Make it a two-episode-per-night thing seven nights a week and you’re looking at roughly two months of Miami Vice in your future. Even the most committed of viewers are going to need to dedicate some serious time to the show. Time Requirements: With more than a 100 hours of viewing to be had, watching all of Miami Vice is not going to happen in a weekend. A marriage of storytelling and style, the show aimed to make everything look "cool." Often referred to as a cop show for the MTV generation, Miami Vice didn’t look like anything else that was on network television at the time.
And that’s specifically because Miami Vice invented it back in 1984. Now, going back to that whole "groundbreaking" thing: If the above summary doesn’t sound like a particularly fresh approach to a cop drama, that’s because it’s not. Crockett, too, is searching for the same man, who in the pilot plants a car bomb that kills Crockett’s friend and partner, Eddie Rivera (played by a fresh-faced Jimmy Smits, in his first-ever role).
Eschewing the Hollywood standard of shooting on sound stages, partly as way to keep everything under the producers’ control, Miami Vice was filmed on location in South Florida, at a time when Miami and Miami Beach looked more like Scarface than what the Kardashians who now "take" the city seem to see.Īiding Crockett in his police work is Detective Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), a former NYPD detective who makes his way down to Miami (also undercover, though unbeknownst to anyone) to find a criminal known as Calderone, a Colombian cartel leader who recently murdered Tubbs’ brother, a fellow NYPD detective. But the series, which was created by Hill Street Blues writer/producer Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by future four-time Oscar nominee Michael Mann, is anything but laughable. In the case of the small-screen police procedural, it's necessary to go all the way back to Miami Vice.įor those who did not watch the gritty cop drama during its original run, the show has become a punch line used when joking about the overindulgence of the 1980s.
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And while there are a handful of contemporary TV series that are deserving of that descriptor- House of Cards, for what it has done for streaming entertainment, would be one example-in order to discover the most truly groundbreaking television, it’s often essential to head back into the past. The term "groundbreaking," in reference to television series, has been so overused (and frequently misused) over the decades that it has largely lost its meaning.
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