Twin Peaks mindbroke tv executives. They rushed to greenlight le quirky people in small town shows. NE got a lot of praise because it was like Twin Peaks but not as weird and off putting. >Errie Indiana >Northern Exposure >Picket Fences >American Gothic
all garbage because no exec had a clue what made Twin Peaks work.
>Twin Peaks is an American mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990,
>Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995
wow, those mindbroken executives sure moved fast to get a new show through a season of production, post-production, and promotion in 3 months
yeah but nobody knew TP would be a hit until it aired. then a ripoff show has to be written, cast, production, post. it's just not enough time . they're not going to go ahead on "critically acclaimed" which doesn't happen until post production promotion anyway. they clone shows that are proven hits.
>yeah but nobody knew TP would be a hit until it aired.
And ABC spent a million dollars an episode in 1989 (the most expensive drama for its time) on something that wasn't going to be a hit. Within the industry, the buzz was strong before it aired. If you think the other networks weren't paying attention to upcoming programming and just happened to have an obvious watered down version on their own a few months later, you're nuts. >then a ripoff show has to be written, cast, production, post. it's just not enough time
Yes and similar script aren't just sitting around that could get some quick tweaks and a green light. Everything about the shabbiness of the NE pilot screams rush job. And they already had a casting template from TP, so that process is pretty quick.
Northern Exposure was aware that it was a Twin Peaks rip off. They made a gag out of it at the waterfall, but they should've doubled down and gone all out. The NE filming location was like an hour from North Bend, have a whole episode about it.
Northern Exposure was a straight rip off of Tom Bodet’s series of books about End of the Road, Alaska.
He had been doing a weekly radio show on Alaska Public Radio years before Twin Peaks was developed.
wild palms is 93. northern exposure i am aware. they even reference twin peaks in the first season, because they were friendly with each other due to filming at the same location. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RrgstxGzk
>Twin Peaks is an American mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990,
>Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995
wow, those mindbroken executives sure moved fast to get a new show through a season of production, post-production, and promotion in 3 months
Northern Exposure was really good, especially for the time period. You gotta remember that was early 90s network TV. You wouldn't see TV that good until very late 90s early 2000s on premium cable. I don't know how well it's held up. I haven't seen it in a long time.
Yeah I dropped it before he even got off the plane
he's supposed to be a smarmy israeli prick at the beginning. Its a redemption story. You've basically said that you couldn't stand watching someone who as really good at playing his allotted role.
I worry about some of you guys.
YES. its the most comfy thing that's ever been made ever. I love it.
I think some of it is nostalgia as I watched it with my dad and brother in the 90's but didn't understand it.
I love the weirdness that seeps in and the gentle sense of humour. I really wanted to bang Shelley and Maggie whilst Ed filmed it
Now anon, Janine is a good upstanding Christian girl and if you respect her beliefs you're just gonna have to man up and marry her to make passionate love in the missionary position. Anything else would be sinful.
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hnnng imagine fricking her in her prime. Going down on her for hours... must've tasted delicious
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Imagine sending her a box of chocolates on Valentines day and she gives you a smooch to say thank you
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>Imagine sending her a box of chocolates
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More pics, bro.
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It is absolutely criminal how low res most of her old modeling pics are
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It's absolutely criminal she's not counted among the hottest women from the 90's. She should've been in more projects. Instead you had uggos like Julia Roberts headlining movies as a woman wanted by many men. And Julia can't even act.
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Absolutely in the top 10 for sure
And she seemed like a real sweetheart IRL too
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I cant decide if she looks better with long or short hair
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That's because you like dick in your ass
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There's nothing more gay than having your sexuality threatened by a woman with short hair or thinking a woman with short hair looks like a guy
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She looks so much better with long hair. I'm shocked. She is legit one of the hottest actresses ever.
Don't make anon your escape goat for your negativity. I know it's a doggie-dog world, but to all intensive purposes he just misspelled a common I.D.M. and you knew what he was trying to say.
