Candy
Candy Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 |
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About
"Pastel suburbia hides a shockingly calm killer"
Candy Montgomery is a devoted Texas wife and churchgoer in 1980, quietly suffocating under suburban routine until a shocking act of violence upends her tidy world. Told as a true-crime miniseries, it moves briskly across five episodes, blending dark humor with slow-building dread as investigators and neighbors try to reconcile the crime with the woman they knew. Jessica Biel anchors it with an unnervingly calm performance, and the show's pastel, buttoned-up aesthetic makes the eventual violence land harder. It's less whodunit than character study, more interested in repression and denial than in twisty plotting.
the eerily controlled central performance that makes ordinary suburbia feel quietly menacing.
you dislike slow, dialogue-driven pacing over conventional crime-thriller momentum.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Friday the 13th | 7.5 | 828 | 54 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Happy Wife, Happy Life | 7.1 | 702 | 48 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Overkill | 7.1 | 649 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Cover Girl | 7.3 | 645 | 56 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | The Fight | 7.4 | 641 | 53 min |