‘The Doctor in Alaska’ is the last great series that still can’t be found on platforms

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At the end of last June, HBO Max announced that to delight fans of the ER series, it will be part of its catalog on July 17. Adding a legendary title to the options catalog is a safe bet for the following platforms. streaming (you just gotta see that millionaire Netflix paid to stay friend), so the list of television fiction that still cannot be legally watched online is getting shorter and shorter. Therefore, there are seemingly inexplicable absences, for example doctor in Alaska. At least for the fanbase wondering “and when is mine” on social networks, Jennifer Lopez with ring.

But if the Internet doesn’t have the answers to all questions, it’s close. They may not all be true or based on sound arguments or be delirium-free, but they are there. For example, if someone types in a search engine “how to clean a car’s carburetor”, they’ll get thousands of results in half a minute with detailed explanations, including videos on how to do such an operation (“‘don’t”. try this’ is no longer an operating slogan”). And if you write (in English) “why Doctor in Alaska not available streaming?” online fandom The show comes to the rescue because of course there is a theory about why. And it looks pretty reasonable.

The last great series that is still not available on platforms is ‘The Doctor in Alaska’.

According to Showbiz Cheat Sheet, this is due to the high cost of copyrighting the songs that make up the soundtrack. Change themes like Give Me Three Steps of the Lynyrd Skynyrd something that has been disenfranchised by others, made with other series, for example feeling of living, This means restricting some of the spirit of the program and those responsible are not in charge. Had the same issue before, when releasing the collection on DVD required backup music (potential sales revenue outweighed integrity). A Blu-ray and DVD of the original songs were released in 2018, but can only be viewed on players in certain geographies.

Editor of Gothamist in 2016 Jen Carlson contacted various platforms streaming to know if anyone has any intention of acquiring Doctor in Alaska. Just Netflix “There is no information yet on whether it will be added to the service,” he replied. Journalist, ” yet because we have communicated several times before [con la empresa] Like this media, EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, a newspaper belonging to the Prensa Ibérica group, asked HBO Max about its content selection criteria, but the company declined to elaborate on this. “This is not the company’s communications policy,” but “a large portion of our catalog of bookstore serials, frankly, WarnerTVbelongs to our company”. There is no other company that puts an end to fans’ anxiety.

The secret to the success of a show about strange people

this GIS He didn’t have everything when he aired the pilot episode. Doctor in Alaska on 12 July 1990. Joshua Brand Y John Wrong They had invented a small town with strange inhabitants, from which a seemingly simple plot turned out. The protagonist Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a Jewish doctor living in New York City who is forced to fulfill a four-year contract—which will later become five. Cicely, a small Alaskan town where moose are walking down Main Street to pay off student loans. Of course, she hates her fate when she arrives because her intention is to work at the Big Apple, but time and her relationship with her neighbors will soften her uneasiness.

Despite everything, the public welcomed the characters using philosophical thoughts as “good morning”. Only a few critics objected to the series, for example Richard ZoglinPublished in the journal in 1991 Time He Doctor in Alaska “romantic fantasy, a yuppie More than just a realistic view of life in Alaska, it has the big city of a small town. There is no bigotry or narrow-mindedness in this small town; its inhabitants are all intellectuals. Neighbors read DH Lawrence and quoting Voltaire; in their local tavern Louis Armstrong Y Mildred Bailey in the jukebox (…) God, it’s not that cold; the characters may be wrapped in parkas, but we never see their breathing”. This last aspect, perhaps, It was filmed outside of Seattle, not Alaska..

The 110-episode series aired from 1990 to 1995 (in Spain, 2 TVE) and won awards such as Emmy for Outstanding Drama in 1992, two Golden Globes and one Peabody, among other awards. His downfall began in season five: Joshua Brand Y John Wrong He gave up on the remaining project. David Chasebest known sopranosfailing to keep up with the magic (he admitted years later that he only took the job for the money, not because he was particularly enthusiastic). Rob Morrow he was also fired after negotiations on a salary increase failed. They replaced it with a few doctors playing it. paul origin Y terry polodidn’t happen, and the weight of the plot fell on the character of Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner), airplane pilot who had a love-hate relationship with Fleischman katharine hepburn Y Spencer Tracey– and without it it remains unanswered.

The last episode, which solved the problems easily and in a bit of a hurry, was a big disappointment for the audience, which had shrunk in the sixth and final season. one in 2018 restart Brand and Falsey rejoin the series, as well as Rob Morrow, who will return to Cicely. But the following year John Falsey passed away and then the pandemic hit, so the project remained an idea. In addition to this, Janine Turner has now turned into a right-wing political activist and the head of the Catholic podcast. God in Motion MinutesHe publicly denounced that he was not invited to participate because of his age. In July 2019, the publisher vulture Josef AdaliyanHe claimed on Twitter that two sources told him. restart I would not continue. nothing more heard.

But while the news raised some expectations among fans of the series, it did serve to fuel the debate on popular sites like Reddit. There was a danger of spoiling what once worked – there are examples of what could happen – and the source of nostalgia is reaching its limit. Maybe it’s more fun to read fictions fantasized by followers who invent scenarios like Maurice’s Korean son’s possible job in town or Maggie’s death in a plane crash, as if their dead boyfriends had finally taken revenge on him. jinx, just to name a few. Finally, Cicely is a mood.

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