Your outrage doesn't pass mustard. By in large both you and me could care less.
I hate that Quiz Show ruined NE, it was otherwise a very entertaining HBO Original feature
Quiz Show did nothing wrong and NE bowed out before it got embarrassing. Keeping Joel in it wouldn't have extended it well, but you get a nice wind down to the series. Not everything needs eight seasons and shows that get it rarely sustain themselves.
You forgot Wild Palms
Tbf Oliver Stone making a soap about Scientology deep lore isn't the kind of thing Oliver Stone needs much permission for.
Women should not have short haircuts. It should be considered a crime.
>that episode where Chris spares a deer while hunting and it gives him a bottle of Buckwheat in gratitude >that episode where the aurora borealis causes the townfolk to have each others dreams >that episode where Joel takes a literal fricking portal in an Alaskan cave back to New York City >that episode where an ancient spirit tries to help Ed find his parents >that episode where Maggie's dead boyfriend is resurrected as a dog >that episode where they find out Napoleon Bonaparte traveled to Alaska and fathered a local Indian tribe >that episode where a government chemical spill causes the local trees to start screaming >that episode where the carnival's bus breaks down in town and there's a guy who can unironically fly >that episode where a new guy turns out to be a shapeshifting bear
>That episode where the Russian comes to town, ends up in a gun duel with Maurice, and then everybody just breaks the 4th wall and skip the scene.
I'm still lost on that one.
I watched when broadcast and recently rewatched it and it's a great tv series, (and Janine Turner is cute as a button) though the last season is pretty lame after the lead actor bailed on the show, thinking he was going to be a Big Time Movie Star (he didn't).
yeah, seemed off so I looked it up. also Robert Redford directed, never knew that . didn't remember Morrow was in it at all, lol. just Feines and Turturro
Which cultists are more annoying on Cinemaphile? Lynchdrones or Snyderjeets?
I used to think Snyderjeets had the annoyance easily in the bag but the shit tier conspiracy theories and retching in this thread is making a strong case for Lynchdrones.
There are two incredible for modern TV standards arcs, the one where the radio dude has to bury his friend and his friend wanted to be thrown in a trebuchet is one of the coolest episodes of TV ever they hit it out of the park with the song choice and everyone watching it. Its strangely emotional.
The other all time great arc was for the character who moved to Alaska because he had that illness that Jimmys brother had in BCS and he lived in this dome. He gets through the mental illness because of everyones dedication and love.
I also feel like a song like Belinda Says from Alvvays is not possible without this show.
irrespective of the origins of NE, there was definitely a blatant ripoff of NE two years later that is almost forgotten, only a wiki , imdb, and like 4 pics on the internet:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_to_Extremes_(TV_series) >Premise >A British American medical doctor and inventor uses his fortune to set up a Caribbean Medical School Croft University School of Medicine on the island of St. Jantique.
Entertainment Weekly called it "Southern Exposure" at the time.
>Producers Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who last season gave us the most brazenly idiosyncratic television drama of the year, I’ll Fly Away, have now created a show that looks, at first, like just the opposite: the year’s most brazen rip-off. In Going to Extremes, Brand and Falsey have taken the premise of their most successful show, Northern Exposure — young white urban man transplanted to an arctic, oddball paradise — and moved it to a warmer climate
How did this fly? When I sit and think about it, it is weird/gross but it doesn't bother me to watch. And this show was well-loved when it aired so I guess their relationship didn't cause a huge enough stir.
But frick if this show were made today. Total outrage. But then again, most of the cast would be black anyway so it wouldn't really matter I guess?
Would have been better as a limited run series maybe like 4 seasons and has a clear ending. it meanders a bit and then you get a bunch of shitty episodes at the end.
