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When it was given, the news did not last long, but what news of series lasts now:
Doctor in Alaska returns.
Do not be alarmed, no one has thought of proposing a remake of the adventures of Dr. Fleischman, the memory of the original series will not be sullied.
It's the 90's TV classic that's back in stock.
It is broadcast on the new AMC Networks channel Enfamilia and a little later it will be complete on Filmin.
Maurice, Maggie, Ed and the others return.
Cicely returns, the remote Alaskan town that really was in Washington.
Mort, the iconic moose from his intro, was also from that state.
There is perhaps only one more famous series town:
Twin Peaks
.
Both locations are fictitious and both series were recorded around Seattle, a city that in the 90s was exalted as a mecca for grunge nihilism.
Doctor in Alaska has nothing to do with that above all musical movement that the famous
Nirvana Nevermind
popularized in 1991, breaking with the previous musical decade.
But in its own way, the Joshua Brand and John Falsey series would also mark
a break with the television that preceded it.
Brand and Falsey's fiction was born with 8 episodes
for the summer of 1990. It was defined as "nice" and "eccentric" with a certain paternalism.
Today those two adjectives are still valid, although we should add a few more: mythical, remembered, unique, unrepeatable and special.
And good.
Its six seasons garnered a number of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations,
on occasion winning best series awards.
After its run, and until the Mad Men chests arrived, the VHS and DVD editions of Doctor of Alaska were a staple of home video libraries.
And yet this dramedy often falls off lists of the best series ever.
Perhaps "pleasant" and "eccentric" are words that are too discreet to compete with "revolutionary" and "risky", qualifiers that much more normal fictions treat themselves to than
Doctor in Alaska
.
A series that we can relate to
The Fraggles,
Dawn, which is not little
and, in its own way, also with
Twin Peaks,
could not be in limbo.
The good thing is that as soon as he has left it, more than 30 years later, the memory of him has aroused enthusiasm again.
Eager to see
Dr. Feischman (Rob Morrow) and Maggie (Janine Turner) again,
Chris (John Corbett, before Aidan from Sex and the City) or the wonderful Marilyn (Elaine Miles).
Eager to go back to that endearing and slightly absurd Cicely in which things go at a different speed, New York is just a neurotic joke and grunge is a distant noise.
Feel like seeing Mort the moose again at his ball through the streets
of a town that was a happy place before the expression "happy place" became popular.
Doctor in Alaska
invented many things and we had almost forgotten.
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