Season 1 favorite episode?


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Well here goes my first Vice-related question. I hope I'm in the right thread. :DWhat would you consider to be your favorite episode in season 1?

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One Eyed Jack, just a perfect Vice episode, has every vice flavour for me.Other brilliant ones including Smugglers Blues, Great McCarthy, Evan, Lombard, Milk Run etc etc

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Season 1 favorite episodeEvan is my favorite: the characters, the story, the photograpy, especially at the end and the music-Peter Gabrielle is a favorite. I also love the Pilot, Smugglers Blues, One Eyed Jack.

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My vote...Evan, Milk Run and of course my absolute favourite...The Great McCarthyvroom vroom...................................................

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S1 is the only season I consider to have NO bad episodes; there are eps stronger than others, but in the end, IMO Vice's strongest, most consistent season. That said, I'd say Milk Run is my favorite of S1. A definitive episode for sure, an absolute classic.

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Season one is such a great season. Definitive Vice.Probably my fave episode in S1 is Milk Run. A classic. But there's so many other great eps like Heart of Darkness, Lombard, Home Invaders, Brother's Keeper, Calderone's Return 1+2, One Eyed Jack, No Exit, Great McCarthy,Golden Triangle, Evan.

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The pilot!!! My favorite scene in the whole show - the famous night ride in the Daytona with "In the Air Tonight" playing.Most of the episodes in Season 1 are good.

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I hadnt seen many Season 1 episodes for a while but went back to the "Pilot" and "Heart of Darkness" this week and they were really superb , although Ive seen many times before!:)

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Thanks for all the great answers! :thumbsup:I tallied up everyone's responses and have made a list based on your first answer only and here are the results: It looks like Evan, The Pilot and Milk Run were consistently chosen as top favorites, each coming in with 3 votes. There was one vote each for One Eyed Jack and Home Invasion. For myself, I have seen a few of Season One's episodes when they were running on TV, but not all of them yet. One episode I definitely remember is the pilot with the car scene playing out to the tune of "In the Air Tonight." That was awesome stuff! I have seen Evan too and vaguely remember it being (If I'm wrong, please correct me.) about Evan having some sort of connection to Sonny and Sonny being troubled by it. If memory serves correct, was there a scene by a gas station where Crockett tells Tubbs the truth about his connection to Evan? Anyway, I posted this to help me get an idea of what the stronger episodes are. I am still building my DVD collection at this point and will be commenting on the episodes one by one once I get them all.

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I have seen Evan too and vaguely remember it being (If I'm wrong' date=' please correct me.) about Evan having some sort of connection to Sonny and Sonny being troubled by it. If memory serves correct, was there a scene by a gas station where Crockett tells Tubbs the truth about his connection to Evan? [/quote']Yes, that's right.:)
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It looks like Evan' date=' The Pilot and Milk Run were consistently chosen as top favorites, each coming in with 3 votes. There was one vote each for One Eyed Jack and Home Invasion. Anyway, I posted this to help me get an idea of what the stronger episodes are. I am still building my DVD collection at this point and will be commenting on the episodes one by one once I get them all.[/quote']The Pilot, Milk Run, and Evan matches the top 3 eps for Season 1 as voted for by the fans on .org, so your list tallies-up identically. These were closely followed by Smuggler's Blues, The Hit List, and Lombard.All of these eps made it into the Top 10 MV eps ever by the way, so you're pretty much on to a safe bet for some of the most popular eps here.It's funny that you mention you wanted to get a better idea of what some of the 'stronger' eps are - this was exactly my motivation for wanting to collate some of the eps' scores in the first place - and the opposite too - ie. trying to avoid some of the weaker ones, at least initially!
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I have to say Evan is season one's best, well written, great music, and lots of background on Crockett, I'll go ahead and give an honorable mention to Claderone's Demise as well, as well as Hit List.

