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World Got You Down? Head North of North.
Netflix’s winning new Canadian comedy is the Black Mirror counterprogramming we need right now.
A series that offers dark reflections of how the intersections between big business, government overreach, malevolent technology, and late-stage capitalism grind us all into dust and/or turn us into selfish monsters — we get it, don’t we? There’s a terrible night with a weirdo colonizer that brings to mind Garrett Hedlund’s episode of Reservation Dogs; a will-they, won’t-they pairing similar to Jim and Pam on The Office and Ross and Rachel on Friends; and simmering resentment from Ting that adds humorous tension to events like a baseball fundraiser with convoluted local rules. Aside from 24 and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia veteran Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays Ice Cove’s amusingly high-maintenance town manager, Helen, there are a lot of unknown actors here, especially for viewers outside of the series’ Canadian home audience.
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