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American Horror Story vet Lily Rabe will fall victim to Elizabeth Olsen’s axe in the HBO Max limited series Love and Death.

Inspired by the true-crime book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, as well as several articles from Texas Monthly, the drama follows “two church going couples, enjoying small town family life in Texas, until somebody picks up an axe,” according to the official logline. Olsen (WandaVision) is set to play Candy Montgomery, the real-life axe murderer in question, while Rabe will portray her friend Betty Gore, whom Candy killed. The cast also includes Jesse Plemons (Fargo) as Allan Gore and Patrick Fugit (Outcast) as Pat Montgomery.

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Love and Death is being written by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), with Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) attached to direct.

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