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Jessica Biel gets herself into deep trouble as Candy Montgomery — who may or may not be involved in the death of her best friend — in the trailer for Hulu’s new true crime series “Candy.”The show follows Biel’s Candy, a 1980s housewife and mother, who is seeking freedom from conformity in her life, taking up an affair with her friend’s husband.But, when Lynskey’s character ends up dead, suspicion falls on Candy.“Candy” stars Biel, Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza.It will launch on Hulu Monday May 9, and air across five nights. The finale airs May 13.Three-time Emmy nominee Robin Veith (“Mad Men,” “The Act”) wrote the pilot script.

Jessica Biel is making her anticipated return to TV as the real-life axe murderer, Candy Montgomery, in the Hulu true-crime series, simply called. Ahead of the five-night event beginning in May, the streaming platform revealed the first official look and teaser, showing Biel’s dramatic transformation into the 1980s housewife. The series, adapted from Jim Atkinson and John Bloom’s nonfiction book, , chronicles what happened between Montgomery and Betty Gore, whose friendship ended in bloodshed. According to Hulu, “Candy Montgomery is a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right — good husband, two kids, nice house, even the careful planning and execution of transgressions — but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Texas Monthly has entered a three-year, first-look development pact with HBO and HBO Max ahead of the debut of the limited series “Love & Death,” inspired by the Texas Monthly Press book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” and articles from Texas Monthly by Jim Atkinson and John Bloom (“Love and Death in Silicon Prairie”).

WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen has secured her next TV role in limited series Love and Death. Based on Jim Atkinson/John Bloom's book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and a two-part Texas Monthly series by the same authors (titled Love & Death in Silicon Prairie), this one places Olsen in the shoes of convicted killer Candy Montgomery.