"Miami Vice" Hell Hath No Fury (1988)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Virgil W. Vogel

Writers:

David Black (story)
Michael Duggan (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Miami Vice" (1984)

Original Air Date:

11 March 1988 (Season 4, Episode 17)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Police | Drugs | Famous Opening Theme | Ferrari | Cult Favorite

Cast

Don Johnson	...	Detective James Crockett
Philip Michael Thomas	...	Detective Ricardo Tubbs
Saundra Santiago	...	Detective Gina Calabrese
Michael Talbott	...	Detective Stan Switek
Olivia Brown	...	Detective Trudy Joplin
Edward James Olmos	...	Lieutenant Martin Castillo
Don Harvey	...	Alan Beaks
John Finn	...	Charles Hatch
John Michael Higgins	...	Murray Phillips
Carla Brothers	...	Ellen Mason
Carolyn Jae Bennett	...	Deborah Finley
Susan Bogusky	...	Woman in Audience
Sherry Lynn Diamant	...	Landlady (as Sherry Diamant)
Al Hubbs	...	Fitzgerald
Vincent Lacey	...	Little Boy

Runtime:

60 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Michael Mann Productions

20 minutes in, I shut this garbage off.

Yet another mail-it-in episode with an evil bad guy, helpless victim and host of other corny, one-dimensional archetypes. The writing on this is so thin, Karen Carpenter would have been envious. I really don't understand how MV could produce so many of these worse than bad episodes that could have only appealed to the dumbest of dumb audiences. Then again, the show only cracked the top 10 in ratings once (#8 for season 2), so maybe the audiences (like myself now) were so insulted by these bottom feeding episodes that they simply tuned out.

I didn't finish this episode, I didn't feel I had to since I'm sure that one of the vice squad (probably Trudy this time out) got to blow away the rapist in the climactic scene just as he's about to pull a repeat rape on the innocent victim. Who cares.

After the last episode with the doll killer, I've decided not to waste any more time sitting through the worst the MV producers have to offer. I think I made the right decision. From here on in, if the show smells within the first 15 minutes, then it's safe to say it's a turd...and I hate accidentally stepping on turds.