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Currently watching a 90’s classic “Northern Exposure”. It has an absurdly high rating on IMDB which would be suspicious if the episode ratings weren’t so consistently high all the way through.
Three episodes in and I quite like it. It’s an odd mash up of genres, there’s a fish out of water basis surrounded by incongruous characters presented for appearances as though they are stock characters…then there’s the whole Native Alaskan/Native American thing which is familiar but totally different at the same time.
The attitudes are quite sharp too, it has some snappy dialogue which tumbles in at great pace every few scenes. The lead is Rob Morrow who I only know because he was nearly in The Island Of Dr Moreau but fled the shoot when he saw how fucked it was. Well he’s good in this, adept at playing a kind of Pre-Eisenberg arrogant talkative neurotic who excels at worsening a scenario before coming through in the clinch.
I assume some of you have seen it before, it was apparently a big hit. The female lead from Cliffhanger is in it, and Billy Drago’s son. He has better teeth than his dad at least.
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