By choice I don’t watch very much television. For me it’s all too easy to sit down in front of the thing, and before you know it time has passed, a day is gone. For this reason I don’t have television service in my home, but I do have it in the building next door, in the office area under my dungeon.

I do though watch and enjoy a good number of movies on DVD, and in this I include some of the extremely good TV shows that are available on disc. Rome, The Sopranos, and Pen & Teller’s Bullshit come to mind.

Recently I’ve started watching OZ, an HBO series from quite a few years ago.

I don’t find OZ to be spectacular TV as is Rome, nor particularly exciting as is The Sopranos, nor in keeping with my own core values as is Bullshit. What I do find in it however is a very interesting vision of open and naked dominance and submission.

The groups within the story all fight for dominance over each other, and the individuals within each group fight for dominance over the other group members. There are explicit D/s storylines within the show, but beyond that the entire show is more or less devoted to the theme of dominance and forced submission to the will of the stronger group or individual.

Of course our society is in its entirety one of power, all relationships have the dominant partner or group along with the submissive. BDSM simply recognizes these facts and uses extreme forms of them for pleasure. OZ through its prison setting throws these fundamental facts into our full view, confronts us with them.

Interesting watching.