This podcast is spoiler free regarding tonight’s final episode of the HBO limited series Love & Death, Ssssshh.
On tonight’s episode of Crew Call, we have our say love death EP and episode director Lesli Linka Glatter takes us through the psychology and symbolic visual imagery of the 1970s murder of Betty Gore (Lily Rabe) by the seductive Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen) in Wylie, Texas after she was having an affair with the former’s husband, Allan Gore (Jesse Plemmons) – all ironically members of the same Methodist congregation.
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In the final episode, “Ssssshh,” which released today, Candy takes a stand. Will she get out?
It is also the episode that smoother and love death Creator David E. Kelley is eligible for the Emmys.
What Glatter loves about the episode is how Olsen’s Candy takes a stand and how it urges the audience to “go back to that day (of the murder) and see it from their point of view.” It’s not how Rashomon.”
“You only see it (the murder) from one perspective. There’s a juxtaposition of who became Candy and back to that particular day,” Glatter told Crew Call.
Glatter directed the first four episodes of the HBO limited series.
“The police in Wylie, TX have never had a crime like this. I don’t know if there was ever a murder. I don’t think Candy intended to kill Betty. If a dozen things had happened, if that door had opened differently, it never would have happened,” explains Glatter.
As for the ax Betty had in the garage, “She had it around with her,” says Glatter, who describes the mid-series murder scene as “the most intense thing I’ve shot in my career.”
By then, Candy Montgomery was “a terrible killer.” You are not allowed to shower in the victim’s house…she left footprints and handprints.”
We speak to Glatter about the flaw in this world of white picket fences; Olsen’s deft, nuanced turn as the woman on the brink complements Betty Gore’s imperfections, all against the backdrop of a golden Texas sunset.
Next up for Glatter is directing and EP producing the limited political Netflix series. zero day, starring Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan and Connie Britton.