#ep: out where the buses don't run

[detectiverickitubbs]

Tubbs sitting on Castillo’s bookshelf like it was made for sitting on and Crockett sitting with his feet up on Castillo’s desk. I have no words for how much I love this. 

#Muse: Tubbs #Rico Tubbs #Sonny Crockett #Lt Castillo #Castillo #Martin castillo #Ricki Tubbs #Miami Vice #my screencaps #ep: out where the buses don't run

[deadendtracks]

another thing i love about miami vice is it's very expressionistic. like half the time the sets aren't even trying at realism, they're entirely symbolic reinforcements of the themes of the episode, etc. visually stunning for a reason. there's this scene in Out Where the Buses Don't Run (one of the best episodes in the series) where the set design of an earlier scene actually visually tells you the answer to the mystery of the episode. Not in like a fanboy easter egg way, just in a way where if you go back and immediately watch the ep again after the reveal you're like... damn. because all the visual choices are priming you the audience member for the impact of the final scenes. etc. it's GREAT STUFF OKAY. I'm not sure any show i can remember has done some of the same things. Maybe like. Legion?? Which is more overtly surreal and abstract. IDK. But there's LAYERS going on in Miami Vice.

The use of mirrors alone. Which I and a friend did a whole in depth study of back the last time I was obsessed, but sadly I was a baby meta writer and never completed anything. I'll have to go back to my LJ and google docs and dig some stuff up.

actually now that I think about it, some of the set design stuff reminds me of the original Suspiria (obviously, it would have influenced Miami Vice, rather than the other way around). But American TV shows certainly weren't doing this kind of stuff.

#miami vice