36/13

This show starts off so well and then somehow

When maple syrup producer Ruth Landry finds her livelihood under attack by greedy competitors who were once her friends, she hatches a plan to get revenge and turn the industry upside down. Loosely based on the $18 million maple syrup heist from a Quebec warehouse in 2011-12; five people were sentenced to prison.

I didn’t realize this was “season 1”

falls flat. I was misled into thinking it was a full story told in 6 parts.

As such, it’s both too short – it leaves you hanging – and too long

The cast and setting are great, but it’s like the original Twin Peaks: once the “big crime” is solved, the story ends. Trying to pad out the action with irrelevant subplots gets tiresome, no matter how much we enjoy spending time with these quirky characters.

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I know I should have peppered this review with saccharine jokes, but clones are always sad because they’re so cheesy…