
Love & Death sees Elizabeth Olsen plays real-life church-going housewife turned killer in a crime drama revealing a shocking murder case in 1980. This drama also stars Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit and Lily Rabe and brings to life the story of law-abiding Texan, Candy Montgomery who killed her lover’s wife with an axe when she rumbled their affair.
Last year, the Candy Montgomery case was dramatised in Hulu miniseries Candy, with Jessica Biel in the title role, and now Big Little Lies’ David E. Kelly is retelling it in Love & Death, alongside Homeland director Lesli Linka Glatter.