>Janine Turner was asked to cut her hair into a more-utilitarian style so as not to be so 'distractingly beautiful' [9] after test screenings for Northern Exposure concept scenes
Um bros it's not working
Found it in 1080p in a site
https://sflix.to/watch-tv/free-northern-exposure-hd-37305.5129257 for anyone interested.
I'll maybe start it tomorrow. Thanks Cinemaphile
>the show's fine as long as you know the MC doesn't get the girl.
I hate when that happens. Apparently the MC actor left the show before the show it ended. But as long as the MC doesn't carry the show on his own and his character arc gets a good conclusion, I won't have a problem.
As I mentioned up-thread, the actor playing Joel the doctor got a wildly inflated ego when the show became a success and bailed, thinking he was going to become a major Hollywood movie star. Not surprisingly, the showrunners were pissed and so wrote his character as flipping out and moving to the deep wilds of Alaska where he was never seen again and the network brought in another actor as the new doctor (who was married) but viewers weren't interested, as the Joel+Maggie on-again-off-again theme was kinda central to the show.
Originally the show was supposed to be all about Joel the fish-out-of-water israeli doctor in Alaska with the rest of the characters just being minor bit players but the writers came up with so many good storylines about the other quirky characters that it quickly became a ensemble show.
>Does Joel's ending seem satisfying at least or was his story completely wasted?
From what I remember, in the last season he just kinda leaves for the far north (there's an episode where one of the regular characters visit him) and the new doctor and his wife take over (she's hot and did a nudie Playboy photo shoot).
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Teri Polo was hot.
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mmm shit those are some grade-a youthful yet soft boobies. lucky bastard her husband.
He thought he was gonna be the next big thing because he stared in Quizshow. Fricking Quizshow! I'm willing to bet more people have seen The Room than even know Quizshow even exists.
>wtf is this?
magical realism. a literary genre that started in latam where the magical is very slight and treated as normal, while everyday occurences are treated as wondrous and magical
Several things:
This is on streaming (Amazon prime) and a boxed set was recently released for cheap, but apparently there's a big issue with the soundtrack. A lot of key music tracks were replaced with generic muzak. Knowing this makes me autistically seek out the actual version. And there is a region 2 blu ray set in Germany or someshit.
The show is definitely a product of its time. I love it but can understand that it was meant for slow once-a-week viewing. Some of the episodes become very same-y with "random person comes to visit". For being an isolated village there sure was a lot of frequent guests.
I know tv sucks and some claim has always sucked. But I fricking miss this era so much. I never experienced it first hand, but I imagine the immense coziness of visiting small-town Cicily every Sunday night not wanting it to end to help stave off the Sunday scaries/dread of going to school the next day.
Not a zoom. I or my parents didn't watch it when I was that age. I was busy watching x-files (which tbf started on Fridays for a while). We were a Cops, Rescue 911, Home Improvement family.
Northern Exposure is based and I appreciate whoever the frick this anon is who makes this thread. I appreciate you because I do not have the strength or the will to make this thread and see it die.
It's in good form tonight. Zoomers, watch this show.
Twin Peaks mindbroke tv executives. They rushed to greenlight le quirky people in small town shows. NE got a lot of praise because it was like Twin Peaks but not as weird and off putting.
>Errie Indiana
>Northern Exposure
>Picket Fences
>American Gothic
all garbage because no exec had a clue what made Twin Peaks work.
twin peaks sucks though.
twin peaks is garbage
wake up Black person
>t
Eerie Indiana was FUN if you're a kid stuck in boring suburbia, where nothing happened
The final episode of Eerie Indiana is the best episode of television ever created.
All of those were better than Twin Peaks.
>Twin Peaks is an American mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990,
>Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995
wow, those mindbroken executives sure moved fast to get a new show through a season of production, post-production, and promotion in 3 months
Implying they don't have industry spies and leakers.
yeah but nobody knew TP would be a hit until it aired. then a ripoff show has to be written, cast, production, post. it's just not enough time . they're not going to go ahead on "critically acclaimed" which doesn't happen until post production promotion anyway. they clone shows that are proven hits.
