Vice and Easy

S03 E06: Shadow in the Dark

April 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  49 mins 36 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are put onto a burglary case and Crockett goes a little too deep trying to get into the mind of the weird cat burglar with a fondness for...pants? They have to work with Lt. Gilmore (Jack Thibeau) who seems to have already gone over the edge trying to catch this cat burglar and they butt heads until he's taken off the case due to his deteriorating mental health, will Crockett be next? Is this the primetime version of Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter which was released one month after this episode was filmed? Because it sure seems like it!

S03 E05: The Good Collar

April 21st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  53 mins 45 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett books a young kid named Archie caught up in the drug world by accident when he tries to make some money to buy new football cleats to impress scouts and works to help him get the charges tossed and achieve his dream. The Asst. State Attorney, who's looking to nab the 15-year old drug kingpin known as Count Walker, has other plans and wants to use Archie as a pawn to get him charged on Murder One for selling black tar heroin to kids.

Viced Tea Special: Season Two Recap with Vice of Miami Podcast

April 14th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  42 mins 15 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Recapping! Vice and Easy and the Vice of Miami Podcast got together to chat about the high and lows of Season Two: best episodes, quotes, songs and more! Join us for a stroll down memory lane!

S03 E04: Walk-Alone

April 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 4 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs' goes undercover at a notoriously violent prison to get closer to the corrupt warden and guards who are rumoured to extorting prisoners for drugs to sell and silencing the ones that don't cooperate. In a very non-Morpheus role, Laurence Fishburne stars as one the corrupt guards and Ron Perlman stars as the commissioner of prisons in this dark, Tubbs-centric episode. So good, I didn't even remember their characters' names for the whole recording session haha! Forgive my mushbrain!

S03 E03: Killshot

March 24th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 2 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs discover the exciting and dangerous life of Jai-Alai through a US Customs agent who's old friend of Crockett's. When his brother, a famous Jai-Alai player named Tico (Fernando Allende) is framed for murder, Vice gets involved while they investigate both the murder and try to make a deal with the well-known dealer Morales, who is also involved in the framing of Tico.

S03 E02: Stone's War

March 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 49 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Ira Stone (Bob Balaban) returns to Miami with a lot of (justified) paranoia and proof of the US involvement in Nicaragua when he sees (and has the tape) Americans posing as Sandinistas, touching on the real and timely issue of the Iran-Contra scandal. With this proof, he wants a Peabody and starts putting the word out that the tape is for sale, which in turn means the government is hot on his tail and Crockett, loyal as always, is worried his friend is back on the hard stuff and stretching the truth. Maynard (G Gordon Liddy) returns to get Stone once again before Stone's work foils his evildoing.

S03 E01: When Irish Eyes Are Crying

March 10th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  57 mins 35 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Liam Neeson stars as Sean Carroon, an incredibly charming pacifist who had publicly left the Provisional IRA and charms Gina during a speech at a local Miami church. When an armed masked man who is familiar with Carroon crashes the party, Gina comes to the rescue and later deals with the guilt when they discover he was just a kid. As we learn more about the Troubles, an agent from the Scotland Yard comes to Miami to "assist" with the case as Sonny and Rico deal with arms dealers who are having trouble executing their order...wonder who's getting their hands on their weapons? This is a big season premiere! We have Liam Neeson in a towel and some HUGE Viced Tea on him, we say goodbye to the Daytona is spectacular fashion and we welcome the style of Dick Wolf as the fashion and the tone changes in the series for good.

Spicy episode alert! NSFW or with kids around especially after the 49:43 mark!!!

S02 E23: Sons and Lovers

February 24th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  59 mins 9 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Rico gets a blast from the past when he learns that Calderone has put a million dollar bounty on his head....Calderone? He's dead, what is going on? His daughter and one-time paramour, Angelina, comes back with a surprise, a baby! She warns him to get out of town before her half-brother, Orlando (John Leguizamo), has him killed since he is the Calderone who put the bounty on him. Things get hairy quickly as Tubbs' world gets turned upside down in this season finale that calls back to season one. A sad episode with some fun moments of comic relief, join us as we finish season two of Miami Vice! Other topics include: reminiscing about the past, catcalling, the business acumen of Lee Iacocca, 90-Day Fiancé, and more!

