A HIT crime comedy featuring an A-list cast has been brutally axed after just one season.
The Sticky premiered in December 2024 and was loosely based on Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
Crime comedy The Sticky has been axed by Prime Video[/caption]
Acclaimed actress Margo Martindale played the main character[/caption]
Jamie Lee Curtis was an executive producer on the series[/caption]
Emmy-winner Margo Martindale played the lead role — Ruth Landry, a Canadian maple syrup farmer.
With her land under threat, Ruth schemes to steal millions of dollars of maple syrup as revenge.
She teams up with a Boston mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos), as well as a mild-mannered security guard (Guillaume Cyr).
The show aired six episodes on the streamer – all of which dropped on December 6.
Margo, 73, is known for her acclaimed television roles on Justified and The Americans.
Meanwhile, Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis executive produced and appeared as a guest star.
The real-life heist came to global attention back in 2012 – after more than $18 million worth of maple syrup was stolen.
Although The Sticky is based on these true events, the show’s creators stressed their plot bore very little resemblance to the real-life situation.
Across several months in 2011 and 2012, the contents of over 9,000 barrels were stolen from a FPAQ facility in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford.
The syrup had been stored in unmarked white barrels which were only checked once a year.
Thieves stole the barrels, drained the syrup and then refilled them with water.
This was to hide the fact that the warehouse stocks were being stolen.
Eventually, however, the scheme unravelled when thieves started leaving the barrels empty.
Between December 18 and 20, 2012, 17 men related to the theft were arrested.
The show’s plot bore little resemblance to the real-life events it was inspired from[/caption]
