OZ是奥兹瓦尔德最高戒备监狱（Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary）的简称。OZ《监狱风云》是HBO第一部独立制作并广受好评的电视剧集，是一部叫人上瘾、沉溺于其中剧情不能自拔的监狱生活肥皂剧。OZ是社会的一个缩影，囊括了所有能发生在监狱中的故事：帮派之争，毒品交易，强暴，杀人，越狱，爱与恨……OZ也是个微型的小社会，举凡美国社会常见的力量，如意大利帮、中国帮、爱尔兰帮、穆斯林、同性恋 、新纳粹等等，在其中都有体现。虽是监狱题材的集大成者，却又远远不止是监狱。在OZ，没有主角，没有简单的善恶存在。谁是邪恶的，谁是英雄，无从简单的一概而论，每个人都在做出从他的角度和立场，最理所当然的选择。
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper（丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰），因为坏运气和坏脾气，他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院，里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由，就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生，甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方，任何事情都不是表面那样，Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在，但这样可能会证明：最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。
