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Good Girls is a dark comedy crime drama series created by Jenna Bans. The NBC series follows three suburban mothers going through financial hardships. They soon decide to rob a supermarket, which completely turns their lives upside down as it leads to them getting involved with a dangerous crime boss and the FBI. Good Girls stars Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett, Isaiah Stannard, and Matthew Lillard. So, if you loved the biting dark comedy, intense dark comedy, and compelling characters in Good Girls, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Sticky is a dark comedy crime thriller drama series created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro. Based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, the Prime Video series follows Ruth Landry,...

Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson's hit streaming series, Poker Face, is set to return this year. And, well? The list of people they've finagled to guest star in Season 2 is actually unhinged. Like, the list of people who are going to be on this show is truly outrageous and unfathomable to someone like me, a person who does not cast television shows. But if I did? And I managed to pull this off? I'd be screaming it from the rooftop, folks. Because this cast list? It's truly the best of the best of the funniest, most talented people currently working in Hollywood.

And it seems that Lyonne and Johnson recognize that, sending along a note with the press release teasing the series' forthcoming slate of episodes. And though we don't know the exact premiere date yet — all it says is "Spring 2025" — we do know the 12, 60-minute-long episodes will feature Many very,...

Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson's hit streaming series, Poker Face, is set to return this year. And, well? The list of people they've finagled to guest star in Season 2 is actually unhinged. Like, the list of people who are going to be on this show is truly outrageous and unfathomable to someone like me, a person who does not cast television shows. But if I did? And I managed to pull this off? I'd be screaming it from the rooftop, folks. Because this cast list? It's truly the best of the best of the funniest, most talented people currently working in Hollywood.

And it seems that Lyonne and Johnson recognize that, sending along a note with the press release teasing the series' forthcoming slate of episodes. And though we don't know the exact premiere date yet — all it says is "Spring 2025" — we do know the 12, 60-minute-long episodes will feature Many very,...

Prime Video has decided to cancel The Sticky, a heist comedy series that premiered on the streaming platform back in December with six episodes. The reason behind this decision hasn’t officially been stated, but per Deadline, it is likely due to a kind of viewership that wasn’t strong enough to warrant a renewal. This cancelation is surprising, considering The Sticky has an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received good reviews from both critics and audiences.

The series follows the story of Ruth Landry, a maple syrup farmer in Canada, who teams up with a mobster and a security guard to exact revenge on the authorities who threaten to take away her land. The official synopsis reads:

“The Sticky follows Ruth Landry, a tough, middle-aged maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with the hot-tempered Bostonian mobster,...

Prime Video is pulling the plug on The Sticky, a heist comedy series inspired by true events. The news comes less than three months after the six-episode show's streaming premiere on Prime Video in December.

Per Deadline,The Sticky has officially been canceled after one season. The decision is likely due to the show failing to draw the high levels of viewership that the streaming platform had been hoping for. Its reception was fairly strong, as it has a score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. There was no mention in the report of the show getting shopped elsewhere for a potential continuation, making it seem more likely than not that this is the end of the line for The Sticky.

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The Sticky has received some not-so-sweet news: Prime Video has cancelled the dark comedy series after just one season, TVLine has confirmed.

According to our sister site Deadline, which broke the news, The Sticky did not bring in enough of an audience in the weeks since its six-episode first — and now only — season released on Dec. 6, 2024.

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Inspired by the real-life Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,...

Exclusive: Prime Video has opted not to renew The Sticky for a second season. The news comes more than two months after the six-episode first season of the Canadian comedy, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr and guest starring Jamie Lee Curts, was released on Dec. 6.

Like another recently canceled Prime Video freshman comedy series, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, The Sticky could not break through and draw wide enough audience despite solid reviews (80% on Rotten Tomatoes). Comedies take longer than dramas to, um, stick, which could explain why streamers are doing fewer half-hour shows and why those shows have a generally higher cancellation rate after a single season.

