A sitcom from the cold 90s of the 90s is one of the most neglected joyals of the privileged video

What if “Twin Peaks” was a surreal sitcom instead of a twisted mystery? This could look like the classic CBS series “Northern Exposure”, which lasted six seasons from 1990. Of course, David Lynch and Mark Frost brought humor to “Twin Peaks”, but “Northern Exposure” is much more purely a sitcom with just as strange elements, and that is a real treat.

“Northern Exhibition” follows Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a New York doctor who made his tuition fees pay for the promise he would practice medicine for four years in the state of Alaska, who sorely needed doctors. He finds himself in the tiny fictitious city of Cicely, where he will be the main doctor of the city despite his freshness of medicine. Cicely is a strange little town with a real distribution of characters, and as Joel gets to know his new neighbors while they go through the doors of his clinic, he realizes that some of the what is happening in Cicely could actually be supernatural. Developed by the creators of “St. Elsewhere” Joshua Brand and John Falsey, “Northern Exposure” was a wonderfully strange look in one of the northern cities in America who go perfectly with the most terrifying tones of “Twin Peaks”.

Although there are a few things that have not aged brilliantly, including the treatment with the first seasons of its indigenous characters, “Northern Exhibition” often feels ahead of his time. The story is relatively anticapitalist, because one of the main bad guys is a sectarian businessman named Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin) who wants to transform a large field of land near Cicely in the “Riviera de l’Alaska”. There is also a positive queer representation via Ron (Doug Ballard) and Erick (Don Mcmanus), a gay couple who owns the Sournough Inn and who even spends an episode planning their marriage. Although “the North Exhibition” does not always do good by its marginalized characters because the show was made in the early 1990s and these were much less enlightened times, its heart generally looks like its good place (a bit like “Twin Peaks”).

“Northern Exposure” is also deliciously bizarre, with elements that may or may not be supernatural and a huge distribution of eccentric characters. Although it never becomes as bizarre as the end sad of “St. Elsewhere”, there is a lot here that does more than the average sitcom of the 90s. If you want a series with beautiful plans of Washington (which served in Alaska), a lot of laughter and a surprising amount of drama, do not look any further than “Northern Exposure”, which is currently in difficulty on the privileged video. Tell the moose that I sent you.