears all the same.

One day, Keller isn’t his usual self. Just doesn’t have that spark of life.

He won’t tell Beecher what it is, but asks for a little space. Beecher does his homework and realizes that it’s the anniversary of his divorcing Bonnie again.

He’s a little hurt his boyfriend is so emotional over his ex wife, but sits Keller down and tells him that he can have all the pace he needs and if they need to take a break for a while they can.

Keller shuts that down immediately. He’s not upset he lost Bonnie. He’s upset he might lose Toby. Bonnie said something to him in the heat of their divorce.

“Next time, you’re the one who’ll be left.”

It haunted him. The idea of ending up alone.

Toby assured him but these assurances fell of deaf ears.

Instead, Beecher just started to live to spoon his boyfriend. After a few moments of silence, heard;

“We belong to the light, be belong to the thunder. We belong to the sound of the words we’ve both fallen under. Whenever we deny our embrace, for worse or for better. We belong. We belong. We belong together.”

Silence again.

“I’m worried I might die alone, and you sing fucking Pat Benatar?” Chris asks, the smirk on his face audible in his voice. Toby smiled into his shoulder.

“It’s a power ballad, dick.” He informed and both of them giggled at the absurdity of their conversation.

“I love ya, Tobes.”

“I love you too, Chris. Think I may have mentioned that by now.”

“You might have to keep saying it. Not sure I believe you just yet.”

“And now?” Toby teased, kissing his boyfriend’s neck.

When they wake up, Toby has a proposition and a wide, guilty smile.

“What’d you do, Toby?”

Beecher explained.

“You’re worried you might die alone, yet you’re so guarded about letting me in. Listen, Oz may be all that’s left for us in this world. So, let’s do it then. Let’s do what lovers do, as it were.”

“What? You wanna move in together?” Chris asked sarcastically, gesturing to the Pod they’ve shared together for five years. Toby rolled his eyes and continued.

“I want you to meet my daughter, you ass.”

Chris freezes. Damn. He’d seen shankings and rapings and killings galore and he’d never been so afraid as right then.

“I set up a visit for tomorrow.”

“I’m busy tomorrow.”

“And the day after?” Toby chided.

For a good theory two hours, Chris had sweaty palms. He couldn’t sleep or eat.

“Chris, she’s eleven. What’s the worst that could happen?”

“She could be working for Schillinger and try to whack me.” Keller joked, going to shave his face.

He knew though. He knew that wasn’t the worst that could happen. The worst that could happen is if he walked out there and the kid instantly started crying or was afraid of him. Saw through the charm. Kids and animals. Excellent judges of character. Middle aged white men from rich backgrounds? Not so much.

The day comes and Chris rubs his hands on his pant legs to get them dry. They walked together.

“Would you relax?”

“Good question. No.” Keller responded.

“You’re gonna do fine. She’s a little new… Hell, I’m a little new at this whole… whatever this is. But she’s-“

“Don’t mention we fuck.” Chris responded dryly. “Dually noted.”

They walked into the kids playroom and sat down on the too small chairs. Holly was walked in by her uncle who eyed Chris distrustful the whole time.

Holly smiled when she saw her dad but bristled when she saw Keller. His heart sank.

“Who’re you?” She asked him directly. He went to shake her hand and she furrowed her brow.

“Chris, she’s eleven.” Toby reminded.

“I’m Chris. I’m a friend of your dad’s.”

She nodded.

“It’s nice to meet you, Holly. I’ve heard so much about you.”

It was a little awkward.

“Do you want to play Bluey with Mr. Chris?”

“He doesn’t know, Bluey.”

“Do too.” Chris said with a smirk, because unbeknownst to Beecher, Chris had learned the entire Bluey and Paw Patrol and Phineas and Ferb character lists for this exact moment. God knows he wasn’t good with kids, but he’d do the research.

“What’s the mom’s name?”

“Chili.” He answered, confidently.

“Is he right, honey?” Beecher asked Holly, and she just shrugged.

“I don’t know, I just call her mommy dog.”

Chris barked a genuine laugh and Holly’s eyes darted to him as if she were staring straight through him. She smiled though, so he kept on doing so.

Holly turned to her dad.

“I want to play with Mr. Chris, Daddy.”

“You can just call me Chris, sweetie, that’s alright.”

Her eyes got big, like she was pulled into some big secret society. Calling an adult by their first name was unheard of.

