[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

And then theres the Miami Vice theme. A great piece of music that still gives me the chills. From Jan Hammer. He did two versions. Both unique.

[yeff]

I recommend Fargo. The series, even if you’ve seen the movie.

[yeff]

And the short Kevin Bacon series, The Following.

[moonhawk]

“Alias’ had the best horrible fate of a bad guy ever. No quick and painless death for that one!

[redshawk]

That theme is great. Really gets your blood pumping. Same as the old Hawaii 5-0. Magnum PI is another.....

[leaning conservative]

Miami Vice & Don Johnson forevah!!!

[Rusty0604]

I was a huge Miami Vice fan when it first ran. Mostly to look at Don Johnson. I had my picture taken with his stuntman, it looked so much like him when I showed it to friends they didn’t know it wasn’t Don until I told them.

[ConservativeMind]

I recommend “Stingray” from the 80s, “The Mentalist,” and “Cold Case” (from CBS).

[Dahoser]

Put Hell on Wheels and Person of Interest on your list. If you're looking for three more, go for Firefly, Royal Pains and Suits.

[Rebelbase]

“And then theres the Miami Vice theme. A great piece of music that still gives me the chills.”

Back in the day in a pub one night there was a kid with a synth set-up doing the entertainment. He laid down the drum track and then built the Miami Vice theme around it instrument by instrument. Sounded great.

[pa_dweller]

I thought Earth 2 was OK. What there was of it.

[Rummyfan]

Deep into Justified and its an entertaining series about Kentucky hill life.

Justified was great - I love anything based on Elmore Leonard's writings. But there sure was a lot of hanky-panky going on in Eastern Kentucky. Wow.

[Chuckster]

Great show I have watched the entire series two or three times.

[EEGator]

I’ve been watching Miami Vice on Epix via Amazon Prime recently. Great show and great music.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Alias is a good one. I really like actress Jennifer Garner. I wish she had more variety in movie roles than just action hero. More like 30 Going On 13 and Miracles From Heaven.

I have missed more episodes of Alias than I have seen, so it may be time to binge the entire series and fill in what I missed.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am currently re-watching Vega$ with Robert Urich, which ran from 1978 to 1981. These were my college years. It is almost magical, like a time machine into a lost America I wish we could return to. Women in women’s clothing. No Unisex clothes. No gay characters. No multi-culturalism for its own sake. No social justice propaganda woven into the plots. No political lectures pushing a commie liberal agenda.

It is really refreshing. It is like taking a badly needed break from everything I hate about modern life. Just life like I remember it from the early days of my life. I really miss that America. I think all of you know how badly I miss that America.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I will plug two show.

Revenge. Starring Emily VanCamp. A woman seeks revenge on the people who destroyed her family and put her in foster care after causing her father to go to prison. Very soapy like Dallas. All the characters are true to themselves. Great cast and very well done. 2011-2015

Starter Wife. Cable dramedy with Debra Messing as the perfect Hollywood Housewife dumped by her powerful Producer husband. I just liked the characters and writing. Cancelled after a year and a half. I will warn you that it does have a gay male character, but I didn’t find it gratuitous. I mean, it is Hollywood. It don’t think it is out of the question there could be a gay person among her circle of friends in modern day Hollywood. 2007-08

[newfreep]

“Smugglers Blues”!!!

[pepsi_junkie]

Alias was an early JJ Abrams product that showed what would be his hallmark: introduce an intriguing concept, raise lots of questions, promise a big payoff down the line but then run out of steam and never really deliver. He even made a TED talk about it. He literally says he prefers the mystery to the answer, he doesn't want to know the answer, ever. TV show audiences like the mystery but unlike Abrams they typically do want an answer eventually. When Abrams is forced to create an ending he typically just abandons the whole premise and hopes nobody will notice that he never answered anything really.

For example

• in the last year of Alias he changed the whole setting and character dynamic and left lots of open questions. What was the rembaldi thing and what did it really do? Well, we got "Authorized Personnel Only" and no more Spy Vs Spy tension. Whut?
• In the last year of Lost he changed the whole setting and character dynamic and left lots of open questions. What was the smoke monster? We'll never know. Instead we got a 'it was just a dream' ending. Whut?
• In the last year of Fringe he changed the whole setting and character dynamic and left lots of open questions. What were all those weird X-files style monsters and weird phenomena type things about, as well as the mysterious eyebrowless men? We'll never know. Instead we got a flash forward in time to an alternate world where the mysterious eyebrowless men are mid-management bureaucrats and there's a guerrilla war against them. Whut?

That said, until he runs out of steam those shows were all great, must watch for me.

[higgmeister]

Well in reading this and all of the comments, I cannot help but think it is certainly true, there is no accounting for taste.

[Laslo Fripp]

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