I like how the writers decided Crockett dealing with this estranged family or w/e wasn't going anywhere and dropped that plot sideline right at the start
― mh, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Tubbs doll:
http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/miamivice/RicardoTubbs-GreenSuit.jpg
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
lol love the OP's enthusiasm
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:48 (nine years ago) link
s1e1 surprisingly moving?
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2017 03:34 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/i0DGacS.jpgYou got a leak your department the size of the east rivuh
― calstars, Friday, 9 June 2017 02:24 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Y0sRTX4.jpgAlright that's it. Any questions?Yeah, I gotta question. You roll some fruit for that shirt or what?
― calstars, Friday, 9 June 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
http://imgur.com/3zn8p4P.jpgYou were my partner...thanksgiving...birthdays
― calstars, Friday, 9 June 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
http://imgur.com/LCseL5Q.jpgin the air
ok gotta rewatch that
I just remember the subplot of Sonny's family (divorce?) that they backgrounded and how Olmos doesn't appear much until later
― mh, Friday, 9 June 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
olmos wasn't their original captain so that's why he didn't show up until episode 4 or whenever.
― jbn, Saturday, 10 June 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
yeah Castillo is the original captain until he gets murdered and they have that whole epic revenge episode
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
err....not castillo, I mean Rodriguez
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Golden Triangle 2 parter the highlight of season 1, despite it's kind of cop-out ending. I always thought if they were going to make a sequel to the Mann movie, they could have cribbed it from that
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Is it worth it watching the whole season? Or should I just skip to those episodes? Cause I watched a bit of ep 2 and it seemed kind of schlocky
― calstars, Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
it takes a lil bit to get going, I started enjoying it by episode 3. once they start having two-parters and the stakes get epic it gets more fun. The Ed O'Neill episode is weird, it feels like it belongs later in the season.
the two I noted have a notably darker tone than the rest of the season.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Golden Triangle is Olmo's star turnAlso who knew Josie Packard is in this? : )
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link
I have never seen MV, but just learned that one of them had a pet alligator and want to give it a try. Studio could have added a gator or two to the marketing of this show if they had wanted to appeal to folks like me.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awzOq_XKA_o
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
Tim Capello!
― peace, man, Friday, 23 September 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Cappello
― peace, man, Friday, 23 September 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
I’m just starting with it but Tokyo Vice seems decent so far. It’s interesting to me that there’s basically a whole subgenre of police procedurals indebted to The Wire. (Maybe Tokyo Vice will resolve the apparent dysfunction easily idk.) But Narcos Mexico was another one that really dug into the dysfunction. Sorry, thread derail.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 23 September 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
Just watched the Pilot for the first time since 1984. I loved this show so much as a 12 yo and thought Sonny Crocket was the coolest thing ever.
What a great show! Has any other TV show, let alone a network TV show, edited scenes with music so completely? The version of "All Night Long" by the latin band in the scene in the club when Tubbs meets Calderon is perfect. Philip Michael Thomas really great job with the contained rage in that scene. In fact, he's as much if not more of the star of the episode as Crocket.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
er, as Johnson.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
The "In the Air Tonight" sequence rules.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Side note, loved how Crockett and Tubbs p much never arrested anyone, they just killed them
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
That pilot pretty much nailed it, iirc the rest is really hit or miss.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
Not in the Pilot! Crockett convinces Tubbs to arrest Calderone instead of blow him away in cold blood. Calderone jumps bail (by seaplane, natch, it's Miami) at the v end. Maybe this is where they learned their lesson.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 9 July 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Kind of echoed in the beginning of the movie, where they let the bad guy get away, saying something like "we will get him next time."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 July 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
Second episode very good as well - Ed O'Neil doing ersatz Popeye Doyle.
Maybe it's the SD, but I did find some of the show looked surprisingly cheap.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 10 July 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
there are some good sequences later in the first season. the multi-part episodes are pretty dope
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
E3 Spoilers: Sonny and Rico, tracking down a gang of murderous drug dealers who killed one undercover cop and put the other in a coma, get their big break when they recover a staticky cassette tape recording of the shooting on which coma-cop post-shooting barely whispers a description of the gang. After huge deal of time and effort to clean up the recording, Sonny and Rico proceed to decipher this near-death rattle description while screaming down the highway at night in Sonny's convertible Ferrari.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
Let us now write faux.MV plots
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
Strong disagree that this show peaked with the pilot! Surely it was the truly insane Sonny Burnett storyline - and generally some incredible high 80s set design / direction that makes it feel like a shampoo commercial - like, loving shots of swimming pools etc up there with Less Than Zero - I remember it being totally worthwhile up to the halfway point, think Don Johnson’s stubble reaching actual beard length is the cutoff point? Or did Tubbs grow a beard too? Also Jan Hammer stops doing the music so maybe that is when the magic fades.
Anywqy fuckin epic great show.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
As with Moonlighting the early eps feel a bit doughty and still have some 70s DNA - the show flies when it jettisons all that and goes pure 80s sleek.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:52 (one year ago) link
Where is this show streaming? It's not on Hulu or Netflix — if I want to watch it on Amazon Prime I'll have to pay, which I'm not going to do.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 03:30 (one year ago) link
Never mind; I forgot to check Tubi, and of course it's there.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
really wanted them to do a sequel to the Miami Vice movie and use the Golden Triangle two-parter from Season 1 was a jumping off point for the story.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 03:49 (one year ago) link
*as
Just watched the Ed O'Neill episode — some surprising soundtrack choices (Devo, what I think was Al Jarreau) and pretty dark story-wise.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 04:41 (one year ago) link
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, July 10, 2023 9:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, July 11, 2023 12:41 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is what I am finding fascinating - it feels cheap and 70s in some ways (some really obv soundstage parts they'd use CGI on now, a driving scene obv not in a real vehicle), but also pointing toward the nihilistic stories of later prestige tv. Really looking forward to some of the episodes with recurring characters and multi-part stories.
The music is absolutely critical, too. There are a ton of scenes that start without dialogue, just characters driving cars, piloting boats, or entering a new drug meetup, and the music just plays setting a critical vibe until the dialogue comes in, often over the music as it continues to play out. I don't remember another show where the music is so vital.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
I had a mashup of the 'In the Air Tonight' scene + Ween's 'Demon Sweat' in my head for years and finally synced it up a little while back and was stunned by how well it works: http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/64ad50acdb839-miami-sweat.php
― Why Rashomoff? Rashomon! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
imagine if instead of "In the Air Tonight", they'd used Pac-Man Fever
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:59 (one year ago) link
You may say I'm a dreamer
― Why Rashomoff? Rashomon! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
Yeah my recollection is the show is trying to aim for more offbeat moments at the beginning, and only later does it really fully embrace the mood and true Miami vice vibe we all know and love.
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
The pre-Olmos lieutenant has too much of a Barney Miller vibe. (He was on that show, so it makes sense from an acting standpoint, but he feels completely out of place.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
He had the air of this kinda harried and exasperated superior, def the show required the minimally emotive low key slightly mysterious menace of EJO.
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
it was far better when he was killed off. not only did it give the cool two-parter storyline, but then we got Olmos
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
Nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ-4RaIspRA
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jeqGC2p.jpgOur heroes
― calstars, Thursday, 13 July 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YFdgvRE.jpg
― calstars, Thursday, 13 July 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link