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 masculine about HIS woman and HIS town and HIS ability to draw blood! It’s a really good one, guys! 

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 (literally) with another person’s internal demon, and Ted and Marylin rediscover their love of a peaceful life free from the sadness of greed. Chris dresses like a cosplay serial killer and Marylin is GORGEOUS backlit by the sun beside the river!

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 delicious! 

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 and tells her “Don’t worry about it, dear.” Come for the recaps, stay for Jen’s rage! Another beautiful, cry-worthy ending, though!

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!