Vice and Easy

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 a...

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. A french agent visiting in the 80s and none of them smoke? Leonard Cohen possibly getting his lin...

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. Th...

This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs encounters an underage dancer and sex worker 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! This episode is full of a lot of very interesting themes and subjects along with some WILD fashion cho...

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 smo...

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 sta...

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 a...

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...

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. For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast Links: The Long Way Home - Patti D'Arbanville Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville at the premiere of the movie "Brain Barbra Streisand,...

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 st...

This week on Miami Vice: Gina's housekeeper 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...

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 th...

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 caus...

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....

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 &quo...

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 afte...

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 Resources, 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 "...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are investigating a drug dealer who is thought to have disappeared and is helped by an eccentric ex-cop Hank Weldon (Bruce McGill) who isn't all there but, seems to know a lot about the guys they're going after. Bring some tissues as I cry my eyes out and talk about mental health treatment and how it lacked then and now, loyalty to one's part...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs dig into the world of Santeria with the help of a Priestess (guest star Eartha Kitt) during their investigation of the mysterious death of two cops outside of their jurisdiction. Crockett has his own problems when his Spyder gets taken back into police custody with plans to take it to auction. EDIT: I totally missed my notes on Eartha Kitt, sorry! Not on...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are still in New York trying to get closer to the Revilla brothers by cutting off their supply after their previous plan gets them nowhere, Valerie still isn't returning Tubbs' calls, Crockett's new interest is hiding his gun but, maybe more? Part Two wraps up their trip to NYC with some great guest stars, songs, outfits and some hard truths...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs welcome us back into Season Two with another two-parter packed full of hit songs, fashion, guest stars (Penn Gillette, Gene Simmons, Pam Grier) and one-liners! Crockett and Tubbs head to NYC to track down a cartel leader (Luis Guzman) with the help of Jimmy (Penn Gillette) and Tubbs tries to reconnect with Valerie (Pam Grier) whose life has changed a lot...

This week on Miami Vice: We wrap up season one with Dennis Farina returning as Lombard, John Santucci returning after 8 episodes to play a different character (love that Michael Mann loyalty), and Ned Eisenberg as the son of a late Mafioso. Crockett and Tubbs have to protect Lombard, who is very reluctant to testify against the Labrizzi family even as he is backed into a corner with immunity, whic...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are trying to bust an arms dealer but things get more complaicated when Crockett recognizes one of his henchman, an ATF agent who used to work with him on Vice. Guest starring: William Russ (Cory Matthews' dad) and Al Israel (Scarface) whose paperwork says he's 27?!?!?!?! This is a very emotionally poignant episode and I'm surprised it wasn&#...

This week on Miami Vice: Sonny falls in "Lust With Potential" at a very inopportune time, when a group of youths (pronounced "yutes" like in My Cousin Vinny) are on a murderous crime spree through Miami. Crockett struggles with work-life balance as his romance with Brenda (guest star Kim Greist from Manhunter) gets hotter. Gina learns some hard life lessons (don't date your...

This week on Miami Vice: The Vice team works with Robbery to investigate a string of brutal home robberies across Miami while Tubbs is on vacation with Valerie in NYC. Crockett and co. work his old mentor, the man who taught him everything he knows about robbery, but it seems now that he's lost his touch as the years go on. Guest stars include: David Patrick Kelly, Esai Morales and Nancy Valen...