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Season 2 carries on the momentum of Miami Vice's debut Season and amplifies what makes the show great. Sultry, steamy, erotic, and trend-setting all best describe the foundation of "80's Cool" and Miami Vice got it right for a second year in a row. The music tracks get better and better and the plots continue their bad-boy ways.
Miami Vice, Season 2 really starts to mature the show into what we love most about it... a one-of-a-kind ride of provocative entertainment.
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I have been avid fan of Miami Vice since it first episode in 1984. Season 2 is more a definitive Miami Vice Season, where all the other cast of the show like Olivia Brown, John Diehl, Edward James Olmos, Sandra Santiago, Micheal Talbot set out and shine in one of the Best Cops Drama's in Television history outside of Hawaii 5-0, Cagney and Lacey. & Mod Squad. There just wasn't any crime show that compares to Miami Vice. Don Johnson & Phillip Michael Thomas rise to occasion on the Second Season.
Some of my Favorite episodes on Season 2 ("Prodigal Son"); Miles Davis ("Junk Love"); Leonard Cohen ("French Twist"); Ted Nugent ("Definitely Miami"); Bushido, just to name of few. All the episodes are very action packed, drama and suspense. Also, the comedy moments and dialog between Johnson & Thomas are infamous. This show was not only a show but a way of life and when a show changes the hearts, minds, clothes, conversation with the riveting episodes. This show was clearly ahead of it time. Thanks to the Cast, Crew, Michael Mann, Jan Hammer, Guest Stars and Universal Studios. Miami Vice Season 2 is a must have for a Avid Fan or someone who want recapture just a few moments a time when things were Colorful, Enlightening, Entertaining, And Suspenseful.
I just received my DVD and I immediately had a Miami Vice Marathon and I don't regret it. I can watch this series over & over again and still have wonderful and enjoy experience like the first time I watched the espisode back in 1984 & 1985.
Go Get Miami Vice Season 2 DVD _ It will be Twice As Nice!!!!!!!!
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Season 2 of Vice is a perfect example of a show being the victim of its own success. A stylistic and critical hit the first year, Season 2 features larger budgets, more "flashy" set-pieces, a wide array of guest rockers in cameos, yet the stories simply don't have the hungry edge or bite of year one.
The art-deco design, cool (as in medium) tone and guest stars ranging from Phil Collins to DeBarge to Ted Nugent are the delicious surface pleasures of the show, but the edgy noir-trappings are no longer so strongly in evidence. While Year 1 put the principals through many emotional wringers (and defined the moral universe of the show), Year 2 instead puts friends and acquaintances of the principals through many emotional and physical straits - and the principals must deal with their torn friends. Year 1 really messed with our very conception of what was "allowed" in cop shows ("Golden Triangle" in which Castillo turns into a killing machine, "No Exit," and Bruce Willis's immoral guns runner). In Y2, too many episodes start with a close friend getting killed, and a good half-dozen seem to have Crockett fall in love - with the "wrong woman."
The principals are no longer put in any real jeopardy (not that we would believe it anyway). The tone of the series is shifting to more soap-opera-esque narrative strategies.
Sure, there are only so many stories under the sun, but the transgressive and amoral landscape, often involving Feds working against local law enforcement (even the good guys can't agree what's right) of Year 1 is deluded by a wash of on-the-run, threatened or wrongly murdered friends, ex-partners, or girlfriends that fill Year 2.
The show isn't taking the cop-show particulars so seriously either (in "Phil the Shill" Phil Collins and Johnson gloss through the "wait, I'll make a deal" conversation glibly). It's getting a bigger kick out of sticking G. Gordon Liddy (who apparently can act) or Gene Simmons (who apparently can not) into cameo bits that smack of stunt-casting.
Highlights include most of "Out Where The Buses Don't Run" while Bruce McGill acts almost too crazy to be believed, "Yankee Dollar," which is disarmingly straight-forward in its plotting, and I enjoyed "Phil the Shill" in spite of its overt daffiness. (Nice bumpers with Switek and his Elvis obsession.) More muddled episodes include "Definitely Miami," in which two plots are intercut without much effect or benefit to either, and "Tales of the Goat," a weird Haiti voodoo tale that may be there as a remnant of some Jim Jones "Don't follow crazy leaders" paranoia.
The show would be forced to go in different directions in subsequent years. Here is its sophomore year, cleaner, brighter, and a little more "normal" than before.
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The best season of what may be the most impressive television series ever. Cool cars, clothes, and characters along with awesome music scores and beautiful scenery. Most pleasing to the eye as well as endlessly entertaining. A very well done production from top to bottom. A completely worthy addition to any collection.
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Ok, I guess it's a little goofy to like Miami Vice this much, but it brings memories of the good ol' days back. Watching Sonny in those cloths and seeing some no names then that are big names now is great. If you liked the 80's you'll love this!
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