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Positive:
10
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
The GuardianSep 7, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, “Love & Death” has the credentials, performances and production values to elevate the story above the leering exploitation that marks the worst of the field. ... But at the end of the day, “Love & Death” does turn real people into exaggerated, if empathetically rendered, versions of themselves.
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The Daily BeastApr 20, 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The show seems most alive in dealing with Candy and Allan’s affair, as if the killing is the thing that got a greenlight, but not something worth exploring in great depth. Whether you know the story from previous articles and dramatizations, or it’s brand-new to you, Love & Death never really justifies why all these talented people have come together to re-create this particular crime.
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Apr 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Olsen works hard to imbue her character with more nuance as the strain of events begins to grind Candy down. But the series itself seems content simply to recreate the events of her case rather than explore them in any deeper psychological or thematic fashion. After seven hours, we end up with no more insight into what happened on that fateful day in Wylie, Texas than if we had just stuck to the Wikipedia page.
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Apr 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Love & Death is at its best when it’s using the framing of a sensational true-crime case to explore more general human experience: malaise, transgression, the stifle of social order. ... After Betty’s death, though, the series loses its way. What had once been a finely tuned character study becomes wooden and formulaic. ... Love & Death ultimately has no argument, no salient reason to exist beyond the titillation it wisely avoids in its first few episodes.
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