People always say that HBO changed television. People always credit The Sopranos as the HBO show that ushered in the Golden Age of Television. People were right... partly. In 1997, two years before New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano suffered panic attacks, HBO decided to give us one by taking us through the Yellow Brick Road and into Emerald City, a road and a city littered with murderers, rapists, pedophiles, white supremacists, sociopaths, pigs, and corrupt politicians. One man was branded with a swastika in the ass, another was sprayed with lighter fluid and set aflame -- that's just in the first hour of our visit. Fast forward to today, a decade and a half later, it's still THEE most verbally, physically, and sexually-assaulting show to ever land on the small screen. Without it, there will be no The Shield, there will be no Breaking Bad, there will be no Game of Thrones. Its DIVERSE cast would go on to act on game-changing ensemble shows like the aforementioned The Sopranos, The Wire, Lost, Dexter, Fringe, The Good Wife, and many more. An experiment, a probing, a microcosm of society and its dark and twisted urges; a claustrophobic examination of the human condition -- Oz was REVOLUTIONARY.