>yeah but nobody knew TP would be a hit until it aired.
And ABC spent a million dollars an episode in 1989 (the most expensive drama for its time) on something that wasn't going to be a hit. Within the industry, the buzz was strong before it aired. If you think the other networks weren't paying attention to upcoming programming and just happened to have an obvious watered down version on their own a few months later, you're nuts.
>then a ripoff show has to be written, cast, production, post. it's just not enough time
Yes and similar script aren't just sitting around that could get some quick tweaks and a green light. Everything about the shabbiness of the NE pilot screams rush job. And they already had a casting template from TP, so that process is pretty quick.
Northern Exposure was aware that it was a Twin Peaks rip off. They made a gag out of it at the waterfall, but they should've doubled down and gone all out. The NE filming location was like an hour from North Bend, have a whole episode about it.
Northern Exposure was a straight rip off of Tom Bodet’s series of books about End of the Road, Alaska.
He had been doing a weekly radio show on Alaska Public Radio years before Twin Peaks was developed.
yeah, they were syndicated all across npr, good point. he had some books, too.
I thought Tom Bodet made hotel commercials and nothing else
NE is more a rip off of doc Hollywood imo
You forgot Wild Palms
Bruce Wagner is nuttier than Lynch and Frost put together. That was about as small town as Brian DePalma.
if you listen to the commenteary, this is a direct reaction to twin peaks and someone wanting to create something similar
They came out within a couple of months of each other.
wild palms is 93. northern exposure i am aware. they even reference twin peaks in the first season, because they were friendly with each other due to filming at the same location. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RrgstxGzk
Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure both started in 1990.
No one cared about Twin Peaks
blown the frick out
Northern Exposure and Twin Peaks were filmed at the same time and location midwit.
All the shows you mentioned are better than 99% of the crap we get today.
Everwood came out much later but also had the same mountain town vibe. It was set in Colorado though, but it also had a cute tomboy.
If you like "tomboys" you are a closeted homosexual
>”Only a gay would want to breed a strong woman with similar interests who would give him strong sons”
Anon, you’re obviously projecting.
>having sex with women is gay
t. (you)
>if you wanna blow your load deep inside of a beautiful fertile vegana you are gay
hmm
If you dont like hot women, no matter how they style their hair or what their hobbies are, you are an open homosexual
>If you like "tomboys" you are a deeply closeted gay guy
These are facts
yes i pretend the clit is like a smol bepis
Possibly the gayest thing I've ever seen posted on Cinemaphile
Northern Exposure was really good, especially for the time period. You gotta remember that was early 90s network TV. You wouldn't see TV that good until very late 90s early 2000s on premium cable. I don't know how well it's held up. I haven't seen it in a long time.
I wanted to like it but the lead is such a smarmy israeli prick that I couldn’t stick with it
Yeah I dropped it before he even got off the plane
he's supposed to be a smarmy israeli prick at the beginning. Its a redemption story. You've basically said that you couldn't stand watching someone who as really good at playing his allotted role.
I worry about some of you guys.
He's constantly getting btfo though
I liked it when I was a kid and she was my wife
She married you when you were a child? Erm, that's illegal.
it's legal on the alaska/poland border
It's one of my favorites, plenty of hilarious moments plus it's just all around comfy
The theme song is top tier.
Whew this board is a mess right now. Can this be our comfy escape thread?
YES. its the most comfy thing that's ever been made ever. I love it.
I think some of it is nostalgia as I watched it with my dad and brother in the 90's but didn't understand it.
I love the weirdness that seeps in and the gentle sense of humour. I really wanted to bang Shelley and Maggie whilst Ed filmed it
waifey marweial
The origin of my crippling tomboy addiction
Same
She had fantastic breasts (probably still does) but sadly never took em out for all to see.
