Miami Vice The Rewatchables
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Miami Vice

Picking Nits

Implausible undercover resources and cover, boat logistics, redundant drug names and limited friendship.

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  • Cell phone conversations in speedboats and convertibles are implausible.
  • The source of the money for cars, houses and clothes is unclear; repossessed assets are a guess.
  • Long-term undercover work in one city seems implausible, especially with a Ferrari and a first-name-preserving alias.
  • The Cuba trip leaves questions about clothes and disappearance from a major investigation for days.
  • The drug sellers list meth, ice and speed as though distinct products, prompting criticism of the research and joking alternatives.
  • Crockett and Tubbs do not seem especially close; tension around Trudy and Isabella is discussed.
  • A friendship-building drinking scene like the one in 48 Hours is wanted; the director cut adds some driving together.
  • An invented sports-bar scene imagines where Crockett vanished, including sports-radio personalities.