Margo Martindale has been one of Hollywood’s most reliable character actors since the late 1980s. She’s featured in Oscar-winning dramas and gut-busting comedies, playing “aw shucks” proud mamas and ruthless crime bosses, and she’s ubiquitous enough to have been a recurring character on the animated showbiz comedy Bojack Horseman, as herself. In The Sticky, the new heist comedy series on Prime Video, Martindale gets a rare and long-overdue opportunity to play the lead. But, while she certainly holds her own as a disgruntled maple syrup farmer out to make a big score, the material she’s working with is mostly unremarkable. The six-episode debut season of The Sticky is a short stack of pancakes, the sort of meal that fills you up but doesn’t leave a lasting memory—and you probably won’t want seconds.

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Set in the maple forests of Quebec, The Sticky finds Martindale’s Ruth Landry in a bitter feud with the Quebec Maple Association, which regulates syrup farming. When a........

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