I wasn't crazy about this episode. First of all, Chris and his speech thing just didn't do much for me. His brother is OK but I'm not much of a fan of this element. The goings on in Juneau when Maggie ends up flying Fleischmann there and then their having to stay in the same hotel room, just put a damper on this. They both needed this trip, but sort of wrecked it for each other. If there is one thing that I, as a male, could say: Janine Turner is absolutely stunning. She is beautiful and when she got dressed up to go out, I couldn't take my eyes off her. I'll be interested to see if Joel can keep his promise to her, made at the end of the show.
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A clinker
elision109 March 2024
Rewatching Northern Exposure after so many years, one forgets that like any series, some were simply not very good. Maggie and Joel in Juneau was contrived, icky, poorly conceived, and not well-executed. I don't know if they had different writers here or what, but it was way below the usual high quality. The handling of racial issues between the two half-brothers may simply be dated, but even for the 1990s it all seems cringe-provoking more than anything else. Topics are introduced into the episode like Marilyn's handling of patients and then simply dropped and ignored. Looking forward to some better episodes of this wonderful series.
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