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Miami Vice was a popular and innovative television series starring Don Johnson (James "Sonny" Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs) as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The show ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989. The USA Network later broadcast an unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990. The Miami Vice motion picture was based on the series and was released on July 28, 2006. The series currently airs on the Sleuth network in the United States and on Men & Motors in the United Kingdom.
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Miami Vice was a popular and innovative television series starring Don Johnson (James "Sonny" Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover. The show ran for five seasons on NBC television stations from 1984–1989. The USA Network later broadcasted unaired episodes after season five. The Miami Vice motion picture was based on the series and was released on July 28, 2006. The series currently airs on the Sleuth network in The USA, and Men & Motors in the UK.
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With “Miami Vice” he clearly had money to burn, and the flames are beautiful to behold. Mixing pop savvy with startling formal ambition, Mr. Mann transforms what is essentially a long, fairly predictable cop-show episode into a dazzling (and sometimes daft) Wagnerian spectacle. He fuses music, pulsating color and high drama into something that is occasionally nonsensical and frequently sublime. “Miami Vice” is an action picture for people who dig experimental art films, and vice versa.
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Whilst the show didn't invent pastels it made them popular, the other aspects of Miami Vice considered revolutionary lay in its music, cinematography, and imagery, which made large segments of each episode resemble a protracted music video. Perhaps the best example of the combination of three is found in the pilot episode Brother's Keeper when Crockett and Tubbs are in the Ferrari Daytona Spyder, driving through a damp, nighttime Miami downtown heading to a somber showdown with a sinister, murdering druglord as "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins surrealistically plays along. As Lee H. Katzin, one of the series' directors, once stated, "The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions and energy than plot and character." These elements made the series into an instant hit, and its first season saw an unprecedented number of Emmy Award nominations. While the first few episodes contain some echoes of cop show convention, the producers soon abandoned them and fully developed the trademark Vice style. One key to the complete transformation was the early death of Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez (Gregory Sierra) and introduction of the Vice Division's new commander, former DEA agent Lieutenant Martin Castillo (Edward James Olmos in an Emmy-winning performance).
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Miami Vice has undergone a new millennium facelift. Forget the white suits and flared hair of the '80s. This Miami Vice is gritty, sharp-edged material that truly shadows the work of crime film mastermind Michael Mann. It's all here – his signature cinematography, strong characters, and tightly woven script. While the dialogue grips your attention with its lightning quick pace, the intricately confusing plot is equally as cold and heavy as the aesthetic elements of the film. Instead of being cool to behold like Mann's stellar outings with Heat and Collateral... Miami Vice taxes the soul and confuses the mind.
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Miami Vice has been described as "the first cop show for the MTV generation." Brilliantly capturing the mood, the style, the rhythm, the pulsations, the bright electric colors, and the garish glitz of the early '80s, the weekly, 60-minute series was just a much an elongated music video (with a Jan Hammer score) as it was a crime drama -- and it set the standard for the scores of copycat series that followed in its wake. Set in (where else?) Miami, the series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as hard-nosed Miami-Dade PD vice detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Crockett was a Ferrari-driving fashion trendsetter (how many millions of the series' young male fans emulated Sonny's
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