They all got on the floor with the dolls to play together, and Beecher touched Keller’s hand with his pinky to reassure him that he was doing alright.

“One ice cream please.” -Beecher, with a Bandit plushie in hand.

“What flavors do you have?” -Chris, holding a Marshall action figure.

“Cherry, blueberry, and banana.” -Holly responded, flexing the arm on her Gummy Bear plushie.

It was the end and time to reschedule for the next week. Beecher had to make the arrangements with his brother. He instinctively took Holly out with him, but she said she wanted to keep playing for five more minutes with Chris.

When Beecher and his brother were talking, Chris and Holly stayed on the floor, giggling and having fun.

“Can I see you again, Chris?”

“Sure, kid. Next week.”

“Can we play crazy frog next time?”

“I don’t know what that is but sure.”

“Are you gonna marry my daddy?”

“Of course- wait, what?”

Holly smiled ear to ear.

“Don’t be a jerk to my dad, okay? People aren’t nice to him, but he’s a nice man. But you make him happy and you make me laugh so I like you.”

Chris got an idea and got on in knee to talk to her.

“If I wanted to give your daddy a very nice day… what would I do for him?”

Holly smiled.

“Daddy liked to cook and clean and keep the house nice. He says boys can do that too. Maybe you could hold his hand and watch a movie. He likes popcorn and when we get slushies it’s always the cherry one or blue raspberry if they don’t have that but never the coke one because I don’t like that one and we share. He hates shaving so let him have his beard for a day or something but then please make him shave because he looks scary with it.”

“What candy does he like?”

“Anything with peanuts.” She scrunched up her nose. “But the peanut emenems are gross.”

“I agree.” Keller informed with a smile.

“He does like licorice, but only the strawberry ones. He showed me how to bite off the ends and make them into a straw.”

“Anything else?”

“He has really cold toes. Make sure the blanket is on them. And if there’s a scary part in a movie, he closes my eyes but I see him close his too, so do that for him if I’m not there.”

Keller made a mental note of all of this.

The next day, he did everything Holly told him to do to a T. He was the most doting he’d ever been as a lover in his life. Truly just existing for Toby.

Toby fell asleep that night with a smile on his face and for the first time in five years, didn’t have a nightmare.

A month later, Toby received mail from his mother. It was a school assignment Holly did, called “My Best friend and I”, where it was a book where she had to describe her best day ever with her best friend. The teacher had called it “concerning” that her best friend was a grown man of no relation to the family and when Toby saw it, he just laughed.

“My Best Friend Chris.” Toby narrated in a dramatic reading in their pod. Chris touched his heart as a joke, but in reality, the damn thing grew three sizes at that little stapled booklet.

“My Best Friend Chris is tall. He has dark hair that he shaves but he’s not -not is underlined and bold- bald.”

They both cracked up.

“My best friend Chris is-“ Toby snorted and dissolved into hysterics. “Sixty two. He is the best at playing Bluey, even though he doesn’t do the voices.”

Chris smiled and accepted the criticism.

Toby turned the page and his face blushed.

“My favorite thing about my best friend Chris is that he makes my daddy happy, and before he was sad because of mommy and Gary.”

Chris put an arm around Toby.

“One day, my best friend Chris and I will go to the movies and if the movie is boring, Chris will just be funny for me.”

They flipped to the final page, a crude drawing of the three of them.

“I love my best friend Chris.”

It was crazy how much love could change a person. At one point, Keller had fantasies about leaving prison to cruise on his motorcycle and fuck bitches do drugs whatever the desire was for the moment.

Now, Keller spent the whole night dreaming about getting paroled so he could go to the movies with his boyfriend’s daughter.

He smiled a little to himself.

Maybe he could get McManus to put a projector in the visiting room. He could finally watch this Bluey shit.

When he kissed Beecher goodnight that night, he kissed a little extra hard.

“How ya feeling, sailor?” Toby teased.

“Grateful. To you. Thanks for sharing.”

“Sharing what?”

“Holly. You. Your love. All of it. I’ve never had this much before.” He turned away so as to avoid eye contact while opening up, and Beecher kissed his neck.

“Everything I’ve got, whatever I’ve got… you can always have half, okay?”

“Think that’s called marriage, Beech.”

“Okay.” Was all Beecher said.

They went to bed that night, having decided that this was till death do they part.