S02 E22: Trust Fund Pirates

February 17th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 27 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Ahoy mateys! Crockett and Tubbs are the lookout for pirates who have been jacking boats off the coast of Miami and enlist the help of some colourful characters: Jackson, a pilot who worked with Jimmy (Gary Cole), a stolen goods dealer and his trigger-happy wife (Tommy Chong) and a Pirate DJ who broadcasts out in the ocean to bypass the FCC and is somehow friends with Noogie (Richard Belzer)??

S02 E21: Free Verse

February 10th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  51 mins 6 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A poet named Hector Sandoval (Byrne Piven) from an unnamed country fighting a civil war comes to Miami on his way Washington and wants to let loose, while the Vice Squad who are watching him are trying to minimize his social butterfly tendencies to protect his life. After an attempt on his life is made by a stylish Bianca Jagger, an old friend comes to visit. Vice is suspicious, and it turns out the conflict is not just limited to his home country as loyalty is crossed. Other topics include: a consulate that could only reflect super corrupt wealth, Bryne Piven's ambiguity, hair transplants, the wonder of American cable TV, American foreign policy and more!

S02 E20: Payback

February 3rd, 2023  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 56 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett has a rough week after a prisoner he puts away kills himself in front of him, and then while he goes undercover to get closer to Fuente (Frank Zappa), a big-time dealer who does business on his yacht in order to circumvent those pesky laws, he's framed fro stealing $3 million of Fuentes money. Two Feds come to Miami to help on the case, but cause more trouble than they solve. Dan Hedaya guest stars and uses an accent thick enough to match Tubbs'.

S02 E19: The Fix

January 27th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  48 mins 16 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs investigate a well-renowned judge who seems to be going over and discover that his gambling addiction runs deep and effects more than just him as they try and help. A lawyer named Benedict (Harvey Fierstein) uses his connection to the judge to represent big players in Miami and manipulates the judge (Bill Russell) with promises of their connections. An angry loan shark (Michael Richards) is tired of the judge paying his interest and pressures him into getting his son (Bernard King) the throw his college playoff basketball game as way to get paid. Other topics include: don't let people into your office or home even if they are as stylish and gorgeous as Trudy and love and support your friends like Karl!

S02 E18: French Twist

January 20th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 36 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Bienvenue! Crockett and Tubbs are on the hunt for a terrorist who has come to Miami and work with a French Interpol agent to find him. Crockett is a little too warm to this visiting inspector professionally speaking, prompting Tubbs to do a little research into her background.

S02 E17: Florence Italy

January 12th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  52 mins 26 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A young sex worker is found dead on the street after being thrown out of a fancy racecar right before the Miami Grand Prix. Real-life racecar driver Danny Sullivan stars as Danny Tepper, the handsome new father whose car it is, but claims innocence. Vice uses him as leverage to infiltrate the race circuit and discover it's not just the mechanics hands who get dirty. This episode is light on the plot and heavy on the race scenes and amazing billboard ads from the mid-80s so definitely check out the gallery and the socials.

S02 E16: Little Miss Dangerous

December 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  58 mins 30 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs encounters an underage dancer and sex worker named Jackie (Fiona) that he develops a strong affinity for and who he wants to protect while on the hunt for a serial killer in the sex work business. To no one's surprise, she is the inspiration for the episode's title, uh oh Tubbs!

Content Warning: NSFW or children!

S02 E15: One Way Ticket

December 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  46 mins 32 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A District Attorney is killed at a wedding in front of Crockett and Tubbs as he is working with the DEA on busting a group of French-Canadian gangsters. Crockett's old adversary, a sleazy defense lawyer working for these French-Canadian criminals struggles with his ethics and conscience as things heat up. Come for the action, stay for the unbuttoned silk shirts and smoking! Guest stars: Lothaire Bluteau and John Heard.