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Starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey, the new drama will portray the real-life case of a Texas housewife who murdered her friend with an axe.

Pointing to the letters and notes Montgomery left Allan as proof, Gore reportedly grew upset, leading to a struggle with an axe. The two vowed to keep their affair strictly physical and avoid any unwanted feelings of attachment towards the other. Eventually, however, the two broke it off shortly after the birth of Allan's second child with Gore.

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Need a more comprehensive episode guide? Instead of premiering all episodes at once or releasing them on a weekly basis, Candy will release a new episode every day for the next five days. That episode count isn’t the only unusual detail about this series.

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An altercation ensued between the two, but it didn't end with Candy on the sharp end of the blade. From a number of them, including a report by The Daily Mail, it appears Candy and Pat left Texas for her home state of Georgia, where they ended up divorcing. Being the last person to see Betty alive, the police immediately suspected Candy. But they didn't think they had much of a case on her. Candy cleaned herself up and went about her day as normal, leaving Betty dead on the floor and her newborn upstairs sleeping. Betty didn't beat around the bush, asking Candy whether or not she was having an affair with her husband. Somewhere down the line boundaries were crossed, because Candy began having an affair with Betty's husband, Allen.

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According to Texas Monthly, Montgomery said she was at Betty Gore’s house picking up Betty’s daughter’s swimsuit when Betty confronted her about her affair with Allan. Betty attacked Montgomery with an axe, striking her on the head and on her toe. According to The Dallas Morning News, Allan Gore eventually remarried and moved to a new location. Ultimately, it took the jury just a bit more than three hours to reach a verdict and find Montgomery not guilty in the murder of Betty Gore, the United Press International agency reported on 30 October 1980. Montgomery “fought back tears, however,” UPI reported, “as she and her husband Pat were whisked out of the Collin County courthouse under heavy guard after [District Judge Tom Ryan] received a letter threatening her life.” Per Atkinson and Bloom, by the end of the first session, “Fason had done what Crowder had asked him to do. In Montgomery’s case, Fason said his sessions with Montgomery unveiled childhood trauma as well as her memories from the day of Betty Gore’s death. Allan reportedly asked his neighbour, Richard Parker, to go back to his house and check whether Betty’s car was in the garage. In a caveat, the DOJ added that “in the late 1980s and 1990s, the question of the admissibility … of hypnotically refreshed or enhanced testimony went into a state of ‘flux,’ largely caused by cases involving uncorroborated allegations of child sexual abuse following ‘regressive therapy’ or other forms of hypnosis-related therapy to bring out “repressed” memories of childhood incidents. The two had married in 1970 and had their first child, a daughter, prior to moving to Collin County. He then phoned Montgomery, who told him she had seen his wife earlier in the day and nothing had seemed amiss. One of them, Candy, stars Jessica Biel as Montgomery and started airing on Hulu on 9 May. (Elisabeth Moss was originally supposed to play the part but had to drop out.) The other, Love and Death, is expected to air on HBO Max later this year after being adapted from two Texas Monthly articles from 1984, and will feature Elizabeth Olsen in the same role. Montgomery, a Christian, suburban housewife in northeastern Texas, was the main suspect in the death of her friend Betty Gore on Friday 13 June 1980.

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The Dallas Morning News reported that Candy cried on the stand, "I stood back and looked at myself and I was covered in blood. And the same went for Candy and Allan's affair, with Rowley simply stating, "This woman wasn't on trial for adultery." According to the Dallas Herald, jurors took less than five hours to find Candy not guilty by self-defense. According to Texas Monthly, Candy recounted to the jury in October 1980 that Betty flatly asked her if she had slept with Allan, to which Candy said no. Candy hired defense attorney Don Crowder, who brought in Houston psychiatrist Dr. Fred Fason. An expert in the field of hypnotherapy, Dr. Fason worked with Candy to uncover her memory of what transpired that day. Investigators were later granted an arrest warrant for Candy based on the fingerprints and footprints found at the scene. Candy felt she had to fight back after being silenced her whole life. They talked some more and Candy apologized, but this angered Betty, who, according to Candy, insisted, "I've got to kill you." According to Texas Monthly, Allan then called neighbor Richard Parker, who knocked on the Gore's door twice to no avail. Candy would make lunch, they'd split the cost of the food and motel, and most important, they would end the affair if they ever started having feelings for each other. Their conversations were innocent at first, but Candy found herself drawn to Allan, yearning for someone to fulfill the sexual desires her husband, Pat (Timothy Simmons), couldn't. So, according to Texas Monthly, she built up the confidence to ask him if he'd like to have an affair. He loved his wife, Betty Gore ( Melanie Lynskey), and they were trying to give their daughter, Alisa, a sibling.

