Miami Vice: The Show That Painted Miami In Neon
Pastel suits, Art Deco hotels, a Ferrari on Ocean Drive: no television show ever sold an image of Florida like Miami Vice.
Running from 1984 to 1990, Miami Vice followed undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs through the glittering, dangerous Miami of the 1980s. With its moody synth soundtrack, fashion-magazine style, and saturated tropical colors, the show was as much a mood as a cop drama, and it reshaped how the world pictured Miami. It is widely credited with helping spark the revival of South Beach and its now-iconic Art Deco district. Few shows have ever been so tied to a single city.
Watch it for the style, the music, and a vivid time capsule of 1980s Miami at its flashiest. It still looks and sounds like nothing else.
