The one I always mention as being overlooked and underappreciated is Northern Exposure. Quirky, sweet, poetic, spiritual. But maybe, more now than ever, its most salient feature was its optimism and generally warm-hearted and positive vision of the world and our place in it. It might have seemed quixotic back then but now it seems basically alien in our current climate torn asunder in unceasing rancour.
This is essentially a classic fish-out-of-water story, where a liberal Jewish New York doctor finds himself marooned in Cicely, Alaska. Great characters, sweeping landscapes, ambitious and surreal in style, this was maybe TV's closest approximation to realistically projecting a utopia.
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