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HBO Max’s Love and Death: Has it been released?

In the upcoming HBO Max miniseries Love and Death, based on Betty Gore’s 1980s murder, Elizabeth Olsen will play Candy. This is what we do know.

David E. Kelley, the creator of such well-liked drama series as The Undoing and Big Little Lies, has another drama on HBO Max. The theme of the aforementioned shows will also be present in the new miniseries, Love and Death. The true account of Candy Montgomery from the early 1980s, who killed her neighbor and friend Betty Gore, served as the basis for the film Love and Death.

The novel Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, written by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, as well as the two lengthy articles “Love & Death In Silicon Prairie, Part I & II,” published by the Texas Monthly, serve as the foundation for the television program.

Elizabeth Olsen, best known for playing Wanda in the MCU and the recent Disney+ TV series WandaVision, will play the main character in this new series. After the widely praised Marvel series and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Love and Death will be her next television project.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lesli Linka Glatter and Nicole Kidman will produce the program for Lionsgate Television. Deadline claims that Glatter will be the show’s director. She is best known for her work as a director on shows like True Blood, Homeland, and Mad Men.

What does the plot look like now that filming is over? When might the film be released? Here is everything we currently know about the upcoming drama miniseries Love and Death on HBO Max.

Date of Expected Release

The show Love and Death was given the go-ahead back in May 2021, and production on it started on September 27, 2022, and ended in March 2022. Although the network has not yet provided an official release date, we anticipate that the show will debut this year.

Love and Death: the Story and Plot

The miniseries will be set in the early 1980s and will depict the lovely and contented life of a Wylie, Texas, local churchgoing couple. However, when Candy Montgomery slashes her friend Betty Gore to death with a wood-splitting axe, their world is turned completely upside down.

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The husbands of Candy and Betty were having extramarital affairs in the late 1970s, but their respective spouses were unaware of it. Her husband was away the day Gore was killed. He asked the neighbors to check on her, and after they broke into Betty’s house, they discovered her stabbed to death 41 times. Since Candy, according to her statement, was the last person to see Betty alive, she immediately becomes the main suspect in this murder investigation.

Candy admits that she was accountable for the death of Betty when the murder trial resumes. She did, however, claim that after Betty found out about the relationship between her and her husband, she became enraged and attacked her. According to Candy’s assertion, she, therefore, maintains that she killed Betty in self-defense and was not accountable for the crime.

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What kind of narrative this new series intends to follow is unknown. Will it cover the entire murder case’s narrative, including the affair, or will it concentrate on a crucial period of the murder or trial? Despite the fact that this murder case has been talked about for years due to its gripping narrative, many people now doubt Candy’s account as a result of the trial’s verdict.

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Since Betty gave no indication that she was aware of Candy and her husband’s affair in the days preceding her death, there are several gaps in Candy’s self-defense explanation, as Soapboxie pointed out. The main reason for this assumption was that Candy called her a “good friend” in a letter she wrote to her parents just before she passed away.

The Cast of “Love and Death”

Elizabeth Olsen will play the lead in this project. Head of Original Content for HBO Max, Sarah Aubrey, said in a statement to Deadline that she feels “extremely fortunate to have Elizabeth at the center of our story to bring out all the layers of Candy that make this story so unforgettable.

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” Kevin Beggs, chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group, added that “Elizabeth Olsen is the ideal performer for the title role of Candy, in our opinion. Her charisma, talent, and energy have the power to captivate audiences like no other.”

The television show will also star Patrick Fugit as Pat Montgomery, Jesse Plemons as Allan Gore, Lily Rabe as Betty Gore, and a number of other actors in addition to Olsen.

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