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It would have been beneficial to have the murder and the discovery of Betty’s body happen more slowly, so the anticipation of that act wouldn’t have been satisfied so early. During the slow buildup back to that night in 1980, the audience is given short little teases back to the murder. This does make for essential backstory and this isn’t to say that what happens in the years before is uninteresting. Sara Clements is a freelance entertainment journalist from Canada and holds a degree in journalism. In fact, the messy drama that intertwines these two women and the cracks that are revealed in their respective marriages makes for good drama and helps to explain what could have led to this crime. The series is about how someone who seemed so normal could actually be insane, encapsulating our fascination with true crime. When we move to Candy, it’s like a breath of fresh air as Biel captures a woman with such a lively personality. The murder and discovery happen all in the first episode, and too quickly, with the audience made to wait until episode five to show what happened that Friday afternoon at Betty’s home. There’s a lengthy gap between the event we’re all here for and the show’s decision to transport the audience back two years earlier. Robin Veith and Nick Antosca’s Candy paints a portrait of their titular murderess as the image of perfection. We all relate to that The Simpson’s meme. It’s an environment of freedom and exuberance.

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Going back to reconstruct all of that will be interesting to watch, especially given the performances of Biel and Lynskey. But, as we said, the idea behind this telling of the Montgomery case is how Candy came out of that seemingly mundane visit to Betty’s house and what led to it. And, because the case has been in the public eye for over 40 years (Texas Monthly did a feature on it way back in 1984), Veith and Antosca don’t pretend to redirect the audience away from Candy as Betty’s killer. One of them opens the door to a small utility room and they see Betty’s blood-soaked body, at least parts of it; it’s too much for any of the men to look at in full. She recites the story about forgetting her wallet and turning around at Target to both the women at the church and to Pat. On the other hand, Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey) can barely hold it together; her 1-year-old daughter keeps crying day and night and she resents the fact that her husband Allan (Pablo Schreiber) has to keep going away on business trips.

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The series is based upon the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, a friend of Pam Hupp’s whose murder led to a complicated and corrupt investigation in large part thanks to Pam’s sabotage. Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)- An adaptation of the novel Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Hate written by Jon Krakauer, the FX true-crime series is based upon the 1984 murder of young Utah mother Brenda Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter. Under the Banner of Heaven is available to watch on Hulu. The streamer has advertised the series as a 5-episode event and is releasing one episode every day for five nights in a row, with the finale airing on the foreboding Friday the 13th. If you can’t get enough of a series based upon real-life events that involve cold-blooded killers and engrossing murder mysteries, here are a couple more titles to check out. In order to watch, you either already have to be a subscriber or set up an account to watch the series, and you can choose between a standard plan with ads for $6.99 a month or a premium subscription that entails no ad interruptions for $12.99 a month. The full-length trailer for Candy is a tension-filled pressure cooker of a thriller that cooks all the way on high. Releasing its final episode on Friday, May 13 carries significance as Candy Montgomery murdered Betty Gore on Friday the 13th of June 1980. The Hulu original true-crime series Candy is arriving on the streamer soon, and it promises to spare no detail as it’s based upon the shocking real-life events surrounding a small-town murder in Texas during the 80s. Lynskey, Simons, and Esparza all make appearances in their respective roles, with the focus primarily being on the relationship between Betty and Candy. Friends become enemies quickly in Candy as the trailer suggests, and the true-crime series paints a confounding portrait of a woman who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Melanie Lynskey is co-starring opposite Biel as the murder victim Betty Gore. Lynskey is currently starring in the Showtime hit thriller series Yellowjackets and is best known for her work in the films Heavenly Creatures, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Hello, I Must be Going, and Don’t Look Up. The cast is rounded out by Raúl Esparza, who will portray Candy’s defense attorney and is known for his work in NBC’s long-running series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Timothy Simons (Veep) will portray Candy’s husband, Pat Montgomery, and Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) will play Betty’s unfaithful husband, Allan Gore. During her trial, Candy claimed that she killed Betty in self-defense after Betty confronted her about the affair by attacking her with an axe.

