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Most of Miami Vice's buzz-generating episodes were in season 1, but season 2 offers several series benchmarks. Two of Johnson's finest hours are "Back in the World" (which he directed) and "Buddies," two episodes that explore Crockett's Vietnam War experience. Thomas got his chance to shine in "Prodigal Son" and "Sons and Lovers," in which Tubbs becomes a target of the vengeful Ivan Calderon. "Bushido" is an always-welcome showcase for Emmy-winner Edward James Olmos as Castillo, who helps shield an associate's Soviet wife and son from the CIA and KGB. "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" boasts an Emmy-worthy performance by guest star Bruce McGill (D-Day in Animal House) as an unhinged former vice cop. Miami Vice stylishly subverted TV cop drama convention, but despite one too many downbeat endings that freeze on a devastated Crockett, it remains exhilarating to re-visit. There are no extras on this three disc-set, but the episodes are enough to make you want to party like it's 1985. --Donald Liebenson
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 September, 1984 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mca Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 025192882722 |
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Customer Reviews of Miami Vice - Season Two
The Price of Fame Miami Vice started off as a hard-boiled undercover detective series with a lot of action and a unique style. Things were going well, the show was getting very good, and then an unfortunate thing happened: it became a huge hit. In the final few episodes of season one the consequences of fame started to show, and in season two they are in full effect. The "style" which was the icing on the cake in season one is the whole ball of wax in season two. The production values of the show are higher, undoubtedly due to larger budgets, but that's about the only iprovement. The gritty realism, in terms of the characters, plotting and police work from season one virtually disappears. Crockett, who was a sympathetic, down on his luck, by-the-book, blue collar detective in season one is now James Bond. Tubbs officially steps aside and becomes his "sidekick". The plots become ridiculous, the characters unbelieveable, and the dialogue lazy. Most episodes feature stunt cameos by B-list celebrities who can't act. To top it all off, you get a sharp detour into an early version of the kind of overbearing politically-correct liberalism that owns Hollywood today. Most of the police in the show outside the pricipals are now portrayed as either incompetent or dirty, or both. The villain in the two hour season premier "Prodigal Son" is a Wall Street investment banker who has been comissioning murders, aiding in the sale of Columbian drugs, and apparently has the entire NYPD on his payroll. The actor playing him looks and acts exactly like Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons", and he justifies it all on the grounds that "I am America". Oh no, look out Huggy Bear, it's THE MAN. <
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>In short, season two of Miami Vice is what you would get if the makers of Scooby-Doo decided to do a cartoon version of season one. It's not very good.
Miami Vice Season-2-Twice as Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Go Get Miami Vice Season 2 DVD _ It will be Twice As Nice!!!!!!!!
More style, less substance in year 2
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.
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>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."
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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