...by which I mean not the whole show or even an episode, but a scene or exchange or fragment of the thing where you got chills because it was so perfectly done:
One I just thought of:
The moment in Northern Exposure Season 6 when Joel has this sudden epiphany while visiting a patient in a remote Native American village to treat a patient, and spontaneously decides - even to his own surprise - to stay. There and then. Instantly off grid. He's about to head off down river, and is talking to a villager on his way back to the boat. The exchange goes something like:
Joel: 'So, you ever gonna get running water put in here?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'What about having a line put in?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'Huh. What about cable?'
Villager: 'No'
[beat of total silence, camera subtly zooms in]
Joel: 'Can I live here?'
I got goosebumps the first time, and I still do. Peak television that show, and that was one of those touchstone moments that tilted the world.
