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Jaybeee -> Remember the 80's 'Miami Vice'? (2/25/2011 9:48:14 AM)
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Just downloaded Seasons 1+2, got season 3 on the way. I'm stunned at how far ahead of it's time it was (sans the shoulder pads, of course!!).
I was a mere pup of a lad when it first came out but even then, I loved how 'in your face' it seemed, and looking back as a guy of Crockett+Tubbs age (ok, I'm a shade older but a boy can dream??!) it had an unsurpassed melange of 'cool' and 'gritty' nothing on tv has ever since gotten close to.
Sonny was a hard-drinking, stony-broke playboy with male-model good looks, and girl-length layered blonde hair, who looked like he came from monied stock that lost it all, forcing him to get a grunt job as a cop. He just happened to also go on to become a damn good one. Tubbs was a New York detective with more than a small chip on his shoulder for having had to charm his way out of whatever ghetto he started life in, a smooth West Indian accent, a quick temper, a cheeky smile and surprisingly light eyes for his heritage.
Apart from their utter damn cool, you couldn't ask for two more different characters.
I loved how unflinchingly that genius Mann showed the inside of the department, their twisting private lives, the infiltrations, busts and shenanigans. It all got a little surreal at times with dream sequences, Crockett starting to forget his real id and slip into his alias, and wondering why they still did the job for $35k a year with bullets flying around their heads, but it was all worth it. The amazing bodies on the gangster's various molls ALONE made the series worth watching, as well as the scorching scene in the final episode where they face down a firing squad, and of course, the kudos you get for being able to name the episodes where their boss, Lieutenant Castillo, actually smiled.
Don, Phil, thanks fellas.
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