EW asks the show’s creator.
Warning: This story containsspoilers aboutTuesdays' season 2 premiere ofDirty John: The Betty Broderick Story.
Betty still really loves Dan.
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“you’re free to’t because he’s dead, right?”
Moments earlier, Dan was putting Betty in a straightjacket, and now he’sdead and she did it?
They have two houses.
Dan is a big-time malpractice attorney.
Betty takes an art gallery gig or two on the side while taking care of their kids.
She’s soon taken away in a straitjacket and sent to jail.
What was the decision behind starting us off there?
It’s the helpless and rageful thing to do.
We actually went location scouting down in San Diego.
We went to Balboa Park and saw Dan’s house.
The brickwork, you might still see the effects of the crash.
It actually brought tears to my eyes.
I wanted to really open [the show] with a moment that sells the misunderstanding.
You could definitely feel it while watching.
You also see Betty and Dan briefly in this episode as a younger, smaller family.
How important was it for you to show what their relationship was like at the beginning?
Throughout the first few episodes, we see a lot of Betty’s perspective.
Dan doesn’t come out pretty in the narrative Betty has constructed for us.
Were you worried at all people would take a stab at see this as siding with Betty?
It formed my holistic worldview of the case.
It was not my intention to have created a thing that bashes Dan.
It was cyclical until the bear went rogue."
There was poking happening for years.
