Candy, Hulu’s five-episode true-crime miniseries 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?
Jessica Biel, once the Camdens’ wayward daughter on 7th Heaven and later the eponymous sinner on The Sinner, now plays another conflicted character of faith. A choir singer and Sunday school teacher, Candace Montgomery is a cheerful pillar of her community beloved by children and adults alike. She’s the perfect foil to Betty Gore, a saturnine disciplinarian who loses her job as a schoolteacher becau...