Northern Exposure, The

I loved this programme when it was originally aired during the first half of the 1990's, and when I re-watched it a couple of years ago I had that nagging feeling that it just would not live up to the rosy memory, or that I was bound to notice all the things wrong with it that my early teenage self had failed to pick up on. Instead, I appreciated the brilliance of Northern exposure all the more. Inventive and original, philosophical and comical, Northern Exposure manages to be, well, nice, without becoming boring or over sentimental. The American TV show ran for 6 series, the initial episode introducing the viewer to the Alaskan small town of ...  Read the complete review

"Hey, it's Dr Greene! In a bubble! What's Dr Greene doing in a bubble?" I suppose it's understandable: my friend is a fan of ER, her favourite character is Dr Greene, and she's just walked in to find me watching a video, the actor Anthony Edwards in glorious technicolour inside what appears to be some sort of plastic bubble. "Is this, erm, heaven or somewhere? I thought he was dead?" Not heaven, but Cicely, Alaska - and not ER, not Dr Greene - but Mike Monroe, aka The Bubble Man from Northern Exposure. Northern Exposure: my favourite televsion programme ever. Before ER, before Ally McBeal - before ...  Read the complete review