The Sticky, produced by Blumhouse Television, Curtis’ Comet Pictures, Jonathan Levine’s Megamix and Sphere Media, was inspired by a real-life heist that made global headlines in 2012, which saw more than $18 million worth of maple syrup stolen from Quebec’s national reserves.

The 77th annual Writers Guild Awards were handed out on Saturday in concurrent ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Shōgun took home the prize for Best New Series, beating out fellow first-time nominees such as English Teacher, Nobody Wants This, Fallout and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The Hulu series also won for Best Drama and Episodic Drama, while Max’s Hacks took home the trophy for Best Comedy, and HBO’s The Penguin won for Limited Series.

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In movies like Million Dollar Baby, August: Osage County, Blow The Man Down, and series like The Americans, Justified, and Sneaky Pete, “esteemed character actress Margo Martindale” loves to play people much different from herself. And she’s been so good at it for so long that she only started to get truly recognized for her work in her 60s. Three Emmys later, she’s able to pick and choose what she wants to do. Her latest, the Amazon series The Sticky, finds her number one on the call sheet and having a blast playing the bombastic maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry. […]

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In movies like Million Dollar Baby, August: Osage County, Blow The Man Down, and series like The Americans, Justified, and Sneaky Pete, “esteemed character actress Margo Martindale” loves to play people much different from herself. And she’s been so good at it for so long that she only started to get truly recognized for her work in her 60s. Three Emmys later, she’s able to pick and choose what she wants to do. Her latest, the Amazon series The Sticky, finds her number one on the call sheet and having a blast playing the bombastic maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry. […]

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There are nice people in Hollywood, and then there’s Margo Martindale.

Not only was she five minutes early for her interview with Gold Derby, she kept the date even though she had fallen on black ice the day before, fractured her eye socket, and had a face full of nasty-looking bruises, cuts, and stitches. “I didn’t want to cancel,” she says humbly (watch above). “This side of Margo Martindale is perfectly fine,” she says, pivoting her uninjured profile to the camera. “This one — not so much.”

The Emmy-winning star of Justified and The Americans is now winning raves for her star turn on Amazon Prime’s The Sticky, a dark comedy about an unlikely, bumbling trio who team up to pull off a maple syrup heist. “I was trying out some makeup for Season 2,” she jokes.

See Margo Martindale cooks up a maple syrup heist in ‘The Sticky’ trailer

Martindale plays Ruth Landry,...

Wednesday’s “Tonight Show” sees the arrival of Jamie Lee Curtis, a true Hollywood icon. She and Fallon will chat about her new movie “The Last Showgirl””, she also has a role in the quirky heist series “The Sticky.” Curtis is generally a good sport, so the interview shouldn’t be a total snoozefest. Next up is […]

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Jamie Lee Curtis knows a thing or two about sticky situations. Like the one she found herself in when she’d agreed to star in an odd little series about a maple syrup heist gone comically awry, but then had to back out due to scheduling conflicts.

Nonplussed, she solved the problem herself. Convinced she knew who should replace her, she cold-called Margo Martindale — famed for her Emmy-winning turns on Justified and The Americans — and convinced her to step in as syrup farmer-turned-criminal mastermind Ruth Landry on Amazon Prime’s The Sticky. And when the producers called Curtis needing someone to play the hit man, she sold them on the idea of not just a gender swap, but also a pretty severe makeover for the battle-scarred Beau.

Here, Curtis tells Gold Derby about why she wanted to do a sitcom, how her Oscar and Emmy wins have changed her career...

Child stars don’t have it easy in the Hollywood system. We’ve all heard horror stories of young actors who become cash cows for dismissive parents or lose themselves to the industry’s indulgent lifestyle. Others simply fade away, leaving their mark at a young age then failing to find work as they mature into adulthood.

Many child actors try to avoid this fate by signing on to shocking projects or accepting bold and often scandalous roles. Known for his work in the High School Musical franchise, Zac Efron attempted this feat by playing notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile positions this prolific murderer as a duplicitous but charming boyfriend able to woo his way through a bumbling legal system until the reality of his crimes finally catches up. But does this glamorous casting serve to glorify a sadistic predator? Has...

