Her sisters, the witch of the West and North, will soon learn of her death. Dorothy kills the witch of the East when she lands in Oz. Of course, “Emerald City” would be nothing without the witches. The TV show will show him unlock the secrets of his forgotten past. She finds him in a field fixed on a crucifix-like structure. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of NBC’s “ Emerald City” is the fact that the Scarecrow (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has a love affair with Dorothy. He has banned magic in Oz and accidentally arrived in the city a long time ago. Then there is the Wizard (Vincent D'Onofrio) who is starkly different from the one in the original story. In fact, she may be the only one who can stop it. Furthermore, Oz is at the center of a battle between science and magic and Dorothy becomes inevitably part of this war. The trailer reveals that she may be more than just a simple girl. Frank Baum’s classic tale of “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.”Īlthough many of the original tale’s characters are the same – for example, a Kansas-born farm girl named Dorothy Gale (Adria Arjona) gets swept off in a tornado and lands in the magical city of Oz – a lot of details about these characters have changed.įor starters, Dorothy isn’t just a farm girl. The fantasy series is a reimagining of L. The whole thing is narrated and held together by inmate Augustus Hill, who provides the show with context and some sense of theme, and ties everything together nicely.NBC TV show “Emerald City” is already generating a lot of buzz after its official trailer released online last week. Nathan), a nun/psychologist (Sister Peter Marie), a bunch of guards-some honest, some crooked-and, of course, the warden, Leo Glynn. Besides the regular inmates, there are guest stars such as Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, etc. And a great 'everyman' character called Beecher offers a good look at a normal man who made one tragic mistake. There are the gangstas (Adebisi, Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keene, Supreme Allah), Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), Italians (Pancamo, Nappa, Schiebetta), bikers (Hoyt), Aryans (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), Christians (Cloutier, Cudney), Latinos (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), gays (Hanlon, Cramer), and a pile of others (the O'Riley brothers, Keller, Stanislovsky, etc.). There have been many groups of inmates during the run of the show and not everybody makes it out alive. OZ chronicles McManus' (Terry Kinney) efforts to control the inmates of Em(erald) City as well as the drug trade and the violence.

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