Hulu's newest true crime drama 'Candy' is muddled and gauzy, with a few standout performances from Jessica Biel, Pablo Schreiber, and Melanie Lynskey: Our review:
There’s no doubt that the film and television market is flooded with true crime stories right now, whether they’re documentaries or scripted adaptations of real-life tales. This year has seen a number already, and just this month will see the release of Under the Banner of Heaven, The Staircase, and Candy, one of two series adapting the story of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who took an ax to her neighbor’s head, Lizzie Borden style, in 1980.
The series oscillates between gauzy idealism and painful awkwardness, never quite sure where it wants to land. Does it want to defend Candy Montgomery as a woman who merely had a psychotic break, released after years of trauma and marital tension, or does it want to condemn her? She feels guilt and pleasure in ironically equal amounts, and the show finds itself muddled in much the same way that many of Hulu’s previous original projects have — their film False Positive comes to mind.
To the show’s credit, however, its performers make a valiant effort to give life to their flat, paper doll characters. Biel is well-suited for tense drama — as we all discovered during her run on The Sinner, before it became an anthology series — and her moments of true reflection and grief, few though they are, stand out through the filmy lens the entire series is bathed in.
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