If Marvel can't convince Willem Dafoe to return as Green Goblin, the studio wouldn't have to leave the Disney lot to find his replacement. Chris Diamantopoulos, one of the current voice actors for Disney's Mickey Mouse, recently shared that he would love to play the Spider-Man villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While speaking with The Direct to promote his new Prime Video series The Sticky, Diamantopoulos remarked that he "would be very good" in the MCU, since he has been a comic book fan for as long as he can remember. "I was born going to Silver Snail comic shop. That's like one of the first place I ever went when I was a little kid, little baby. I've been a comic fan, a Marvel fan for my entire life, passed that on to my son," he shared. "But I think that they should make a series called Goblin,...

A few weeks ago, Prime Video put out all six episodes of The Sticky, a terrific comedic/crime saga starring the great Margo Martindale as Ruth Landry, a Canadian maple syrup farmer who schemes to steal millions of dollars of maple syrup (it’s loosely based on an actual heist that took place in Quebec). Her co-stars in the show include Jamie Lee Curtis (who also produced the show with Jason Blum), as well as the great Chris Diamantopoulos, who’s been in loads of stuff over the years, including The Office, Silicon Valley, the movie version of The Three Stooges (he was Moe), Red One, and much more. He’s also the official voice of Mickey Mouse for Disney, a role which has netted him two Emmy nominations.

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Diamantopolous, who discussed The Sticky and how he hopes it will turn...

Jamie Lee Curtis is the product of not one but two Hollywood legends and has been a marquee star for decades, but her career is just as on fire (if not more so) now than it ever has been. In just the last couple of years, she’s collected her first Oscar and Emmy wins, and things don’t seem to be slowing down. To promote the debut of The Sticky, her new comedy series on Prime Video, Curtis stopped by The View on Friday (December 20) and reflected on her incredible run on the small and silver screens lately, and she revealed exactly why it is that things are going so well for her right now. “I’m 66 right now, and I started when I was 19 years old, and I have been wanting to be a boss. I’m bossy!” she explained. “And I have wanted to have a bigger...

So, Friday’s “The View” is shaping up to be a slightly less chaotic affair than usual. Instead of the usual political hot takes and interpersonal squabbles, ABC’s daytime staple is bringing in a dose of Hollywood glamour and musical talent. A-lister Jamie Lee Curtis will grace the table to discuss her new project, “The Sticky,” […]

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The home stretch before Christmas has arrived, but there are plenty of new shows arriving on streamers this month to either binge before the end of the year.

Those in the mood for mystery can dive into No Good Deed on Netflix Dec. 12 or Laid on Peacock Dec. 19. The former is from Dead To Me creator Liz Feldman, and the latter stars Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet with a touch more comedy.

Find the five best new shows streaming in December 2024 below:

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Black Doves – Dec. 5 – Netflix

Keira Knightley in ‘Black Doves’

Keira Knightley stars as Helen Webb in Black Doves, an action filled spy show set in London at Christmas. Knighyley’s Webb is a dedicated wife, mother and spy. She has been secretly passing her politician husband’s secrets to the clandestine organization she works for, The Black Doves, for ten years.

A dark comedy crime thriller, with a solid 82% score on Rotten Tomatoes, is showing signs of success on streaming. The closing months of a year are generally not thought of as an exceptionally busy time for television, with broadcast networks going on hiatus for the holidays and streamers holding their biggest titles for the new year. 2024 may be another year that points to a shift, with several hit series debuting recently and more on the way.

Squid Game season 2 is premiering on Netflix as of December 26, making a late play to be technically one of the year's buzziest series. This is coming after Black Doves debuted in early December, very intentionally set as a holiday-themed spy saga, to acclaim from audiences and critics. Showtime's The Agency, led by Michael Fassbender, is another thriller that premiered late to a lot of attention and a quick renewal. A more low-key crime thriller may well follow that success.

