'Love & Death' Director Breaks Down the Bloody Axe Murder Scene and Emotional Finale (Exclusive)

Elizabeth Olsen and Meghann Fahy deliver two of the most nuanced performances of the Emmy season, both playing complicated women who are wives and mothers. In “Love & Death,” Olsen’s Candy Montgomery is based on a real housewife in late-1970s Texas, who out of boredom instigates an affair with Allan (Jesse Plemons), a member of her church — an illicit assignation that eventually leads to Candy being on trial for murdering Allan’s wife, Betty (Lily Rabe). In a very different setting, Season 2 of Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” Fahy plays Daphne, a character on a luxury Sicilian vacation with her husband, Cameron (Theo James), and another couple: Ethan (Will Sharpe) and Harper (Aubrey Plaza). As the tension among the four escalates, it’s both sexual and violent — and oddsmakers were entirely wrong about the identity of the dead body in the season-premiere flashback.

Charna Flam Max’s “Love & Death” revived 1970s Texas suburbia through the direction of the show’s costume designer, Audrey Fisher, and production designer, Suzuki Ingerslev. The limited series tells the true story of the murder of Betty Gore (Lily Rabe) by Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen) after Betty discovered that Candy was having an affair with her husband, Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons). The story made headlines through Candy’s sensational trial. The designers sourced products from all over the country and enlisted help from costume warehouses, rag houses, thrift stores, antique shops, tile manufacturers, wallpaper printers and Facebook Marketplace.

William Earl On any given episode of Paramount Network’s “Bar Rescue,” the establishments featured are in a catastrophic state of disrepair: awash in grime, bugs, rotted food and/or mysterious stains. The surroundings are matched by the decay of their owners, who have no idea how to run a business. Enter the show’s tough-talking but big-hearted host, Jon Taffer, a nightlife veteran whose extensive resume includes running legendary L.A. hotspot The Troubadour in the early ’80s and being one of the first inductees of the Nightclub Hall of Fame. In 2011, he started “Bar Rescue,” then on Spike TV. Although Taffer is often met with resistance from flailing bar owners who think they know everything, he’s never turned down people who need help.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Composer Daniel Pemberton pushed a few boundaries and “made something really creative and different” when he scored 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” When he returned to score the sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” he knew he would have to “push it as far as we can go.” Pemberton says he had to build the score from the ground up, which was complicated. “You’re trying not to make a score that sounds like other film scores. You’re trying to invent your own language.” Inventing that language took experimentation, research and failure. He explains, “I spent two years researching and developing this score, going through ideas, coming up with concepts and throwing them out.”

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The real-life Candy Montgomery became a free woman thanks to Don Crowder, the cocksure personal injury attorney who would represent the Texas housewife in the murder trial of Betty Gore in 1980.

Elizabeth Olsen has spoken candidly about the challenges of filming the grisly axe murder scene in her true-crime series “Love & Death.”

Emily Longeretta It’s the show everyone’s been waiting for. HBO’s “The Idol,” led by Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, premiered on Sunday night and — to no one’s surprise — was filled with explicit moments. The series has been surrounded in controversy following reshoots and reports of toxic behavior by creator Sam Levinson but the cast has stood by the director. “Never have I felt more supported or respected in a creative space, my input and opinions more valued,” Rose-Depp shared in a March statement following accusations. “Working with Sam is a true collaboration in every way — it matters to him, more than anything, not only what his actors think about the work, but how we feel performing it. He hires people whose work he esteems and has always created an environment in which I felt seen, heard, and appreciated.”

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Ethan Shanfeld “Just give them one.” That’s Elizabeth Olsen’s advice for actors thinking about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The “WandaVision” star told Josh Horowitz on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that by initially only agreeing to one Marvel project, actors can gain more “creative control” for the next one. “That way you have more control over… If you, let’s say, ‘Oh my God, this is the most fun I’ve ever had and I love this character so much, I want to do it again,’ you now have more creative control for the next one,” Olsen said.

After eight prior episodes full of cannibalism, trauma and plenty of unexpected twists, ended season 2 with a shocking finale, which included a very emotional death that caught my by surprise. And it's an episode that Simone Kessell, who plays adult Lottie, thinks will leave fans just as divided as the show's ensemble was.

This podcast is spoiler free in regards to today’s final episode of HBO’s limited series Love & Death, “Ssssshh”

Elizabeth Olsen is opening up about Love & Death, and what lies ahead.

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Jen's too old for Rishi as a reason why she doesn't approve of them ever getting married. In this exclusive clip from the final part of this season of 's tell-all airing on Sunday on TLC, Jen cries backstage after Rishi's mom made a virtual appearance at the tell-all and bluntly said that she's too old to be with Rishi.Jen and Rishi have always fought over his family not accepting her.

Getting emotional. Lala Kent opened up about her relationship with ex-fiancé Randall Emmett following the release of The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing and Vanderpump documentary.