Miami Vice
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Glad tbis popped up. Could put it as a reminder to watch since I have ni series to watch since Tokyo Vice finished... 
Actors and fans celebrate the ‘Miami Vice’ television series’ 40th anniversary in Miami Beach
Miami Beach residents and visitors can feel it coming in the air tonight — and the rest of the weekend— as “Miami Vice” cast and crew gather to celebrate the iconic television series’ 40th anniversary.
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I've seen almost every episode. It was one of the hottest shows on television when I was growing up. I even had Miami Vice notepad in 4th grade. Friday nights, this show as mandatory in my household back then. Big Booty Trudie was fine as a mf. The only thing I didn't understand is how they kept going undercover in Miami so much without being recognized.
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I got the rolling stone’s cover framed and I’m going to buy the soundtrack on vinyl before the year is out lol
Said the same thing lol
it's a big city but not THAT big in the high level cocaine trafficking/crime world. You ever hear of these two guys? One black, one white? cigarette boat? Ferrari? Anyone who works with them gets indicted?
you have to take cop shows like that the way we take James Bond. They were killing like 50 people a season. Having 10 intense and tragic love affairs over the course of like 3 months. They always play with time in those shows too, very little mention is ever made of time passing.
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Never fully watched it from beginning to end but Michael Mann is a genius. Aside from the directing and cinematography, shooting most episodes on location in South Beach, the idea to have the character on top of male trends in fashion and cars etc. was a genius move
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and I don't know how many girlfriends they lost to death during the seasons on the air. The most famous one was Sheena Easton being killed as Crockett's girlfriend by the prisoner he freed.
Right. Like a half dozen a season lol -same with James Bond. That's what made the romance in the movie so perfect, Mann got that movie exactly right, and audiences just didn't get it. The Mann version of Vice is the dark romances, and tragic deaths, the network tv shyt was the buddy buddy comedy.
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Yea in the television version, everyone had their comedy lines and it was a upbeat show with a lot of funny scenes. Izzy and Noogie were my favorite rats and once they put those 2 together, it was a wrap. Castillo(Almos) was the only character that never cracked a smile and never joked. Dude was serious 24/7
True, but the real heart of the show was how dark it was. Heroin addicted love interests. Crockett's girlfriend who dies from trying to body smuggle an ounce of cocaine. The serial burglar who painted his face. The rich businessman who raped and killed the girl and got away with it. The porn producer who Crockett threatens and beats down, because he got away with a snuff film. The serial killer escort who falls in love with Tubbs.
That's a dark show. Almost each episode ended on a mixed note. Lost loves and killings. If it was left to Mann, it would have probably been not able to be a hit. It would have been Thief.
people remember it being like a buddy cop series with bikinis, and it was, but it was something else too.
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yes. This is true. The most memorable episode to me as a kid was when they were stealing babies and selling them to rich families. At the end of that episode, the lady was about to get her child back who was around 3 or 4 at the time and he didn't want to leave the only family he'd ever known. She eventually let the family keep him and just walked away. I've thought about that episode for damn near 40 years. my cousin, who is 6 years older than me, said, "I would have got my child". As I've gotten older, I don't know what decision I would have made. That episode just fukked me up. You didn't get many happy endings.
The one with the high school heroin kingpin who kills the football star. They were almost all like that - lol - obviously straining credibility, going to look up that episode you described.
they arrested multiple love interests for murders too. Tubbs in The Great McCarthy, a classic Vice episode.
My best friend bought a Donzi cigarette boat, it was like 100k, and maybe 15 years old, but it was really sick. We whipped that around the Bay living out that Miami Vice fantasy.
