A comic episode! A cryogenically frozen reggae star is found during an undercover operation puts Crockett and Tubbs into a comic episode. Add the reggae stars ex wife, Izzy, five Japanese business investor the viewer is in for one stupid episode. Izzy tires to weasel himself by stealing the reggae stars body in order to lure Japanese investors, while the ex-wife kills the scientist and anyone else in order to get the millions in inheritances. This episode is hard to swallow! Either the viewer is going laugh or turn of The Big Thaw off. I never forgot the visual scene of the reggae stars' capsule floating in the bay at the ending. Very visual, dump, but unforgettable. Six out of 10
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Episode 6, Trudy 10
mylkione13 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
If you love reggae, then this is a great episode...But seeing Izzy within the first 10 minutes one knows this is a fluff piece; comic relief episode with too much Switek and bad jokes. But Gina and Trudy are gorgeous!
A more comic episode
Tweekums16 June 2012
Warning: Spoilers
As this episode opens Crockett and Tubbs are waiting to get a search warrant so they can enter a building suspected of being a drug laboratory; when they get in they don't find any sign of narcotics; instead they find frozen reggae star Robillard Nevin! He is in a tube which is taken back to headquarters. Soon afterwards a doctor turns up claiming that he was planning to revive Neven, who had vanished from public sight after suffering fugu poisoning in Japan eighteen months previously and is now in cryogenic suspension. He isn't the only person who wants his body; his 'widow' is determined to see him buried in Kingston so she can get her hands on his millions. When the tube, along with the body, disappears from the station it becomes clear that Mrs Nevin is quite prepared to kill to make sure her late husband stays dead... this means there is only one person left trying to revive him... Miami Vice light relief supremo... Izzy Moreno!
This episode is far from a classic but it was a fun change after the previous serious episode. When I first saw Martin Ferrero's character, Izzy, I thought he'd be irritating like Miami Vice's other comic character Noogie, but he has proved to be much better and one is guaranteed a laugh in any episode he features in... if you can suspend your disbelief at all the wacky jobs he has had over the series! When I first saw the body frozen in the tube I feared we could be heading into silly science fiction territory but thankfully that didn't happen and while the ending is silly in an amusing way it wasn't impossible.
This episode is far from a classic but it was a fun change after the previous serious episode. When I first saw Martin Ferrero's character, Izzy, I thought he'd be irritating like Miami Vice's other comic character Noogie, but he has proved to be much better and one is guaranteed a laugh in any episode he features in... if you can suspend your disbelief at all the wacky jobs he has had over the series! When I first saw the body frozen in the tube I feared we could be heading into silly science fiction territory but thankfully that didn't happen and while the ending is silly in an amusing way it wasn't impossible.
Unbelievably poor.
kitteninbritches15 February 2021
If you haven't seen this episode already, do yourself a favour, save 45 minutes of your life and give it a miss. Whoever wrote this episode should be cryogenically frozen sooner rather than later and never reanimated.
Season 4 is batting 4 for 4 so far...
frankenbenz9 August 2007
The season 4 trend of impressing me with good episodes continues in this entry about a cryogenically frozen reggae star and the motley crew of people trying to thaw him out (Izzy included).
The production value seems to be cranked up, as does the comedic timing of almost everyone involved, most notably Izzy and Switek (two MV'ers that never seem to disappoint). Another nod goes to the believability of the Reggae band who break the previous trend of lazily cast and wardrobes, corny MV archetypes/stereotypes. Sure the Japanese investors are about as clichéd as could be (bowing in their black suits with SLRs hanging from their necks), but it's another light (and funny) touch in an episode that continues to break new MV plot line ground.
Also of note is a cameo by the always impressive character actor Alfred Molina. Anyone who can outshine Gary Oldman in his own film deserves mention...even if it's only a throw away cameo on MV.
The production value seems to be cranked up, as does the comedic timing of almost everyone involved, most notably Izzy and Switek (two MV'ers that never seem to disappoint). Another nod goes to the believability of the Reggae band who break the previous trend of lazily cast and wardrobes, corny MV archetypes/stereotypes. Sure the Japanese investors are about as clichéd as could be (bowing in their black suits with SLRs hanging from their necks), but it's another light (and funny) touch in an episode that continues to break new MV plot line ground.
Also of note is a cameo by the always impressive character actor Alfred Molina. Anyone who can outshine Gary Oldman in his own film deserves mention...even if it's only a throw away cameo on MV.
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