Meanwhile, Betty ( Lily Rabe) is spiraling, unmoored by postpartum depression and clinging ever more tightly (and suspiciously) to her husband. He’s not exactly the hunky pool boy, but he’s enough to make Candy feel like she’s grabbing a bit more of life. Candy embarks on an affair with Allan Gore ( Jesse Plemmons), Betty’s shuffling, awkward husband. She is, in the beginning of Love & Death, a magnetic force, rendering Candy as a kind and collected woman slowly undone by restlessness. Instead of Candy’s lurid broad strokes, the early episodes of Love & Death take their time, patiently and thoughtfully fleshing out the world that an axe will, in a couple years’ time, tear asunder.Ĭandy is played by Elizabeth Olsen, blessedly freed (for the time being) from the demands of Marvel and thus able to stretch her actorly muscles. Both cover the killing of Betty Gore at the hands of Candy Montgomery, a suburban Dallas housewife who was acquitted at trial after pleading self-defense. At the outset, it seems that the new miniseries Love & Death (HBO Max, April 27) is doing something that last year’s Hulu series Candy did not.
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