Universal is looking to Jamie Lee Curtis to pick up where Angela Lansbury left off for the studio’s Murder, She Wrote movie. There’s no deal yet, but Curtis is the studio’s top choice to play Jessica Fletcher in a film based on the 12-season CBS series.

The script is by Dumb Money scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and Lord Miller and Amy Pascal are producing it. Plans to scope out a Murder, She Wrote film come at a time when whodunit stories are making a killer comeback. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out Mysteries series is a smash hit with audiences. At the same time, other titles like Netflix’s Enola Holmes, starring Millie Bobby Brown as the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), and Kenneth Branagh’s revival of Hercule Poirot are great additions to the genre’s offerings.

Angela Lansbury played Jessica Fletcher in Murder,...

Exclusive: Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is the top choice to star in the Murder, She Wrote movie coming together at Universal, Dish hears. No deal yet, but we here she’s looming likely to play the Jessica Fletcher role popularized by Angela Lansbury in the hit series that ran 12 seasons on CBS series.

Script is by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, the duo behind the Craig Gillespie-directed drama Dumb Money, about the GameStop short squeeze of 2021. Murder, She Wrote is being produced by Lord Miller and Amy Pascal.

Now, it’s early, but this makes a great deal of sense. Whodunits are hot, from the Knives Out trilogy with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, to the Hercule Poirot mysteries with Kenneth Branagh that began with Murder On The Orient Express. Just as hot is the career second wind of Curtis, who has come so much further than...

Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up on why it took so long to make a sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday. Per People, Curtis took to the Today show, where she was promoting her upcoming movies, The Last Showgirl and The Sticky, to clear up why the movie’s sequel, Freakier Friday, took 22 years to come to fruition.

“We couldn’t have made this movie until now, because Lindsay (Lohan) had to be old enough to have a 15-year-old,” Curtis said. In 2025’s Freakier Friday, Lohan, who is now 38, will reprise her role as Anna Coleman from Freaky Friday, but now, her character is also a mom - to her own daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter.

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For so long, Jamie Lee Curtis has been mostly known for her roles as someone you trust and root for. In A Fish Called Wanda, she’s a con artist trying to double-cross some dim-witted men. True Lies has her getting in over her head as she gets the exciting, spy adventure she wanted. And the Freaky Friday body swap made her bring comedy gold. Halloween is almost too easy of an example, but there is a reason the franchise is so closely linked with Curtis. Laurie Strode might be the defining role for her, but more recently, Curtis has been taking on some of the most fascinating roles of her career. Forget what you think you can expect from seeing Curtis on-screen because The Sticky is a new crime series that brings her in to escalate the chaos of a wacky heist.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about Shrinking, Blue Bloods, Taylor Sheridan: Actor, Matlock and more!

1 | Since the still-alive Bo visited Martin at the hospital in the finale of The Sticky, are we to assume that Ruth’s husband was also a part of the Boston crime family? And if the show returns for Season 2, how in the world will Remy get his father out of prison?

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If you’re anything like us, then you love video games. You love it even more when those games are successfully adapted into movies and TV shows, as the case has been lately with such hits as The Last of Us, Fallout, and Twisted Metal. Now we can add another series to that list, as the animated show Secret Level has managed to be a smash with viewers thus far, catapulting it to the top of the charts.

Premiering on Prime Video on Dec. 10, Secret Level is now the number one show on the streaming service ahead of other recent debuts, including Pop Culture Jeopardy, Cross, The Sticky, and the reboot of Cruel Intentions. It’s no surprise really, especially when you consider who are all involved in the project. Secret Level features the voice talents of heavy hitters like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, Laura Bailey, and Keanu Reeves.

