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Northern Exposure - The Complete Second Season (1990)

Starring: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner Director: Bill D'Elia, David Carson Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD

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Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows
Directors: Bill D'Elia, David Carson, Nick Marck, Rob Thompson, Sandy Smolan
Writers: Andrew Schneider
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: November 30, 2004
Run Time: 334 minutes

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (151 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0002OQYEU
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,266 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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The colorful cast of characters from Cicely, Alaska, returns for a new set of adventures in Northern Exposure: The Complete Second Season. While much of the first season was devoted to establishing the plot, each of the seven episodes in season 2 helps us to know the offbeat ensemble of Cicely residents a little better. Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), the New York urbanite stationed in small-town Alaska to pay off his medical-school tuition, still complains constantly about his assignment, but it's clear the town's growing on him when he passes up an opportunity to return home (if only temporarily). We learn from town patriarch Maurice (Barry Corbin) that retired astronauts have groupies, and when a beautiful woman steals the voice of DJ "Chris in the Morning" (John Corbett), it's no huge surprise when the long-deceased spirit of "One Who Waits" provides Chris with an ancient Indian cure.

But it's the chemistry between Joel and Maggie (Janine Turner) that really makes the series sizzle. The season is book-ended by a pair of breakups that leave first Joel, and then Maggie single, clearing the way for the romance to come in later seasons. The season includes "Spring Break," one of the best-loved episodes from the series. With the impending arrival of spring, libidos run amok, a wave of petty crime hits the town, and the men in town blow off steam au naturale in the annual "Running of the Bulls."

Season 2's packaging and extras are virtually identical to those from season 1. The two-disc set comes sheathed in a collectible mini zippered nylon "parka," and each episode includes deleted scenes and bloopers. There are no retrospectives or interviews with cast and crew, and no printed materials accompany the discs. --Shane Burnett

Product Description
This 7-time Emmy Award-winning series is a remarkable blend of quirky humor and heartwarming storytelling. With an ensemble cast including Rob Morrow (Quiz Show), John Corbett (TV's Sex and the City, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and the beautiful Janine Turner (Cliffhanger), Season Two takes us back to the slightly bizarre, yet charming, little logging town in Alaska. Relive the Complete Second Season of the show TV Guide calls "...one of television's truly fine series."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Episode info, July 23, 2004

By	Shawn Kresal (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There's never enough information on these TV season DVD's. Here's what you can look forward to with Northern Exposure Season 2:

* Episode 1: Goodbye to All That

Joel receives a "Dear John" letter from Elaine, who has decided to marry an older judge, and a concerned Ed enlists Maggie to help him deal with it. Holling regrets buying a satellite dish for Shelly, who soon develops into an international television junkie.

* Episode 2: The Big Kiss

Ed's wish to know who his parents were summons up a 256-year-old Indian spirit named "One-Who-Waits" who offers to help him find out. Chris finds his voice has been stolen by a beautiful woman passing through town, and comes to believe in a folk cure he hears: that he must sleep with the most beautiful woman in town, Maggie.

* Episode 3: All Is Vanity

Holling decides to be circumcised to please Shelly, Chris and Maurice organize the town to keep watch over an anonymous man who died in Dr. Fleischman's office, and Maggie persuades Joel to pose as her boyfriend to please her father.

* Episode 4: What I Did For Love

Joel's plans for a vacation to New York are side-tracked by Maggie's dreams about his death in an airplane crash and his suspicions about the enthusiastic doctor sent to temporarily replace him. Maurice's annual visit from an astronaut groupie is interrupted by his sleeping problems.

* Episode 5: Spring Break

Things get out of hand as the town waits for the annual ice breakup and the annual "running of the bulls" down the streets of Cicely. Joel and Maggie find themselves irresistibly drawn together, Maurice is attracted to a dominating state trooper sent to uncover the villain behind the annual rash of petty thefts, and Holling challenges all the customers to a fight.

* Episode 6: War and Peace

A Soviet celebrity returns to Cicely for some relaxation, some borscht and a deadly serious chess match with rival Maurice. Holling suffers a bout of torturous dreams and Chris helps Ed win the heart of a farm girl with his erotic imagery of a motorcycle.

* Episode 7: Slow Dance

The infamous O'Connell curse claims another victim when a falling satellite hits Rick. Maurice has mixed feelings about selling some property for an outrageously high price to a couple he disapproves of, and Shelly becomes confused when Holling is really enjoying his reunion with an old lady friend from his distant past.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dude, What Happened to my Northern Exposure Music?, December 13, 2004

By	James Tegeder (New England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am not buying this. I can't believe that some of the music in the Second Season DVD has been replaced with elevator muzak. What a disaster!!! I want to cry. I don't care about licensing and copyrights and resons why. This is America, and I am a consumer.
I would pay 250 for the DVD, if it only had all the music, so don't tell me you edited out the music to make it cheaper. Northern Exposure was special because of the music that weaved through the show. It was based around a radio station for God sakes. And if Willie Nelson is not playing when Holling and Maurice are hauling the casket through the woods then forget it.