5 episodes of Candy over the next 5 days? It's going to be a deliciously dark week.

A review of The Shining, another story of axe murder, is on the front page of the day’s newspaper. That’s not a bad way to describe the whole episode, actually. But she recovers her poise quickly enough to resume the day’s activities, supplemented with a little story of how she visited Betty, got to talking, lost track of time, went to Target to shop, noticed her watch had stopped, and ran back to the church to be with the kids. He lies on the bed. Candy feels like a dynamo, Betty feels like a prisoner. We don’t see it happen, only its aftermath; we don’t see the body, only the reactions of the trio of neighbors who go into the house at Betty’s husband’s request and find the crime scene. The way the show depicts, or rather doesn’t depict, the crime is compelling as well. Jessica Biel stars as the title character, a Texas homemaker and Bible school teacher who spends her days busily running errands, doing chores, and ferrying her kids around from activity to activity. They’ve been bugging you to go see the new Star Wars movie too, so that has to go on the schedule. Unusually, Hulu is rolling out all five episodes of the limited series this week, one episode per day. Even if on-screen text hadn’t identified this as “the day [Betty] died,” we’d know it from the way Candy returns from her friend’s house: soaking wet, large-framed glasses off, frantically running through her house nude in order to whisk the clothes she was wearing into the wash. And as axe murders go, this one comes with a heck of a pedigree.

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If the supernatural and self-aware elements that Candy tosses into its finale as our last impression of Lynskey’s Betty were incorporated throughout the series, as The Staircase does with its memories of Kathleen, perhaps Candy would have also felt like it honored this woman and her life rather than solely gawking at her death. Biel has reinvented herself in this genre after the success of The Sinner, and she well conveys Candy’s breezy friendliness with an undercurrent of inauthenticity. That isn’t to say that manufactured mystery is required for true crime, but what Candy lacks is a sense of why this story and why now. That latter question is alluded to a bit in the series’ presentation of Candy’s and Betty’s domestic lives, but any sort of insight about the challenges of womanhood then versus now is absent. Her target is fellow churchgoer and volleyball teammate Allan Gore ( Pablo Schreiber), who is in a struggling, nearly lifeless marriage of his own to the matronly Betty. Betty is then killed in a horrifying way, and the town wants to believe that a drifter is responsible. A broader observation about the reverberations and ramifications of this violence doesn’t materialize, and in its absence it creates a kind of anticlimax.

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"I think you can play a character and not like the person," she said. "Candy" is great reminder, but the new show also takes her acting career to a new level. "I think you can play a character and not like the person," she said. "Because you're putting yourself in the head space," she said. "Candy" is great reminder, but the new show also takes her acting career to a new level. "Because you're putting yourself in the head space," she said.

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Schreiber’s Allan, in contrast, expressed concern for Betty’s wellbeing a little too late, and it was unclear if he thought she had harmed herself and the baby or just felt remorse for leaving Betty for an out-of-town work trip. Becky had so much fun with her, Candy volunteered to keep the girl a second day and pick up her bathing suit for a swim lesson she had later on. Christina Gore is the best friend of Candy’s daughter Becky, and the little girl was staying at Candy’s house for a sleepover.

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The five-episode drama, which is brought to you by the same Emmy-winning team who created the skin-crawling thriller, The Act, is the latest in a boom of true-crime based mini-series on Hulu. In addition to starring in the series, Jessica Biel is an executive producer. Candy follows the life of Candy Montgomery, the housewife who appears to have it all — a loving husband, two well-behaved kids, a beautiful house in the suburbs and a thriving community of friends. Watch the growing disparity between what a perfect life looks like versus the gruesome reality in this ripped-from-the-headlines tale of affairs, violence and duplicity.

A new limited series on Hulu called "Candy" takes us back to the late 1970s to a real crime that shocked Texas along with the rest of the nation.

"I think you can play a character and not like the person," she said. "Candy" is great reminder, but the new show also takes her acting career to a new level. "I think you can play a character and not like the person," she said. "Because you're putting yourself in the head space," she said. "Candy" is great reminder, but the new show also takes her acting career to a new level. "Because you're putting yourself in the head space," she said.

What can we learn from Candy? Outside of casting its stars with consistency, not much really. But sometimes that's sweet enough.

