NX 1.0 As Fresh as Northern Exposure: Introduction

What Now with Simo by Simo Sakari Aaltonen

Episode notes

Welcome — Podcast and book series — 110 episodes and chapters — American TV series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey — Six seasons from 1990 to 1995 — The Blu-ray release preserves the original music — Earlier DVD releases — Amazon — How to do justice to this series? — A tall claim, but one I believe 100% — The maturest series I know — A unique combination of what it does and what it doesn’t do — Dispelling cobwebs — Opening my balcony door and stepping out into the summer evening balminess here in Finland — Green leaves, blue skies, and sunshine — Fresh air — Clean, pure, cold water — Lakeside — Running in beautiful nature — Sitting around a smoking campfire — Together with friends in a warm bus driving down dark night-time roads — Not an academic dissection — Storytelling — Screenwriting — Music — Food and drink — Nature — Literature — Ar ... 

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