Make me laugh’: The North of North co-creators try to figure out if there’s an ‘Inuit sense of humour’ – CBC

Jan 16, 2025

Co-creators of new comedy talk about the realness at the show’s core

The premise for North of North, a new comedy series set in the fictional village of Ice Cove, Nunavut, came in part from a lot of real, often serious conversations.

In North of North, Anna Lambe — from Trickster and True Detective — plays Siaja, a young mother and self-described “modern Inuk woman.” Siaja finds herself suddenly rebooting her life after a literal and figurative falling out (of a boat) with her high-school-sweetheart-turned-husband, Ting, who is Ice Cove’s “golden boy.” (Ting is played with what can only be described as brilliant himbo vacuousness by Kelly William.)

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The show’s co-creator, veteran Iqaluit-based Inuk filmmaker Stacey Aglok MacDonald, says that the idea of a young mother questioning what it means to be an Inuk woman is the sort of thing she sees women around her doing all the time.

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