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Candy

2022 · 1 season

A slow, unsettling look at suburban pressure and a shocking crime, blending true-crime tension with a darkly ironic edge.

Created by: Robin Veith, Nick Antosca
Genres: Drama, Crime
Starring: Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber

Tagline: Inspired by disturbingly true events.
Overview: Candy Montgomery is a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right — but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom. Until someone tells her to shush. With deadly results.

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Created by: Robin Veith, Nick Antosca
Genres: Drama, Crime
Starring: Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: betrayal
isolation
gender
crime
guilt
Places: small town
suburbs
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, crime
Created by: Robin Veith, Nick Antosca
Written by: Robin Veith, Elise Brown, Brett Johnson, David Matthews
Starring: Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber, Timothy Simons, Raúl Esparza, Jessie Mueller, Coley Campany, Sharon Conley
Music: Ariel Marx
Cinematography: Simon Dennis
Length: 1 seasons, 5 episodes, 54 min each
Network: Hulu
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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