Season Review: The Great North Season Five

If there is one thing we’ve learned from the Bob’s Burgers Molyneux sisters, it’s that they don’t just build comedy franchises; they build worlds you actually want to live in. And this season, The Great North doubled down on that commitment, trading in any chance of a “sophomore slump”—which they avoided three years ago anyway—for a concentrated dose of pure Alaskan eccentricity.

Forget your prestige dramas and your gritty reboots. This show remains a beautiful, necessary reminder that television can be pure. Season 5 delivered twenty-something episodes of adventure, heartbreak, and moose-meat retrieval, proving that the family that is weird together, stays together.

The true north of this season, as always, is the patriarch, Beef Tobin. While the season gave us the dramatic exit of the Mighty Kathleen and the return of Zelda Blop, Beef’s high point, the one that deserves a plaque, came in the finale: “It’s a Beef-derful Life.” Watching the man prepare for The Lerk Event—the town’s ritualistic chase for fresh roadkill moose meat—was a spiritual experience. Nick Offerman’s voice work, that blend of stoic devotion and sudden, uncontrollable joy, is just perfection. It’s a testament to the show’s writers that they can make a hunt for deceased ungulate flesh feel like a high-stakes, heroic quest.

Elsewhere, the season kept the Tobins busy with high-concept Alaskan absurdity. Ham’s journey to become a local weather god in “Anchor Ham Adventure” delivered the goods, complete with a hysterical on-air breakdown involving a green screen and improvised sword fights. . The dedication to making Ham the “Cake Lady” of Lone Moose’s emotional arc was both touching and devastatingly funny, especially as he navigated the post-Crispin breakup slump.

While there was a slight tonal shift this season, with Aunt Dirt getting more air time as the chaotic conflict generator, the core four kids (plus Honeybee) held the fort. Moon’s ongoing career as “Detective Moon” in the “Dial M for Moon-der Adventure” whodunnit was a fun, if familiar, premise, but the highlight was Wolf’s continuous need for paternal approval. Seeing Wolf finally get cast on the local survival show, Dropped Off To Die, only to immediately hide in shame on the family property, is a classic TGN move that reminds us he’s just a sensitive, anxious giant.

And can we talk about the finale? That wrap-up that made me genuinely panic the show was ending? The way they pull everyone together for a grandiose, song-filled celebration of everything that is Lone Moose—it was a flawless demonstration of why this ensemble works. It’s funny, it’s warm, and it manages to move the emotional needle just enough to feel earned without resetting the comedy.

Season 5 of The Great North is exactly what fans of Animation Domination want: continuity that matters, weird B-plots that somehow work, and a sense of genuine familial love underneath all the chaos. It’s a clean, consistent season that delivers on its core promise. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go watch Beef try to make “stunt fishing” a thing again.