EPISODE
SEASON
Dirty John - Season 2
Returning to the excitement of that anthology series that follows the true crimes written in the Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard that caused by the failure love stories and end up with crimes. In this new season, Betty helps Dan while he makes her down.
3 December 1955, La Jolla, California, USA
7 October 1983, Tucson, Arizona, USA
21 July 1989, London, England, UK
4 November 1965, Iowa, USA
26 November 1972, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
21 August 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 26, 2020
Amanda Peet doesn't portray Betty as much as she embodies her. It's an astonishing performance: so painful at times that it's difficult to witness -- yet so compelling, it's impossible to look away.
June 01, 2020
Simply pointing out that it happened and tossing some goofy costuming on top isn't enough. Indeed, it erodes the possibility of seeing Betty Broderick or Carole Baskin or whomever as real, not merely true.
May 18, 2020
Peet's career-best performance is perfectly paired with Slater's appropriately stoic and conniving portrayal, effortlessly delivering a grade-A depiction of gaslighting, sometimes to the beat of a fun Neil Diamond song.
June 01, 2020
Convincing in both her misery and her capacity for dangerous payback, Peet scorches the screen as a loose cannon of festering paranoia and self-pity.
June 02, 2020
Peet is very good playing opposite a cold Christian Slater, but she has to modulate her madness so it can last over 10 episodes.
June 02, 2020
By the time it's over, Betty Broderick is both "a woman scorned" and one better understood, without sacrificing any of the trashy chewiness that has drawn viewers to such material since long before she ever pulled the trigger.
June 01, 2020
[Amanda Peet] is very, very good, somehow playing all sides of the tonal kaleidoscope here at once, differing depending from which angle you look at it.
June 02, 2020
The Betty Broderick Story explains what drove Betty to bare her teeth. It may also make you reflect on what it would take for you to do the same thing.
May 28, 2020
There's a word for that kind of shamelessly overextended true-crime storytelling: Dirty.
June 02, 2020
Slater's recognizable star power aside, the focus, really, is exclusively on Betty, and if there's any real reason to recommend The Betty Broderick Story, it's to appreciate the sheer range and volume of characterizations Peet gets to offer.
June 02, 2020
The success of this USA series hinges on Peet's fantastic portrayal.