The Voice of the Last Frontier

Season Six! Episode Twelve! MI CASA, SU CASA! Joel's self-doubt withers beneath Marylin's gaze, Shelly wants to live in a real house, Ed experiences a real-life  The Shining while house sitting for Cicely's own Jack Torrance, and we cry pretty hard. It's another banger, you guys!

Season Six! Episode Eleven! THE GREAT MUSHROOM! The Joel farewell tour and Capra Transition continues! Maggie thinks Joel is going to die since she broke up with him but Joel explains they are part of a mushroom! The Capras are searching for a home and have unwelcome house guests! Ed finds and looses the cure for Shingles and maybe learns to befriend computers! This end sticks the landing, get you...

Season Six! Episode Ten! REALPOLITIK! Mary Margaret O'Cconnel is the mayor of Cicely! Chris needs to get back on probation or see a therapist ASAP! Marylin has a new friend, Chuck! Joel is once again the heart of the show, making sure Dr. Capra is worthy of caring for Joel's patients! Tears and shouting into the wind for us!

Season Six! Episode Nine! SONS OF THE TUNDRA! There's a new doctor in town, he's the husband of a journalist and she's diving into Cicely, Alaska life head-first! Paul Provenza and Teri Polan are awesome! It's a rough transition out of Joel Land, but there are some lovely moments. Also a REAL rough one with Chris! Marylin and Ed and Shelly and Randi are amazing as always! Get ready for some rantin...

Season 6! Episode 8! UP RIVER!  Well. Basically we cried the whole time and re-evaluated our entire lives watching this episode. That's all I'll say about this one. A+ No notes.

Season 6! Episode 7! FULL UPRIGHT POSITION! Joel and Maggie play out their  Will The Won't They  situation to its inevitable  Beginning of the End conclusion while sitting on the tarmac on a Russian airplane! Maurice has a young namesake who shockingly does not want to follow in Maurice's footsteps and Ruthanne has to explain this to him yet again! Eugene is the STAR! Chris develops another amazin...

Season 6! Episode 6! ZARYA! It's CICELY Part II! The 1918 characters are back in Cicely and it's all magical realism up in here! Did the Russian Princess Anastasia visit Cicely? Did Lenin? Prolly not but if they did, here's how that would have gone, and it's also the reason Marilyn's leg hurts! It's a beautiful episode as usual!

Season 6! Episode 5! THE ROBE! Guys, Satan comes to town in this truly excellent episode! Will Shelly fall victim to Satan's weird ass mediocre patriarchal machinations that involve Holling's favorite worn-out robe? Has Chris met his theological match in a straight-shooting ventriloquist dummy? Will Barthalemew the cat be blamed for one of the most tragic medical trial mishaps in history? Are Maru...

Season 6 Episode 4! THE LETTER! This one got us in our feels! It's a real 'Kids these days' episode! Maggie's younger self tries to hame her! The new barber in town puts Joel and punk ass Chris in their places! A Doogie Howser doctor makes Joel thins he has a brain tumor! Shelly gets nhillistic! Ed and Marylin are The. Best. as per usual! We cried! (Well. Tim did) We loved it!

Season 6! Episode 3! SHOFAR, SO GOOD! Joel reflects on his life during Yom Kippur. Maurice is a D Bag and tried to hunt a fox while ignoring the fox(y) lady right in front of him. Ed helps dear Holling with some guilt. Ruthanne saves the day! Look, this is one of the best episodes of Northern Exposure, and in fact any TV show ever. Go watch it. 

Season 6! Episode 2! EYE OF THE BEHOLDER! Ed and Walt are the moral compasses for the entire town! Maurice is a bad friend and a wine snob! Maggie needs to read Marie Kondo! Shelly is already worried about Randi dying! Jen has a rant about Chris! Again! This is a sweet, lovely episode!

Season 6! Episode 1! DINNER AT SEVEN-THIRTY! Joel gets dosed by Ed's orange juice and enters a New York BizzaroWorld of Cicilian residents in which everyone reverts back to their true nature! Starring Mr. Brown, highest-paid ferret actor of the 1990s who, just like Rob Morrow, is an excellent on-camera eater! Points off for no Marilyn or Dave, but otherwise what an amazing final season opener!

