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.
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.
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.
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.
