The second season begins differently with a series of intriguing events. Crockett & Tubbs is almost a dangerous mission in Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug traffickers who kill federal agents. On the other hand, it seems that Trudy is still torn between love and duty when she discovers a strange discovery about her lover. It seems that Trude will discover that her lover is connected to a dangerous cocaine distributor.
Sure, the hair (on both men and women) was a little pouffy, but the scripts were tight, and it was fun to see, among the guest-starring actors, musicians such as Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, and Leonard Cohen.
Most notably we are served up some very familiar Mann-erisms from the show's creator, and 20 years on this still holds up as a decent and influential cop show.
At its best... "St. Elsewhere" is the most intelligently- written program on the air, and, even at its worst, "Miami Vice" is the most cinematically rewarding. That is not to say, as others have, that "Miami Vice" is a victory of style over content...
