"There's nothing more liberating than to realize you don't have to live up to anything anymore," Betty Broderick chillingly states in Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, the second season of USA's true-crime series.
The line comes toward the end of this podcast-turned-series that aims to reappraise the discussion around women like her — your typical doting, upper-class housewives and moms who become cold-blooded murderers.
Compassion for Betty isn't easy, and Dirty John doesn't portray it as such, if that is what showrunner Alexandra Cunningham is trying to do at all.
She previously explored the duplicity of suburban women on Desperate Housewives and Bates Motel. But here, she attempts something trickier: contextualizing what led to a
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