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- USA
- Jun 2, 2020
- USA
- Jun 2, 2020
Summary The anthology series created by Alexandra Cunningham was based on the articles and true crime podcast by Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard.
Created By: Alexandra Cunningham
- USA
- Jun 2, 2020
- USA
- Jun 2, 2020
Summary The anthology series created by Alexandra Cunningham was based on the articles and true crime podcast by Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard.
Created By: Alexandra Cunningham
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Riveting. ... Peet scorches the screen. [8 - 21 Jun 2020, p.5]
It’s a compassionate telling, one that teeters on the right side of empathy for a heinous convicted killer who was, also, a broken woman.
Amanda Peet’s performance is more than enough to put Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story on a season pass. But Broderick’s story is an intriguing one, and it looks like it’ll be told in a way that will show that some of her simmering rage didn’t just come out of the blue.
What this scripted true-crime story may lack in surprise, it makes up for in its nuance, especially in the latter half of the season, as well as in its go-for-beyond-broke performance by Amanda Peet as Betty.
Revisiting the case that started it all with the kind of treatment Dirty John gives it—at times compassionate and introspective, at other times leaning into beats of outrageousness—is a delicate act, one that wouldn’t work without Amanda Peet as Betty. She is very, very good, somehow playing all sides of the tonal kaleidoscope here at once, differing depending from which angle you look at it.
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.
Peet gives her all to a role that doesn’t respond in kind. The problem, here, may be that the Betty Broderick story — previously brought to TV in “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story,” which got Meredith Baxter an Emmy nomination in 1992 — is both outsized and small.
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