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Summary: Too expensive!!
Review: I was really interested in buying this as I didn't get to see every episode when it originally aired, but $40 for 8 episodes?? You've got to be kidding!! Parka or no parka that is outrageous! I'll either wait for a combined seasons 1 and 2 or rent it and not buy it.
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Summary: Superb show, sub-par presentation
Review: Northern Exposure is one of my favorite shows, and I love being able to finally have season 1 on dvd. The price didn't bother me, I feel it is worth it to own a show of this high quality with memorable characters, places and stories. Watching this show, I feel like I am going home again. However, I am subtracting a star for the presentation and quality of the disks themselves. I've already had to return two sets. In on set, disk one was extrmely choppy and pixelated. On the second set, after only one viewing, one of the sides of disk one no longer played - I assume due to the delicate nature of the two-sided disk. I hope that future releases get the better treatment they deserve.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: I have waited many years for this series to come to DVD, and it has been worth the wait. I agree with the price being high for just 8 episodes, but I also agree that some things are worth the extra bucks. However, I really would have liked to have a booklet explaining the episodes, dates, etc.... maybe for the next season? I liked the parka, but if that means sacrificing the booklet of info, then I can do without.... I hope we don't have to wait a long time for the next season.
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Summary: This DVD is worth the money
Review: You can pay $19.00 for garbage on DVD anytime. Yes, $42.00 for 8 episodes is steeper than some other things out there, but quality costs. If Season 1 doesn't sell they may not release Season 2 and that would be a shame. I personally want the entire series on DVD, and am willing to pay a little more for the best series ever on television. This First Series DVD (got mine last Friday) is better than most of the 2-3 hour motion picture DVDs out there. Excellent, intact, and worth the purchase.
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Summary: interesting deletions
Review: I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Patterson and others about the problems with this release: too expensive; unskippable ads upfront; and mislabelled discs (all the shameful behavior of Universal). But, projected onto a big screen, the show looks terrific (despite rather dark interiors) and seems to be in the original, not syndicated, lengths. The occasional editing glitches and mumbled lines are more noticeable than on the small screen, but the quality of the show shines through. One comment on the deleted scenes: most of them are minor and add little, but there is usually one for each episode that is so central to the story's development that you can't believe it was ever excised. In episode 2, the deleted conversation between Joel and Chris leads directly to the show's resolution. Perhaps some of the elliptical storytelling was simply the product of time constraints. In any case, the deletions are worth seeing.
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Summary: AT LAST!!
Review: Northern Exposure is, quite simply, one of the greatest television shows ever produced. I do, however, disagree with at least one reviewer who referred to the first season as the best and only one of true importance. One of the interesting things about watching the first episodes of NE, as is the case with any enduring series, is studying early character development. The actors experiment with line delivery and ways to allow their characters to emote. Opinions and attitudes are expressed in ways far more blunt and obvious than they would ever need to be again. Subsequent seasons fleshed out the characters, making them even richer and more textured. That being said, a better foundation could not have been layed than that of NE's debut season.
Quirky is a word used far too often in the description of NE. It always seemed to diminish what the show had achieved with it's brilliant writing, outstanding acting and overall creative innovation. But, by deviation as it's definition, quirky, as it turns out, is the perfect description. Northern Exposure managed to successfully deviate from the dreck that dominated television at the time it aired, before and since.
I hope the rest of the seasons are released soon, sans the parka and with the addition of at least a modest booklet giving us original airing dates, etc...
I would subtract a star for poor packaging and the labeling error, but the show is simply too good. As for the price, I am more than willing to pay it if it means keeping the original soundtracks intact. Comparing the price of Northern Exposure to ER really isn't fair. The studios and the retail market, of course, anticipate much, much larger sales for a show like ER. This gives a chain like Best Buy the confidence to buy in bulk, receiving a sizable discount for doing so, and passing the savings on to the customer. Like it or not, NE never enjoyed the fan base of a Felicity (which, from what I read, had to hack up it's soundtrack in order to keep it's production costs low). This is the price that we as NE fans quite literally have to pay for having taste. Let's just hope that the record labels cut the show a break and that we don't wind up spending more for a full length season of NE than we did on our DVD players.
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Summary: Love the show but...........
Review: Come on 8 episodes for 45$ what a rip, everything combined together equals to a little more than 6 total hours of viewing
as sais on back of the dvd - Better off to wait and get it used!
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Summary: QUIRKY AND WONDERFUL
Review: One of the best TV shows ever. I can hardly wait for season two to be released !!
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Summary: It's called music rights people! Be glad they did it right!
Review: NX is a fantastic show. The extras are super. And most importantly the music appears to be intact - please understand how key this is. Other shows I enjoy (though not as much as NX!) such as Felicity, Roswell, etc have all been released to DVD with different/inferior music. It's jarring to see classic scenes with different music (usually sloppily mixed btw). I haven't made it through all 8 episodes yet, but if the music is intact throughout it is well worth the money. I'd gladly pay $10 an episode for NX up through when Joel left. Appreciate what we have here, folks, and the integrity of the producers to stick by their commitment to deliver the episodes intact (not the re-run butcher edits or with different music). I still need to do some comparisons with my VCR tapes to make sure they didn't use the syndication edits - but I'm betting they didn't. Because they're doing it right. Buy these and buy them again and let's make sure they put every season out. Name me a show on television now that looks, sounds, and feels this good. Great writing, acting, directing, etc. What more do you want?!! Pay for it. Quality costs money. Reward quality with your money, so that the entertainment world will make more quality shows like this vs what we've been getting recently. In the current environment this show would have been cancelled after only a few episodes.
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Summary: Alas, Alas
Review: While the quality of the show is outstanding, I have two bones to pick with those that produced it. First, they mislabeled disc one, the side labeled "Disc One, Side One" is actually "Disc One, Side Two." This caused us to watch it out of order. The second is the advertising that it is the "Complete First Season," and while this is technically true, no where on the packaging (either exterior of interior) does it state that there were only 8 episodes on the first season. So, to have paid full retail price for only 8 episodes seems unfair(I bought The West Wing, Season 2, at the same time, at the same price as NX, and The West Wing had more than 14 episodes on it, and they didn't go the cheap way of bundling everying on the front and back of the discs. While I love this show, the goofy packaging doesn't make up for the fact that I feel ripped off. Michael Patterson
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