Elizabeth Olsen plays Candy Montgomery in the HBO Max true-crime series 'Love & Death.'

In a chilling teaser for the show, Elizabeth transforms into Candy, who is accused of murdering her friend Betty Gore with an axe in 1980. 'Love & Death' depicts how the lives of two small-town Texan churchgoing couples became inextricably linked after an extramarital affair led one of them to pick up an axe.Love & Death is inspired by the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and the Texas Monthly articles “Love & Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I & II.”

The Max Original is co-produced by Lionsgate. Executive producers are Kelley through David E. Kelley Productions; Nicole Kidman and Per Saari through Blossom Films; Glatter; Scott Brown and Megan Creydt through Texas Monthly; Matthew Tinker; Michael Klick and Helen Verno.