What is Love & Death about?
Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life... until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
An intimate affair between churchgoing neighbors ignites a measured, melancholy true crime.
Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy. Based on true events.
Love & Death parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence, about what a TV-MA should carry.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Graphic gore
- Blood and wounds shown clearly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Three questions
- Is Love & Death scary?
- Only a little. Love & Death has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Love & Death?
- Graphic gore and strong violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
- What is Love & Death rated, and is it OK for kids?
- No. It is rated TV-MA, with moderate sex and nudity, strong violence, and some strong language.
Cast and crew
Created byDavid E. Kelley
StarringElizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey
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Love & Death is on our Courtroom, True crime, Limited series, Crime on Netflix and Crime on Max lists.
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