Love & Death Teaser: Elizabeth Olsen Has an Axe to Grind in HBO Max Limited Series

Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe and Krysten Ritter star in Love & Death, the true crime story about Candy Montgomery, premiering April 27 on HBO Max.

By JD Knapp Feb 16, 2023 6:16 PMTags
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There's something sickly sweet about this Candy.

Elizabeth Olsen will soon be starring in HBO Max's Love & Death, and it looks like she is up to no good. 

"Something's been bothering me a little," Olsen's Candy says in the teaser, which dropped Feb. 16. "I had done all the things a wife is supposed to do: the house, the meals. Where is the payback?"

She then confronts Jesse Plemons' Allan, saying, "I'm very attracted to you. Would you be interested in having an affair?"

Plemons and Olsen star alongside Lily Rabe, Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey, Elizabeth Marvel and Keir Gilchrist in the dramatic retelling of the true story of Candy Montgomery, who was accused of murder via wood splitting axe.

"This riveting drama," as HBO Max puts it in the limited series' description, "tells the true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore—two churchgoing couples enjoying their smalltown Texas life—until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe."

Rabe's character seems to pick up on said affair in the teaser, alleging, "You two just looked at each other like you've got a secret."

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If this story sounds familiar, it's because the same murder case was recently examined in Candy, Hulu's own limited series starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey.

However, the Max Original comes from David E. Kelley, who boasts past shows like Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, Big Little Lies and Big Sky, to name a few.

But at least Candy doesn't want to be a bad person, noting, "I just don't want anybody to get hurt."

See if that holds true when Love & Death premieres April 27 on HBO Max.

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