Prime Video's Forgotten 6-Part Heist Thriller Is the Perfect Weekend Binge

Published Oct 20, 2026, 4:59 PM EDT

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Right now on Prime Video, there’s an overlooked six-episode heist thriller that makes for a perfect one-night binge. Not only is it short, fast-paced, and wickedly funny, but it’s also inspired by a real-life, true-crime story that took place in Canada in the early 2010s. The legendary Margo Martindale stars in The Sticky, a darkly funny story about a determined maple syrup farmer who takes on the Canadian government for what rightfully belongs to her and her community.

The Blumhouse production fictionalizes the stranger-than-fiction story of The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist of 2011 and 2012, a theft that became known as one of the largest agricultural heist in Canadian history. Yes, millions of dollars in maple syrup really went missing. (Astounding, right?) That’s why this forgotten dark comedy begs for deeper exploration, so suit up, because things are going to get sticky.

Prime Video's 'The Sticky' Boasts a Larger-Than-Life Plot

In thinking about a heist, money, expensive cars, art, and jewelry usually come to mind, but not the best breakfast topping for a stack of buttery pancakes. 2024’s The Sticky changed all that with its super-sweet, loosely inspired plot about a multi-million-dollar theft of maple syrup. While we follow the three main characters behind this mission, who each have different motives, the true center of the story is rooted in Martindale’s character.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Fandom Should You Join? Harry Potter · Lord of the Rings · Star Wars · Star Trek

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you put on when you need cheering up, how deep you go into the things you love, what you argue about, what you keep on your shelf. Answer them and we will tell you where you belong. Four of the biggest fandoms on earth are taking new members, and they could not be more different from one another.

⚡Harry Potter(Wizarding World)

💍Lord of the Rings(Middle-earth)

⚔️Star Wars(A Galaxy Far Away)

🖖Star Trek(The Final Frontier)

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What do you put on when you need cheering up? Nobody is brave about this one.

AThe same thing I have watched a hundred times. BSomething long, slow and beautiful. CSomething big and loud with a great score. DOne clever episode of something hopeful.

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02

How deep do you go into something you love? There is no shallow end here, only different deep ends.

AI know every character and all the gossip. BI have read the appendices and studied the maps. CI have a ranked opinion on every instalment. DI want to know how the world actually works.

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What do you and your friends actually argue about? Every fandom has one argument it has been having for years.

AWhich one of us is which type. BWhether the adaptation got it right. CWhether the new stuff ruined the old stuff. DWhether the right thing was actually done.

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How do you feel about a room full of strangers? Every one of these comes with a very big room.

AGreat, and I will know everybody by the end. BFine, as long as they take it seriously. CBrilliant, especially if there is something to dress up for. DHappy, provided the conversation is interesting.

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What do you believe about people, mostly? All four of these stories have an answer, and they disagree.

AMost of them turn out better than expected. BThe smallest ones decide the biggest things. CAnybody can change, even very late on. DWe work it out if we keep talking.

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What is actually on your shelf? Look over at it before you answer.

AEverything I owned when I was twelve. BHardbacks, in order, read more than once. CFigures, posters, and a few things still boxed. DBooks about how things work, plus a model or two.

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What do you actually want from a story? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your fandom.

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Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you would be having within a week.

Harry Potter

You belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting you.

• You are drawn to belonging, which is why this fandom sorted itself into houses within about five minutes and has never stopped.
• This is the most social of the four, and the one most likely to know which type every single person in your life would be.
• The books are built to be reread rather than analysed, and rereading is exactly what you do with things you love.
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Lord of the Rings

You belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture.

• You like the sense that the story you are reading is only the visible part of something enormous, which is precisely how Tolkien built it.
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Star Wars

You belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity.

• You want something you can share with absolutely everybody, from a six year old to a grandparent, and this is the only one on the list that really does that.
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Star Trek

You belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done.

• You are an optimist in a way that is currently unfashionable, and this is the only major franchise still willing to say the future might be better.
• The best episodes are the ones where nobody fires anything, which is a sentence that makes perfect sense to this fandom and to nobody else.
• Starfleet Academy brought the franchise back to a classroom in 2026, which is appropriate, because Trek has always been a bit of a seminar.
• You would want the conversation afterwards more than the episode itself, and here you will always find somebody willing to have it.

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Ruth Landry (Martindale) is well-seasoned and tough-as-nails after having spent her entire life in The Great White North building and cultivating her beloved maple syrup farm. When government regulations threaten everything she has worked for, Ruth goes to war with the system threatening her community. Along the way, she enlists the help of a dim-witted security guard (Guillaume Cyr) and a low-level, hot-tempered Boston mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos), and together, they plot to “stick it to the man” by stealing millions of dollars in maple syrup.

The Heist Featured in 'The Sticky' Is Hard To Believe

You might be wondering why, in a real-life heist, syrup would even matter, but the sweet, sticky stuff is actually a huge business in Canada, which produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s pure maple syrup. See, to meet the world’s demand, syrup producers created a strategic reserve, or a place to stockpile extra syrup in good years and pull from the surplus in bad years. This allows prices to remain stable. Around the time of the actual heist, syrup was trading for $32 per gallon, or $1,800 per barrel. By 2011, the surplus was so large, an additional location was required to stockpile the additional supply, and this is where thieves saw (and likely smelled) the opportunity that was later dubbed The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

The syrup was stored in unmarked white metal barrels in a warehouse operated by the governing body that oversees Quebec’s syrup trade, the Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec (FPAQ), and it was inspected only once per year. While the show makes the theft seem fairly quick and — no pun intended — fluid, in actuality, the heist was methodical and took months. The thieves used trucks to transport the barrels to a remote location, where they siphoned off the syrup, refilled the barrels with water, and then returned them to the warehouse. The stolen syrup, which amounted to approximately 3,000 tonnes (about 6 million pounds) and totaled nearly $18 million Canadian dollars, was shipped south and east, where it was then trafficked in small batches and sold to clueless syrup distributors. Eventually, the thieves got lazy and started siphoning directly from the barrels without refilling them, and this is what led to their eventual demise.

The Sticky is a widely overlooked and criminally underrated show. With only six half-hour episodes, the entire season is an easy evening watch. Its Fargo-esque mix of absurd humor and fictionalized heist thrills is another reason to tune in.

As a masterful balance of dark humor and crime drama, this delightfully wacky take on a real-life syrup heist also features a neatly unhinged atmosphere that somehow manages to make things feel both tense and lighthearted all at once. That’s due to the story’s fictionalized, unconventional, morally grey characters and use of dramatic, error-prone storylines propelled by Martindale’s trademark sarcasm and commanding presence.

There’s also a touch of suspense and some unexpected violence thrown in there for fun, and the heist thriller features a surprise guest appearance from cinematic icon Jamie Lee Curtis, who serves as executive producer on the show through her production company, Comet Pictures. She has a small but extremely memorable and noteworthy role as Bo Shea, a witty, tough hitwoman who takes quite a liking to Martindale’s character and has some flirty, on-screen fun. You'll become completely captivated (and hungry) by every little thing about this hidden streaming gem.

The Sticky