#anna lambe

NORTH OF NORTH (2025) costume appreciation: "Inuk Bridgerton" (Series Costume Design by Debra Hanson)

North of North is about a young Inuk woman who gets sick of her narcissistic husband's macho BS and moves in with her single mom. that... probably makes it sound like one of those shows, doesn't it.

well, maybe it is, maybe it's not (it's not). while Siaja (Anna Lambe, gorgeous, absolutely stunning) runs around trying to put her life back together and find herself (but first find and hold down a job and learn to coparent with her almost-ex - yeah of course she has a kid, she's 26!), there is life happening all over place in the tiny Nunavut town. Ice Cove is the kind of tight-knit community where your people won't leave you alone - but they also won't leave you alone, you know?

the show doesn't preach, but while you're laughing, it still quietly, casually shows you how colonialism doesn't really end.

how it lingers.

here's your white mayor. here's your language being slowly forgotten and now you need a translator to understand your elders. here's your town's lack of funding and what it gets it has to fight for (and how do you fight for it when there's another town (the Shelbyville to your Springfield, the Woodbury to your Stars Hollow) that even has a sushi place?). here's a French Canadian man who calls you Snocahontas. here's your mother's self-sabotaging old trauma.

*sigh* fine, there's also walrus dick baseball. if anything, watch it for the walrus dick baseball

When people ask where I'm from, I say, think of the furthest place north you've ever been. Now keep going. Keep going. Yep, that's us. Ice Cove, Nunavut. The heart of the arctic. Now, most southerners think we're... And while all that's technically true, I am a modern Inuk woman. Whatever that means. All my life, I've tried to do everything right. I got married out of high school, started a family, and now he's the town golden boy, and I'm... his wife. But it's springtime which is kind of like our new year's And this year, I'm finally putting myself first. I'm gonna get a job, reconnect with friends, Be the best mom, and maybe even-  Come on, babe. No one's gonna be looking at you anyways. Coming!