Released on April 10 on Netflix, this new Canadian comic series went almost unnoticed in France. However, we will have to get started, because it has just been renewed for a season 2.
She has not yet appeared in the Top 10 of Netflix in France and yet she will return for a season 2. The series Arctic chronic Released on April 10 on the platform, and has already received the downstream from Netflix for a suite. The opportunity to dive into this refreshing story in turn. In Arctic chronicwe discover a place and a people very often represented on television: the Inuit of the Nunavut region, in the Canadian Arctic. Siaja is a young single mother who is trying to rebuild her life after leaving her husband, in SU and in view of the whole village of Ice Cove. With its eight episodes that look at each other very quickly, this Canadian sitcom has everything to please. In Canada, it is already widely applauded, especially for its realistic representation of Aboriginal women.
The main actress of Arctic chronic is not an unknown
To embody this strong and safe inuit woman, the creators of the series, themselves Inuit, bet on Anna Lambe. The twenty-five-year-old actress is not completely unknown to fans of series. We could notably see her in 2024 in True Detective. When she learned that Arctic chronic was renewed for a season 2, she jumped for joy. “My heart has exploded, in the best way. I am very happy and I can’t wait to return to Ice Cove”, she told Tvline.
With Arctic chronicNetflix signs the end of the shots on the Inuit
Thanks to Arctic chronic, Anna Lambe was able to show a new facet of her acting game. “I loved playing in a comedy, now I tell myself that I have my place there,” She commented in an Inuit newspaper recently. It was also an opportunity for the creators of the series, Stacey Aglok Macdonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, to introduce inuit culture, far from clichés and ambient ignorance. What show that traditional culture mixes with popular and globalized culture, but also that the Inuit people are just as plural as the rest of the world. They notably said they wanted “Port the portrait of indigenous men at the antipodes of the stereotypes of dangerous individuals to which they have been reduced”.
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