Olsen looks way too attractive in this

I'm aware of the show on Hulu with Jessica Biel, but I didn't know it was based on this. I'm only 2 episodes in, so I think I'll finish it, then watch the Hulu version.

I do somewhat agree about her having an affair with a dude who is a total frump. There's nothing attractive about him. The only thing that seems plausible is that she's attracted to his weakness. He's been emasculated by that bitch he's married to, and Candy does come across as a predator.

Elizabeth Olsen was chosen because she is a decent actor and is very pretty. Definitely not hand picked to look like Candy Montgomery. This is evident as the show goes on and her scenes just become painfully fucking annoying.

Elizabeth Olsen was chosen because she is a decent actor and is very pretty. Definitely not hand picked to look like Candy Montgomery. This is evident as the show goes on and her scenes just become painfully fucking annoying.

Elizabeth Olsen was chosen because she is a decent actor and is very pretty. Definitely not hand picked to look like Candy Montgomery. This is evident as the show goes on and her scenes just become painfully fucking annoying.

Is this a reboot of the Woody Allen movie?

Olsen looks NOTHING like the real Candy. Looks like there wasn't even an attempt to make her look anything like Candy at all, its just Elizabeth Olsen with really nothing done to her.

And Jesse Plemons playing the man she wants to have an affair with is fucking laughable, seeing Elizabeth Olsen whos hot as hell lusting after this fat ugly guy like Jesse Plemons is hilariously unbelievable.

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I know there are folks around here who like to dump on opinions about actors' looks in series, but honestly, I found this casting to be extremely difficult to "buy" on either side. Olsen is not only pretty she has quite the great figure on her.

As for Jesse Plemons, he is one of those people(both men and women) whom the critics like to champion, partially because of their acting chops, but partially to champion less than perfect looks.

That's OK when Plemons fits the role. He did on Breaking Bad(creating a baby-faced but ugly stone killer with a deceptively placid manner). He did in Power of the Dog(playing the doofus brother of a macho tough guy). He did in "Game Night," playing a scary neighbor to good looking Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams.

But here? It just plays wrong. And his haircut is atrocious. And the sex scenes(fully clothed every time) between Plemons and Olsen are as unsexy as can be.

I"ve seen both versions now, and I suppose what both versions want us to know is that these men were basically "Texas Silicon Valley scientists" -- engineers who were boring men but earned top dollar and thus every man in that suburb was a "catch" for any woman who could get him...even if he looks like Jesse Plemons.

But "Candy" -- otherwise more broad and less sophisticated than "Love & Death" -- at least removed the obstacle of a garishly unattractive man playing the part of Candy's lover, and yes, Jessica Biel was more willing to don a perm fright wig and dowdy herself up for the character(matching photographs of the real Candy.)

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Yes I thought she was miscast as well. The Barbara Hershey version is the only good one in my opinion.

The more you look at her, the more attracted you are. It's a show, it's done like such by design