Today, there are new episodes available of a hit comedy series set in Nunavut. North of North, which won nine Canadian Screen Awards this year, is back on APTN, CBC Gem, and Netflix for a second season.
Two episodes a week will be released throughout September.
The show stars Anna Lambe as a twentysomething Inuk single mother named Siaja.
“What I will say about Season 2 is that it’s definitely crazier,” Lambe told Netflix in an interview at the Canadian Screen Awards. “It’s more intense. We get to know everyone a lot better.”
Cast members Maika Harper and Jay Ryan return as Siaja’s parents for Season 2. Also back is Mary Lynn Rajskub as Siaja’s boss at a community centre and Braeden Clarke as Siaja’s handsome friend Kuuk.
According to the CBC website, Bruce McCulloch from The Kids in the Hall will play a guest role as a first-aid instructor. And JUNO-winning Inuk singer and songwriter Elisapie will debut a new song.
Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril created the series, which showcases Inuk music, fashion, and culture.
“It was really important to us that our parkas and anything traditional were made here in Nunavut, by Inuit artists, and our costume department (Debra Hansen and Nooks Lindell) were a part of curating that,” MacDonald said prior to the show’s launch. “Debra and Nooks had to go to the ends of the Arctic to fashion the magnificent costumes that people will see on screen, which are unlike anything that’s ever been seen before.”
North of North has attracted a large audience by conveying the camaraderie and occasional rivalries in the fictional village of Ice Cove on Baffin Island. It’s filmed mostly in and around Iqaluit, which is the capital and only incorporated city in Nunavut.
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