Elizabeth Olsen's Love & Death Apparently Sympathizes With the Killer
Elizabeth Olsen is very good in LOVE & DEATH, an otherwise terrible and tasteless show that ponders the question: what if a suburban housewife deserved to get hacked to death with an axe and her killer was the real victim all along? https://t.co/0Tv1uzWHXr
- Meghan O’Keefe (@megsokay) April 20, 2023
While Elizabeth Olsen is fantastic in HBO's upcoming true crime miniseries Love & Death, the show is apparently less than fantastic.
The show revolves around the true story of Candy Montgomery who after an affair with neighbor and friend Betty Gore's husband, hacked Betty to death with an axe. While the evidence was overwhelming that Candy killed Betty, a jury found her not guilty, deciding that she was acting in self defense.
"Love & Death‘s treatment of Betty Gore is one of the most heinous portraits of a murder victim I’ve ever seen in any true crime series. Instead of lending Gore any shred of dignity, she is depicted as a shrill, egocentric, annoying hindrance to the happiness of those around her...Betty Gore was a real woman who was murdered and Love & Death only massacres her all over again."
The series portrays Candy Montgomery as the sympathetic figure over her victim.
"Candy is repeatedly presented to us as a sweet, beautiful, likable woman who accidentally hacked her friend to death in self-defense. Betty, on the other hand, is so intensely dislikable, you spend the first few episodes wondering what’s taking so long to off her. It’s incredibly uncomfortable whenever you remember Betty Gore wasn’t an annoying paperback villainess, but a real human being...More effort seems to have been put in sourcing Candy’s gorgeous era-appropriate kitchen dishes than giving any character besides Candy a modicum of depth."
Special note is given to Hulu's Jessica Biel try on the tale, Candy, as the more superior of miniseries.
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