Dirty John’s new season widens the anthology’s historical scope, but thin characterization cheapens its provocations.
To be unfairly blunt: Betty who?
In the premiere, she drives her car straight into her ex-husbands front door.
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Thatlands her in a straitjacketby the 15-minute mark.
“Im not the crazy one,” she swears.
He is Dan (Christian Slater), a hotshot malpractice attorney.
Creator Alexandra Cunningham carefully tracks the couples rise from wintry 70s food stamps through coastal 80s Corvettes.
It is…and then it isnt.
You sense lawsuits being avoided in the flat portrayals of the Broderick children.
The actual act of killing gets morseled out as a tension-creating Big Reveal, fodder for flashforwards and cliffhangers.
Theres a word for that kind of shamelessly overextended true-crime storytelling: Dirty.B
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