‘Candy’ Review: Biel and Lynskey Impress in Unsatisfying True Crime Series

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Note: The following review contains spoilers for the true crime case that inspired the series “Candy.”In June of 1980, Candy Montgomery confessed to killing her friend Betty Gore thirteen days after Gore’s bloody corpse was found on the floor of her suburban Texas home.

What seemed like an open and shut case had so many twists and turns that the town — the world — was shocked when Montgomery was found innocent.

Especially after it was revealed Montgomery hacked Gore to death with an ax 41 times. It seems no one, not Candy’s husband, her best friend, or her lover, all witnesses in the case, really knew her.For over 40 years, Hollywood has been obsessed with Betty Gore’s murder.

Books, documentaries, and even a “Snapped” episode have retold the tale. The latest iteration — Hulu’s Kodakchrome-colored “Candy,” starring award-winning actresses Melanie Lynskey as Betty and a barely recognizable Jessica Biel in the title role — is the first of two shows dropping in 2022 dedicated to the gruesome murder that put Wylie County, Texas on the map.A “whydunnit” crime drama with thriller elements, “Candy” has a strong start, but with non-linear storytelling, languid pacing, and dangling plot threads, the script struggles to find its footing in well-trodden territory.The series begins at the end of an average day in the Montgomery and the Gore households.