Philip Michaels on Television Without Pity:
Miami Vice was a fantastic TV show, full of action, unintentional comedy, and stylish Italian footwear. It deserves its place in the television pantheon alongside other shows that helped define their era -- your Seinfelds, your All in the Families, your Beverly Hills 90210s. So let us go back to a simpler time -- a time when USA Today used to print what songs would be featured on Miami Vice in its Friday editions, when Don Johnson called people "pal" indiscriminately, when Philip Michael Thomas...respired. Let's hop in the WayBack machine and head to 1986...
You owe it to yourself to read the whole thing.