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The Sticky is a Canadian heist dark comedy crime thriller series created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro. Based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, the Prime Video series follows Ruth Landry, a Canadian maple syrup farmer whose farm is under threat of foreclosure and decides to steal millions of dollars worth of maple syrup as revenge with the help of a Bostonian mobster and a French-Canadian security guard. The Sticky stars Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr, Gita Miller, Guy Nadon, Mickaël Gouin, Suzanne Clément, Mark O’Brien, Meegwun Fairbrother, and Jamie Lee Curtis. So, if you loved the dark comedy, crime thriller elements, and compelling characters in The Sticky, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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With the Ted Bundy primer covered off (listen), it’s time for Jenn and I to dig into our first Ted Bundy adaptation.

Writer/director Matthew Bright is…an acquired taste. The man behind the Freeway films (which Trace Thurman and I have covered on Horror Queers) has a tendency to blur the boundaries of “good taste” with his mix of comedy, violence, sex and exploitation.

This is certainly applicable to Ted Bundy (2002), which Bright co-wrote with Stephen Johnston. The film is part of a glut of fictionalized true crime films of the early aughts.

In the case of Ted Bundy, there’s a *partial* attempt at covering the real story. Aside from Bundy, all of the names have been changed, but several key incidents, including the Lake Sammamish double murder, as well as the attempted mall abduction, are recreated here.

But Bright and Johnston can’t help indulging in...

Amazon Prime Video's black comedy heist series The Sticky tells a hilariously twisted take on a true tale in its first season, but will the show score a season 2 renewal? Based loosely on the real-life Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist of 2011 and 2012, the show follows a disgruntled maple syrup farmer (Margo Martindale) who concocts a scheme to steal millions of dollars of syrup from a massive corporation that threatens to put her small farm out of business. Blending all the best elements of its genres, The Sticky delivers a compelling crime story that is hilarious too.

Dropping in late 2024 among a slew of other thriller series, The Sticky didn't struggle to set itself apart because of its unique tone. Critics were largely impressed with the heist show's first course, and it earned a Rotten Tomatoes score above 80%. Intriguingly, the series opted to end its first season on a major cliffhanger,...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Sticky season 1.The Sticky season 2 gets a candid and detailed update from creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro. Part crime thriller, in the form of a heist, and part comedy, it is a six-episode series that premiered on Prime Video in December. The story behind The Sticky is inspired by true events and follows Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale), the tough maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when she's faced with losing everything she loves. She decides to carry out a multi-million dollar maple heist with the help of a mobster and a security guard.

In an interview with Collider, Herro and Donovan are asked whether there is a three-season plan for The Sticky. Herro responds that there is actually a five-season plan. In the quote below, the co-creators talk about how they spiced up the story to make it into a streaming...

The following contains major spoilers for The Sticky, now streaming on Prime Video.

TV and movie heists generally evoke an image of black-clad people entering a bank vault with a suspenseful soundtrack playing in the background. Who would have thought maple syrup would be the target of one of them? In the early 2010s, a maple syrup heist rocked Canada. Prime Video is now bringing that colorful part of the nation's history to life with The Sticky, a delicious crime drama.

Created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, The Sticky puts its own spin on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Doctor Odyssey's Margo Martindale as Ruth Landry, Chris Diamantopoulos as Mike Byrne, and Guillaume Cyr as Remy Bouchard. The show follows Ruth as she hatches a plan with known mob associate Mike and security guard Remy to steal millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup after the...

It’s the time of year most TV fanatics hate — when all of our favorite Primetime series go on break.

We’ve got tips for fighting the fall finale funk to help you get through the next few weeks of reruns and missing series. These ideas are meant to be fun and festive.

If you’re struggling with seasonal withdrawals and feel out of sorts without anything to do until your favorite shows come back on, try these funk-fighting tips. You can always catch a rerun of one of your series favorites, like NCIS: Origins.

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Many of today’s popular TV shows go on a multi-week hiatus around the end-of-year holidays, giving TV networks time to fill with seasonal specials and holiday favorites.

However, the break in regular programming is also the perfect time for other shows to try to capture an otherwise distracted audience.

