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five people were sentenced to prison
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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 down the dollars from a Quebec warehouse in 2011-2012. I want to start by saying that I went into this show with medium to low expectations, so there were no major disappointments or real surprises. I knew about the real maple syrup heist, I saw the preview, and I thought it would be a fun show.
This is someone else’s work, thrown out over and over again
And it can be fun to watch if you like a poor copy of Fargo from people who don’t understand any of the workings of a Coen brothers movie. And I guess you could say that all those little elements they took from other movies could be a tribute and a hat trick if they didn’t feel so awkwardly and inappropriately confident in their uniqueness. There’s a certain smugness to the writing and direction that, frankly, is undeserved.
Corrosive, understated, evil, weird-evil
This is the end of a game of telephone, and the line is almost unrecognizable. The only real draw to the show that kept me watching until the end was the cast. They give 100%, even though the characters were the same archetypes these actors always play these days.
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It seems like some of the cast can’t escape the type that has captured them. I wish they had better range, even though they’re really good at what they’re stuck with the whole time. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest premieres on TV and streaming this month.
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