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The Pilot' date=' Milk Run, and Evan matches the top 3 eps for Season 1 as voted for by the fans on .org, so your list tallies-up identically. These were closely followed by Smuggler's Blues, The Hit List, and Lombard.All of these eps made it into the Top 10 MV eps ever by the way, so you're pretty much on to a safe bet for some of the most popular eps here.It's funny that you mention you wanted to get a better idea of what some of the 'stronger' eps are - this was exactly my motivation for wanting to collate some of the eps' scores in the first place - and the opposite too - ie. trying to avoid some of the weaker ones, at least initially![/quote']All 6 of those episodes made it? If that's the case then that would mean season one pretty much took over the list. I read that season one and two are considered to be the strongest seasons.What was the number one episode out of the ten?
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Sorry the file I have which details all the votes is too large to upload.The top ep was Mirror Image (just shaded it over the Pilot). In order, the Top 10 (scores in brackets) looked as follows:1 - Mirror Image (9.73)2 - Brother's Keeper (9.67)3 - The Milk Run (9.63)4 - Evan (9.58)5 - Smuggler's Blues (9.58)6 - The Hit List (9.42)7 - Phil the Shill (9.40)8 - Redemption in Blood (9.31)9 - Lombard (9.27)10 - Forgive Us Our Debts (9.23)As for Season 1 taking over, yes according to the .org voting, Season averages were as follows (out of 10):S1 - 8.51S2 - 7.98S3 - 7.40S4 - 6.89S5 - 7.11I have long suspected however that S1 & S2 were 'over-rated' - several times in the ep reviews over there you'll find comments to the effect of 'not a great ep, but still v good, 10 out of 10'. In later Seasons the fans seem to have become more critical so that if an ep was thought to be 'v good' rather than 'great', it would never score a 10.

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So Season One is ranked the best, and the top episodes in Season 1 are Evan, The Pilot, Smuggler's Blues? Hmm, I kinda agree, but where is Cool Runnin? Good music in that episode, with Noogie!

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Out Where the Buses (8.79) - 7th Season 2 - 23rd OverallPayback (9.23) - 2nd Season 2 - 11th OverallDefinitely Miami (8.91) - 5th Season 2 - 19th Overall

