Hulu and Jessica Biel just done it, and pretty well, i think they told everything that needed to be told with this story, i don't get why we're having another mini series tell the same story with different actors.
And from the pictures Olsen looks nothing like Candy, Jessica Biel was a spitting image and nailed the performance. But just from photos visually Olsen looks nothing like Candy Montgomery.
Movie history(and now TV history) has shown us two versions of the same TYPE of story(two volcano movies, two farm family movies, etc) but rarely two movies on exactly the same story.
I did not watch Candy when it came out last year, but I watched it "alternating" with new episodes of "Love & Death" and thus finished Candy first(five episodes total) and Love & Death second(7 episodes total.)
Thoughts:
I guess the two streaming networks figure that not everybody will pay to see both versions. Hulu subscribers get Candy; HBO Max(now just Max) subscribers get Love & Death. So not everybody will ever see both series.
Love & Death, with its extra two hours of story, gets into more nuanced detail about things: the affair, the trial, the side stories. Its just the better made, written and directed movie(with better cinematography; Candy is way too dark a lot of the time.) With one exception, and its a big one: the gorgeous Elizabeth Olsen is two pretty for her role and Jesse Plemons is too ugly for his role and they literally make no sense as sexual lovers. (That said, Plemons is now established as a major character guy and the better looking actor who plays his role in Candy has no identification qualities.)
SPOILERS:
Candy chose to add two story elements not found in Love & Death, and I wonder if they are true:
ONE: Candy spends time on how Betty and Allan tried to raise a foster child boy and lost him because of his angry, unruly ways. True?
TWO: Candy has a scene in the final trial in which it is revealed that Candy had ANOTHER affair AFTER Allen and thus COULD be seen as a "serial adulteress," who cheated YET again on her dull but succesful husband. True?
I guess I'll have to read a book!
My verdict: Candy is cast more accurately; Love & Death is better.
PS. Stunt casting in Candy: Biel's husband Justin Timberlake plays the investigating sheriff wearing his own period wig. He's fun in the part.