Starring an outstanding Elizabeth Olsen, LoveAndDeath presents a messy, tragic story whose talent behind and in front of the camera creates an alchemy for success. Our review:
If the true story of housewife-turned-murderer Candy Montgomery sounds familiar in any way, it's because HBO Max's Love & Death is far from the first attempt to tackle the tangled tale of lies, infidelity, and passion that took place in the sleepy town of Wylie, Texas.
One gets the sense early on that Candy may very well be looking for an excuse to be defiant when she accidentally collides with fellow congregant and married man Allan Gore during a church volleyball match. In Candy's mind, Allan is sex-on-legs, testosterone incarnate, which makes it all the more amusing given that Plemons' performance feels expertly designed to evoke none of those things.
While Candy's excuse for an affair largely seems tied to her own ennui, Allan's motivation feels much more linked to the rocky situation going on at home. Around the same time that he and Candy are first doing their will-they-won't-they-sleep-together dance around each other, Allan and his wife Betty are in the process of trying to have another baby.
But Love & Death does make itself about Candy's journey first and foremost, from her decision to have the affair that impacts a marriage on both sides to the awful murder that takes place to the trial that ensues, making headlines across the country. Throughout it all is Olsen, who, at the start of the series, bears unmistakable shades of the vintage housewife she once expertly brought to life on WandaVision before the narrative demands her to plummet into some intense places.
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