The Problem With a 'Bro Show'.

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'Calderone's Return Part II' (originally known as 'Calderone's Demise') is certainly a crowd pleaser, providing everything you love about the eighties in a neat 50 minute slice of nostalgia. Bold colour shirt and jeans combination (on the beach, no less)? Check. Fake tan and chest hair? Got it. Tacky opening credits sequence? Of course. One of the most endearing TV bromances with just a hint of innocent homoeroticism? You better believe it.

Miami Vice represents all that those who lived through it want to forget about the decade, and those of us who have nothing but film, television and old family photos to go on would kill to have been in their place to experience. Detectives Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) fight crime, score chicks, restore peace to the social order and look good doing it (supposedly). This is just how it was back then, right? Who wouldn't want to be in their place?

'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', Mad Men Pilot.

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After a tongue-in-cheek explanation of its title (perhaps to set the highly tongue-in-cheek tone of the series), 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' begins in a crowded bar. Crowded not only with bodies, but with smoke, creating a feeling of suffocation that we as modern-day viewers, with our ubiquitous smoke-free zones, are not accustomed to. A sharply dressed man is questioning a bus-boy about his smoking habits. He is charismatic, despite the distinct air of someone looking to make a sale. He is smooth-talking and manipulative. We are immediately taken in by his charms.