And, while it's no fault of the creators, it’s hard to shake the feeling that “Candy” is just more familiar now than it would have been a decade ago when true crime wasn’t such a content machine. The creators of “Candy” wash their show in a too-dark, muted, brown palette that gets overdone. As for Biel, she has really turned a corner in terms of performance in the last few years, doing her career-best work on the excellent “The Sinner,” and proving here that that was no fluke. And the stellar Lynskey expresses the numbing depression of suburbia in a way that doesn’t feel clichéd. She does so much with just a sigh or defeated body language. She becomes increasingly turned on by romance novels and is inspired by a friend’s second chance at happiness after a divorce to find a new spark in her life. Nick Antosca (“The Act”) and Robin Veith (“Mad Men”) unpack the days before and after this event with stark, horror-esque storytelling in Hulu’s “Candy,” an effective five-hour mini-series that will unfold over five consecutive nights on the streaming giant, starting tonight, May 9th.

Jessica Biel transforms into accused killer Candy Montgomery in the true-crime series premiering on Hulu on May 9. Here's how to watch it.

Hulu’s ad-free plan is $12.99 a month ($129.99 a year) for everything in the cheaper package, plus you get to download programs and stream them offline. If you’re not one of the 45+ million Hulu subscribers, now’s your chance to join for free for the first 30 days. The first episode of Candy, titled “Friday the 13th,” arrived on Hulu on Monday. New episodes will be released weekly. With Hulu, users can create up to six profiles under one account. Timothy Simons, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber, and Raúl Esparza also star in the series. All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.

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Playing Candy Montgomery’s defense attorney, Don Crowder, is Raúl Esparza, who also made his feature film debut in the fact-based legal drama Find Me Guilty in 2006 and has additionally played a lawyer named Rafael Barba on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 2012. Simons also appeared on HBO Max’s Station Eleven, in Disney+’s Home Sweet Home Alone, and will next be seen in the thriller, Don’t Worry Darling, from director Olivia Wilde. Some of his other notable TV credits include playing a leprechaun on American Gods, a prosecuting attorney in Apple TV+’s Defending Jacob, and leading Paramount+’s Halo cast as Master Chief. Playing Candy Montgomery’s best friend-turned-victim, Betty Gore, is Melanie Lynskey, who actually made her acting debut in the 1994 true crime classic Heavenly Creatures from director Peter Jackson, with whom she reunited for a small part in The Frighteners two years later. Not that I am complaining, of course, as I never turn away from the opportunity to watch a good, well-acted drama that also offers a lesson in one of the most shocking criminal cases that the world of has ever seen. When the TV show from co-creators Robin Veith and Nick Antosca was first announced, Elizabeth Moss was in talks to play the titular, based-on-real-life character.

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After Gore’s death, Lynskey’s clever characterization is reduced to shallow victim status, and Montgomery is further vilified as a teflon whore with a black heart. The orbiting talents of Biel and Lynskey make for an initially intriguing dynamic that positions home-wrecking like a keg of domestic dynamite, and the pair’s inevitable showdown is a feminist two-hander for the ages. Montgomery is introduced at the start of a busy day, flanked by her kids (Aven Lotz and Dash McCloud) and Gore’s eldest daughter Christina (Antonella Rose)—who, yes, was really being babysat by the Montgomerys when her mother was killed.

Biel portrays 1980s Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, while Lynskey plays Betty Gore. Betty's husband, Allan, has an affair with Candy. When Betty confronts her ...

Pablo Schreiber revealed in a recent interview that Allan Gore’s mustache in Candy is his best ever. Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey star in Candy on Hulu, but who portrays Allan Gore in the true crime drama? When Candy on Hulu Episode 1 opens, Allan Gore portrays Betty Gore’s husband. He’s recognized early on for his unforgettable mustache, but he grows a beard and a mullet in later seasons. “I’d rate it as the top Pablo mustache ever, and that’s going above Pornstache, only because for Allan Gore: that was just a completely self-generated mustache, whereas Pornstache was a glue-on. “I try not to compare myself to other people, so I’d have to compare it to myself and my own historic mustaches,” he told GQ when asked to rate Allan’s mustache.

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“And we all thought, ‘Well, let’s work that in.’” We felt there were five acts to the story.” The daily release plan is not entirely unprecedented, but it is very unusual — even in this day and age where streamers are experimenting with any and all scheduling ideas.