Off the top of my head, in Miami Vice, Rico gets shot in the pilot and Viking Bikers From Hell, Calderone's Return Pt.1/The Hit List has the original boss getting shot, Gina gets shot in in Prodigal Son, A Bullet For Crockett is exactly what it sounds like, and Castillo gets shot in Miami Squeeze, all of which result in the character spending the rest of the episode in the hospital (or in a sling in the pilot). And if we're not talking the main cast, people get shot and die in practically every episode, frequently more or less onscreen in Sonny's arms. And the show favored designer pistols over machine guns, so you don't get quite so many bullets spraying everywhere without hitting anything scenes unless it's a disposable badguy mowing down other disposable badguys. (So, on the whole, it's still totally unrealistic but more or less on par with what's on tv now rather than A-Team type shows.)
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Date: 3/11/11 05:11 am (UTC)Off the top of my head, in Miami Vice, Rico gets shot in the pilot and Viking Bikers From Hell, Calderone's Return Pt.1/The Hit List has the original boss getting shot, Gina gets shot in in Prodigal Son, A Bullet For Crockett is exactly what it sounds like, and Castillo gets shot in Miami Squeeze, all of which result in the character spending the rest of the episode in the hospital (or in a sling in the pilot). And if we're not talking the main cast, people get shot and die in practically every episode, frequently more or less onscreen
in Sonny's arms. And the show favored designer pistols over machine guns, so you don't get quite so many bullets spraying everywhere without hitting anything scenes unless it's a disposable badguy mowing down other disposable badguys. (So, on the whole, it's still totally unrealistic but more or less on par with what's on tv now rather than A-Team type shows.)/crazy MV fangirl