The Sticky: Chapters 1-6 First Watch
December 7, 2024 12:02 PM - Season 1 (Specials) - Subscribe
A (very) fictionalized retelling of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr. Ruth Landry is a tough middle-aged maple syrup farmer, who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with a hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus.
As someone from rural Quebec, the "feel" seems right to me, but of course the FPAQ (as the Quebec maple syrup producer's association was then known) is affiliated with the UPA (the main farmer's union) and headquartered in a suburb of Montreal, and not run by a father-son duo in a rural area.
As someone from rural Quebec, the "feel" seems right to me, but of course the FPAQ (as the Quebec maple syrup producer's association was then known) is affiliated with the UPA (the main farmer's union) and headquartered in a suburb of Montreal, and not run by a father-son duo in a rural area.
This was a fun show, Margo Martindale is a treasure!
posted by porpoise at 10:45 AM on December 8, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by porpoise at 10:45 AM on December 8, 2024 [2 favorites]
I enjoyed this, although particularly the first episode skated just to the edge of my tolerance for bleakness and stressful topics.
Some of the events are so totally unbelievable (like what happened to Bo!) that I had to work at suspending my disbelief.
It also reminded me strongly of Elmore Leonard, the extremely violent but comically incompetent gangsters. I wasn't quite convinced by that "lollipop" backstory though.
posted by Zumbador at 8:09 AM on December 23
Some of the events are so totally unbelievable (like what happened to Bo!) that I had to work at suspending my disbelief.
It also reminded me strongly of Elmore Leonard, the extremely violent but comically incompetent gangsters. I wasn't quite convinced by that "lollipop" backstory though.
posted by Zumbador at 8:09 AM on December 23
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Barrel math: by my calculation, the syrup they stole at the end of the series would have been worth only around $280,000, not millions, which is why the real thieves needed many semi-trailer truck trips to steal $18 million worth of syrup.
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 12:31 PM on December 7, 2024