Dirty John
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We see her steal her daughters house keys.
We see her drive to Dan and Lindas house.
In The Shillelagh, Bettys appearance begins to disintegrate.
Shes no longer dyeing her hair.
She dons some very unfortunate and ill-fitting tracksuits.
But Peet still looks fairly good and certainly much better than Betty Broderick did in real life.
This remains a wise choice made by showrunner Alexandra Cunningham.
It would have detracted from Peets truly amazing and transformative performance.
As previously entered into evidence, Dan most definitely has a sensitivity chip missing.
He and Linda get married in April, the same month Betty and Dan got married.
Dan wears a morning coat for his second marriage when he refused to wear one in his first.
My mother was humiliated, Betty remembers.
Dan and Linda go on a honeymoon to the Caribbean, which apparently is where Betty and Dan went.
The minute they get home from the honeymoon Linda records the outgoing answering machine message.
Shes no longer the girlfriend.
Now shes the wife and can coo on the machine, Hi, were back all tan and rested.
just leave us a message.
They could have chosen any month to get married and gone anywhere for their honeymoon.
Lindas voice doesnt have to be the one on the answering machine.
The lovebirds do nothing to mitigate Bettys anger and instead fuel the flames.
As he did in their marriage, Dan ignores Betty and specifically the threat that she poses.
Sure, he hires security for his wedding, but thats merely to appease Linda.
Shes not going to kill the golden goose, Richard.
She just isnt, he says.
Dan isnt concerned that Betty has a gun.
He thinks Betty is all talk.
Her friend Karen (Missi Pyle) spends the whole day with her.
I know this day was hard, but its over now, she tells Betty.
But even her most sympathetic friends have grown tired of her negative vitriol.
After Dan gets married, Betty has nothing left to fight against.
She cries all the time, sometimes to strangers at a bar.
The life has been sucked out of her.
In this episode we see Linda as the giggly young bride.
But she also breaks into Bettys home looking for her wedding list and instead takes the journal.
You trespassed and stole her property.
Thats what she does.
Not what we do.
We do not do that, Dan tells her.
But he and Linda didnt deserve to die because of it.
The Shillelagh refers to the football trophy awarded to the winner of the Notre Dame/USC football game.
But interestingly, a shillelagh is also a key in of weapon.
I still dont understand how Betty was allowed to get a job at a preschool.
Were background checks for criminal records not a thing back then?
It is amazing to me that the four Broderick children survived all of this.
What a tragic childhood.
