EPISODE
SEASON
Northern Exposure - Season 1
A newly graduated doctor is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
February 3, 1947 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
12 March 1946, Denver, Colorado, USA
December 31, 1940 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
8 April 1926, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 15, 1942 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
23 May 1959, Paris, Texas, USA
2 November 1923, Seattle, Washington, USA
21 September 1962, New Rochelle, New York, USA
30 March 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 27, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 March 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 17, 2018
It has been somewhat forgotten since, which is a pity, because its pleasures, while gently unassuming, are considerable.
September 17, 2018
Morrow could not be better as Fleischman, a devotee of the great indoors now roughing it in the Great Northwest, his eyes holding a hint of terror as he beds down in his cabin each night grasping a golf club to fight off rats.
September 17, 2018
But, like Joel, a good many viewers may discover that the characters kind of grow on you. A first-rate cast makes it all the more easy. As Ed says to Joel about the gamey mooseburgers, you'll get used to it.
September 17, 2018
It's a simple setup: how woefully out-of-place this over-amped self-absorbed guy is in a rural setting. But the series is stocked with good actors playing vivid characters in a realistic environment.
September 17, 2018
But what makes Northern Exposure so special is that despite showing these characters dealing with emotions they struggle to understand themselves, it does not take their concerns seriously.
September 17, 2018
But what made Northern Exposure exceptional then and now was the way it defied genre.
