I told my wife two upcoming guest stars were some of my favorite musicians of all time (Miles, Willie Nelson) and she guessed Bob Dylan, Geddy Lee, and Jimi Hendrix (lol) and now I want to see those episodes.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
Just read an interview with Michael Mann where he said his favorite Vice guest star was Miles Davis
― Josefa, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:44 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jfnpP2h.jpgGina makes the kill
― calstars, Sunday, 22 October 2023 22:12 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/K312WxH.jpgA pensive moment
― calstars, Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:47 (ten months ago) link
I remember that apartment and thinking, how cute, I could live there. So Floridian.
― Josefa, Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:46 (ten months ago) link
Yeah GTA Vice City did a grand job of replicating that style, would be nice if the new one could repeat that.
― Ste, Thursday, 2 November 2023 15:56 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PNkoCdA.jpgHey mang, what is happening in your musical life?
― calstars, Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
Ha so much love for Izzy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSiIwOBq65Q
― Ste, Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:58 (ten months ago) link
I had to warm up to him, but now I miss Zito after he was killed
― Josefa, Saturday, 4 November 2023 19:14 (ten months ago) link
This has got to be a top 3 weird list of guest stars on a single episode of Miami Vice (S2E11):
Bob BalabanPatti D'ArbanvilleG. Gordon LiddyIman
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 10 November 2023 01:39 (ten months ago) link
TotallyI’m almost done with season 3 and in the last week have seen benecio del toro and Ian Shane
― calstars, Friday, 10 November 2023 02:09 (ten months ago) link
yeah and Shaney comes back in S5
― Ste, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:07 (ten months ago) link
(in the final ep)
― Ste, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:09 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qy5nrjz.jpgG&T always on point, strictly business, too cool to be forgotten
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:09 (ten months ago) link
G's shirt gives away that it's season 3... that color
― Josefa, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:18 (ten months ago) link
Yup
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
I recently picked up the Season 2 boxset of this recently and Im loving it. The music is tremendous too, always 3 or 4 bangers every episode. The Bushido episode is one of my favourites. Theres an intense trippy psychedelic moment where Castillo meets a Buddhist shaman. Pretty out-there for an 80s cop show, The episode is so brilliantly ludicrous with a turn from Dean Stockwell also
I was mad into Miami Vice when it first aired. It was shown here on Ireland on Saturday night and it was always popular. Cop shows are always popular here but this had some glamour and flash to it compared to something like Hill Street Blues. I was about 10 or 11 at the time when it was at its most populat. A lot of it went over my head but I liked the action, flashy suits and cars. I actually wore a Crockett-esque suit for my Confirmation, it was plaid though I had that particular dark green shirt that was popular in the 80s. Skinny tie and grey leather slip-ons too. I remember writing a Miami-Vice inspired short story about detectives finding cocaine being smuggled in via a truckload of lemon swiss rolls (yknow, where the cream is). My mum and my brothers had a good laugh about that one. I was incensed though, I meant it to be a hard hitting crime story!
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 16:48 (ten months ago) link
Lol, great post.
We just watched that Dean Stockwell episode last week. This run of Season 2 has just the craziest guest stars: Bob Balaban/Patty D'Arbanville/G. Gordon Liddy/Iman, Phil Collins/Emo Phillips/Kyra Sedgwick, and Ted Nugent.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:49 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/p8A7Rhq.jpgCelebrate the good times with the clean fresh taste of “Beer”
― calstars, Monday, 4 December 2023 03:20 (nine months ago) link
Shoulda hoisted a Pepsi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HByh60JAlc
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2023 05:18 (nine months ago) link
I've noticed the fake beer that they usually drink on the show looks like Löwenbräu, or sometimes Miller High Life - which were from the same company so maybe there was some sort of deal
― Josefa, Monday, 4 December 2023 14:05 (nine months ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/miamivice/images/9/9c/Philmayhew.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20111011080405
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 4 December 2023 14:11 (nine months ago) link
https://miamivice.fandom.com/wiki/Phil_Mayhew
I remember Walt ordering a Fat Tire on Breaking Bad once and I kind of double-taked, as that was one of the first times I'd heard someone order a specific beer on a show.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:51 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/c1WWmvU.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/uIM3Rd0.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/vMGjWAD.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ddiENWN.jpgDefinitely the most WTF sequence of this show
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:52 (nine months ago) link
^ Looking forward to that episode.
Btw I just remembered that in the s2 episode “Florence Italy” which centers around a street race in Miami, the main driver played by Danny Sullivan is sponsored by Löwenbräu - the real one, not a fake version.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:14 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0xeBhTV.jpgLate night at the office watching telly with the bros
https://i.imgur.com/7FombpH.jpgThe color coordination is top tier
― calstars, Sunday, 10 December 2023 13:34 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LGQaTt0.jpgIn the wake of Sheena Easton’s assassination, when Burnett is drowning himself in whiskey in the cabin of his boat, and Cooper comes to visit, and tells him that she had been pregnant, the visuals take on this unusual tint. Powerful
― calstars, Saturday, 23 December 2023 16:31 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tGjFV4Q.jpgAs I approached the end of the penultimate season of my life, I wondered: was it all…just a dream?
