"Love and Death" shows a dramatized version of the lead up to Montgomery's affair with Allan Gore, played by Jesse Plemons, the killing of his wife Betty Gore and Montgomery's murder trial.
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this Max series as Candy Montgomery, a Texas mother and churchgoer who stabbed the wife of a man she was having an affair with 41 times in 1980. "Love and Death" shows a dramatized version of the lead up to Montgomery's affair with Allan Gore, played by Jesse Plemons, the killing of his wife Betty Gore and Montgomery's murder trial.