I can't believe that Universal thinks they can get away with this. We Northern Exposure fans know the songs. By Universal calling it Northern Exposure, we expect a product, the one we have seen and know as Northern Exposure. It can't be changed, modified or reduced. That would be like replacing Marilyn Whirlwind with a 6 foot animated fish by Pixar. This product is a lie, and they should all be recalled.

I thank Amazon for providing this, so that consumers will not be angry when they open their new DVD to find such a dissapointment.

This really makes me angry and sad because i waited so long....

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1.0 out of 5 stars If I wanted Musak, I'd hop in the elevator, December 11, 2004

By	John D. (Milwaukee) - See all my reviews

Now, I don't really care about packaging or inserts, or even cost, when it comes to this show. I just want the show. I didn't mind paying the $40-60 asking price for Season One, since I was aware that much of that money was going toward securing the wonderful music that helped make this show the gem that it was.

Therefore, I also didn't mind paying it again for Season Two. This 7-episode season contains some of the best television I've ever seen. You can clearly see, in the last three or four episodes, that this show was really beginning to hit its stride. "Spring Break" and "War and Peace" were harbingers of the wonderful things to come in ensuing seasons - both episodes contained great situations, dramatic and comedic, as well as music that, in my opinion, made up the best TV soundtrack ever done.

Again, we were told that we were paying the relatively high cost in order to help ensure that the great soundtracks for each episode were kept intact for the DVDs. Made sense to me, and I was happy to pay a little extra.

So imagine my horror when I turned on "Spring Break" and was greeted with elevator music instead of the original songs, those songs that helped tie the show together, those songs that I remember so well as being such an important part of the series. And it got worse before it got better. It seemed as if each episode was missing integral music, music that was seemingly replaced by the soundtrack from the Sears Tower elevator. I was in shock.

Now I'm not going to pretend to know about copyrighting and licensing. Maybe they weren't able to get this music. Maybe various artists wouldn't allow their music to be included on the DVDs. Who knows. But I do know one thing ... we were asked to, and did, pay more for these DVDs to help secure the original music. In return, we were sent home with DVDs that didn't contain the original music.

Something is wrong here.

Now I loved having Season One on DVD. The picture is clear and the sound is great. Just like it is on Season Two (except for the problem noted above, of course). Now I assume the asking price for Season Three, if it ever sees the light of day, will be over $150. And I'll tell you one thing ... I, for one, would rather watch my grainy, commercial-ridden VHS tapes than shell out that kind of money for DVDs that fail to do what they promise, that fail to provide us with that which we have the right to expect to be provided with at that price - episodes of our favorite television show, uncut and enedited.

I'm glad I haven't thrown away my VCR. Or recorded over my Season Two videotape. Because the DVD is headed to the half-priced bookstore. If they offer me $7 for it, I'll think that someone is getting ripped off. And it won't be me.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
I used to watch this series on TV on an irregular basis but always liked it. I guess I wasn't a big enough fan to realize any differences in music and such. Read more

Published 2 months ago by J. Dykstra

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Season of the Series
Despite shortcomings in the DVD set, this was by far the best season of this most memorable series.

Here, you really get to know the characters and understand how... Read more

Published 17 months ago by John P Bernat

2.0 out of 5 stars Kathy/outraged in Canada
I have always been a N.E. junkie. I taped the show on VHS right down to the last 110th, even after Rob Morrow left. The tapes were kept in a cool, dark place. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Ke Conley Ballantyne

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the rest of the season ?
This release is a gyp ! They did not include all episodes from Season 2. First episodes of Season 3 refer back to the closing episodes of Season 2, and discuss the things that... Read more

Published 19 months ago by M. Herr

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Series Ever
Northern Exposure is the one T.V. Series that my wife and I will watch--on DVDs--over and over again. All considered, it's the very best.

Published 20 months ago by C. Bolinder

5.0 out of 5 stars Altered yes,but I like it too
Now,I just ordered it,so I can't say weither or not the music and other things are altered.But from the reviews I've read it must be true. Read more

Published 21 months ago by Wade A. Hampton

5.0 out of 5 stars Second is superb, sensational, and downright sumptuous
I was very charmed by "Northern Exposure"'s first season, but I fell in love with its second. Over the period of a mere 7 episodes, I went from a fan to an addict. Read more

Published on March 27, 2007 by Tom Benton

5.0 out of 5 stars Irresistably quirky
First off, YES, this is only 7 episodes, so be aware.. and YES, the wonderful original music is altered and the end result not so satisfying... Read more

Published on February 8, 2007 by Mr. Stephen Kennedy

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than season one!
I had forgotten what a great show this is. Season one is fantastic but season two you get to know the characters even better & the writers start taking more risks. Read more

Published on January 9, 2007 by C. Pace

2.0 out of 5 stars Episode 7 missing from this DVD!
This grossly over-priced DVD set is clearly advertised as and labeled as The COMPLETE Second Season, but is missing Episode 7 (even though the title for it appears in the index)... Read more

Published on April 21, 2006 by Debunker

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