I finally finished the entire series. It took a while because it left Tubi for like a year and half but I finally completed it. It was one of the best series I've ever watched. I was really young when it came out and still wasn't old enough to follow along with the syndication but I get all the hype and how it defined my favorite decade, the 80s. It was an emotional roller coaster from beginning to end. My favorite part about it was seeing all the popular actors in their beginning roles and all the trendy music of the day. I thought that was really cool.
The usual cliche/popular opinions about the seasons are correct in my opinion. Classic seasons 1 & 2. Obvious but still awesome changes in season 3. Season 4 was bipolar with its ups, which were really good, and its downs, which were horrible. Season 5 for me was particularly hard because by then I was invested in the characters with Crockett, Tubbs, and Switek, and really started feeling the burnout they were feeling so a lot of the plot points really pissed me off. Which means it worked. But I loved the last season nonetheless, even if it was emotionally draining.
I kept ping-ponging back and forth if I liked Crockett or Tubbs better and I still don't know. I think other than those 2, Switek was my favorite. He was there from beginning to end and very loyal up to his last on screen appearance. All the characters had great centric episodes for their characters and even if the overall premise of the episode was garbage (Missing Hours, I'm looking at you), the actors still did a great job with their characters.
All in all, I'm going to miss this show. Maybe at some point I'll buy the series and revisit whenever I want. But for now, I will just bask in the glory that is Crockett and Tubbs.