set in the suburbs of early-1980s Texas, asks two questions about its eponymous inspiration, Candace Montgomery. First: What compelled the beatific housewife and vacation Bible study leader to hack her friend Betty Gore to death with an axe? And second: How the hell did she convince a jury that she struck her friend 41 times in self-defense?now plays another conflicted character of faith.
Both Candy and Betty appear to be grasping for intimacy in their marriages to dutiful but disengaged men. Candy’s attempts to rekindle the flame with her devout, kind-hearted dud of a husband, Pat , keep going up in smoke, leaving her to work out her sexual frustrations in the tub—at least until she finally decides to take a lover. Betty, meanwhile, spends half her time on screen begging her husband, Allan , to stop leaving her so often for weekend work trips.
As sweet as she might appear on the outside, Candy’s sugary coating masks a noxious tangle of repressed anger and frustrations not unlike those that plague her friend. While Betty wears her bitterness on her sleeve, Candy hides it away at her core.as star of the series last year, and it’s difficult to imagine how the series might have looked with thestar at its center. For this production, however, Biel feels like the perfect choice to play Candace—charismatic, dizzying, and feral.
oscillates between empathetic, pitiable, and frustrating as Betty; Schreiber’s Allan seems to both love and resent his wife, and’s resident Porn ’Stache is delightfully adept at playing the bereft widower. Simons quietly steals the show in every scene he’s in as Pat, a lovable dope whose intuition as a father is far sharper than his insight into his wife. And onetimeADA Raul Esparza is an inspired choice to play Candy’s attorney, Don Crowder—whom she knew from church and who the show implies knew Candy perhaps a little more closely than they wanted anyone in the courtroom to realize.
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