The Sticky on Amazon Prime Video is one of those hilarious crime dramas that discusses how things go awry when a normal person commits a crime without any criminal experience. Since they are decent human beings, they assume their plan would work as per their vision. As a result, there are some characters with good ideals who have been wronged by awful people. There are also awful people who want to prove their prowess. The show is loosely based on ‘the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.’

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Ruth

Margo Martindale is amazing as Ruth Landry, who is taking care of the maple farm owned by her husband Martin. Ruth loves her husband dearly, as they have been together for many years. Martin is in a coma, and Ruth spends every minute of the day by his side, hoping he will wake up one day. Martin has been set up...

Here is a factual statement for dear readers: Twelve years ago, Canada saw its biggest heist, the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” If the name brought a hint of amusement to you, along with the usual apprehension one gets from seedy crimes like robberies, then Amazon Prime’s “The Sticky” (season 1) would be the perfect choice for you. The “Fargo”-coded dark comedy, featuring a motley crew of characters portrayed by an equally diverse cast, is maddeningly hilarious and delightfully entertaining. With half-an-hour-a-piece six episodes, the season zooms through its cold crime-drama premise with oddly fitting circumstantial humor and zany dialogues. All signs of a great dark comedy.

The Sticky (Season 1) ‘Prime Video’ Recap: Introducing the Players: A Battle for Maple Syrup and Redemption

The series opens with a quick but effective introduction of our three main lead characters. Ruth (Margo Martindale) is a hell-raiser Maple Syrup farmer who immediately...

Chris Diamantopoulos, who stars in the new Prime Video series The Sticky, is well-known for many other roles throughout his career. One of his most beloved parts is arguably from Silicon Valley, where the actor portrayed Russ Hanneman, the billionaire who "put radio on the internet." As it turns out, his rise to absurd wealth is exactly what he would want to see with a Silicon Valley spinoff.

In a conversation with MovieWeb, the actor discussed the HBO series, his character, and how a prequel to the hit show would work. "I love that my character is renowned for putting radio on the internet; that's how he became a billionaire, he put radio on the internet. It would be great to see Russ Hanneman in the early years. Who was he before he became a billionaire? How much of a dork was he that led him to become such a complete supreme royal douchebag?...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Sticky!

Amazon Prime Video's The Sticky is a new crime thriller with 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it continues a brilliant Jamie Lee Curtis character trend. The cast of The Sticky stars Margo Martindale and a few other fantastic actors, although the biggest name in the show doesn't appear until a few episodes in. Jamie Lee Curtis shows up as a major antagonist in the second half of The Sticky, following a recent pattern in her television career.

Based on the true story of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, The Sticky is an Amazon Prime Video crime comedy series that adapts this story in an incredibly loose fashion, with it making up all kinds of wacky characters and situations. The biggest of these additions to the show is Mike Byrne's crime family, with Jamie Lee Curtis' Beau showing up to take over the job after a few episodes.

The Sticky, the six-episode Prime Video series starring Margo Martindale, is streaming now, loosely based on the true story of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. A story that's almost too wild to believe, the heist occurred from 2011 through 2012, where C$18.1 million (Usd 12.7 million) was stolen from a storage facility in Quebec. Chris Diamantopoulos, known for his work in Silicon Valley, Mrs. Davis, The Boys in the Boat, and many, many more projects, recently spoke to MovieWeb and discussed his role in the series and the actor who was initially eyed for his part as Mike Byrne.

As it turns out, Diamantopoulos wasn't initially drawn to the project, and it took a few changes before the actor was fully onboard with where The Sticky was heading. He explained, "When I read [the script], I didn't immediately jump at it, but I had an agent who stayed on this project and kept calling me about it.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Sticky!

Throughout Amazon Prime Video's The Sticky, everyone calls Mike by his nickname "Lollipop," and here's why that is. The cast of The Sticky is full of all kinds of wacky characters with mysterious backstories, with their interests converging at a grand maple syrup heist. However, The Sticky eventually reveals that Mike's true nature is not what it seems, with his Lollipop nickname being key to understanding the character's full story.

