Things should start to get interesting right about now
Miami Vice. Season One. Episode Six. Everything changes.
Because let's be honest -- Episodes One through Five were a disaster. But a month and a half into the run, everything changes.
--NBC figures out that the show is a legitimate hit and starts spending more money per episode.
--Jan Hammer finally tweaks the theme song into the magnificent final version everyone's familiar with.
--They ship Sonny's estranged wife and kid to Atlanta.
--They fire the clown who's playing the Lieutenant and replace him with Edward James Olmos (alert the Cylons). Olmos brings a darkness to the center of the show that anchors all the strawberry-colored foolishness that revolves around it.
--Director Michael Mann (perhaps inspired by Olmos) find his mojo with a tone one might call acid-drenched nihilism.
If only they'd also fired the clown who played Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas).
Wait -- maybe not. Sometimes what sounds like a good idea ends up a bad one. That said, Thomas may be the single worst actor to ever play a lead in a major network hit. Possible competition is the unwatchably sanctimonious performance by Magnum P.I. on Blue Bloods. Which is genuinely horrible.
But my money is on Thomas for worst ever. I IMDb'd him and the only notable credit he's got, other than MV, is some voice-over work on Grand Theft Auto. Which is a video game about the thug life in Miami. Which makes, I suppose, a certain amount of sense.
Here's where they blow up Sonny's 365 Daytona Spyder (which was really a Corvette pimped-up to look like a Ferrari) with a stinger missile ...
It contains one of the few excellent line readings Thomas ever delivered.
Because let's be honest -- Episodes One through Five were a disaster. But a month and a half into the run, everything changes.
--NBC figures out that the show is a legitimate hit and starts spending more money per episode.
--Jan Hammer finally tweaks the theme song into the magnificent final version everyone's familiar with.
--They ship Sonny's estranged wife and kid to Atlanta.
--They fire the clown who's playing the Lieutenant and replace him with Edward James Olmos (alert the Cylons). Olmos brings a darkness to the center of the show that anchors all the strawberry-colored foolishness that revolves around it.
--Director Michael Mann (perhaps inspired by Olmos) find his mojo with a tone one might call acid-drenched nihilism.
If only they'd also fired the clown who played Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas).
Wait -- maybe not. Sometimes what sounds like a good idea ends up a bad one. That said, Thomas may be the single worst actor to ever play a lead in a major network hit. Possible competition is the unwatchably sanctimonious performance by Magnum P.I. on Blue Bloods. Which is genuinely horrible.
But my money is on Thomas for worst ever. I IMDb'd him and the only notable credit he's got, other than MV, is some voice-over work on Grand Theft Auto. Which is a video game about the thug life in Miami. Which makes, I suppose, a certain amount of sense.
Here's where they blow up Sonny's 365 Daytona Spyder (which was really a Corvette pimped-up to look like a Ferrari) with a stinger missile ...
It contains one of the few excellent line readings Thomas ever delivered.
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