Hummina
She was crazy hot in the Leave It To Beaver movie from the 90s
WHOMST
I believe Janine Turner
My wife
I love short haired women. Some can really pull it off and just looking at them makes me diamonds. Janine looked so fricking hot in Cliffhanger.
Just googled Janine's daughter, and she's super fricking HOT too.
Based Cliffhanger enjoyer
Gonna rub one off to these pics of hers tonight.
Now anon, Janine is a good upstanding Christian girl and if you respect her beliefs you're just gonna have to man up and marry her to make passionate love in the missionary position. Anything else would be sinful.
hnnng imagine fricking her in her prime. Going down on her for hours... must've tasted delicious
Imagine sending her a box of chocolates on Valentines day and she gives you a smooch to say thank you
>Imagine sending her a box of chocolates
More pics, bro.
It is absolutely criminal how low res most of her old modeling pics are
It's absolutely criminal she's not counted among the hottest women from the 90's. She should've been in more projects. Instead you had uggos like Julia Roberts headlining movies as a woman wanted by many men. And Julia can't even act.
Absolutely in the top 10 for sure
And she seemed like a real sweetheart IRL too
I cant decide if she looks better with long or short hair
That's because you like dick in your ass
There's nothing more gay than having your sexuality threatened by a woman with short hair or thinking a woman with short hair looks like a guy
She looks so much better with long hair. I'm shocked. She is legit one of the hottest actresses ever.
dito
only to find out that just utterly crazy, woke, feminazi lesbo/bitrons rock this shit
life is loneliness
whatever you do, dont look up what she looks like now!!
Great VIBES, milktoast acting. But then 80s tourism boom probably had things easy going.
>Milktoast
>milktoast
Don't make anon your escape goat for your negativity. I know it's a doggie-dog world, but to all intensive purposes he just misspelled a common I.D.M. and you knew what he was trying to say.
Your outrage doesn't pass mustard. By in large both you and me could care less.
yes most of the Northern Exposure threads made last year were me
for me it's Chris in the Morning
Holling and Marilyn for me.
Based Marilyn appreciator
Quiz Show did nothing wrong and NE bowed out before it got embarrassing. Keeping Joel in it wouldn't have extended it well, but you get a nice wind down to the series. Not everything needs eight seasons and shows that get it rarely sustain themselves.
Tbf Oliver Stone making a soap about Scientology deep lore isn't the kind of thing Oliver Stone needs much permission for.
Maggie will never be caught for your death
>that episode where Chris spares a deer while hunting and it gives him a bottle of Buckwheat in gratitude
>that episode where the aurora borealis causes the townfolk to have each others dreams
>that episode where Joel takes a literal fricking portal in an Alaskan cave back to New York City
>that episode where an ancient spirit tries to help Ed find his parents
>that episode where Maggie's dead boyfriend is resurrected as a dog
>that episode where they find out Napoleon Bonaparte traveled to Alaska and fathered a local Indian tribe
>that episode where a government chemical spill causes the local trees to start screaming
>that episode where the carnival's bus breaks down in town and there's a guy who can unironically fly
>that episode where a new guy turns out to be a shapeshifting bear
>That episode where the Russian comes to town, ends up in a gun duel with Maurice, and then everybody just breaks the 4th wall and skip the scene.
I'm still lost on that one.
>that episode where the aurora borealis causes the townfolk to have each others dreams
TOY COWS IN AFRICA
TOY COWS
Loved the first few seasons of Northern Exposure, awesome music and the show was gorgeously filmed.
Hnnng
Yes.
It is an agonizing show though.
JUST FRICK ALREADY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It's comfy, so yes
>Does Cinemaphile like Northern Exposure?
I watched when broadcast and recently rewatched it and it's a great tv series, (and Janine Turner is cute as a button) though the last season is pretty lame after the lead actor bailed on the show, thinking he was going to be a Big Time Movie Star (he didn't).
