50/17
A collection of oddball characters in desperate situations who try to steal maple syrup to solve their financial problems
When maple syrup producer Ruth Landry’s livelihood is attacked by greedy competitors who were once her friends, she hatches a plan to get revenge and shake up the industry. Loosely based on the 2011-2012 robbery of $18 million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse in Quebec; five people were sentenced to prison. Ruth, whose husband is in a coma, has lost her right to sell maple syrup to the cartel run by Leonard.
He is the sole custodian of the entire supply of maple syrup
It seems her husband has the right to harvest the syrup, so she is being punished for illegally using his rights. Remy, a sort of sad character, is a guard at the warehouse where all the syrup is kept and used to sneak a barrel or two out of the warehouse at night, with a friend who was suddenly murdered. With Ruth in financial trouble, the only way out was a robbery on a much larger scale, and she and Remy brought Mike into the plan.
The truth is very different
Mike seems like a powerful person who can do big things. And with all the personality clashes and confusion, it almost becomes the Keystone Cop joke. Every time they seem to have things under control, problems arise, and their approach to solving them is a big part of the humor.
And one very interesting cameo
Cop leads into season two, so there are a lot of loose ends. And as has been made abundantly clear, the robbery itself was not committed that way. So this is one ridiculously made-up report.