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Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:04 pm**

This was huge when I was in high school, but somehow I never watched a single episode. Or of Magnum, for that matter.

Anyway, thanks to our good friends at netflix, I'm catching up. Just watched the first episode. Some thoughts:

- damn, this opening scene (3 goons trying to shake down Tubbs) looks like a parody of the 80s. Did people REALLY dress like that when not in a rap video?

- the dialogue...not the greatest, but probably no worse than the average of its day.

- I love synth music, but between this show and Blade Runner, it's obvious that a synthy soundtrack is just a bad idea.

- I want to live there.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:09 pm**

Did people REALLY dress like that when not in a rap video?

Miami clubs in the '80s, and '70s for that matter, were a combination of wads of cash, greed, ambition, and mountains of cocaine. It's a three-way tie between the Miami, New York, and LA club scenes for most batshit insanity, though. Check this rockumentary for LA during the hair metal days. If you have never seen the interview with Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P., it is legendary. The incarnation of the band London in there is every '80s hair metal/rocker stereotype you ever thought you knew, times one billion.

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:18 pm**

Adama was a crazy method actor even.back then

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