The Sticky Season 1 OTT release date: When and where to watch Margo Martindale-led series on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

The Sticky, a six-episode dark comedy crime thriller based loosely on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist is coming to OTT this week. Directed by Michael Dowse and Joyce Wong and created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis, the show is led by three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale, as a maple syrup farmer pushed to extremes when her farm is under threat.

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Martindale plays Ruth Landry, a maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when the authorities threaten to take away her farm. She then teams up with a Bostonian mobster, Mike Byrne, played by Chris Diamantopoulos, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard Remy Bouchard (Guillame Cyr) for a multi-million-dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.

The Sticky, which is dropping on Amazon Prime Video on December 6, is inspired by a real-life heist more than a decade ago, when more than $18 million worth of maple syrup was stolen from Quebec’s national reserves. Each episode of the show is expected to be around 30 minutes in runtime.

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Also on the cast, are Gita Millier, Guy Nadon, Mickaël Gouin, Suzanne Clément, Mark O'Brien, Meegwun Fairbrother and Jamie Lee Curtis. Martindale has been quoted as saying that when she was approached to star in the show and was told it was based on a true story, she didn’t think it was real at first.

In a statement about The Sticky, show creator Herro, said there’s nothing more Canadian than maple syrup, and nothing more entertaining to watch than three completely unqualified crooks attempting to steal millions of dollars of the stuff. The Sticky, he adds, is the tale of three unexpected strangers getting in over their heads, in a desperate attempt to get their sticky fingers on what they feel they deserve - what they’re owed.