Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)(rogerebert.com) |
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)(rogerebert.com) |
Very few shows like that, but Ted Lasso actually reminded me a lot of NEX in how it made me feel.
Some of that weirdness was then further carried over by Kelley to Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.
Utter products of their time periods 90s and early aughts.
One of my favorite shows.
But both him and Digweed did pioneer a unique sound in the 90s. The "Sasha and Digweed sound" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Out of the multitude of admittedly not so great labels you could attach to the mixes they put out at the height of their careers, "progressive house/trance" seems to me to be the least offensive.
I'm wondering what alternative you would suggest?
Northern Exposure Expedition 1999 is my fave.
Mono Culture - Free - Northern Exposure Expeditions
To do what I want to do
To say what I want to say
To be what I want to be... free
The Silence by Mike Koglin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY
Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan
About 10 years ago I bought the DVDs for my mother for her birthday and we watched some together, it really stood the test of time if you ask me.
She died last year, I’m glad we got the chance to share this and a few other nostalgic things over the past few years, we lived quite a long way away.
Call your mother!
When Lynch came back for the final episode of that season he refocused it on Laura Palmer and brought back characters that hadn't been seen for many episodes, like Laura's mum or Audrey's brother. They weren't much fun, one being wracked by grief and the other mentally disabled. But that's what Twin Peaks is really about and what gave it staying power.
Everyone (including Diane Keaton when she directed an episode) seemed to think it was this kooky place and the weirdness was the point. There's plenty of fun there, but Lynch really understood it: hence Season 3 which gives you all of half an episode of Fun Dale Cooper before pulling the rug out from under you and reminding you that a girl was murdered and we shouldn't move on from that.
- I looked it up season 3 episode 18 "The Final Frontier".
But somehow, I really just wanted Tudyk to start killing everyone.
And a touch of Twin Peaks in Northern Exposure itself.
Youth in the 90’s had all sorts of quirky content available and we had enough free time to consume it all while doing a lot of nothing along the way (in a good way).
There were some problems with it. The representation of the countryside as a magical other by city folk. The strange lack of families in Cicely (there are children but hardly any). I found the on-off relationship between the two leads to be more frustrating than exciting.
I admit I haven't seen it since the original airing. I would likely evaluate it differently now.