Is cool man, but… still 80s
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catch_the_spindrift — 9 years ago(April 04, 2016 07:08 AM)
Just off the top of my head
-Crockett and Gina (Calabrese - Cuban) through several seasons (until Crockett married).
-Tubbs and Calderone's daughter (in Season one)
-Gina and Irishman "Sean"I forget his last name (Liam Neeson) in Season three
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sammy45 — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 10:43 AM)
Maybe, I was writing just after watching a few first episodes from season 1.
Still the whole "undercover" thing is rather silly in this show. The whole city should know who these two are by now, yet they are always successful at posing as "customers" for one or another thing at the same time driving to crime scenes and flashing badges in the same clothes and same expensive cars -
jimbofinesse — 9 years ago(April 30, 2016 09:50 PM)
You're totally right about this. They should be getting spotted left and right. Miami is big, but it ain't THAT big
I remember an episode when Tubbs actually does get spotted while undercover but the guy that spots him is in town from New York and recognizes him from his days back there. -
Little Caesar — 9 years ago(June 02, 2016 07:34 PM)
Aren't those "macho dude" moments refreshing?? I definitely think so. I get bored with all the tech geek cop shows today.
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thesnowleopard — 9 years ago(June 08, 2016 12:15 AM)
Cop shows do a much better job of reflecting reality today. That's great but for me, it gets kind of blah.
Since when? You don't actually think that CSIs show up for work at crime scenes in high heels or that homicide detectives beat up and intimidate suspects and witnesses until they find the killer, do you?
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eab1988 — 9 years ago(June 11, 2016 04:27 PM)
lol, was the OP around in the 80s?!
i can tell you growing up in the 80's Vice definitely was a different and groundbreaking show from everything else on tv.
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thesnowleopard — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 08:38 PM)
i can tell you growing up in the 80's Vice definitely was a different and groundbreaking show from everything else on tv.
Very different and that was a time when law enforcement people were going undercover, in the same area with the same cover story, for months or even years at a time. They don't do that now, to a large extent due to the risk and the psychological damage, as we see in the guy from the first episode after the pilot.
The show is a drama, so it is certainly heightened in some ways, but the situation is not actually that difficult to believe. The drug scene in the 80s, especially in a port like Miami, was highly transient. The "players" changed all the time (hence Crockett's "scorecard" comment in the pilot) and Miami Vice does a pretty good job of showing that. What is, in fact, so dangerous about their situation is that nobody really knows whom they're dealing with in any given deal and that most of these deals involve some kind of deadly ripoff (per "Milk Run").
Also, Tubbs and Crockett did get exposed more than once. They got lucky in that the people who found out generally (and conveniently) ended up dead, but their covers were hardly Teflon.
As for the racial politics the OP brings up, the show was groundbreaking at the time (still is, really) for having a cast that reflected the racial makeup of the city. You have white Southern boys in Crockett, Zwitek and Zito, sure, but that was normal for law enforcement at the time. Out of the seven regular cast, four were People of Color, and one of those was a lead. Plus, the two female cops got major storylines and the chance to go to bat for each other (really unheard-of at the time) far more than serving as love interests for the leads.
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robocop-37224 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 09:26 PM)
Here's an idea Sammy..DONT WATCH IT! it's obvious that you probably watch the bachelor and the bachelorette . And I'm also gonna say that you believe all the crap you read in the magazines at the checkout counter.