Elizabeth Olsen's Love & Death Apparently Sympathizes With the Killer

[shangri__la]

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

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[benihime99]

Getting away with murder, cheating and getting sympathy from TV show ...

To be white in America

[anterrabre]

Aren't Bettie Gore's children still alive?

All of this is terrible. More outlets need to call out this callous treatment.

[afeelingunacted]

Aren't Bettie Gore's children still alive?

Very much so, they're only in their 40s.

This is so disrespectful to them and the rest of Betty Gore's family.

[anterrabre]

Wow. Absolutely vile.

[sluttyroyals]

They are, in the 40s now. They were basically abandoned by their dad after their mom was murdered, and from a few articles state, one named their daughter after Betty. They also weren’t consulted about either this show or Candy, and probably aren’t happy about either one.

[trekkiepetrelli]

ugh how fckn disappointing

[soul_amazinn]

You could tell by the promos that they wanted the audience to sympathize with the killer

[jontargaryen]

It's obvious from the styling, even. That woman had a perm from the depths of Hell, and they have her looking like Miss Cutie Pie in all the promos.

[blorpz]

it would have been so easy to change the names and just make it inspired by. still ugly, sure, but the less they purport this is reality, the better

[inandoutofgrace]

I'm honestly so glad I never got into true crime, despite the fact that I absolutely adore well-done murder mysteries in fiction. Yes, there is a small part of me that is fascinated by killers and cases, but mostly I've found that the older I get, the less I can stomach humanity's capacity for cruelty towards each other.

Betty Gore's treatment in this show sounds sickening. I never want to forget that there are real people in murder cases whose loved ones hurt and miss them - not just names on a paper, motives, juicy scandals.

[goldenhera]

I think well done documentaries are legit, especially when they spotlight the police incompetence that often adds to the tragedy of a case or even a social issue that contributed to an incident. The fictionalizations though are mostly tawdry.

[inandoutofgrace]

the last time I watched each of what you mentioned was Unbelievable and the Madeleine McCann series on Netflix and thankfully neither of them were exploitative, but what I meant was even when it's a fact-based, objective presentation of a case, I'm finding it harder and harder to learn about people's cruelty.

[goldenhera]

Oh I'm with you on that. Part of why I've been scaling back on socials has been the casual cruelty and nastiness, so I totally agree that hearing about actual murder/abuse is a lot.