35/43
This series starts off so well and then it kind of
Synopsis
When maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry finds her livelihood under attack from greedy competitors who were once her friends, she hatches a plan to get revenge and shake up the entire industry. Loosely based on the 2011-2012 theft of $18 million worth of maple syrup from a storage facility in Quebec; five people were sentenced to prison.
I didn’t realize this was “season 1”
tanks. I was led to believe it was a whole story told in 6 episodes.
For that reason, it’s not enough – it leaves you hanging – and it’s too stretched out
The casting and production design are amazing, but it’s like the original Twin Peaks: it was once a “big crime”; it’s solved, the story is over. Trying to portray it with extraneous plots becomes painful no matter how much we love spending time with these quirky characters.
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I realize I should have drenched this review in syrupy jokes, but maples are always sad because they’re so juicy. …