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Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on artistic frustration and serial murder in HANGOVER SQUARE (1945) and A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: Intro // 00:00-14:00 Later seasons lost some of the lighter madcap feel but made up for it with a dark nihilism familiar to film noir fans.Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Emmett get Mann fever and discuss getting high on the action in the soulful, stylish world of undercover narcotrafficking in the pilot episode of MIAMI VICE: BROTHER'S KEEPER (1984) + Michael Mann's impressionistic, hyper-digital masterpiece of a remake/update on the material MIAMI VICE (2006). Crazy, funny, edgy and even poignant at times. Iconic and definitive police show from the 1980s.

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This dark tone in later seasons, plus an unwise programming shift to opposite 80s megahit Dallas, proved too much and the show ended in season 5. Throughout the show you can see the cynicism of the main characters and the feeling that they’re barely doing anything to stem the tide of crime. Crocket and Tubbs frequently do battle with corruption and enemies within their own department.
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Major supporting characters can and do die, almost unheard of on TV shows at the time. In my opinion one of the most effective and beautiful combinations of music and film ever.ĭespite the beautiful photography and 80s glitz, the show could have a really dark film noir vibe at times, especially in later seasons. The song’s lyrics turning what would normally be a filler scene into an ominous tension builder. The best example in the pilot episode when the Phil Collins track “Something in the air tonight” glides through the speakers, accompanying a night driving scene. Most of the episodes were beautifully mixed in stereo and incorporated color schemes, musical cues and camera work in tightly controlled harmony. In many TV shows, soundtrack is a filler at best and treated as a distraction. You can see these styles introduced and change as you go through its 5 seasons.Īnother defining aspect of the show is the extensive use of then current pop and rock music and the frequent guest starring of famous performers such as Glenn Frey and Sheena Easton. super cars and cigarette boats, Miami architecture, pastel colors, cell phones the size of milk cartons, Italian suits over t-shirts, big hair and aviator glasses, many 80s fashions were defined or greatly popularized by this show. The show is a perfect time capsule of what was cool in the 1980’s. Miami Vice was a phenomenon when it aired. Ricardo Tubbs is a New York street cop who comes to Miami looking for the drug smuggler responsible for his brothers death.

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The show also dealt with other hot button issues like IRA terrorism, gangs and gun violence. Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC.1 The series stars Don Johnson. Many involving the intense gang war going on in Florida at the time, over control of the lucrative Columbian drug trade. Most of the episodes were loosely based on actual crimes. The show typically followed their antics as vice officers in the dangerous drug underworld of 1980s Miami Florida. Starring Don Johnson as Detective James Crocket and Philip Michael Thomas as his partner, Ricardo Tubbs. Miami Vice is an iconic 1980s television program that became one of the defining influences on the decade’s fashion and made a superstar out of Don Johnson. Florida cops chase cocaine cowboys in cool cars!
