Now, we know what you’re thinking: major deja vu, right? Well, that’s because the story of Candy Montgomery already got the big-star TV treatment last year courtesy of Hulu’s Candy, with none other than Jessica Biel stepping into the well-heeled shoes of the eponymous killer.

Still, with Love & Death branded “David E Kelley’s best show since Big Little Lies” by critics, you better believe we’ll be tuning in.

Here’s what you need to know about the series.

What is Love & Death about?

Adapted from the work of journalists Jim Atkinson and John Bloom, who co-authored a series of 1984 articles for Texas Monthly as well as the 2018 book Evidence Of Love, this series is less interested in the investigatory aspect of its true crime subject.

Instead, much like Big Little Lies before it, Love & Death examines the pressures of being a woman living in a close-knit suburban community… for better and (obviously) worse.

It tells the story of Candy, the suburban housewife who seemingly has it all – a happy marriage with a well-paid husband, a loving son and daughter, an active role in the local church and a nice house in a good street.

Still, she is unable to shake her sense of suburban ennui. She feels suffocated by mundanity. And, sick of her Stepford Wives-style existence, she starts seeking the excitement that she so desperately craves.

Love & Death: this ITV drama tells the unbelievable true story of a suburban murder