I loved this series, a taught six episodes, one of the best I’ve seen. Here’s Wikipedia’s succinct characterization:
The Sticky is a 2024 dark comedy television series set in Canada and starring Margo Martindale and produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis. It is loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
Writing in The New York Times, Margaret Lyons says:
There is one timeline, and the screws tighten precisely and constantly. Things move from “ … should we?” to “ack!” with a winning urgency. This tidiness, though, can sometimes feel like oversimplification, with lines that land as childish and pat. “Look at you and look at me,” the villain says to our hero. “What makes you possibly think you can win?” One yearns for the musical number that would follow this in a Disney movie.
[The delicious] Margo Martindale stars as Ruth, a woman who has run afoul of the local syrup licensing rules but is desperate for money because her husband is in a coma. She teams up with an in-over-his-head mob underling (Chris Diamantopoulos) and the security guard at a syrup warehouse (Guillaume Cyr), and they form an imperfect but endearing trio. Hot on their tails are the warm local cop and the icy big-city cop.
I agree, mostly, but I don’t yearn for that Disney musical number. Make no mistake, I love Disney, at least the great animation features, but all things in moderation.
Yes, there are holes in the plot and action, moments where one says to oneself, as one does: “Are you freakin’ kidding me? Not possible.” But who cares? Those moments pass quickly.
It looks like we’re set up for an interesting second season, where Jamie Lee Curtis, playing a mob enforcer, appears to come back from the dead. Between this and Everything Everywhere All at Once, she’s been going great guns in her “I’m middle aged, get over it” mode.
When will we see more?
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