#hbo oz #oz meme #tobias beecher #chris keller #holly beecher #vernon schillinger #James Robson

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wawamouse · 4 months ago

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Oz Rewatch 3: S5E04: Next Stop Valhalla

Storylines

Jaime tries to kill Guerra and is killed instead; Miguel feels guilty; Alicia Hinden comes to Oz with the dog training program; Augustus, Penders, and Miguel are selected

Miss Sally’s Schoolyard to become Sallycise; Brass confirms to Rebadow he bought the lottery ticket; Martinez hits Brass with a shit cocktail; Gloria tries to get Martinez put in the hospital and then beats him up when he keeps touching her face

Beecher and Schillinger fight during an interaction session; Schillinger antagonises Schibetta;

Peter Marie visits Keller; McClain visits Keller

Winthrop and Guenzel arrive at Oz; Guenzel is taken under Beecher’s wing while Winthrop becomes a prag for the Aryans in Unit B

Frank Urbano arrives at Oz; Beecher asks Pancamo for the Italians help in protecting Guenzel; the Aryans and Italians get into a fight

Gloria tells Ryan he has to tell his mother about his crimes; Ryan breakdances instead; Shupe tells O’Reily that Li going to rape his mom; Ryan and Cyril kill Li

Augustus continues to grieve his mother and ends up breaking his sobriety

Omar annoys Emerald City and Said with his singing, McManus gives him a supply closet to practice in; Redding demands Omar use it to sell drugs; Lalar and Arif complain to Said that he’s neglecting his role as leader; Robson tortures and kills Lalar

Sister: That’s why they gotta stop announcing everything they do in this show, like...

Sister: I feel like [Norma’s] just dead at this point.

Sister: I feel like they’re leading up to him being like a mass shooter or something. Me: You think he’s gonna snap? Sister: He seems like the type...

Sister: …I think being free would making him happy. I mean, [Toby] had that whole vision about being free that did not include [Chris], so I think he’ll be fine.

Sister: You can just tell them anything and they’ll let you through…

Sister: What’s wrong with this guy? What’s he in for? Me: Hate crimes… Murder, officially, I think. Sister: Hate crime? What’s he sniffing people for? Me: He's just a perv...

Sister: …That’s so gross… In my sickened state*, I can’t even summon a bleugh. Me: [Retching noise] Sister: Thanks. (*We got some booster shots yesterday and Sister always gets sick afterward lol)

Sister: When are they going to address that guy whose wife also died? Me: Never. Sister: So why did they introduce her?! To spout off some facts and get shushed by the priest?? Me: Maybe there was originally supposed to be more of a story to it and it go cut. Sister: No, they just wanted to do their little after school special moment and then not deal with it. You know, if any of the Muslims should be having the issues in these episodes, it should be the other guy (Arif), not Mr. Said... Me: They could have issues together. Sister: Yeah. Kill the Nazi helper dude. The one who's egging everything on. Schillinger doesn't even really do stuff on his own anymore. Before, he didn't want to fight and wanted to become a Jesus freak and it was always that guy whispering in his ear. And now look.

Sister: How we know he’s not gonna build a bomb in there? … Oh, I guess they took away all the cleaning supplies…

Stray Thoughts

Sister says Jia Kenmin and Li Chen’s plan to provoke Ryan so they could kill him in self defense was really not thought-out

Sister is convinced that someone is going to die for one of the dogs

Sister believes that killing Robson would get rid of most of the Aryans’ bite since she views him as being the worst out of all the Aryans

Final thoughts

The scene where Robson and what’s his face torture Lalar is the toughest scene to watch in the entire show, imo. And it pisses me off (like, I’m actually getting mad thinking about it right now, lol) that Robson gets more expansion in terms of character as the show progresses, too, because whooooooooo gives a shit about a Nazi?! They still haven’t followed up on Arif’s wife LMAO. Also Urbano gets introduced this episode and they don’t end up doing shit with him, really, either. But let’s learn about this asshole!!

Sister: I feel like they’ve run out of storylines with the Muslims and are just repeating past ones. Wasn’t it [Arif] who was the one complaining about Said’s leadership the last time? And then he couldn’t handle it which caused the whole thing… and now he’s doing it again? Me: I think they just don’t like when Said helps other people. They complained when Said was spending time on Beecher, too… Sister: Yeah, [Arif] is so needy… He’s like “you’re spending too much time with your roommate who you have to stay in a cell with” and also every time he is around, [Said] just wants [Omar] to be quiet anyway…

#oz hbo #oz rewatch

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