Amazon Prime Video's new heist comedy series The Sticky tells a fictionalized version of the real-life Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, with the series following three thieves who work together to steal millions of dollars worth of maple syrup. Chris Diamantopoulos' Mike Byrne acts as the ringleader for the job, with his connections to a powerful crime family giving him the knowledge he needs for the job. While Mike comes off as a seasoned professional,...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Sticky!

Amazon Prime Video's The Sticky season 1 has come to a close, but there are still 10 major questions that The Sticky season 2 must answer. A lot of unresolved storylines and loose ends are present at the end of The Sticky season 1, with the show ending almost immediately after the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist takes place. Because of this, there is still a lot left to explore in Ruth, Mike, and Remy's story, with The Sticky season 2 having a lot of story left to tell based on the ending of season 1.

Amazon Prime Video's new heist comedy TV series The Sticky tells a fictionalized version of the real-life Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, in which millions of dollars worth of maple syrup were stolen from a syrup storage warehouse. The cast of The Sticky starts Margo Martindale and a variety of other talented character actors,...

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The wild and crazy world we live in can serve as some major inspiration for Hollywood creations, with reality often proving to be stranger than fiction. Case in point: the highly-buzzed-about Prime Video dark comedy The Sticky, which features the talents of prolific character actress Margot Martindale and follows a Canadian maple syrup farmer as she concocts a daring heist to steal millions of dollars worth of syrup after being wronged by the authorities.

Despite the far-fetched premise of the engrossing series, it is actually rooted in facts and was loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist that took place between 2011 and 2012 in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec. Over $18 million in maple syrup was stolen by...

Three-time Emmy Award-winning actress Margo Martindale has found herself in a sticky situation. Well, her lead role as Ruth Landry in Prime Video's The Sticky has, at least. The series, by creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, is a crime comedy inspired by the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist — something Martindale's French-Canadian co-star, Guillaume Cyr, recalls seeing on the news years ago — and has a distinctly Fargo feel to it.

With Bo out of the picture and Harvest Day rapidly approaching, were Ruth, “Lollipop” and Remy able to escape with the goods? That answer is a resounding “yes,” but that doesn’t mean loved ones in their orbit were safe from the fallout.

The Sticky’s first season finale on Prime Video opens with the trio stuffing Bo’s body into a deep freezer, only she had already alerted Mike’s Boston crime family about his goings-on in Canada. Needless to say, the heat is on and the clock is ticking. Rather than remove the maple syrup barrels from the site,...

Amazon Studios’ new Prime Video series The Sticky got a hopeful update on a potential Season 2 thanks to one of its leading stars.

The six-episode half-hour-long dramedy, which is vaguely based on a real-life heist, follows the story of Margo Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry, who, with the help of Chris Diamantopoulos’ Mike Bryne and Guillaume Cyre’s Remy Bouchard, steal $18 million worth of maple syrup.

The series has been received well so far, and it currently has an 82% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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As each episode of “The Sticky” declares, Prime Video’s twisted comedy series about a maple syrup heist in Canada, is definitely not accurately depicting the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. But can you blame creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro for hearing an event title like that and wanting to let their imaginations run wild?

Across six episodes (and it deserved eight!), “The Sticky” presents an excellent case for television taking completely wild liberties with true events. With that episodic disclaimer explicitly absolving the showrunners of misinforming viewers, they’re essentially creating an original story based on a fun idea. So what if that idea happened in real life, but differently? What if it went this way instead?

The final episode, written by Donovan and Herro and directed by Michael Dowse, sees Ruth (Margo Martindale), Mike (Chris Diamantopoulos), and Remy (Guillaume Cyr) finally follow through on their big plans,...

Fargo is a hugely popular show based on the Coen brothers’ movie of the same name, following a cast of rotating characters whose lives are turned upside-down by complex crimes and sweeping conspiracies in the Midwest. The anthology series has centered around many different stories throughout the years. Each season follows a whole new ensemble cast of familiar faces whose characters are thrown into the most darkly hilarious predicaments imaginable, with Fargo season 5's cast being one of the biggest yet. Unfortunately, it looks like it may be a while before Fargo season 6 is released, which is a shame seeing as how Fargo finally won its first Emmy this year.

