![]() The first three episodes of “Love & Death’s” seven-episode season covers the at times comically absurd way the affair was meticulously planned out by Candy ( Elizabeth Olsen) and Allan ( Jesse Plemons), two lonely souls in Wylie, Texas, who don’t feel seen by their spouses despite being told that they’ve achieved the white picket fence American dream. But I have to say I am always interested in complicated, layered characters, oftentimes women.” That tonal shift, I was really interested in as well. And it literally went from beginning to end to the horror of what the murder is. They put up the dos and don’ts of how you can have a successful affair on butcher paper as they ate lasagna in Candy’s kitchen. That just beginning, I was just like, how can that be true? But it was true. And then they talk about it for months and and months. You pick someone who happens to be your friend’s husband that you stand next to in choir. And then you pick the most unlikely person to have that affair with, someone who is not the hot guy. “It really goes from the beginning of you think you’re going to fill up the whole in your heart and psyche with having an affair. … It is what amazes me about real life: It is so often stranger than fiction or anything you could come up with,” Glatter tells Gold Derby ( watch above). this middle-American tragedy should fascinate true-crime aficionados.“When I read the articles, I almost thought it was fiction. ![]() Evidence of Love stands among the very best." - Los Angeles Times Book Review " Evidence of Love succeeds on almost all levels-a bizarre story well-researched and superbly written and told with just enough suspense to keep the reader turning pages." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Carefully researched. A fascinating book-brilliantly organized, thoroughly reported and sharply written. this middle-American tragedy should fascinate true-crime aficionados." - Kirkus Reviews, "Sensational story of sin and violence. As compelling as the best fiction and as thorough as the best history." - Dallas Times Herald "Gripping as true crime drama, the book is also distinguished by its social and psychological insights." - Library Journal "Carefully researched. "A bizarre story well-researched and superbly written and told with just enough suspense to keep the reader turning pages." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram "An extraordinary book. Adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town -as well as the new limited series Candy on Hulu and Love and Death on HBO Max-this chilling tale of sin and savagery will "fascinate true crime aficionados" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the "superbly written" account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty's utility room that morning was all too real. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. ![]() But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. The "fascinating" true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ).
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