After five trendsetting seasons of defining the cultural 80’s vibe, Vice was beginning to lose its glamour and had overstayed its welcome by becoming as trendy and extinct as yesterday’s pastel-colored fashions. The mood and feel of the present had shifted away from the pop-electric neon atmosphere of earlier seasons to a darker and edgier tone beginning with the two-part conclusion to the season four cliffhanger “Mirror Image” that ended with Sonny, believing that he is his undercover persona Burnett after suffering total amnesia in a boat explosion, races off in a speedboat after killing an undercover detective. Tubbs has tracked him down somewhere arrive Tampa where he has been living for months as a hit-man for a grand crime cartel. The premiere episode “Hostile Takeover” begins with Sonny rising through the ranks of the Carrera’s by doing the dirty deeds for the feuding family in an pain to seize out the rival El Gato organization. Posing as a Jamaican buyer, Tubbs rendezvous with Sonny in an anxiety to jar his memory but instead Sonny tries to ruin Tubbs when it triggers a memory flashback and he remembers that he is a cop. After the initial Burnett story-arc is concluded in “Redemption in Blood,” the remaining episodes seemed to turn somewhat anti-climactic. What could have been an fascinating season-long theme that that could have potentially played up Sonny-turned-bad masquerading as his undercover alter-ego Burnett is sever short prematurely and it’s hard to beget that Sonny isn’t indicted for all of his imperfect crimes or at the very least is forced to turn in his badge. There’s a few moments with Crockett trying to reconcile his relationship with his son Billy in “To Have and To Bear” and coming to terms with his ex, Caroline, and an droll light-hearted episode with his con-artist cousin Jack played by David Andrews in “Jack of All Trades” and also Tubbs reuniting with Valerie reprised by Pam Grier in the originally unaired “Too Powerful, Too Gradual” that relieve to wrap up loose ends but overall you can sense that the raze of the line was coming and the cast and crew were fair riding things out. Don Johnson’s wardrobe had gone from stylish slacks and casual loafers to denim bluejeans and cowboy boots and his long shaggy blonde locks made him eye like he’d objective walked off the dwelling of Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. The absence of composer Jan Hammer is painfully felt and Tim Truman’s commendable scoring gives it a very different overall feel compared to previous seasons and redundant plotlines curious South American drug smugglers had finally exhausted themselves but the payoff at the destroy of the final episode “Freefall” is emotional as the ensemble cast members say their goodbyes and go their seperate ways and almost as suddenly as Miami Vice had near to an raze, so too had the fashionable decade of the 1980’s.
John Lennon said that before Elvis there was nothing. Of course, apart from a lot of teengroups, this was quite upright. I would dare to say that after Vice there has been nothing on tv that could equal, let alone surpass it.
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I do NOT agree with reviewers saying that Vice “overstayed it’s welcome by becoming a trendfollower after having been a trendsetter in earlier seasons.”
It is apt that indeed, as a reviewer so eloquently build it, “the mood and feel of the expose had shifted away from the pop-electric neon atmosphere of earlier seasons to a darker and edgier tone beginning with the two-part conclusion to the season four cliffhanger “Mirror Image” that ended with Sonny, believing that he is his undercover persona Burnett after suffering total amnesia in a boat explosion, races off in a speedboat after killing an undercover detective.”
Of course when Vice as a series progressed in tv time, so did the loyal decade that Vice was all about (or to utilize a chiasm; were the 80s about Miami Vice objective as well? ) . The glamour of the earlier section old away as the 90’s with grunge music and a more negative feel were slowly emerging. It might have been a reaction to the glamour of the 80’s as is often the case; decades that follow eachother are often like waves. Times do change all the time and so did Vice. Not surprisingly in the 90s and therefore of course the latter section of the 80’s (albeit more invisible) the atmosphere would have to consider somehow in the episodes of Vice as well, and it justly did.
Yes, even Sonny changed to stonewashed jeans and I judge it was wintry, since it was fitting. I believe by then his character and the rest of the world had seen almost every pastel Versace blazer ever made by then, so this more down to earth stare smooth gave a chilly retort to the ask `what could have been cooler than Sonny in silk blazers? ‘Well, how about Sonny in jeans? Judge of it this way: would it have been fitting, or would it have been almost ridiculous, to have shot season 4 and 5 in the same prankish atmosphere as the first three? Near on, Jan Hammer had big soundtracksongs, but the music tranquil continued it’s quality. Gloomier atmosphere, gloomier music indeed, but it mild was expansive music, even today, that fitted the shows themselves.
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Maybe the reviewers, including myself, cannot win to terms with the fact that in time generations become less and less naive, or in other words, the world becomes more realistic. Something’s gained, something’s lost. The heed for living in more no nonsense times like now is the loss of idealism. The fun in earlier seasons, with Sonny and Crockett making jokes in contented Florida was lost, but what was gained was a top-notch timing in shifting the mood. Vice rightfully adapted to newer days without being trendfollowers and that clearly showed in the last seasons. What was gained as well was more excitement and action in the series, and I don’t recognize how reviewers saw this as superficial or Vice becoming trendfollowers instead of trendsetters. Level-headed even then, there was no better copshow or thrill than Vice.
The moodshift to more serious stuff to me was also that it seemed to act as a realistic mirror of the hopelessness of fighting the drug force, which it tranquil is to this day. I mean, after so many seasons of fighting the ‘vice’, what did it amount to? A current episode with a modern crime to fight. It had to extinguish, or, the ‘ennui’ had to be shown in the series, as every kindly series develops, impartial like any narrative residence. It might be fair the cast was, as reviewers said, ‘riding things out’ and things were coming to an raze. Exactly, and fortunately this same development, or ennui, which reflected in the series themselves was fitting. Drugs is collected impossible to fight, and cops like Sonny and Crockett that did their best in more than 100 episodes were likely to have become burne”tt” out. Vice had to kill, the only seek information from how.
Atmittedly, especially in the last season it spiralled alsmost to the absurdly wintry, with colossal white empty villa’s and drugbosses in clothes that would do a video of Bryan Ferry contemplate like the clip of ‘cotton eyed joe’.
Sonny and Tubbs indeed became more abstract themselves in this outlandish atmosphere. Some call this ‘one dimensional’, but the first three seasons had shown enough introspection of the characters I deem. And how about Sonny loosing his wife? That was a character-driven site to me. Overall, the action, the acting and the music (although changed in style) collected gave the series that extra over any other tv series at the time. Ok, it had become decadent, but all favorable things spiral out of control, especially the unforgettable stuff.
I simply idea Vice, and especially the last season was the best stuff our generation had the privilige to leer in it’s day when it was quiet fresh, with the Burnett episodes shot in eerie night blue, his revenge on the killer of his wife and of course the indeed very emotional kill. When Sonny drove off in his white car after shaking so shortly the hand of his partner, not only the 80s were lost forever, but also the best present that has ever aired and it would not have been as advantageous as it was without this season. I would like to win a quote from the booklet of the Stones 2CD 40 Licks by saying: thanks (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, Michael Mann) for touching our lives. Although people might say it was only tv, on some very rare occasions, tv transcends itself and defines a determined period in time. Vice did! Even though watching it now will never gain you serve to times lost, unexcited…go for it!
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