That's a great scene, indeed, Maggie. I still miss Northern Exposure fairly acutely -- it was always one of my favorite shows, and it had some positively magical and transcendent individual moments. I think my favorite episode was when Joel (the NYC doctor trying to adjust to small-town life in Alaska) decides he's going to fit in with the guys (and prove his Alaskan manhood) by going hunting. When he finally shoots a quail or some kind of bird he seems elated, but when the show returns from a commercial break you see the sensitive Joel wheeling the dying bird into his clinic's operating room on a gurney ... tragi-comedy at its best, and it managed to be profound and literary in the process ...
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That's a great scene, indeed, Maggie. I still miss Northern Exposure fairly acutely -- it was always one of my favorite shows, and it had some positively magical and transcendent individual moments. I think my favorite episode was when Joel (the NYC doctor trying to adjust to small-town life in Alaska) decides he's going to fit in with the guys (and prove his Alaskan manhood) by going hunting. When he finally shoots a quail or some kind of bird he seems elated, but when the show returns from a commercial break you see the sensitive Joel wheeling the dying bird into his clinic's operating room on a gurney ... tragi-comedy at its best, and it managed to be profound and literary in the process ...
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ReplyDeletei like northern exposure too. my dad and i watch it together via netflix.
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