Miami Vice - Season Two (1984)

Miami Vice Rocks!

This 1985-86 Season takes me all the way back to memory lane when MIAMI VICE was on NBC every Friday night at 10PM after KNIGHT RIDER at 9PM and when Don Johnson was a sex symbol along with the fact that MIAMI VICE is the show that made Don Johnson a star, especially before his days on NASH BRIDGES.

This is also the season of MIAMI VICE when Crockett(Don Johnson) gets his white Ferrari Testarosa after his black Daytona Ferrari gets blown up, which was certainly a major upgrade for Crockett along with the fact that Crockett's Ferrari was even more upgraded than Robin Master's Ferrari GT on MAGNUM, P.I.

This is also the season when Don Johnson made his hit song "Heartbeat" on the radio in the Summer of 1986, just before MIAMI VICE hit it's 3rd Season on NBC.

Additionally, Miami Vice was also kind of like a night time soap opera in a way, just like ER, CHICAGO HOPE, NYPD BLUE, HILLS STREET BLUES, MELROSE PLACE, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, DAWSON'S CREEK, etc. all were, since they'd sometimes show signs, details, and hints of concluding the previous episodes, even though they wouldn't provide scenes from the previous episodes, unless of course the episode was a 2-part episode. August 13, 2008

Miami Vice Season 2

If you are a Miami Vice Fan you will love it. the thing I don't like is the Two(2) sided disc. The discs seem thiner then usual but the movie quality is good. Compared to other sets that I have purchased in the past which contained heavier one sided picture discs, the Miami Vice box sets (1 & 2 anyway) seem of cheaper quality. Because of this I question the price on these items. As I said before in other box sets I have purchased of better quality materials, The price is in the same ball park. Alas I shall buy them because I do like the series. April 28, 2008

Friday night without the commercials

Complete collection of the second season of Miami Vice (1985-1986), indexed on three DVDs. Apparently, the musical rights to the many songs held up release of MV DVDs for a while, but they've all been cleared and the shows are fully intact.

The tone is similar to the first season, with its balance of light, sometimes humorous interaction among the cops and low-rent criminals, to dark and gritty, with the focus on corruption, greed, hypocrisy and general cynicism. Indeed, many enduring clichés of these cynical times got their start on Vice. We have Colombian drug dealers obsessed with revenge, we have evil yuppie pirates who rob and kill for the thrill ("trust fund babies want to have fun"), there's the ex-cop who went insane trying to capture a gangster, there's the father-son sports duo struggling with their relationship and a murder, we have Castillo's mysterious past as a 'company' (CIA) man, etc. While MV's reputation is largely grounded in its style and flare, the overall tone of the show and the subject matter was an important factor and consistent with Mann's work involving cops and robbers. After the first, this is definitely the next best season in terms of being fresh.

While Crockett and Tubbs are involved in more shootouts per season than probably the entire vice squad handled over a few years, and while it's hard to explain how there aren't 1,000 people who now know our heroes' undercover identities, and while Miami's crime rate is genuinely disturbing, the show is still eminently enjoyable as an 80s noir series with many of Michael Mann's signature touches. Sinister occurrences are punctuated with a deep Jan Hammer synch cue, Crockett has a straight face wearing turquoise, pink, and white ensembles, and the criminals have perms. You can buy this set or splurge on the entire five-season DVD box, which only appeared after the seasons were trickled out over two years. March 20, 2008

Miami Vice - Season 2

Season 2 picks up from where season 1 left off - with continuation storylines as well. The excellent opener, "The prodigal son", for example requires you to have seen "Rites of passage" is order to know who Valerie is. Other episodes continue the war between Tubbs and the Calderone family and require you already have watched 4 episodes from season 1. The voodoo episodes like "Tale of the goat" and "Whatever works" are excellent and go places where season 1 didn't. The only episodes here that weren't so hot were "Florence, Italy" and "Little Miss Dangerous", which were back to back. As with season 4, these silly episodes mar what is otherwise an impeccable season. November 7, 2007

The Style and The Fury - Season 2

One of the most amazing television shows in it's best season. That should be enough to explain why you need to own this now! Let others give you the episode by episode breakdown. Take it from someone who went out later on Fridays all the time this series was on - it looks way better now on the plasma! August 9, 2007

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