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Overall Ranking (by Av) - (Season, Ep No.) - Ep Title - Average1 - (4, 22) - Mirror Image (2) - 9.732 - (1, 1) - Brother's Keeper (1 & 2) - 9.673 - (1, 12) - The Milk Run - 9.634 - (1, 21) - Evan - 9.585 - (1, 15) - Smuggler's Blues - 9.586 - (1, 4) - The Hit List (1) - 9.427 - (2, 11) - Phil the Shill - 9.48 - (5, 2) - Redemption in Blood (4) - 9.319 - (1, 22) - Lombard - 9.2710 - (3, 11) - Forgive Us Our Debts - 9.2311 - (2, 19) - Payback - 9.2312 - (2, 22) - Sons and Lovers - 9.1413 - (1, 6) - One-Eyed Jack - 9.0314 - (4, 5) - Child's Play - 914 - (1, 14) - Golden Triangle (2) - 916 - (2, 1) - The Prodigal Son (1 & 2) - 8.9717 - (3, 6) - Shadow in the Dark - 8.9418 - (1, 5) - Calderone's Demise (2) - 8.9319 - (2, 12) - Definitely Miami - 8.9120 - (2, 8) - Bushido - 8.8921 - (1, 8) - The Great McCarthy - 8.8422 - (1, 20) - Nobody Lives Forever - 8.7923 - (2, 3) - Out Where The Buses Don't Run - 8.7924 - (5, 9) - Fruit of the Poison Tree - 8.7325 - (4, 21) - Deliver Us from Evil (1) - 8.7226 - (5, 17) - Freefall (1 & 2) - 8.6927 - (3, 19) - Red Tape - 8.6128 - (1, 19) - The Home Invaders - 8.5729 - (1, 13) - Golden Triangle (1) (a.k.a. Score) - 8.5329 - (5, 1) - Hostile Takeover (3) - 8.5331 - (3, 7) - El Viejo - 8.4832 - (3, 5) - The Good Collar - 8.3933 - (1, 2) - Heart of Darkness - 8.3334 - (4, 3) - Death and the Lady - 8.3235 - (2, 15) - Little Miss Dangerous - 8.2836 - (1, 7) - No Exit (a.k.a. Three-Eyed Turtle) - 8.2537 - (2, 21) - Trust Fund Pirates - 8.1938 - (5, 18) - World of Trouble - 8.139 - (5, 14) - The Lost Madonna - 8.0940 - (1, 3) - Cool Runnin' - 8.0441 - (3, 18) - Lend Me an Ear - 842 - (1, 16) - Rites of Passage - 7.9643 - (2, 20) - Free Verse - 7.9344 - (3, 13) - Down for the Count (2) - 7.9145 - (5, 6) - Line of Fire - 7.8946 - (4, 11) - A Rock and a Hard Place - 7.8947 - (2, 14) - One Way Ticket - 7.8648 - (3, 4) - Walk Alone - 7.7949 - (3, 15) - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage) - 7.7850 - (4, 14) - Baseballs of Death - 7.7551 - (5, 11) - Miami Squeeze - 7.7252 - (3, 10) - Streetwise - 7.6753 - (1, 11) - Little Prince - 7.6654 - (2, 5) - Buddies - 7.6255 - (5, 21) - Too Much, Too Late - 7.656 - (4, 10) - Love at First Sight - 7.5857 - (2, 9) - Bought and Paid For - 7.5458 - (4, 19) - Blood and Roses - 7.558 - (2, 10) - Back in the World - 7.560 - (3, 2) - Stone's War - 7.4961 - (3, 20) - By Hooker By Crook - 7.4762 - (2, 13) - Yankee Dollar - 7.4562 - (5, 8) - Hard Knocks - 7.4564 - (4, 16) - Honor Among Thieves - 7.4165 - (3, 16) - Theresa - 7.3666 - (3, 12) - Down for the Count (1) - 7.2367 - (1, 9) - Glades - 7.2268 - (4, 18) - Badge of Dishonor - 7.2169 - (1, 17) - The Maze - 7.1770 - (2, 2) - Whatever Works - 7.0871 - (5, 15) - Over the Line - 7.0672 - (3, 1) - When Irish Eyes Are Crying - 7.0573 - (2, 17) - French Twist - 773 - (5, 4) - Bad Timing - 773 - (5, 3) - Heart of Night - 776 - (2, 7) - Tale of the Goat - 6.9677 - (5, 5) - Borrasca - 6.9578 - (4, 1) - Contempt of Court - 6.979 - (3, 21) - Knock, Knock, Who's There? - 6.8980 - (1, 18) - Made for Each Other - 6.8581 - (4, 20) - A Bullet for Crockett - 6.8382 - (4, 8) - Like a Hurricane - 6.7983 - (5, 7) - Asian Cut - 6.7584 - (4, 9) - Rising Sun of Death - 6.7385 - (3, 24) - Heroes of the Revolution - 6.7186 - (4, 13) - Vote of Confidence - 6.787 - (1, 10) - Give a Little, Take a Little - 6.6787 - (5, 10) - To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance) - 6.6787 - (5, 16) - Victims of Circumstance - 6.6790 - (2, 18) - The Fix - 6.6491 - (4, 15) - Indian Wars - 6.6392 - (4, 2) - Amen... Send Money - 6.6193 - (2, 4) - The Dutch Oven - 6.5694 - (3, 8) - Better Living Through Chemistry - 6.595 - (3, 9) - Baby Blues - 6.3895 - (2, 16) - Florence, Italy - 6.3897 - (3, 14) - Cuba Libre - 6.2198 - (2, 6) - Junk Love - 6.2199 - (3, 3) - Killshot - 6.04100 - (3, 22) - Viking Bikers from Hell - 5.91101 - (3, 17) - The Afternoon Plane - 5.89102 - (4, 6) - God's Work - 5.81103 - (3, 23) - Everybody's in Showbiz... - 5.56104 - (5, 12) - Jack of All Trades - 5.5105 - (4, 4) - The Big Thaw - 5.06106 - (5, 13) - The Cell Within - 4.54107 - (5, 20) - Leap of Faith - 4.32108 - (4, 12) - The Cows of October - 4.18109 - (4, 17) - Hell Hath No Fury... - 3.85110 - (4, 7) - Missing Hours - 3.34111 - (5, 19) - Miracle Man - 3.25

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