Indholdsfortegnelse for May 2023 i Foxtel Magazine

What would cause a loving wife, mother and active member of her local church community to kill her friend with an axe? True-crime drama Love & Death explores just what happened that fateful day in 1980, with Elizabeth Olsen taking on the role of Candy Montgomery – a woman the younger sister of former child stars-turned-fashion designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen admits she actually has a lot of empathy for. The Emmy-nominated actress opens up about her life and career from page 8. Also this month, we head back to the ’80s with the Lord family in unmissable crime-drama A Town Called Malice and talk Watergate and iconic film roles with White House Plumbers star Judy Greer. Recent Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis and the cast of Halloween Ends also get…

TV-loving streaming curator and producer Walter Iuzzolino brings us yet another top-quality foreign drama in The Mantis, also known as La Mante. Dive into this addictive French mystery series focused on a serial killer nicknamed La Mante (Carole Bouquet), who agrees to help the police catch a deadly copycat killer terrorising Paris. Stuck in solitary confinement since her arrest some two decades earlier, La Mante will only cooperate with the authorities on the condition she works solely with Detective Damien Carrot (Fred Testot) – who happens to be her estranged son. This six-episode crime-drama is full of dark twists and turns, made all the richer by watching in its original language. “Subtitles force you to concentrate and so you invest more in the piece,” Iuzzolino says. “It’s a treat. It’s…

After being unceremoniously jettisoned from The Real Housewives of Orange County at the end of season 14, Tamra Judge makes her grand return this month. Having been a part of the show for 12 seasons, the bubbly blonde admits she took her firing badly. “I got to a state where, the first year, I was in a fetal position, crying,” she reflects. When it came to filming again, Judge says there was tension: “I gave everybody a f***ing hard time, but everybody was super nice to me and then it made it weird for me, because I was like, ‘Why? You danced on my grave when I was gone! And now you’re being nice to me? Why?!’” As for what fans can expect, she promises she won’t hold back: “After…

After losing an incredible 111kg on his self-designed Subway sandwich diet, Indiana university student Jared Fogle quickly rose to fame in 2000 as the company’s spokesperson, visiting schools for years while spreading brand awareness for the sandwich chain and chatting to kids about healthy living. He was a superstar, recognised everywhere. But what people didn’t know about ‘Jared the Subway Guy’ is chilling. New three-part docuseries Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster delves into the horrific secret life behind Fogle’s nice-guy demeanour, detailing the allegations of child abuse and pornography distribution that eventually led to his downfall. Fogle was sentenced to serve more than 15 years in federal prison in 2015. The docuseries features firsthand insight from journalist Rochelle Herman-Walrond, who approached the FBI in 2007 when Fogle made disturbing…

WOMEN TALKING (M) Available from May 3 MARGARET’S TOP PICK This winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the work of admired Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley. Based on a novel by Miriam Toews, which in turn is based on events at a Mennonite community in Bolivia, it follows several women in an unnamed isolated community who have been systematically abused by their men. They hold a number of meetings in a hayloft to decide their future: stay and fight for their rights or leave? The discussions are being recorded by sympathetic August (Ben Whishaw), because none of the women can read or write. The stellar cast includes Claire Foy (pictured third from right), Rooney Mara (right), Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy and Frances McDormand, who’s also one of…

ONCE UPON A TRUE CRIME Starts May 16, Tuesdays at 9.30pm on Crime + Investigation [135] and watch On Demand Four crime authors – Douglas Skelton, Denise Mina, Mark Billingham and Peter James (pictured clockwise from top left) – take us through the twists and turns of a real-life murder case, unravelling the details of how a killer was caught or evaded capture. THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES LIVE Saturday May 6 on UKTV [105]. For screening time, check the EPG or visit foxtel.com.au/tvguide Grab your front-row seat as King Charles III is anointed as the new monarch of the UK and Commonwealth at Westminster Abbey on May 6, alongside Camilla, Queen Consort, with The King’s Concert to follow on May 8.…

THE SOPRANOS Often cited as one of the greatest TV shows of all time, The Sopranos follows New Jersey Mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he juggles his dubious work commitments with family life. THE UNDOING New York therapist Grace’s (Nicole Kidman) life unravels when her oncologist husband (Hugh Grant) is accused of a horrific murder in this gripping limited series that will leave you guessing till the very end. THE CLEANING LADY A Cambodian doctor’s (Élodie Yung) desperate bid to get medical care for her young son in the US sees her overstay her visa and become a cleaner for the Mob in this engaging crime drama.…

WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS Starts May 2, Tuesdays EXPRESS at 12pm, Encore at 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] Watching the entire White House Plumbers miniseries was the first time I truly understood what happened with Watergate. It’s a huge tragedy and trauma for our country. As many people say, it was the beginning of the disillusionment of America and the government. But in our version, seeing it from our side it is, in a lot of ways, farcical how ridiculous it was. It’s not funny, but it is funny. I appreciate that Woody [Harrelson, as disgraced CIA officer E Howard Hunt] and Justin [Theroux, as former FBI agent G Gordon Liddy] were finding that within these roles, and certainly I felt that was indicated on the page. There wasn’t a lot of information…

