The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that The Sticky, a middling new Prime Video series inspired by the $18.7-million maple-syrup heist of 2012, is what you call "sirop de poteau" in Quebec. The Globe's J. Kelly Nestruck writes that is a French expression for the fake high-fructose corn-syrup-filled junk that Americans put on their pancakes rather than the real deal that comes from trees. The joke is that it is made out of sap that came from tapping a poteau -- a telephone pole. The Amazon original takes one of the most fascinating true-crime cases in Quebec history and tries to reverse-osmosis it into a standard crime-that-goes-awry black comedy that seems heavily indebted to Fargo. But whereas the Coen brothers lovingly lampooned their home state of Minnesota's quirks in that 1996 movie, this Prime Video show is co-created by a pair of Americans, Ed Herro and Brian Donovan, who show a tin ear to the distinct society that is Quebec throughout. To be fair, The Sticky is very clear it is not aiming to tell a real story, but that is not really an excuse for the lack of authenticity or even understanding of the setting. Still, to tell certain stories, it makes sense to tap creators who know the territory.