Rewatching for the first time in over 40 years, and it’s no good.

You're correct.

It is a typical 80's cop show, but at the time it was groundbreaking with the music, editing, fashion, and colors.

The show is a sign of the times.

Yeah, it aged with its time frame because it used current pop culture references. I remember liking Manhunter, another Michael Mann creation, and after watching it again recently, the over abundance of 80s style and music choices places it too much into its time frame. It distracted me from the drama of the story and characters.

The thing it lacked the most was consistency. It often seemed like the writers didn't write (or, at least, watch) the previous episodes.

Sorry, you're not digging it anymore. I loved it when I was younger, and I still love it

Recently gave it a rewatch a few months back. I like it still espcially from Season 1 to 3. I love that some episodes don't end on a happy note either and soundtrack is awesome to it. Season 3 is my favourite as it's pretty dark season.

After that, the show goes off the rails for me. Some silly storylines and it's far more miss then hit.

7.5 rating on IMDB is just about right for this show. If it stopped at Season 3 then it would have been higher.

It's good for time travel.

That is, if you want to travel back to a time and place in your life when you first watched it.

One thing I really want to do is to watch this show from start to finish. I watched a lot of the Season 1-3 episodes when they first ran, but then the show got too weird for me (plus I went off to college), so there are still some episodes I haven't seen. I'd like to rewatch them all, just to see if the later-season episodes are indeed that "weird."

If you took only the better half of the first season episodes, it was a very good, sometimes great, show.

There was a smattering of good episodes after the first season, but it never really lived up to its potential.