Season 5! Episode 24! LOVERS AND MADMEN! It's the Season 5 finale, Y'all! Maurice has a moral awakening! Chris continues to stay unwashed and unaware of his own misogyny! Joel finds a frozen wooly mammoth and realizes he is. . .Cicilan! Onward to Season Six! 

Season 5! Episode 23! BLOOD TIES! It's the annual blood drive in Cicely, Alaska, which sets off Ed maybe finding his birth mother but finding a sweet father figure instead, Maurice getting all toxic-ly masculine about blood collection, Chris getting all toxic-ly masculine about surrendering his blood, Jed The Creep getting all toxic-ly masculine about hunting Maggie, and Joel getting all toxic-ly...

Season 5! Episode 22! GRAND PRIX! Welp . . .buckle up for another problematic one! There's a substitute doctor in town and he is DR. SAPERSTIEN FROM ROSEMARY'S BABY not really but guys pick another name! Maurice holds a wheelchair marathon because he once had to use crutches for a day so now he cares about accessibility. The white writers demonize Lester as a Selfish Rich Man ™ while Ed wrestles (...

Season 5! Episode 22! I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE!   Eric and Ron are getting married! Holling tries to cater the wedding with canned apricots and honey baked ham so he can buy a sump pump! Maurice is still a Bigot with a Heart of Gold ™ ! Joel is shocked and indignant that Marilyn doesn't write about him in her journal! Maggie thinks Joel being nice to her is making her sick! Fruit Basket Cake is delic...

Season 5! Episode 20! A WING AND A PRAYER! Maggie is making an IKEA airplane and Maurice and Joel mansplain to her about how to do it! Ed spreads hot goss about Ruthanne and Walt going to Boneville and then has a moral unraveling over it! A Catholic priest comes to town to baptize Miranda and Shelly is heartbroken when he reveals himself to be a mediocre white dirt bag of a jerk who gaslights her...

Season 5! Episode 19! THE GIFT OF THE MAGGIE! Maurice, Chris, and Joel perform in a three-ring circus of Bruised Man Ego Syndrome! Orchids! Mystical death-defying bucks! Joel needs doctor friends! Jung is NOT great! Robin Green gives us another gorgeous script with scenes that made cry! It's another banger, everyone!

Season 5! Episode 18! FISH STORY! Joel isn't sure he wants to share his faith with Maggie even though he's done it about a million times already but okay and then he hooks Jonah the Whale and meets Rabi Schulman in Loon Lake to learn some Life Lesson (TM) Ruthanne gets sick of people tossing her salami and joins a biker gang for a night of fro yo consumption! Holling paints amazing paint-by-number...

Season 5! Episode 17! UNA VOLTA L'INVERNO! It's the long dark night of Winter! Walt gets addicted to his UV light visor and has to have an intervention! Ruthanne is jealous of Shelly's ability to effortlessly speak perfect Italian! Caribu take over the town! Maggie and Joel get cock-block-clam-jammed! Chris is amazing! Marilyn is glorious! This episode is wonderful! 

 Season 5! Episode 16! NORTHERN HOSPITALITY! Joel needs to figure out how to be a good host! Adam Arkin is amazing! Weird B roll of Canadian stuff including a moose being airlifted without his consent! Chris gets blamed for ending a taxidermist's life! Hard to know what to say about this one, and yet we talked about it for ninety minutes so you tell us!

Season 5! Episode 15! HELLO, I LOVE YOU! Y'all, this one is amazing. Shelly meets her daughter in the laundromat then gives birth to her in the Love Grotto. A+. No notes. We sobbed. 

Season 5! Episode 14! A BOLT FROM THE BLUE! Top Three Of All Time! Maybe. Guys, this is another Stefon Episode: It has it all! Rob Morrow being a genius, Ed being awesome, Chris and Maurice being horseshoe ridiculous as always, Adam being amazing, Marylin being even more amazing - and us crying! Again! Maybe! 

Season 5! Episode 13! MITE MAKES RIGHT! Dust Mites, Fridging beautiful women, and attempted murder over a Guarneri del Gesu are all part of the Circle Of Life!

Season Five! Episode Twelve! MISTER SANDMAN! Joel and Maggie and Holling and the writers all deserve Emmy awards for this episode! The Aurora Borealis causes the citizens of Cicely to swap dreams! Doggies! Walt! Snow! This one made us cry - again!