Love & Death

Not every dream has a perfect ending.

Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

4/27/2023

Runtime

7 eps, 380 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life... until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

Status

Ended

Original Language

English

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A meticulous true crime drama about small-town desire, secrets, and the violent breaking point that follows. It moves between the affair that fractures two marriages and the courtroom reckoning that follows, drawing out the slow-burn tension of respectability collapsing.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingBleak

Themes

BetrayalObsessionCrimeComing apart

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violenceSexual content

Elizabeth Olsen

Candy Montgomery

Jesse Plemons

Allan Gore

Lily Rabe

Betty Gore

Patrick Fugit

Pat Montgomery

Krysten Ritter

Sherry Cleckler

Tom Pelphrey

Don Crowder

Amelie Dallimore

Jenny Montgomery

Liam Pileggi

Ian Montgomery

Elizabeth Marvel

Jackie Ponder

Garrett Graham

Officer Steve Deffibaugh

Mackenzie Astin

Tom O'Connell

Harper Heath

Alisa Gore

Reviews

stormaciousd

May 25, 2023

I didn't watch Candy, and I was generally unaware of the story going into this, so I was VERY surprised on multiple occasions. Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemmons are fantastic. I am always buying what they are selling, and I love having them both in this. As excellent as they both are, this would have benefited from a slightly reduced episode count. If the seven episodes had been edited into maybe five, it would have been a stronger, more even series.