How's this for cute packaging. Yes, "Northern Exposure" Season One was released on DVD today, and I rolled out my bed and out my door, and fought the lines thronging the local Best Buy, all vying to buy it bloody "Lord of the Rings", which was also released today. I am very, very happy. And Netflix is carrying it, so there's no excuse for you not to check it out, but note that they don't strike upon their magical formula until the last episode of first season (episode 8). Until then, it's quirky, well-written, intriguing, not the best editing, but when they struck that mushy, glowing, "wow" feeling in episode 8, they discovered what they would be striving for for the rest of the run of the show.