I hate that Quiz Show ruined NE, it was otherwise a very entertaining HBO Original feature
quiz show was released in theaters
Was it? It's been many years but I could've sworn it was just for HBO
yeah, seemed off so I looked it up. also Robert Redford directed, never knew that . didn't remember Morrow was in it at all, lol. just Feines and Turturro
It's a good movie too
Which cultists are more annoying on Cinemaphile? Lynchdrones or Snyderjeets?
I used to think Snyderjeets had the annoyance easily in the bag but the shit tier conspiracy theories and retching in this thread is making a strong case for Lynchdrones.
Most annoying are the samegays calling everyone they don't like cultists.
yeah it was pretty entertaining
I'm on S1E4, pretty good so far. Will report back when I finish the show
good please do so I can not care then either
I always had the biggest crush on her when this show was on the air
She was also in the cutscenes of an obscure 90s videogame called Mechcommander
There are two incredible for modern TV standards arcs, the one where the radio dude has to bury his friend and his friend wanted to be thrown in a trebuchet is one of the coolest episodes of TV ever they hit it out of the park with the song choice and everyone watching it. Its strangely emotional.
The other all time great arc was for the character who moved to Alaska because he had that illness that Jimmys brother had in BCS and he lived in this dome. He gets through the mental illness because of everyones dedication and love.
I also feel like a song like Belinda Says from Alvvays is not possible without this show.
irrespective of the origins of NE, there was definitely a blatant ripoff of NE two years later that is almost forgotten, only a wiki , imdb, and like 4 pics on the internet:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_to_Extremes_(TV_series)
>Premise
>A British American medical doctor and inventor uses his fortune to set up a Caribbean Medical School Croft University School of Medicine on the island of St. Jantique.
Entertainment Weekly called it "Southern Exposure" at the time.
>Producers Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who last season gave us the most brazenly idiosyncratic television drama of the year, I’ll Fly Away, have now created a show that looks, at first, like just the opposite: the year’s most brazen rip-off. In Going to Extremes, Brand and Falsey have taken the premise of their most successful show, Northern Exposure — young white urban man transplanted to an arctic, oddball paradise — and moved it to a warmer climate
https://ew.com/article/1992/09/04/going-extremes/
My favorite show of all time. My pirated copies were VHS recordings with commercials from the era. So unbelievably comfy.
>VINCOUR EST MORT
This man is in his sixties and Shelley is probably 19 or 20 at most. They officially get together when she is 18.
How did this fly? When I sit and think about it, it is weird/gross but it doesn't bother me to watch. And this show was well-loved when it aired so I guess their relationship didn't cause a huge enough stir.
But frick if this show were made today. Total outrage. But then again, most of the cast would be black anyway so it wouldn't really matter I guess?
60 to Holling is like 30 for the average man.
Would have been better as a limited run series maybe like 4 seasons and has a clear ending. it meanders a bit and then you get a bunch of shitty episodes at the end.
beautiful
Damn, she cute. More girls need to rock short hair.
>Janine Turner was asked to cut her hair into a more-utilitarian style so as not to be so 'distractingly beautiful' [9] after test screenings for Northern Exposure concept scenes
Um bros it's not working
they turned her from distractingly beautiful into distractingly COOOOOOOOM
>the episode where chris in the morning decided to become a person of color
norex bros...
It was a different time
Found it in 1080p in a site
https://sflix.to/watch-tv/free-northern-exposure-hd-37305.5129257 for anyone interested.
I'll maybe start it tomorrow. Thanks Cinemaphile
the show's fine as long as you know the MC doesn't get the girl. I didn't, and it bothered me for a number of reasons
>the show's fine as long as you know the MC doesn't get the girl.
I hate when that happens. Apparently the MC actor left the show before the show it ended. But as long as the MC doesn't carry the show on his own and his character arc gets a good conclusion, I won't have a problem.
