A new Prime Video series loosely based on the 2012 maple syrup heist attempts to blend true crime with black comedy but misses the mark. The show, created by Americans Ed Herro and Brian Donovan, lacks an understanding of Quebec culture and leans heavily on tired tropes.
, a middling new Prime Video series inspired by the $18.7-million maple-syrup heist of 2012, is what you call “That’s a French expression for the fake high-fructose corn syrup-filled junk that Americans put on their pancakes rather than the real deal that comes from trees.
This act of cruel bureaucracy eventually leads Ruth to team up with security guard Rémy and Boston second-tier mobster Mike to steal millions of dollars of maple syrup from a strategic reserve – an elaborate heist that the series, angling for a second season, cuts away from during the getaway. Bouchard appears in a scene from The Sticky, which is inspired by the $18.7-million maple-syrup heist of 2012.I waited for some backstory as to how this very anglophone woman ended up living in this francophone community, to no avail; I thought there’d be some mention, too, of how she took her husband’s typically Québécois name Landry, given that’s against the law in the province.
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