Betty did significantly better defending herself on Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story Season 1 Episode 6 than I assumed she would.
However very like we feared, Betty was an utter idiot for pondering that she might get the higher of Dan whereas he was on the stand.
What she obtained for efforts was her $700okay bill to Dan cleaned and a paltry $28okay to reside.
I’ve to confess that because the case wound to an in depth and the month-to-month help funds had been introduced, I wasn’t even positive if Betty was imagined to pay Dan or if she’d get a fee earlier than he remarried.
Your case, your divorce, may be the worst one I’ve seen on this county.
Sid
It positive was candy of the decide to award a settlement that will by no means go into impact since Dan already introduced that he was getting remarried.
The entire show was nauseating.
Earlier than we delve into the main points, I’ve to ask you guys a query.
Why is Betty all the time proven speaking together with her mouth full?
What’s that imagined to imply? Is it representing stress consuming?
Would she actually proceed to speak together with her mouth full when she’s lunching with the women? There was one specific scene when her gob was full for the whole scene, however I did not see a morsel of meals on their plates.
And by that, I imply they had been clear. The meals hadn’t even been delivered to their desk but. Possibly they had been imagined to photoshop some meals onto the plates and simply forgot.
Anyway, it is a very bizarre factor that I could not shake whereas watching.
I can let you know that I am completely happy as hell I by no means obtained married. Epstein credit are such a rip-off. How can they be authorized in any respect, not to mention in a scenario when an individual does not get the chance to find out when the one that spent the entire group property on the opposite actually left the wedding.
Have you ever ever wished to learn divorce proceedings greater than you do after seeing that stuff on display screen? Was it actual?
The one factor an legal professional ever did for me was lose. I can try this at no cost.
Betty
I want I had the time to analysis this case as a result of it looks as if fiction. Who knew courts had been so unfair throughout divorce proceedings or that you simply had no recourse to asks inquiries to state your case when one thing as essential as custody of your youngsters is worried?
All of that is to say that it is no marvel Betty was shedding her thoughts.
Legal professional: How would you describe Mrs. Broderick’s itemized bills that she’s utilizing as the idea for her help allocation.
Dan: Outrageous.
Legal professional: Would you characterize Mrs. Broderick as pushed by greed?
Dan: Sure, and admittedly, I will should tighten my bills very quickly. Not simply with a daughter going to varsity, however I get remarried and beginning a brand new household. I anticipate there can be bills in reference to that.
It appears most probably that the newspaper articles she discovered round the home with pink writing on them, taunting her, had been finished by her.
Linda wished an alarm system as a result of she was so fearful about Betty’s instability. If we’re to consider the story, Linda was additionally refusing to assist Betty discover her misplaced china, so it is all open for debate.
If I had been Linda and had been harassed by Betty all that point, that will have been one thing I did, however I would not have been in a position to watch Dan screw over his ex to that diploma.
Linda is much an excessive amount of of an enigma for the story to make a lot sense.
The story of Linda and Dan is racing to an in depth, although, as Betty already has a gun.
And with the best way that Betty was lurking round her daughter’s commencement snapping images like a paparazzi, homicide is simply going to be one other day within the life.
Whether or not her mouth is full of meals or she’s half crying in a courtroom scene, Amanda Peet is killing it.
No pun supposed.
She’s nearly unrecognizable on this position. She’s mastering facial expressions in scenes resembling Betty strolling right into a room hopeful that Dan would possibly give her the time of day and discovering him, as an alternative, hand in hand with Linda. From sparking to flat in seconds.
Dan: All of my wealth, actually, is in my legislation observe. I’ve had it evaluted, and if the courtroom agrees, I intend to supply Betts half that worth
Legal professional: Would you sat that after you achieved success, Mrs. Broderick was completely happy?
Dan: The extra money I made, the extra she spent. However, no, she was by no means glad. If it was costly, she wanted it.
Legal professional: How would you describe the help that Mrs. Broderick offered you if you started your authorized profession.
Dan: Non-existent.
Even Christian Slater is giving a bit of extra empathy to Dan than he in all probability had. There have been a number of moments once I nearly believed that Dan did not need Betty to endure an excessive amount of.
However then I keep in mind that Dan was rubbish, and I understand that these stray moments of kindness had been the primary indication that he is manipulating Linda as a lot as he manipulated Betty.
What higher approach to hold Linda shut earlier than marriage than if he portrayed himself as compassionate? In any case, each different minute of his day was devoted to crushing Betty’s spirit. So what different motive for these momentarily lapses of compassion might there have been?
Betty: What was the second this divorce actually began.
Dan: April 12, 1969.
Decide: And what is the relevance of that date, for the report?
Dan: That was the date we obtained married, your honor.
It proves that Dan cannot all the time learn a room. The one time Linda wanted him deal with Betty to her face as he does behind her again was when Linda was asking about putting in a safety system.
Was Dan as codependent on Betty as she was on him? I am beginning to assume that Dan wanted loopy Betty in his life. Craziness be damned, Dan favored the impact he had on Betty. Possibly his ego could not reside with out it. His ego actually was a think about his loss of life and Linda’s.
If he’d been in a position to let Betty go, he may be alive. If he’d absolutely dedicated to his new spouse and put in safety, Dan may be alive.
What about you? Are you starting to consider Dan is simply as loopy as Betty?
Let me know what you are pondering this far into the present.
I assume we’ll observe Betty as much as her incarceration. In any case, that is her story, and that is the place her “life” ended.
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