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Topic: North of North

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A young Inuk mother wants to build a new future for herself, but it won't be easy in her small Arctic town where everyone knows your business.

Not the funniest comedy so far, a lot of the jokes fall a bit flat.
But I like the setting. Isolated small town where everyone knows each other.
Main character is also very likeable.

Definitely keep watching for now.

Episode 1+2

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Them being a couple feels especially off. I think they try a bit too hard to make him look like a bad husband.

The weirdest thing was also how, in episode two, she immediately called it "his house" and that she is breaking in. They are married and have a kid...in that situation, after being broken up for one day, would you call the house you used to live in your husbands house and think of it as breaking in?

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Re: North of North

Episode 4, still growing on me. I like the characters and lightness of the show.

Is it wrong for me to think...

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that she should be able to speak the Inuk/local language? Growing up in a remote area were most people speak it?
They probably went all to the same school and everyone else speaks it afaik.

It's usually easier to understand a language rather than speak it (context clues and such) so she should at least be able to understand it imho.

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier