Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread Adam Bowie 
I picked up a Blu Ray set of the complete Miami Vice a few months ago, but
stalled in my planned re-watch. While the lighting might be a bit basic,
and the scripts not always amazing, the location still looks wonderful. I
guess it made such a difference actually having a series not being shot in
either LA or NY (regardless of where it was set). And then there was the
music...

I was 14 when the series aired, and at my school we had to wear blazers, so
the cool thing was to roll the sleeves up of them...

I also recall in later seasons that the BBC had to push the series back a
bit later in the evening because it was felt that it was too violent (Slow
motion sequences of people being realistically shot).

Sometime around 1985 I first visited the US, and I did a studio tour of NBC
in Rockefeller Plaza (I think we may have gone onto the SNL stage, but that
meant precisely nothing to me). I still have my Miami Vice baseball cap
picked up in the gift shop. And somehow, an NBC mug also still survives
nearly 40 years later!



Adam

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 2:45 PM PGage  wrote:

> I was in grad school, and to my eternal shame I did buy a Crockett style
> jacket and attended class and parties for a few months with the jacket
> sleeves pushed up over a tee shirt. In my head there was an elaborate Phil
> Collins drum solo playing over my entrance into every room. So grateful
> there were no cell phones in those days, and so no surviving photographs.
> Finally got a girlfriend later that year who gently but firmly took that
> jacket out of my rotation.
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 6:54 AM Doug Eastick  wrote:
>
>> I was in high school.  A couple guys wanted, badly, to wear Sonny
>> Crockett-style suits for prom/graduation.  So much talk... Nobody ever did.
>>
>> But boy those photos , decades later, would be epic.
>>
>>
>>
>> /Doug
>> east...@mcd.on.ca
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 9:29 a.m. Diner  wrote:
>>
>>> I was in college when Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV, and I was
>>> never able to get into it.
>>> My college friend Phyllis Stark, who went on to become one of the top
>>> journalists in the world of country music, put it best at the time: "The
>>> problem with Miami Vice is that no matter how early I tune in, I feel like
>>> I missed the first fifteen minutes."
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 8:44:13 AM UTC-4 Doug Eastick wrote:
>>>
 I watched the first three episodes of season one the past couple weeks
 of travel.

 Still great cinematography for the era.

 Still great music included.

 Misogynistic office roles in the police station (crocket: " can you get
 me a coffee, sweetie" )

 Tv lighting was still pronounced. My how that changed over the next few
 decades.

 Woke role of a cross dressing killer.

 Spoiler: Modern Family father kills himself.


 Wikipedia tells me that in the first few seasons , they never allowed
 "earth tones" (Brown, beige) on the screen.  Always blue, grey, black,
 white.


 /Doug
 eas...@mcd.on.ca

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread PGage 
I was in grad school, and to my eternal shame I did buy a Crockett style
jacket and attended class and parties for a few months with the jacket
sleeves pushed up over a tee shirt. In my head there was an elaborate Phil
Collins drum solo playing over my entrance into every room. So grateful
there were no cell phones in those days, and so no surviving photographs.
Finally got a girlfriend later that year who gently but firmly took that
jacket out of my rotation.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 6:54 AM Doug Eastick  wrote:

> I was in high school.  A couple guys wanted, badly, to wear Sonny
> Crockett-style suits for prom/graduation.  So much talk... Nobody ever did.
>
> But boy those photos , decades later, would be epic.
>
>
>
> /Doug
> east...@mcd.on.ca
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 9:29 a.m. Diner  wrote:
>
>> I was in college when Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV, and I was
>> never able to get into it.
>> My college friend Phyllis Stark, who went on to become one of the top
>> journalists in the world of country music, put it best at the time: "The
>> problem with Miami Vice is that no matter how early I tune in, I feel like
>> I missed the first fifteen minutes."
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 8:44:13 AM UTC-4 Doug Eastick wrote:
>>
>>> I watched the first three episodes of season one the past couple weeks
>>> of travel.
>>>
>>> Still great cinematography for the era.
>>>
>>> Still great music included.
>>>
>>> Misogynistic office roles in the police station (crocket: " can you get
>>> me a coffee, sweetie" )
>>>
>>> Tv lighting was still pronounced. My how that changed over the next few
>>> decades.
>>>
>>> Woke role of a cross dressing killer.
>>>
>>> Spoiler: Modern Family father kills himself.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wikipedia tells me that in the first few seasons , they never allowed
>>> "earth tones" (Brown, beige) on the screen.  Always blue, grey, black,
>>> white.
>>>
>>>
>>> /Doug
>>> eas...@mcd.on.ca
>>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread Kevin M. 
I disliked Miami Vice but liked Crime Story, which was basically the same
series in different suits. Go figure.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 6:54 AM Doug Eastick  wrote:

> I was in high school.  A couple guys wanted, badly, to wear Sonny
> Crockett-style suits for prom/graduation.  So much talk... Nobody ever did.
>
> But boy those photos , decades later, would be epic.
>
>
>
> /Doug
> east...@mcd.on.ca
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 9:29 a.m. Diner  wrote:
>
>> I was in college when Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV, and I was
>> never able to get into it.
>> My college friend Phyllis Stark, who went on to become one of the top
>> journalists in the world of country music, put it best at the time: "The
>> problem with Miami Vice is that no matter how early I tune in, I feel like
>> I missed the first fifteen minutes."
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 8:44:13 AM UTC-4 Doug Eastick wrote:
>>
>>> I watched the first three episodes of season one the past couple weeks
>>> of travel.
>>>
>>> Still great cinematography for the era.
>>>
>>> Still great music included.
>>>
>>> Misogynistic office roles in the police station (crocket: " can you get
>>> me a coffee, sweetie" )
>>>
>>> Tv lighting was still pronounced. My how that changed over the next few
>>> decades.
>>>
>>> Woke role of a cross dressing killer.
>>>
>>> Spoiler: Modern Family father kills himself.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wikipedia tells me that in the first few seasons , they never allowed
>>> "earth tones" (Brown, beige) on the screen.  Always blue, grey, black,
>>> white.
>>>
>>>
>>> /Doug
>>> eas...@mcd.on.ca
>>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread Doug Eastick 
I was in high school.  A couple guys wanted, badly, to wear Sonny
Crockett-style suits for prom/graduation.  So much talk... Nobody ever did.

But boy those photos , decades later, would be epic.



/Doug
east...@mcd.on.ca

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 9:29 a.m. Diner  wrote:

> I was in college when Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV, and I was
> never able to get into it.
> My college friend Phyllis Stark, who went on to become one of the top
> journalists in the world of country music, put it best at the time: "The
> problem with Miami Vice is that no matter how early I tune in, I feel like
> I missed the first fifteen minutes."
>
> On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 8:44:13 AM UTC-4 Doug Eastick wrote:
>
>> I watched the first three episodes of season one the past couple weeks of
>> travel.
>>
>> Still great cinematography for the era.
>>
>> Still great music included.
>>
>> Misogynistic office roles in the police station (crocket: " can you get
>> me a coffee, sweetie" )
>>
>> Tv lighting was still pronounced. My how that changed over the next few
>> decades.
>>
>> Woke role of a cross dressing killer.
>>
>> Spoiler: Modern Family father kills himself.
>>
>>
>> Wikipedia tells me that in the first few seasons , they never allowed
>> "earth tones" (Brown, beige) on the screen.  Always blue, grey, black,
>> white.
>>
>>
>> /Doug
>> eas...@mcd.on.ca
>>
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[TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread Diner 
I was in college when Miami Vice was the hottest show on TV, and I was 
never able to get into it.
My college friend Phyllis Stark, who went on to become one of the top 
journalists in the world of country music, put it best at the time: "The 
problem with Miami Vice is that no matter how early I tune in, I feel like 
I missed the first fifteen minutes."

On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 8:44:13 AM UTC-4 Doug Eastick wrote:

> I watched the first three episodes of season one the past couple weeks of 
> travel.
>
> Still great cinematography for the era.
>
> Still great music included.
>
> Misogynistic office roles in the police station (crocket: " can you get me 
> a coffee, sweetie" )
>
> Tv lighting was still pronounced. My how that changed over the next few 
> decades.
>
> Woke role of a cross dressing killer.
>
> Spoiler: Modern Family father kills himself.
>
>
> Wikipedia tells me that in the first few seasons , they never allowed 
> "earth tones" (Brown, beige) on the screen.  Always blue, grey, black, 
> white. 
>
>
> /Doug 
> eas...@mcd.on.ca
>

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