The new comedy North of the North It is a collaboration between Netflix, the CBC and the television network of the aboriginal peoples (APTN), which is a group of Canadian television stations that transmits the air programming oriented to the indigenous population of the nations. Due to this collaboration, the producers of the program strive for authenticity, including the casting of INUK actors and the real filming in the location of the Arctic where the show takes place. How is this on the screen?
Opening shot: A woman faces the camera and says: “When people ask me where I am from, I say:” Think of the place farthest from the north I have been. “
The yeast: Siaja (Anna Lamb) is an Inuk woman who lives in the small town of Ice Cove, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. “The Arctic heart” is what Siaja calls it. She has done what an Inuk woman is supposed to do in her life, even marry her husband Ting (Kelly William) and have a daughter, Bun (Keira Belle Cooper). “He is the golden child of the city, and I am … his wife,” she says. Siaja is at the point where she leaves more from life, “something that is mine.”
It is the spring festival in the city, and Siaja, which is offered as a volunteer for the festival under the leadership of Helen (Mary Lynn Rajskub), is determined to go to the Community Center and ask Helen to give a job as a program Coordal Programmmmmmmmmmmmming a blackboard of the year. -Roundaldalmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmid late Deldaldald Annual. But first, he has to leave Bun with his mother, Neevee (Maika Harper). The two arrive early and find Neevee fighting to gather the articles of the man with whom he lay the night before. Neevee is a “legend” in the city because of this, but one of the problems is that, so Siaja has no idea who her father is.
Helen does not believe that Siaja has the experience to do the job, but tells him to receive a request with 500 signatures at the end of the day. Siaja meets Kuuk (Braeden Clarke), whom he looks like a “southern”, but they seem to get along. But Ting discusses it to help it with the annual search for seals, which is determined to win. But a duration of accidents that Hunt, where he falls into the ice water and thinks he sees a goddess Inuk, and his selfish reaction to it convinces Siaja that it is time to be alone for the first time in his life.
What programs will you remember? North of the North It reminds us or The LakeAnother Canadian comedy of small town of the recent harvest.
OUR TOMA: The charm of North of the NorthCreated by Stacey Aglok Macdonald and Alesthea Arnaquq-Baril, it comes not only from the LAMB representation of a modern Inuk woman who is tired of doing “all good”, but of the unique environment of a small town or the show itself. It is not the atmosphere that is unique, but the city; How often do we see life in a town that is so far to the north, where all are literally known?
Given the collaboration with the APTN, there is a level of authenticity in the program that we rarely see; Even the location is authentic, since the show is filmed in the territory of Nunavut. Therefore, we not only have a cast full of indigenous actors and other indigenous actors, but all communicate the experience of being Inuk in 2025, even in a remote village. But we can also see what it is like to live so north, from the landscape to the fact that the temperature is still below the freezing in April, but it feels tempered to the comparison with the winter temperatures there, until the idea that in spring there are very few darkness per day.
Is the story of how Siaja postponed by her own unique? Not by himself; Ting is a prototypical husband of a hole that assumes his wife and is verbally abusive. It will be interesting to see Siaja forging their own way in a city where everyone thinks that Ting can’t do anything wrong. We also like the relationship between Siaja and her mother; Siaja Tok takes care of her mother for years before Neevee got sober, and there are still some residual consequences of that, such as what happens after Siaja’s kisses and the older visiting scientist called Alistair (Jay Ryan).
They are all the small moments of Siaja who deal with this small city in particular, since it becomes a single mother who will make this program fun to see, and the first episode established it well.
Sex and skin: None. This is more or less a family show, outside some Bombas S.
Separation shot: Siaja discovers that Alistair and Neevee have a past, one that is immediately sick.
Star Star: This is a good place to mention two people who work for Helen in the Community Center, Millie (Zorga Qaunaq) and Colin (Bailey Poching), which will be Siaja’s support system. In addition, we need to discover how Rajskub’s character, Helen, found his way to Ice Cove.
The majority of the pilot line: There are times when Ting is a bit also exaggerated A-Holish; As if Siaja sits and recovers from falling into the water, he says: “You made me look like a damn idiot. As if I were a shit hunter. You understand it, right? You are a shame.” Wow.
Our call: Transmit it. The charm of Anna Lambe and the configuration of the small Arctic people make North of the North A windy and fun watch.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) Write about food, entertainment, parenting and technology, but he is not necessary: he is a television addict. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Rollingstone.com” Vanityfair.comFast Company and other places.
