Elizabeth Olsen wants payback in HBO Max’s first Love And Death trailer
Elizabeth Olsen stars as accused murderer Candy Montgomery in the new based-on-a-true-story limited series from HBO Max
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The Snapped-to-prestige-limited-series pipeline prevails again: the first trailer for HBO Max’s Love And Death is here. Penned by Big Little Lies scribe David E. Kelley, Love And Death chronicles the true story of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who was accused of murdering her lover’s wife with an axe in 1980. Olsen, with her doe-eyed yet sinister gaze, makes an eerily believable unhinged romantic as the new teaser duly demonstrates.
“I have done all the things a wife is supposed to do: the house, the meals…” Candy muses in voiceover as a montage plays depicting her domestic, demure, and God-fearing life in rural Texas. “Where is the payback?”
That existential question is what leads Candy to proposition married fellow churchgoer Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons), initiating an affair that comes to a brutal apex when Allan’s wife Betty (Lily Rabe) is found dead with 41 axe wounds. “I just don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Candy (Elizabeth Olsen) opines to Allan at one point as they laze together—someone really should have knocked on wood.
Love And Death isn’t the first time Candy Montgomery’s story has been put to screen— in fact, it isn’t even the first time this decade. In 2022, Hulu’s limited series Candy: A Death In Texas aired five episodes chronicling the story, with Jessica Biel starring as Candy and Melanie Lynksey stepping into the role of Betty.
Patrick Fugit also stars in Love And Death as Candy’s legally wedded partner, Pat; Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey, Keir Gilchrist and Elizabeth Marvel round out the cast. The first three episodes of Love And Death will drop on HBO Max on April 27—after that, a new episode will air weekly through May 25.
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“I just don’t want anybody to get hurt.” Then they should’ve budgeted for better wigs.
Has anyone reached out to the victims’ families to see if they’re on board with this?
Not the project I would have chosen for Wanda and Jessica Jones to team up
“They’re turning one of my (problematic) favorite comedies into a limited series?…oh. Not that Love & Death.”“I never want to marry. I just want to get divorced.”
They’ll be filming on a small piece of land.
HBOMax’s Love and Death: “Worse than the chicken at Tresky’s” – The AV Club (B- review)
I tried watching the version of this they made last year.I was expecting something interesting to happen, but I gave up on it when it became apparent that it was just a regular old lover-kills-spouse story.
What about the Robots? If I’m getting Love and Death from a streaming service, I expect there at least to also be Robots.
Ooooh I love me Liz O. But girl, as someone from Texas, what is this accent lol.
I was under the impression there would typically be two victims and only the second one would get the 41 axe blows.