Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story is a tabloid excavation undone by shaky storytelling: Review
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. Credit: Isabella Vosmikova/USA Network 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....