HALLOWEEN ENDS Saturday May 13 at 8.30pm and watch On Demand Foxtel Movies Premiere [401] Here we are, at the close of the epic Halloween saga. Over a fitting 13 films and 44 years, we’ve witnessed the battle between original final girl Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and masked monster Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) play out with mass casualties. But, as the leading women – Oscar-winner Curtis, Kyle Richards and Andi Matichak – of Halloween Ends share, the war is coming to a brutal climax fans won’t expect. Halloween Ends is largely about the effects of trauma. Allyson’s (Matichak) lost both her parents and her boyfriend, Laurie has lost her daughter, but it hasn’t broken them. Where are they at when we meet them four years on from the events of…

SUNCORP SUPER NETBALL LIVE from Saturday May 6 at 5pm FOX SPORTS 505 When decorated netball champion Bianca Chatfield officially farewelled the court in 2015, with 59 test caps for the Australian Diamonds during her 18-year career, after occasional stints as a sideline expert, she knew a side-step into commentating would be her next move. “I would see how these incredible women would operate and that they get to still enjoy the game, but without having to step out onto the court themselves,” the Commonwealth Games gold medallist tells FOXTEL magazine. “It became something I really looked forward to doing, if I could. My body was broken and I was very happy to retire. It was a luxury to have that choice in the end.” But the decision to join renovation…

Crime-drama Love & Death may be based on a true story, along with source material from the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and several Texas Monthly articles, but if there’s one thing director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter wants audiences to know, it’s this: “If you think you know the story, you don’t.” While the 1980 case of axe-wielding housewife Candy Montgomery has been well publicised over the years, Glatter insists there’s so much more to the story and the woman herself. “There is a really horrible crime at the centre of this story,” she acknowledges, “but what I and, I think, these amazing actors were interested in was delving deep into the character and the psychology of the character,…

Mother’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the tough-as-nails women in our lives: the ones who would do, say and be anything just for us. In honour of the mums we love to love, take our quiz to discover which TV matriarch is your inner mama… QUESTIONS Providing for your children means… A Destroying anyone who threatens your family’s happiness B Doing your best with what little you have C Giving them only the finest things in life, no matter the cost D Ensuring they never stray from their (and your) steadfast morals Your ideal day with the kids includes… A Swimming lessons and a trip to the movies (after church, of course) B Not being kicked out of a club, shop or your apartment C Lunch at a fancy…

LOVE & DEATH Starts EXPRESS April 27, Thursdays from 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] For much of her adolescence, Elizabeth Olsen was known as Mary-Kate and Ashley’s little sister. Growing up in the shadow of her famous siblings, it perhaps seemed inevitable that she would follow the former Full House child stars into acting – to everyone except Olsen, that is. “I thought I was going to be on Wall Street,” she admits. “I don’t know what I wanted, I was just good at math. And I’m good at sciences, so [I thought] maybe I should do something like that. But, at the end of the day, I really love acting.” Having spent much of her life on TV and film sets with her sisters, one thing a young Olsen was…

SLIP Starts May 18, Thursdays at 8.30pm and watch the complete series On Demand FOX ARENA [111] Multi-hyphenate Zoe Lister-Jones is at it again with her new series Slip. That is, the creator (who brought us apocalyptic comedy How it Ends) is working both in front of and behind the scenes of the scripted drama – the first of its kind for FOX ARENA – as writer, director and star. The seven-part series follows Mae Cannon (Lister-Jones), a 30-something who’s feeling restless in her 13-year relationship with partner Elijah (Whitmer Thomas). Apprehensive about having children in the face of Elijah’s eagerness, Mae has a ‘slip’ and enjoys a one-night stand with Eric (Amar Chadha-Patel) – awaking to find herself married to him! “I started writing it in quarantine” Living in an alternate…

FBOY ISLAND Starts May 29, Mondays from 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX ARENA [111] Sent to a tropical location inhabited by 24 men – 12 of whom are genuine ‘nice guys’ searching for love and 12 of whom are self-professed ‘Fboys’ just there for the prize money – a trio of gorgeous, intelligent and eligible young women will rely on their intuition and each other to determine who’s who in the hopes of finding The One in new Foxtel Group-commissioned reality series FBOY Island. Sure, it all sounds like fun and games, but for Molly, Sophie, both 26, and Ziara, 21 (pictured main, from left), the stakes are very real and they took their job seriously as they put it all on the line for the possibility of finding lasting love.…

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA (s15) Starts May 8, Mondays EXPRESS at 1.30pm, Encore at 8.30pm on FOX ARENA [111] and watch On Demand SHEREÉ WHITFIELD“I was upper middle class growing up, but I left that behind for upper class” KANDI BURRUSS“I was born and raised in Atlanta, so you know I’m all about bringing quality things back to our community” KENYA MOORE“Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am”…