![]() By keeping Betty looking relatively put together, we can really focus in on Betty’s mental state, how tenuous her grasp of reality is, and how her outrageous behavior, no matter how justified, led to the horrific tragedy.Īs previously entered into evidence, Dan most definitely has a sensitivity chip missing. It would have detracted from Peet’s truly amazing and transformative performance. If Peet had done either of those options, I can guarantee there would have been an onslaught of stories about the fat suit and/or the weight gain. For starters, I’m not a fan of putting actors in fat suits or having them gain an inordinate amount of weight for a role. This remains a wise choice made by showrunner Alexandra Cunningham. But Peet still looks fairly good and certainly much better than Betty Broderick did in real life. She dons some very unfortunate and ill-fitting tracksuits. In real life, it is well documented that Betty Broderick gained a lot of weight, stopped caring about her appearance, and, to use an insulting phrase too often aimed at women, “let herself go.” In “The Shillelagh,” Betty’s appearance begins to disintegrate. There was a lively debate after last week’s recap about the show’s decision to have Amanda Peet’s version of Betty still look relatively put together. We may never know what really transpired that night since Betty, an unreliable narrator if there ever was one, is the only one left to tell the tale. But, to quote a movie many of you probably watched over the weekend, there were only three people in “the room where it happened,” and two of them are dead. And then we see a series of people who received a call from a distraught and in denial Betty that night. We see her drive to Dan and Linda’s house. We see her steal her daughter’s house keys. Dirty John makes an interesting choice not to show Betty in their bedroom shooting them. ![]() In “The Shillelagh,” Betty does what has made this a story people are still making TV shows about more than 30 years after the fact: She breaks into Dan and Linda’s house and murders them both in their sleep. ![]()
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