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
Sonny is a suit?
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:35 (nine months ago) link
Whoops, *in* a suit?
the suit represents birth
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:53 (nine months ago) link
in that he's going to get somebody pregnant
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:54 (nine months ago) link
If I was a witness being hunted by a cartel, and guarded by Zito and Switek, I'd probably just take my chances on the street
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
lol otm
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 19:40 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/f8xyQbd.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 23:50 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HTXxvo6.jpgBoss…your face
― calstars, Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:01 (nine months ago) link
man he was Gucci Mane before Gucci Mane
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:47 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rZ91EgF.jpg“Oh Rico, I’d love to get lunch, but I have an audition to be an extra in a Milli Vanilli video.”
― calstars, Thursday, 11 January 2024 00:48 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GgMTLHU.jpgthe last ride
― calstars, Monday, 15 January 2024 03:28 (eight months ago) link
Good lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_O2Lw0wuSA
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 13:01 (five months ago) link
lol, what possessed you to revive this thread at this particular time?! I literally just started watching it for the first time ever this weekend. Weird! Anyway, I do have thoughts, as it's both way cooler and way cheesier than I expected, which is a combo I vibe with hard. But for nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWTjCyLTU4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9e8OcC1jA
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 April 2024 14:26 (five months ago) link
The Rico Tubbs style is finally back:https://x.com/boymolish/status/1780732599197118845
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:54 (five months ago) link
I've only very glancingly scanned the thread in an effort to avoid spoilers, but is it possible that there hasn't been any discussion about the season three episode where Sonny goes full Will Graham and nearly loses his own mind while trying to get inside the head of a psychopath? Because goddamn was that episode ever excellent and maybe the craziest pre-Twin Peaks shit I've seen on broadcast television.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2024 19:14 (four months ago) link
I remember that one, thought it was pretty silly and overdone...like Crockett really overplays it. Nice change up from the usual plots though
― calstars, Friday, 3 May 2024 20:43 (four months ago) link
“I found out that Burnett and Crock-ett…are the same guy”
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 July 2024 23:41 (two months ago) link
"It's over, Crockett. She's gone."
I have a maddening childhood memory of Miami Vice. I remember sitting down to watch this hip new show, and the theme music felt wrong. There was something off about it. And apparently I wasn't losing my mind, because the theme music from the first few episodes was mixed wrong:https://miamivice.fandom.com/wiki/Miami_Vice_Theme
It didn't have the main melody, so it was just percussion and dugga-dugga-dug synthesisers.
I've always wondered if Vice was an influence on the 1990s wave of darker and edgier comic books, or if it was influenced by them, or by a common ancestor. Apart from the clothes and cars the other thing that made the show distinctive was the downbeat tone - Crockett's girl always ended up being shot in his arms by the villain, or the CIA swooped in and gave the chief villain immunity. It was a cartoonish attempt to emulate mature drama. And it was coincident with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
But on the other hand The Equalizer and even Magnum PI were downbeat at times, and Hill Street Blues predated them. The whole downbeat dark and edgy thing is something that young people seem to ignore about the 1980s. There's a perception that the 1970s was a massive bummer, but the 1980s was cocaine-fuelled happiness and big muscly men shooting things up. But it wasn't like that. The CIA were always the bad guys and there was always a corporate conspiracy. Even something like Robocop, which is ultra-80s, has a socialist undercurrent. Actual pure stereotypical 1980s media, like Cobra, is surprisingly rare.
Do I have anything else to say about Miami Vice? I have the impression that it was one of the things that killed off contemporary Doctor Who. Because until that point the production values of US television shows wasn't vastly superior to British TV. If you compare e.g. Jon Pertwee-era Who to Wonder Woman or Logan's Run the show doesn't look so bad. Even The A-Team didn't look particularly cinematic, and Airwolf and Battlestar Galactica had masses of stock footage.
Whereas Vice was convincingly, obviously superior on a technical level to anything the BBC could mount - especially on a regular basis, instead of just a one-off - and it just made our television look pathetic. And British commentators couldn't even dismiss it was trashy violent nonsense, because the writing was occasionally good. On a visual, cinematic level British TV didn't really catch up until the Matt Smith era in the mid-2010s.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 25 July 2024 16:35 (two months ago) link
Matt Zoller Seitz on the 40th anniversary of the pilot. Great and very informative read.
https://www.vulture.com/article/why-was-the-miami-vice-pilot-so-good.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2024 18:04 (one week ago) link
It really is amazing, as claimed in that piece, that the production of Vice literally changed the color scheme of Miami. I definitely remember a preponderance of tan in the early '80s, but it's possible that pastels had persisted in suburban areas of South Florida and so it didn't seem, in real time, like such an abrupt switchover when Miami reclaimed its pastels.
― Josefa, Thursday, 19 September 2024 21:18 (one week ago) link