Whether it’s a New York City socialite or a Long Island Lolita, people love a juicy, too-insane-to-be-true story about women behaving badly. Remember when the big three networks all had their own Amy Fisher TV movie? (Two even aired on the same night.) If you want to take it back further, there were two miniseries in 1987 based on the story of socialite Frances Schreuder, who plotted to kill her multi-millionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw.

(Olsen and Plemons do make an adorable couple.) It’s certainly a more glamorous depiction than the one offered by Candy, which presents this Lone Star suburbia as a quietly bleak and gloomy powderkeg, and the affair between Candy and Allan (Pablo Schreiber) as two unsympathetic creatures engaging in a passionless, convenient time-killer.ĭueling TV projects about a sensational crime are nothing new. Kelley clearly likes these two, who have weekly rendezvous at a nearby motel that are more fulfilling and intimate than what they usually have at home with their significant others.

Kelley (who previously tackled suburban secrets with the all-star Big Little Lies) gives us a doomed love story between Candy and Allan. Love & Death is a sunnier account of the grisly murder and its scandalous aftermath: Director and Dallas native Lesli Linka Glatter makes the town of Wylie look like a glorious, friendly community rocked by an unsettling incident, and creator/writer David E. drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs) wrote in 1984, which eventually became the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs. Love & Death and Killing are both adapted from the Texas Monthly stories Jim Atkinson and John Bloom (a.k.a.

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