Vice and Easy

This week on Miami Vice: It's time for our favourite secondary and tertiary characters to bask in the warm glow of the spotlight! Zito and Zwitek inadvertently become roommates, along with Zito's ex and Zwitek's current gf, awkward! Will their history and mutual admiration of Elvis keep their friendship intact? Izzy and Noogie go deeper undercover than usual and end up in hot cement an...

This week on Miami Vice: Garcelle Beauvais and Ving Rhames guest star! Tubbs goes undercover and accidentally gets involved in a hostage situation when a group of street punks graduate to killers as SWAT tries to diffuse the situation and protect Tubbs' cover with no help from a hot-headed cop. Other topics include: why I could never be a hostage negotiator, getting emotional about Doug Flutie...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs go undercover in a high-class escort ring to help Tubbs' old flame Valerie (Pam Grier) reunite with her missing sister. John Turturro guest stars as her high-powered pimp. This episode features a ton of great 80s fashion, diplomatic immunity, love-making under a full moon and smoking at an airport gate. Spicy content warning! Sexually explicit! Get y...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are off to Cartagena with the help of Jimmy (Glenn Frey) to help pinpoint an agency leak that's resulting in the kidnapping and and deaths of smugglers and their families. We are testing out some more categories! The Fashion segment now has a Wild Card! I wax a little too poetically about CanCon (sorry and I got the categories wrong haha), talk about...

This week on Miami Vice: In Part Two, Castillo confronts his old adversary, Lao Li, who is settling in permanently in Miami and reunites with his long-lost wife in a touching episode with amazing over-the-top decor, outfits and one-liners. Noogie makes a brief appearance while Crockett, Tubbs and the vice team put their efforts together to help their Lieutenant seek justice. Show Notes Gallery S1E...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs discover more than they expected when working undercover at a hotel trying to bust dirty cops when they discover Castillo's old enemy is in town. More of Castillo's past comes to the surface in a great episode with impeccable style. Gallery S1E13 For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast YouTube: Vice and E...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs try to set two young men set after catching them about to smuggle drug-filled statues in from Colombia. The first episode I ever saw features a young Evan Handler (that's Harry Goldenblatt to a different generation), boxing, arthouse cinema fashion and A+ acting from Don Johnson. I reminisce on how relaxed flying used to be and point out another GTA:...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs go after a wealthy and dirty businessman through his drug addicted son and worry they're doing more harm than good in the process. Crockett goes undercover at the WASPiest Polo Match you can imagine, Gina and Trudy score smack from a baby-faced Giancarlo Esposito (!!!) as Luther and a 28-year old hunk playing a college kid might be hooking up with hi...

This week on Miami Vice: Michael Madsen and Terry O'Quinn guest star! Crockett is forced to do more jail time than the drug and prostitution kingpin he's after when he refuses to name his informant. Gina is forced into an awful situation when the kingpin in question figures her for a snitch. On the bright side, lots of elaborate outfits, high-definition TV of 1984 and an appearance by Noog...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs head down Alligator Alley to the Everglades to pick up a key witness who has bailed 48 hours before he's due in court to testify against a notorious man, Enrique Ruiz, with an affinity for silk shirts and gold chains. Guest Star: John Pankow (To Live and Die in LA) In Viced Tea we discuss the rumoured lawsuit between Michael Mann and William Friedkin...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs discover the world of powerboat racing complete with ridiculous 80s decor, a live band in sequins and getting too close to a powerful dealer's girlfriend, which actually might be cuckholding...? A very fun and epically styled episode that encompasses everything about an era I love even though I wasn't even alive for it! Live bands, sequins, glass...

This week on Miami Vice: Despite the uneasy tone of this episode (Trigger Warning: domestic violence and sexual assault), we celebrate Bruce Willis in his first credited TV role as Tony Amato, an arms dealer who Crockett and Tubbs reluctancly pair up with the Feds in an attempt to stop him from selling missiles. Other guest star: Katherine Borowitz a.k.a. Mrs. Turturro (Irv!). For the first time i...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett runs into an ex-girlfriend who's in deep to some bookies, including a name you may recognize, Al Lombard (Dennis Farina) and Cher's Dad (Dan Hedaya) is an Internal Affairs agent who is doing Crockett no favours. Lt. Martin Castillo (Edward James Olmos) comes to take over OCB and makes zero friends in the process. Gallery S1E6 For more Vice and Easy Tiktok:...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs take an epic boat ride to the Bahamas to hunt down Calderone, just in time for the Junkanoo festival! Tubbs finds himself enamoured with a pixie-cropped beauty who might derail their plans. Gallery S1E5 Alexia Demie giving big Angelina Madeira vibes For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasy YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast

This week on Miami Vice: Uh oh, an assassin is going through his hit list, and Sonny is on it! Are Sonny and Caroline back together (should have listened to your dad, Gina)? Does that girl in the club have the same dress as Marina? Can you imagine how long that fax (see thumbnail) took to receive? Remember fax machines? And more importantly, will they find Calderone, on what I think was the hottes...

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs meet Noogie, a small-time hustler who can lead them to the Jamaican drug operation they've been after. Marina connects that Joel Surnow, the writer of this episode, went on to create 24, her favourite show in Grade 8! Also, is everybody high or this episode, or is it just me? Gallery S1E3 For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram:...

This week on Miami Vice: Ed O'Neill guest starts as an FBI agent who may have gone under while going undercover to infiltrate a porn empire and I give some vintage gossip aka Viced Tea on James Cameron's ex-wives, John Waite's real inspiration for "Missing You" mesh undershirts, supper clubs and more! Gallery S1E2 For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram:...

This week on Miami Vice: The episode that started it all! Miami Detective Sonny Crockett meets New York cop Ricardo Tubbs and learn that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Come for the "In the Air Tonight" drum solo and stay a brief cameo from Jimmy Smits! Brother's Keeper: Part Two recap starts at 33:48 1:18:54 - About your Host: Marina couldn't stop crying so she had to record...