By Alex Nino Gheciu It was supposed to be a table read for the Season 2 finale of “North of North.” But it turned into one big group cry. Inuk actress Zorga Qaunaq, who plays Millie on the hit Iqaluit-shot sitcom, began tearing up at the end of the script. “She just started crying and being like, ‘It’s so nice to have something nice. We deserve nice things,’” recalled co-creator Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Soon, the waterworks were flowing around the room. For Arnaquq-Baril and co-creator Stacey Aglok MacDonald, the moment crystallized what they’d been hearing from their community since the dramedy debuted last year: that “North of North” was giving audiences something they didn’t often see on television — stories that let Inuit characters be messy, fall in love, struggle, and…
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