The Sticky serves up sweet, gooey Canadian goodness Winnipeg Free Press [Video]

The Sticky, a limited series now streaming on Prime Video, is a Canadian-themed heist story, which is great. Go CanCon.

It’s about a maple syrup heist, though, which is possibly pouring on the Canadian content a little thick. This six-episode show is quick, quirky and packed with good performances, but it really taps into — syrup joke! — the tropes of Canadiana. Watching The Sticky, one feels Canuck crime sprees might be confined to hijacking truckloads of plaid flannel shirts, breaking into hockey-stick factories and kidnapping moose.

The Sticky is set in Quebec but created by two Americans, Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, and it’s pitched at both Canadian and American audiences. It features a cross-border cast, including Jutra award-winning Quebec actor Guillaume Cyr and Hollywood’s Jamie Lee Curtis.

At the series’ gala première in Los Angeles, “guests were transported into a Canadian forest, escaping into a world of woodland trees, crackling …