Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

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Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)(www.rogerebert.com)

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caycecan 7 hours ago|

Jessie the Bear episode, it ends with Enya's "Carribran Blue", is "The Constant" of the 90s.

- I looked it up season 3 episode 18 "The Final Frontier".

moron4hire 8 hours ago||

When "Resident Alien" came out, we started watching it and I quipped to my wife, "oh, so this is 'Northern Exposure', but the out of touch, out of towner doctor pressed into small town service, constantly scheming to get out, is more likeable."

jfengel 2 hours ago||

I really wanted to like Resident Alien, but it just didn't do it for me. I like the comparison to Northern Exposure; it's very astute.

But somehow, I really just wanted Tudyk to start killing everyone.

nephihaha 4 hours ago||

There is a touch of Mork and Mindy to Resident Alien too. But yes, I do see a bit of Northern Exposure in Resident Alien, and in Due South which popped along a few years later...

And a touch of Twin Peaks in Northern Exposure itself.

mrexroad 2 hours ago||

Due South… now there’s a name I have not heard in many years.

Youth in the 90’s had all sorts of quirky content available and we had enough free time to consume it all while doing a lot of nothing along the way (in a good way).

browningstreet 6 hours ago||

That piano trebuchet!

KyleBrandt 7 hours ago||

One of my favorite shows, was happy to see it finally come to streaming a few years ago, came later than a lot of other older shows from the same time period.

nephihaha 5 hours ago||

I always felt this show was Twin Peaks' less menacing younger sister. It was mainly character driven, and those characters were very memorable (and mostly, but not always, lovable.)

There were some problems with it. The representation of the countryside as a magical other by city folk. The strange lack of families in Cicely (there are children but hardly any). I found the on-off relationship between the two leads to be more frustrating than exciting.

sleepybrett 8 hours ago|

cle ellum, wa

incanus77 7 hours ago|

Rosyln.

shawn_w 6 hours ago||

Roslyn and Cle Elum are next to each other.

sleepybrett 5 hours ago||

basically the same town. I think i'm in some episodes in the background of the bar. My friend used to go to a nearby university (CWU in Ellensburg) and went to visit him and we were grabbing pizza down the street from the bar they shot in (the brick saloon) and we got asked to be extras.