History Series / Candy2022

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Attempted by Candy, while she is taking a bubble bath and reading a romance novel. Unfortunately her kids and husband keep knocking on the bathroom door and bugging her with their demands.

* ADeadlyAffair: Candy begins an affair with her friend Betty's husband. The affair ends in Betty's brutal murder after an altercation after Betty confronted her.

** The scandal over the pastor getting divorced from her husband, with Candy's friend Shelly hissing that "it never happened here".

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Don Crowder, Candy's attorney , goes on to run for Governor of Texas in 1986. Allan eventually married Elaine. Candy moved out of state, changed her name and works as a mental health therapist. [[note]] The epilogue neglects to mention Crowder's 1998 death or that Pat and Candy divorced years after the trial.[[/note]]

** Betty and Allan. She is needy and clingy (due to her depression) while he wants to go out and about in his social life and at work.

* SixtiesHair: The womens' hair, even though it's the late 70s, still show some influence of the bouffants of the last decade (Elaine's teased bob, for example and Betty's mother's own bob); older pictures of Betty and Candy show them with these hairstyles (Betty's simple but poufy pageboy and Candy's longer hair).
* SeventiesHair: The action starts in 1978. Betty sports a wedge cut, the men have sideburns and full hair, Candy sports the then-trendy tight perm, and a parishioner at church wears an afro.

** Candy and Pat. He prefers a monotonous time at home but fails to give Candy proper attention; she wants to have more fun and finds their sex life wanting. At the end, after patiently supporting her, he is fed up.
** Betty and Allan. She is needy and clingy (due to her depression) while he wants go out and about in his social life and at work.
** Many of the couples at their church; some of whom have attended Marriage Encounter to help improve their relationships and many of the women are sex-starved. At the end when it's implied Candy is sleeping with another friend's husband, a few of the Church women give side-eyes to their husbands.

** The scandal over the pastor getting divorced from her husband with Candy's friend Shelly hissing that "it never happened here".

* DestroyTheEvidence: The sheriff and deputies comment on the "half-assed" clean up job the murderer did, leaving a clear bloody footprint on the floor and bloody fingerprints on a refrigerator handle, and then taking a shower, leaving the bathmat covered in blood. Played straight when [[spoiler:Candy chops up the rubber sandals she wore to Betty's house and throws them away.]]

* FashionDissonance: Unlike most periods, this mini-series screams the "1970s" in all it's garish yet dull, polyester covered glory. Where some of the hairstyles and clothing is enough to be considered BeautyInversion for their leading stars of attractive actors, with even MsFanservice Jessica Biel even appearing dowdy in [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Peggy Hill style glasses]] and a tight perm resembling a Chia Pet.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Pat and Candy take the kids to see ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. Afterwards, Candy sees her daughter and Betty's play-act Luke getting his hand cut off, and has to run between two cars to throw up.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Don Crowder, Candy's attorney , goes on to run for Governor of Texas in 1986. Allan eventually married Elaine. Candy moved out of state, changed her name and works as a mental health therapist.
* WorkoutFanservice: A few in the series

** At Church Volleyball, Candy checks out how the men look in their tight shirts and short shorts, especially the hunky and muscular boyfriend of her Pastor and Allan.
** Candy and some of the women don't do so shabby, especially when Candy wears short shorts and halter style tops that showcase her long and lean toned figure.