Northern Exposure - The Complete Fifth Season | William J. White, John Corbett (not Cullum) as...

Northern Exposure - The Complete Fifth Season | William J. White, John Corbett (not Cullum) as Chris | NE junky

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	Northern Exposure - The Complete Fifth Season William J. White, John Corbett (not Cullum) as Chris Universal Studios, 2006 average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Northern Exposure - Complete 5th Season

It was exactly what I expected, a reminder of one of the best TV series.

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This is TV at it's best. There has been and probably will always be mostly bad programming on television. Occasionally something gets aired that is great quality from many different angles, in my mind Northern Exposure arises to that level. I'm not saying it's the best of all, but it is so far above most of the drivel that has ever been produced it could be used as a bar setter. The series is consistent from beginning to end. They move the focus around giving each character their time under the microscope, story lines run the gamut from intriguing to bizarre ... always simultaneous story lines with an underlying theme that might take some work to ferret out. All the characters are well developed and mostly likeable. TV needs more product of this quality - always.

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best series

This is the best series I've enjoyed. Want Fleishman back. The many charcaters made this special.

Season Five

We return once again to Cicely, Alaska with a visit to the oddball characters of a small middle-of-nowhere town that usually makes a tv show a hit. As far as the product itself, it's the standard fair of a boxed set, great crisp clean photos from the series on the packaging and easy to follow menus on the discs. With this season, we get five discs, one sided this time out which I feel helps the viewing out because no you don't have to be constantly flipping the discs over to view the next part of the series (did that make sense?). Also included at the on disc one and disc five are the deleted scenes from different episodes. Gone however are the bloopers which are missed because they are usually so fun to watch.

As for the show itself, this was the season that was going to determine the future of the series. For me, the early part of the season lacked that certain something in the stories that were such a hit in the previous seasons. There is a change in the writing and lack of good stories in the early season. I still enjoy them but that extra 'perkiness' is absent. Mid season sees three religion influence episodes come in and the latter part of the season returns to the fully entertaining aspects that was the cast and setting. We are introduced to recurring characters like Cal the violinist and locales like Walt Kupfer, Hayden Keys, Adam, and Office Semansky begin taking larger recurring roles (especially Walt, he figures prominantly into season 5). Changes are made to the regulars, including Ed from film afficianado into shaman, the arrival of Holling and Shelly's baby, and the officially dating of Joel and Maggie. A bit of a minor annoyance is the episodes are aired out of sequence of when they were filmed. You can judge the order on your own by taking note of Chris 'in the Morning' Stephens' hair length and beard growth.

Overall, it's a delight to continue into the past and relive the entire Northern Exposure setting and enjoy the kooky characters/stories. Packaging is standard, this one in brilliant purple with individual photo enhanced disc boxes. Not the perfect season but among the best tv has to offer.

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