Miami Vice, S1:E1 “Brother’s Keeper”
This sequence leading to the climax of Miami Vice’s premiere episode justifies the existence of both Miami Vice and Phil Collins. The grittiness of this and the surrounding sequences ebbed and flowed on Miami Vice, sometimes retreating so far it left the show a goofy, New Wave parody of itself. Sometimes the grittiness intruded so much the show was nihilistic, particularly in the later seasons when Dick Wolf had taken over (the first seasons of Law & Order are amazing bleak at times, almost the antithesis of the dry procedural it was to become).
The double-length premiere of Miami Vice isn’t perfect. The pacing lags in the middle section, even accounting for its era of production, but these 3:48 mins are nothing but pure unadulterated, 1980s awesome, and they show glimpses of the way Miami Vice can work when it works best.
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