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The Yard is a reminder that turf wars extend beyond Oswald State Correctional Facility

By Kevin Naulls

| July 12, 2011

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Equal parts Oz, Disney’s Recess and The Wire, HBO Canada’s The Yard is a 30-minutes-per-episode comedy centered on the politics of the playground (with swearing). We’ll walk you through the bedwetting, trading-card economy and mean-girl groin-kicking antics in our recaps, beginning today, but in the meantime here’s the trailer that got us hooked.

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