“Territory.” / “The Sticky.”

“Territory” (Netflix) Australian neo-Western drama. Story revolves around the world's largest cattle station, Marianne Station, which has been owned for generations by the Lawson family dynasty. Marianne Station is based on the real-life cattle station called Anna Creek Station located in South Australia, which is considered the largest cattle station in the world. Rival cattle farmers, various gangsters, Australian Aboriginal elders, and mining magnates seeking control of the mammoth property. 

       Easily, “Territory” reminds us of “Yellowstone.” Robert Taylor's Colin Lawson is Kevin Costner's John Dutton. So much so that the first two episodes seem a dry derivative of the popular Taylor Sheridan-masterminded series, set in Montana.

       But the series changed trajectory as we got midway. The conflicts got intense, the backstories compelling, and the power play heightens. Clearly, we are seeing Season 2. 🎥💻📽

“The Sticky” (Amazon) dark comedy television series set in Canada and starring Margo Martindale and Jamie Lee Curtis, loosely based on the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” 

       The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist was the theft over several months in 2011 and 2012 of nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup, valued at C$18.7 million (or C$24.1 million in 2023) from a storage facility in Quebec. 

       This wackadoo series: A Canadian maple syrup farmer finds her farm is under threat and plots to steal millions of dollars of maple syrup as revenge. All that ensued is fiction comedy, completely beyond the true story. Anyhow, the highlight of the series is the penultimate episode when Jamie Lee Curtis’ weirdo Bo showed up. That is The Series! But then, that's it. Shenanigans over. 🎥💻📽