As I mentioned up-thread, the actor playing Joel the doctor got a wildly inflated ego when the show became a success and bailed, thinking he was going to become a major Hollywood movie star. Not surprisingly, the showrunners were pissed and so wrote his character as flipping out and moving to the deep wilds of Alaska where he was never seen again and the network brought in another actor as the new doctor (who was married) but viewers weren't interested, as the Joel+Maggie on-again-off-again theme was kinda central to the show.
Originally the show was supposed to be all about Joel the fish-out-of-water israeli doctor in Alaska with the rest of the characters just being minor bit players but the writers came up with so many good storylines about the other quirky characters that it quickly became a ensemble show.
Does Joel's ending seem satisfying at least or was his story completely wasted?
>Does Joel's ending seem satisfying at least or was his story completely wasted?
From what I remember, in the last season he just kinda leaves for the far north (there's an episode where one of the regular characters visit him) and the new doctor and his wife take over (she's hot and did a nudie Playboy photo shoot).
Teri Polo was hot.
mmm shit those are some grade-a youthful yet soft boobies. lucky bastard her husband.
He thought he was gonna be the next big thing because he stared in Quizshow. Fricking Quizshow! I'm willing to bet more people have seen The Room than even know Quizshow even exists.
>wtf is this?
magical realism. a literary genre that started in latam where the magical is very slight and treated as normal, while everyday occurences are treated as wondrous and magical
Are you seriously telling me there's no Shelly appreciators in this thread?
Shelly wanted Joel to cut his penis. That makes Shelly an awful person.
I remember not really liking her tomboyish visage when I was a child, but looking back now, she (and Nancy Allen in RoboCop) look really cute.
>Joel
Having a brainfart here. I'm obviously referring to the old barkeep, Holling.
bump
I wish that helicopters pilot seat was my face
Women wearing aviators are hot
Maggie was stacked.
Several things:
This is on streaming (Amazon prime) and a boxed set was recently released for cheap, but apparently there's a big issue with the soundtrack. A lot of key music tracks were replaced with generic muzak. Knowing this makes me autistically seek out the actual version. And there is a region 2 blu ray set in Germany or someshit.
The show is definitely a product of its time. I love it but can understand that it was meant for slow once-a-week viewing. Some of the episodes become very same-y with "random person comes to visit". For being an isolated village there sure was a lot of frequent guests.
I know tv sucks and some claim has always sucked. But I fricking miss this era so much. I never experienced it first hand, but I imagine the immense coziness of visiting small-town Cicily every Sunday night not wanting it to end to help stave off the Sunday scaries/dread of going to school the next day.
Fricking hell.
>This is on streaming (Amazon prime)
But not in Europe.
>I never experienced it first hand
Get the frick outta here, zoomzoom.
Not a zoom. I or my parents didn't watch it when I was that age. I was busy watching x-files (which tbf started on Fridays for a while). We were a Cops, Rescue 911, Home Improvement family.
I watched JUST for Maggie.
>Ruins your comfy tv show
Is that Frank?
I loved Ed. My favourite character, at least when I watched the show as a child.
All of the characters were pretty great, actually. I don't remember hating anyone particularly.
He learned how to act from his dad
James was always cool.
Goddamn I want a tomboy
It was an okay show for the time, which was immediately forgotten.
Northern Exposure is based and I appreciate whoever the frick this anon is who makes this thread. I appreciate you because I do not have the strength or the will to make this thread and see it die.
It's in good form tonight. Zoomers, watch this show.
Ohhoho no. I'm not fricking participating in this thread only to have it die. Fricking Threadkiller McGee here, as per usual...
I'm gonna need the sauce, boss.
Olive Glass?
Women should not have short haircuts. It should be considered a crime.
waifugays are subhuman
Tell me about Maggie, why does she wear the hat?
Goddamn it forgot pic
nah
I like the setting but the condescending city israelite lead ruins the show for me