Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had everything they wanted: a husband, children, a house in their small Texas community. They bonded over car pools and church picnics, as ‘80s housewives are supposed to do. Then Candy killed Betty with an ax.
“Candy,” which premiered Monday on Hulu, tells the true story of the brutal murder that shook their close-knit town in 1980, when Gore’s brutalized body with 41 ax wounds unraveled a spiderweb of infidelity and expectations.
“These two women who were given everything that they were supposed to have to be happy … and they weren’t. You weren’t allowed to be unhappy if you had all of these things, so there was this constant emptiness that they didn’t know how to deal with,” showrunner Robin Veith told the Daily News.