In the meantime, there are several other shows that manage to accomplish a very similar style of thrilling storytelling to Fargo with totally different premises to keep audiences entertained. One such series is The Sticky, a new Amazon release that...

Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of maple syrup. A vindictive bureaucrat. One pissed off farmer. It may not sound like the high-stakes elements of an action-packed and lucrative heist, but that’s what makes The Sticky so appealing… and funny.

In Prime Video’s new crime caper (all six episodes are now available to stream), a Canadian maple farmer seeks alternative options when her land is threatened by red tape. Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale) can’t seem to catch a break. She’s already struggling to pay the bills ever since her husband Martin slipped into a coma (trying...

When you ask the creators of “The Sticky” what led them to their comedic adventure series about a maple syrup heist gone wrong, they have two words: dumb luck.

“My sister happened to marry a Canadian. If that didn’t happen, we’d all be in a different room somewhere,” co-creator Brian Donovan told TheWrap. Over cheese and crackers one Christmas, Donovan first heard of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, a very real theft that happened between 2011-12 when roughly $18.7 million Canadian dollars’ worth of syrup was covertly stolen from a storage facility in Quebec.

“I immediately texted Ed [Herro] and we got working within a week, because it’s such a great story,” Donovan said.

But to make their Prime Video series, the duo needed to rewrite history a bit. “The real crime was pretty boring. They just very slowly and methodically stole syrup, and got caught. That’s not great TV,...

Apple TV+ recently hosted a screening and panel conversation for “Lady in the Lake” at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Meryl Streep Center for Performing Artists in Los Angeles. Upon conclusion of the screening of the seventh and final episode, titled “My Story,” star and executive producer Natalie Portman and star Moses Ingram engaged in a fun Q&a moderated by Variety’s Emily Longeretta. Later on, attendees enjoyed a lively reception, complete with hors d’oeuvres and drinks.

“Lady in the Lake” streamed this summer on Apple TV+, with creator-executive producer-writer-director Alma Har’el adapting the thriller from the book of the same name by Laura Lippman. Besides Portman and Ingram, other cast members include Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison, and Pruitt Taylor Vince. Portman is a Best Actress Oscar winner for “Black Swan” (2010), and Madison is getting major Oscar buzz right now for “Anora.

It’s nearly impossible to have lived a life untouched by a Chris Diamantopoulos performance. The Toronto-born star has been active in the industry for decades, and across all genres. He’s played the male lead in Waitress on Broadway, opposite composer Sara Bareilles. He’s shown up in dramas like The Boys in the Boat and Daisy Jones & The Six. You’ve heard him in animated shows for kids (Hamster & Gretel), adults (Harley Quinn) and everyone in between (Animaniacs). But if you’re a comedy fan, you’re basically guaranteed to have watched him in his most iconic roles: obnoxious billionaire Russ “Tres Comas” Hanneman in Silicon Valley and Brian, the documentary crew member/possible obstacle to Jim and Pam’s marriage in the final season of The Office.

Today, Diamantopoulos launches his latest series: Prime Video’s The Sticky. Inspired by a true crime story of the early aughts — but,...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Sticky!

2024's new heist comedy series The Sticky has had its season finale, and here is the ending of Amazon Prime Video's new show explained, including if Ruth completed the maple syrup heist. The Sticky is a fictionalized and comedic story loosely inspired by the real-life Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist of 2011 and 2012, with the show following three thieves who decide to steal millions of dollars worth of maple syrup. The web of stories in The Sticky is surprisingly deep, and here is how they resolve at the end of season 1 and what it means for season 2.

Margo Martindale's The Sticky season 1, episode 6 picks up right where episode 5 left off, with Beau having seemingly fallen to her death and the crime family on their way to get Ruth, Mike, and Remy. The trio realizes that they have to pull the heist off fast, so...