情归何处

it's about love, it's about beautiful city girl and true men, it's about relationships...it's

but for me, it's about running away from our own self, our own fear...

it's about the girl living between the city and faraway-village, between reality and dream, ...... sometimes you can hardly tell what is real life , and what is not

and, there're a lot of witty sayings in it that one can actually learn something from

我非常喜欢电视剧的气氛,不紧张，不怪异，就是一个小镇上的生活爱情故事，平淡又有趣.那天看到MARIN对JACK说，没亲口说就不算后流泪离开，而JACK却笑着走向LYNN,我简直气死了,半天睡不着觉,爬起来大骂JACK大混蛋到没力气才入睡!喜欢那个坚强聪明独立又美丽的MARIN!也喜欢纯情的PATRICK和ANNIE,还有古怪厉害的MAI妈妈.到是不太喜欢THERASA和LYNN,感觉她们是一类人，自私地占有着爱而不珍惜，只有别人喜欢上那男人后才蛮横地要求取回自己的感情!可恨的是BEN和JACK也那么不争气.小镇上的人越来越爱MARIN,JEMOR在感恩节前夕感叹没有了金发美女好寂寞，我听后真开心.

This is the only new show I'm still sticking with this season, but it's a pity that this M.I.T seems to recruit girls exclusively.

To criticize the show for being a cheap combination of the "Sex and the City" and the "Northern Exposure" is simply a clue that the critic watches no more episode than the pilot: it might get some inspiration from the latter, but it is definitely not so single-and-desperate as the former; for instead of imitating the Carrie-finding-men-in-the-crowd storyline, it presents a Marin-finding-herself-in-the-wild scenario, with the help of some quirky yet unpretentious (and therefore lovable) characters.

The story begins at New York, but thank God the same old fancy scenes only last for some twenty minutes. As our protagonist heads for Elmo for her book promotion, we are taken to a small Alaskan town where the city-dwellers could finally stop and breathe, and where the landscape would soon take their breath away. The romantic drama features a relationship coach/self-help book author (how cocky is that) who, after her own relationship collapses, learns that she actually knows nothing about it and struggles to help herself start over. The remark that "The odds are good, but the goods are odd" portrays the menaissance lively - the affable inn-keeper/local radio host, the "sophisticated" bartender, the tough pilot, and the strong but silent biologist who oozes his charm in a low-key manner make Elmo a perfect place for the study of the male species. No stiletto heels and Marc Jacobs, no teasing eyebrows and Genévrier, no opera and Oprah, when the stereotype laws of attraction fail, love in Alaska becomes simple and sweet.

This is not a show one would fall into at the first sight, since the first few episodes do look mediocre and sometimes the script writer simply tries too hard to hook the audience with some inappropriate plot design (like Marin and Jack's "chapter two"). But the good thing is the relatively weak beginning leaves room for improvement, and the show IS improving, concerning both the depth of the characters and the richness of the plot. Plus, it is absolutely great to have some lighthearted alternative other than getting bored by those machine-made-crime-related intense dramas that flood the screen.

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Update: This was written after watching ep10, when I was apparently affected by the then-approaching holiday. I hate to admit but there was a turn-down since then; hope the show would not sink any deeper.

或许是片子太旧了，我在迅雷上足足拖了两个月进度条也只爬到98.8%，其实仔细看看，片子不过是2006年，可是胶片，场景，却总是在提醒我，似乎这个小镇一直这样，旧着，也稳定着~
或许是受了这种安逸淡定的影响，也或许是因为迅雷丝毫没有进展的进度，所以我史无前例的花了两个月，甚至更久的时间，看了一季只有17集的美剧，而且，现在，还未知结果~
在这将近两个月的时间里，我跟着一个坚强乐观迷糊冲动的女人一起去了小镇，一起体会了许多经历过的没经历过的，或者将要经历过的情绪，起起伏伏，哭哭笑笑，却都是温暖的。。。
我也想要有一个和我分享同一个浴室的睿智女人做我的闺蜜，学会她的坚强，自尊以及不丢失自我的行动力与坚持~
我也想要去那样一家温馨的酒吧，会在每年的感恩节让大家不会那么孤独~
我也想要有那么一个从小到大的朋友，尽管她偶尔虚荣，偶尔市侩，但仍然会在我一个人面对困难的时候义无反顾的出现在我身边~
我也想要去那么一个小镇，很多东西，只能存在于此~
或许，经历过着许多许多，我也会一样，能够勇敢的面对越来越多的事情，我可以勇敢的放弃不够珍惜我的男人，勇敢的放弃大都市的繁华与便利，勇敢的选择一座符合我心意的房子，勇敢的去做我自己~
以前在一篇文章里看过这样一句话，很喜欢：总有些人的笑容很温暖，那种温暖是源于内心，内心的温暖又传递到了眼睛，而后牵动嘴角，所以他们的笑容从眼睛开始，蔓延到嘴角，让你感到那种真正的温暖与愉悦~
在看这部片子的时候，我承认，我的内心是温暖的，所以我相信，我的笑容是真实的~
最后的最后，很想在那样的小镇，邂逅一段简单的慢慢的真正的温暖的，爱情

If it was easy, everyone would have it. So please keep being single before u meet the right one.

貌似只看过了第一季，但就算完全不记得看了多少，也还记得基本的人设，基本的剧情
每一集开头和结尾的一些对于爱情和人生的感悟，非常圆满的和每一集里面发生的故事糅合在一起，虽然略显俗套，却又给人非常深刻的感悟
当年看介绍，就有一句话，类似于“想看帅哥美女的请绕路”
确实，这一聚集没有那么多青春男女，却多了一份岁月的沉淀
过几年再翻出来看看，当自己又有了更多生活体验的时候，应该会觉得更有味道的吧，就像陈年好酒

PS 这片子让我对于静谧的小镇生活充满了憧憬