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* ADayIntheLimelight: Again, lots more in season 2 where they fleshed out Torello's crew. Luca even had one, where he was arguably the main protagonist dealing with a business too shady even for him, Hollywood.
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* ADayIntheLimelight: ADayInTheLimelight: Again, lots more in season 2 where they fleshed out Torello's crew. Luca even had one, where he was arguably the main protagonist dealing with a business too shady even for him, Hollywood.
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This 1986–88 Creator/{{NBC}} crime drama was Creator/MichaelMann's darker and grittier answer to ''Series/MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and later UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Detective Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his band of rogueish officers track mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Denison) as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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This 1986–88 Creator/{{NBC}} crime drama was Creator/MichaelMann's darker and grittier answer to ''Series/MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and later UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Detective Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) (Creator/DennisFarina) and his band of rogueish officers track mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Denison) as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Del Shannon recorded a new version of his best-known song, "Runaway," for the show.
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* BreatherEpisode: Lots in the second season, most notably "Pauli Taglia's Dream", which was part clip show, part "how we got here" and pretty much all slapstick comedy.
* ADayIntheLimelight: Again, lots more in season 2 where they fleshed out Torello's crew. Luca even had one, where he was arguably the main protagonist dealing with a business too shady even for him, Hollywood.
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Ray Luca, though it's left somewhat ambiguous whether he is BackFromTheDead, since he is quite clearly blown up in a nuclear bomb test at the end of season one. In a case of ChemistryCanDoAnything he is revived by scientists for reasons unknown. This plot point is best left ignored.]]
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Ray Luca, though it's left somewhat ambiguous whether he is BackFromTheDead, since he is quite clearly blown up in a nuclear bomb test at the end of season one. In a case of ChemistryCanDoAnything he is revived by scientists for reasons unknown. This plot point is best left ignored.It was later explained that they were revived at the behest of Luca's old boss Manny Wisebord.]]
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* OddFriendship: Hardnosed, brutal, violent cop Torello, and straitlaced, mildmannered liberal attorney David Abrams for a surprisingly formidable team.
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* OddFriendship: Hardnosed, brutal, violent cop Torello, and straitlaced, mildmannered liberal attorney David Abrams for form a surprisingly formidable team.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Torello. Subverted if you're a victim, but God help you if you get on his bad side.
* OddFriendship: Hardnosed, brutal, violent cop Torello, and straitlaced, mildmannered liberal attorney David Abrams for a surprisingly formidable team.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Ray Luca gets a hell of an assassination, being tied up and driven to a test site where he gets ''nuked''.]]
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Ray Luca gets a hell of an assassination, being tied up and driven to a test site where he gets ''nuked''.]] Somehow he survives]]
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* VillainousFriendship: Luca will backstab just about anyone to get ahead, but for the most part he is every bit as loyal to Pauli as Pauli is to him. He will verbally abuse him (and at one point raped his girlfriend), but for the most part he always had his back even when it didn't serve him well to do so.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Ray Luca's crew consists of the dumb Pauli Taglia and the even dumber Frank Holman. So Luca comes to this realization very often.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOveerkill: [[spoiler:Ray Luca gets a hell of an assassination, being tied up and driven to a test site where he gets ''nuked''.]]
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOveerkill: ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Ray Luca gets a hell of an assassination, being tied up and driven to a test site where he gets ''nuked''.]]
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOveerkill: [[spoiler:Ray Luca gets a hell of an assassination, being tied up and driven to a test site where he gets ''nuked''.]]
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* MetaCasting: Series star, Dennis Farina was actually a former Chicago Police and had actually once arrested former jewel thief John Santucci, who played Ray Luca's criminal sidekick, Pauli Taglia.
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* MetaCasting: Series star, star Dennis Farina was actually a former Chicago Police PD detective and had actually once arrested former jewel thief John Santucci, who played Ray Luca's criminal sidekick, sidekick Pauli Taglia.
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This 1986–88 Creator/{{NBC}} crime drama was Creator/MichaelMann's darker and grittier answer to ''Series/MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and later UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Detective Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his band of rogueish officers track mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Denison) as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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* VivaLasVegas: The second season of the show is mostly set here. The city is shown to be a teeming hive of underworld activity and [[spoiler: a member of Torello's crew develops a gambling problem.]]
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* VivaLasVegas: The second season of the show is mostly set here. The city is shown to be a teeming hive of underworld activity and [[spoiler: a member of Torello's crew develops a gambling problem.]]]]
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* MetaCasting: Series star, Dennis Farina was actually a former Chicago Police and had actually once arrested former jewel thief John Santucci, who played Ray Luca's criminal sidekick, Pauli Taglia.
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* [[spoiler: NoEnding: A third season never materialized, thus the show ends on a {{Cliffhanger}}]].
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas.UsefulNotes/LasVegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogueish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Ray Luca, though it's left somewhat ambiguous whether he is BackFromTheDead, since he is quite clearly blown up in a nuclear bomb test at the end of season one. In a case of ChemistryCanDoAnything he is revived by scientists for reasons unknown. This plot point is best left ignored.]]
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogeuish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''MiamiVice'', set amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogeuish rogueish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Del Shannon recorded a new version of his best-known song, "Runaway," for the show.
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''MiamiVice'', set in amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogeuish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''Series/MiamiVice'', set in amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogeuish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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''' ''Crime Story'' ''' was MichaelMann's dark and gritty answer to ''Series/MiamiVice'', ''MiamiVice'', set in amid the dregs of 1960s Chicago and later Las Vegas. Detective Mike Torello and his band of rogeuish officers track mobster Ray Luca as he goes from small-time racketeer to casino mogul.
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* TheCameo: Stratosphere owner Bob Stupak plays a casino owner in one episode.
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* VivaLasVegas: The second season of the show is mostly set here; largely inverted as the city is shown to be a teeming hive of underworld activity.
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!!This series has examples of the following:
* BigBad: Ray Luca is about as big and bad as it gets.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Luca and his crew are unequivocally bad, but Torello and his band of officers kill at will and defy legality to catch the bad guys.
* VivaLasVegas: The second season of the show is mostly set here; largely inverted as the city is shown to be a teeming hive of underworld activity.
* BigBad: Ray Luca is about as big and bad as it gets.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Luca and his crew are unequivocally bad, but Torello and his band of officers kill at will and defy legality to catch the bad guys.
* VivaLasVegas: The second season of the show is mostly set here; largely inverted as the city is shown to be a teeming hive of underworld activity.
