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The Sticky is a 2024 dark comedy television series set in Quebec, Canada. Starring Margo Martindale and produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis, the show is loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
Premise
A Canadian maple syrup farmer finds her farm is under threat and plots to steal millions of dollars of maple syrup as revenge.
Cast
Margo Martindale as Ruth Landry
Chris Diamantopoulos as Mike Byrne
Guillaume Cyr as Remy Bouchard
Gita Miller as Teddy Green
Guy Nadon as Leonard Gauthier Sr.
Mickaël Gouin as Léo Gauthier Jr.
Suzanne Clément as Detective Valérie Nadeau
Mark O'Brien as Charlie
Meegwun Fairbrother as Gary Montour
Jamie Lee Curtis as Bo Shea
Episodes
Production
The series is created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro who are also executive producers and showrunners. It is produced by Blumhouse Television, Comet Pictures, Megamix and Sphere Media. Executive producers include Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer for Megamix, Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Pictures, Jason Blum, Chris Dickie, Jeremy Gold and Chris McCumber for Blumhouse Television and Michael Dowse. Lauren Grant also serves as executive producer with Josée Vallée and Bruno Dubé for Sphere Media, Inc. Russell Goldman associate produces for Comet Pictures.
The series is directed by Michael Dowse and Joyce Wong with filming taking in place in Quebec in 2023 with filming locations including Montreal.
The cast is led by Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr as well as Gita Millier, Guy Nadon, Mickaël Gouin, Suzanne Clément, Mark O'Brien, and Meegwun Fairbrother with has Jamie Lee Curtis in a guest role.
Release
The series debuted on Amazon Prime Video on 6 December 2024.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Sticky holds an approval rating of 82%, based on 17 reviews with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Spinning a spiky yarn with a memorable posse of eccentric characters drizzled on top, The Sticky lays it on thick and is all the more entertaining for it." On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the series holds a score of 67/100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph awarded the series four stars and said it was "tremendous fun”. Nate Richard for Collider compared it to the television series Fargo, describing it as "a story about grief, murder, the mafia, and, of course, maple syrup".
References
External links
The Sticky at IMDb