Vice and Easy

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.

S2 E14: Yankee Dollar

December 2nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 32 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett's luck in finding love gets worse as his old flame ends up dying of a drug overdose that she was smuggling into Miami and he and Tubbs are determined to find out who and what are behind it. Charlie Glide (Ned Eisenberg) joins us again in some great Michael Mann casting as a sleazy investor who has always been one step ahead of the law and evades trouble by staying away from the white stuff. Will it work this time?

S02 E13: Definitely Miami

November 25th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 29 mins

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This week on Miami Vice: This week on Miami Vice: We have a guest host! Kyle joins the show to break down one of the most iconic episodes of Miami Vice including the amazing end scene. Crockett meets a beautiful woman who seems too good to be true and just like us, he ignores all the red flags and gets involved with what appears to be a dangerous cat and mouse game with her husband Charlie (Ted Nugent). The Feds come in again and fumble the bag (surprise, surprise) with a federally protected witness while Crockett sinks deeper into this hot mess. Topics include: cuckholding (again lol), ignoring (or not ignoring) red flags, ignoring logic, my ineligible handwriting, Miami Vice guest stars and soundtrack missed opportunities and more!

NSFW: This episode is not kid or workplace friendly!

S02 E12: Phil the Shill

November 18th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  53 mins 58 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Phil Collins steals the show as a con man ruffling the wrong feathers back and London and now in Miami. He encroaches on drug dealer's customers and screws over Zwitek on a rigged game show about Elvis trivia (the audacity!), all the while having one of the most out-there decorated houses in Miami and throwing house parties with crazy attire. He makes a friend in Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick), said drug dealer's gf, and they click and clash throughout the entire episode. Other topics include: the signs of a con and famous con men, cocaine pricing in 1985 vs today (NSFW) and Viced Tea about Phil Collins that was wild gossip in 2020 (ex-wife moving in with new husband and Phil suing to get her out of the house) and what she said in a recent 2022 article.

Viced Tea Special: Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville and Barbra Streisand

November 4th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  20 mins 32 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: We sip on some classic Viced Tea about two of Don Johnson's former paramours, Patti D'Arbanville and Barbra Streisand.

S02 E11: Back In The World

October 28th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  53 mins 15 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: In this Don Johnson-helmed episode, one of Crockett's friends from his time in Vietnam coms to Miami with a lead on an explosive story regarding the bad smack that's been circulating around Miami. They get closer to the lead when they realize it leads back to their time in Vietnam when Stone (Balaban) discovered heroin in the bodybags of deceased soldiers. Guest stars galore! Iman! Bob Balaban! Patti D'Arbanville! And while we explore the darker themes of the damage the Vietnam war had on the American generation who were drafted and served and how they were ignored and spat on when they returned, we also get to rock out to a Doors-centric soundtrack and Crockett's impeccable style this episode.

S02 E10: Bought and Paid For

October 14th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  46 mins 31 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Gina's housekeeper and friend is raped at her apartment by a stereotypical rich Miami playboy with connections, and Gina is determined to get justice despite all the obstacles in her way while the victim deals with his abuse and continued intimidation and her familial obligations in Haiti. A very depressing episode and tough topics are covered so please note a trigger warning of rape for the entire episode. I do find some comic relief in Arroyo's (Joaquim De Almeida) attitude and his love of gold jewelry, a "sweet" drug bust that goes bust and TIL I learned there are different DeBarges, and the one performing in this episode (El DeBarge) is not allegedly the baby father of Janet Jackson's secret child and raised by Rebbie.

S02 E09: Bushido

October 7th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  54 mins 19 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: An old CIA friend of Castillo's, who was presumed dead, comes to Miami as he and his ex-KGB wife are running from her old agency and Castillo proves his honour and loyalty, adhering to the principles of the Samurai in this EJO-directed episode! Guest star Dean Stockwell stars as the former "Company" man in question in this very Cold War episode and I learn the meaning of Pinko only just now!

S02 E08: Tale of the Goat

September 30th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 13 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs oversee the arrival and subsequent burial of a notorious criminal Legba (Clarence Williams III) only to realize at the funeral that he may be not as dead as they think! Zombie or Romeo and Juliet-style fakeout? They dig deeper into his history that includes human smuggling, money laundering, corruption and moonlighting as a Voodoo Priest, the latter causing Tubbs to get in way over his head.

S02 E07: Junk Love

September 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  42 mins 54 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs work with busted brothel owner (Miles Davis!) to infiltrate the world of a powerful drug dealer named Silva (Jose Lopez) who has a sick obsession with one of his former working girls. Things get darker the deeper they get, not only for them but for the poor girl, Rosella (Ely Pouget) who is dealing with a serious drug problem - her only means of escape.

TW: sexual abuse, assault, trauma, drug abuse.

Please note: This episode is very dark, not recommended if you have kids around while listening!

S02 E06: Buddies

September 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 3 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett reconnects with an old friend with some questionable connections while he and Tubbs try to protect a young mother fleeing not only an abusive husband but a hit when she inadvertently takes some very incriminating documents. Guest stars: James Remar, Nathan Lane and Frankie Valli. Annie returns, bright and colourful as always without her husband Noogie, who is "out of town" as she connects with the young mother (esthr Balint). We discuss bar etiquette, the importance of financial independence and more!

Edit: I had this whole part about Esther Balint that I totally skipped during recording sorry! Her father was the founder of the Squat Theatre Troupe in NYC and was friends and worked with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jim Jarmusch!

S02 E05: The Dutch Oven

September 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  42 mins 6 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Giancarlo Esposito is back again thanks to loyal Michael Mann casting and we are better for it! He plays Adonis, a seemingly slick drug dealer with possible bigtime connections who meets Trudy through her on-again ex-boyfriend David (Cleavant Derricks) who she reconnects with after some trouble at work. She deals with an Internal Affairs investigation looking into her after she shoots and kills a suspect during an undercover bust with Crockett as she deals with inner conflict between her loyalty to OCB and her personal life.

Viced Tea Special: The Philip Michael Thomas Psychic Network

September 2nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 11 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: We take a break from recaps and get into some Viced Tea! Our first-ever episode of Viced Tea gets into the story of Philip Michael Thomas' work with the Psychic Friends Network (later Access Resource, later Traffix, Inc.) from 1994 to 1997 and the messiness at the time of his tenure after he was replaced by Miss Cleo! Learn more about who Miss Cleo was, how the "psychic" hotlines got into hot water, the GTA: Vice City connection, what happened after he exited, and Philip Michael Thomas' vegan cookbook!

Like Viced Tea? Feel free to suggest topics about the Miami Vice stars that deserve a standalone episode.

We will be back next Friday for our regular programming and recapping S02 E05: The Dutch Oven

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