Miami Vice

[semicko82]

I think my Mom started letting me watch Miami Vice in the 90's when it was syndicated on FX, I always had a taste for the darker side of books, movies, TV, and I fell into the show heavily, even at like age 11 and 12. I would try to put my friends on too lol

Crockett's girlfriend overdoses on cocaine
Crockets girlfriend is a heroin addict
Shadow In The Dark
There's one in season 5 about a snuff film I like
I think one called Pure Miami with that scumbag Ted Nugent edit: Definitely Miami
Bruce Willis as a wife beating arms dealer

The show always appealed to me, because despite any 80's music or style, it's a very dark, nihilistic show, in which no one ever really wins, Mann was famous for those last few minute endings where there really was just a sense of dread and foreboding, no celebration. It also played heavily with themes of the dual nature of cop/criminal, and the cost of that job.

The first 3 seasons are probably the best, and most consistent, it went off the rails a bit, in the last seasons, though good Vice is always good. Also, this movie is clearly the inspiration for Bad Boys (1995).

Before I started to watch Miami Vice I just remember people talking about the fashion and music. That was just a Trojan Horse because the dealt with some dark subjects. The first two seasons were great and Edward James Olmos acting was incredible.

 

[sjankis630]

Yes I am that old LOL!
believe me the mid 80s were a totally different time to be alive. No internet cellular phone, GPS or even laptops. The video games were simplified and one had to stretch one's imagination. Good times.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Season 2 started off so lit with Crockett & Tubbs in New York

 

[ECA]

The way this show used popular music

 

[jay211]

cocaine 80s minus the drugs and violence was great decade

but without the drugs and violence it might have not been great

This scene will NEVER GET OLD. One of the greatest TV scenes. So atmospheric.

 

[Sohh_lifted]

Yo was there an episode with a $5k hooker? Lmaoo I used to work with a lady that said it was her

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Out Where The Buses Don't Run

 

[Danie84]

That episode where Pam Grier sister get caught up in MIA underworld fukkkery

 

[Knights89]

 

[re'up]

I watched almost all of the series again this year on Starz, and I can say that the first 3 are among some of my favorite TV series of all time, but the 5th season is basically unwatchable, and has the worst, most uninspired series finale I have ever seen. Anytime Crockett took a long brooding drive in his Ferrari, it was brilliant television. I would say this show started, and perfected the music centered monolouge sequence, that all the revered shows of the late 90's and 2000's used.

There's a good dating serial killer one from Season 4, and the snuff film one, but the fourth is pretty bad too.

 

[Wise]

Never watched this show as it was before my time but it's always nostalgic to remember a time where smartphones werent the thing

How common was drug dealing in the show anyways? I know it was during the time coke was booming in MIA

 

[Danie84]

@Wise , that's why I still I Go HAM with Matlock/Columbo rewatches

...a time when you had to figure FUKKERY out without advanced technology

84 Baby/90s Kid

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Immersing yourselves in GTA Vice city wit the sound track in the black ground brehs

 

[sjankis630]

It is weird. As I mentioned earlier I was at college up in a small town medium sized college. It was a big deal when I could get a beer underage.
What I have been told from some people who were in Miami in the 1980s, things down there in certain places were off the hook.
I mean going to a club/restaurant and having your coke in a little vial out on the table for all to see.

 

[Rell Lauren]

Had a Hulu subscription just for this show. Great cop drama.