Miami Vice: Series 2 [DVD]

This description applies to another 6-disc box set with a, mainly, green cover and was wrongly tacked on to this white-cover edition:Sound quality isn't great, but the transfer quality is the biggest area of disappointment. MIAMI VICE was a big style influencer when it aired in the 80s. I loved it then, and I love now. Shame about the transfer.The white cover edition (the one illustrated) is wonderful! Really a quality transfer!!Any negative comments about this edition (Season Two) are totally inaccurate. I said those comments in reference about another Season Two (R1) DVD. This Mill Creek edition is, also, R1.

The release of the MV series DVDs comes at the perfect time to answer the critics with poor memories who are now stupidly hailing the new "Vice" film as "darker and grittier" than the TV series. They forget how dark and gritty---and how timely, potent and groundbreaking---the original series was. The art direction, music, colours, the "cool", were innovative, but mere superficialities. It was the political narrative that was the heart of this series. "Miami Vice" carved open the hypocrisy of America's "war on drugs" like nothing before, or since."Prodigal Son" was a stunning standalone two-episode movie with Crockett and Tubbs pursuing Colombian drug lords all the way to New York, and the centre of world finance, and to America's own involvement in the drug economy. This unprecedented epic was possibly the series' zenith."Out Where Buses Don't Run" was a poem on obession, bitterly poignant."Back in the World" brought back the ghosts of the Vietnam War, and US covert operations.The influence of Miami Vice can still be felt today. It is no exaggeration to say that it quite literally changed the way television was made. For the first time, a TV show effectively had no budgetary constraints -this was no shoestring affair, but a massive, revolutionary approach, and you could tell (Each episode had a budget of $1million plus; D.Johnson was paid a staggering $60,000 per episode, over twenty years ago!!). It even resonated in the film industry, and it did no harm to Michael Mann's career.The acting was always good, particularly in these early series, and the leads were fluid, natural and worked well together. The same goes for the rest of the cast, who all knew just what they were about.Direction was always good -cinematic, but with heavy use of slow-motion, abrupt cuts and dramatic endings that were almost always unpleasant. It made effective use of great songs and the award-winning Jan Hammer scored MV until his departure during season 5.

Great TV show, and season 2 was brilliant

Great series. I hope the remaining seasons become available soon. Season 2 has some of the most legendary episodes, including "Bushido" (were Edward James Olmos's Lt. Castillo shines), "Phil the Shill" (with Phil Collins), "Definitely Miamy" (with French beauty Arielle Dombasle) and "Bought and paid for" (with portuguese Joaquim de Almeida as the vilain). Not to mention some of the best 80's soundtrack and tunes.Definitely a good buy.

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Just received this, enjoyed the first series and can't wait to check this one out.

Great series, I enjoy it, nice to watch and see the sun shining. Often put it on when there's nothing on the TV which is quite often. Arrived in mint condition in a nice box.

worth every penny buying the collection I'm glad I got them great