# Northern Exposure finally available for streaming on Amazon Prime **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, amazon-prime\ **Created:** [February 13, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530 "2024-02-13T21:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/41 "2024-02-15T18:52:05Z")
Holling needing to fight someone before the ice broke up was my favorite episode among lots of great ones. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/42 "2024-02-15T18:54:55Z")
Adam was over the top but he was only in (checks Wikipedia) 10 episodes, and I know that in at least three of those episodes Eve wasn’t present, and in one of those episodes he only appeared in one single scene. Adam was the guy who today would have a TikTok channel where he posts videos of himself sitting in the cab of pickup wearing a MAGA hat and cheap sunglasses and sharing whatever the government conspiracy _du jour_ is. I think he was added to make the other characters seem a bit more normal. Having known some hypochondriacs in my day (and suffering from a bit of that myself), I found Eve much more realistic than Adam. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/43 "2024-02-15T20:52:28Z")
LOL. Yes. Priceless. Great episode. Did that one have the Running of the Bulls? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/44 "2024-02-15T21:15:34Z")
I disagree. Adam was not political. He wasn’t stupid enough to be a MAGA. He lived in his own reality - though how much was true- international jet-setting? CIA? He might have been autistic, though. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/45 "2024-02-15T21:32:44Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I thought Chris had kind of a David Foster Wallace vibe going - anyone else sense that? I think of more as having an insufferable douche vibe. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/46 "2024-02-15T22:11:13Z")
As far as I know, DFW did have a douchey side. (I never knew him, but I’ve heard a couple of second-hand reports.) So one does not preclude the other. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/47 "2024-02-19T04:37:48Z")
Just popping in to say that I’ve now started re-watching the show. It is much as I remember it, except that the plot moves more quickly than I recall - I’m only on episode 6 of season 1, and a lot of events that I won’t recount here so as to avoid spoilers have already occurred. On Chris’s David Foster Wallace vibe – I googled it, and it wasn’t just me, that was definitely a thing. ([See for yourself if tbat interests you](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Chris+David+Foster+Wallace&as_epq=Northern+Exposure&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&as_filetype=&tbs=).) So I am glad I picked up on it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/48 "2024-02-19T04:51:50Z")
Okay, so maybe I’m the only one who couldn’t figure out why Chris was being compared to composer David Walter Foster. Still not sure how he was similar to that other guy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/49 "2024-02-19T05:33:18Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Just popping in to say that I’ve now started re-watching the show. I started slowly rewatching it about a few weeks ago, before I knew anything about a new streaming version on the way. My latest watch was 3x17. > [@Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3492): > > Hey, coincidentalIy I just started a rewatch of Northern Exposure this week (from an offline set). I had planned on mentioning it in this thread. I hadn’t watched it since the first run and was surprised how quickly I recognized characters and names. Most of them look much younger than they looked to me 34 years ago. I’m 19 episodes in and I had remembered that it was quirky, but had forgotten just how experimental it was. One of the most recent episodes flat-out shattered the 4th wall. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/50 "2024-02-19T05:36:15Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Still not sure how he was similar to that other guy. Both could be argued to tend to logorrhea and deepity. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530/51 "2024-02-19T09:14:13Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I remember losing interest in the show around the time his character was added. But maybe it was just that I disliked Adam & Eve episodes. To each their own, of course, but if you needed someone to play cute/quirky/funny and borderline unhinged, you couldn’t do much better than Valerie Mahaffey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-finally-available-for-streaming-on-amazon-prime/997530.md?page=2)