Candy (TV Mini Series) Happy Wife, Happy Life (2022) User Reviews

Backstories of Candy and Betty in a wonderful episode

[Shadowboy_25cm · 8/10 · 28 June 2022]

Just to be said: Great script with great dialogues, Jessica Biel does a stunning performance as Candy, wonderful score by Ariel Marx and excellent cinematography by Simon Dennis.

This episode deepens more into the backstory of Candy and Bettys marriages two years before the murder and before the murder. Captivating and slow build up of the tensions. It's not about thriller tropes, it's more about emotional suspense that keeps me interested.

It's a pleasure to watch this episode, with its vivid camera and fitting musical score to the visuals, with all the details in characterization of the two couples and their relationship.

Fine continuation of the story.

Recommended.

I like that it rhymed...

[slak96u · 6/10 · 10 May 2022]

Nearly an hour dedicated to one woman's sexual boredom, with some sprinkling of a neglected, obsessive, housewife tossed in. Not sure if the elements of plot touched on couldn't have been addressed in a different way throughout the series, when they get stacked together in one episode it's all just... boring and overwhelming. Honestly, like so many other mini-series that have aired recently, I'm not sure there is enough meat and depth to this story to fill out five 50 minute episodes, and I feel like this episode is evidence of that. Dr Death and Impeachment: ACS were similar in that way, stories just completely dragged out to fill out more episodes than were needed. All the male characters in this series are vapid caricatures, completely devoid of story, I guess Allen Gore is a marginal exception...

Volleyball R Us

[bosporan · 5/10 · 10 May 2022]

A slow-burn filler episode, it does establish Candy's general life dissatisfaction, particularly sexual and relationship frustrations. We also explore Betty's social awkwardness, anxiety at not belonging and her despair at lack of recognition. The final scene is, therefore, inevitable from the outset.

Ultimately this is laborious and drawn out with too little content, very different to the feel of episode one.