It's a balm for social isolation, with its gentle interrogation of the ways in which myth, folklore and fantasy inform our internal lives -- and what happens when we eventually take those parts of ourselves out into public again.
Northern Exposure was in fact quite life-affirming in its celebration of community, friendship and nature and its respect for diversity and life's imponderables.
Northern Exposure took the stylistic playfulness pioneered by "thirtysomething," "Moonlighting" and other '80s shows, and made it more organic to the program's usual mise-en-scene.
