Season 2 of "Dirty John" Is Definitely Coming to Netflix
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story premiered on USA Network on June 2—but it's definitely coming to Netflix.
The second season of Dirty John tells the story of Betty and Dan Broderick's contentious divorce in 1980's San Diego.
Here's when we think season 2 of Dirty John will arrive on Netflix.
The Dirty John anthology series continues with Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, premiering on USA on May 31. Eventually, season 2 of Dirty John will land on Netflix—it's just a question of when.
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story revisits the headline-making divorce of Betty and Dan Broderick, a wealthy couple that lived in San Diego in the 1980s.
It completely diverges from the first season of Dirty John, which focused on "Dirty" John Meehan (Eric Bana in the series), a con-artist that put his new wife's life in danger. Like American Horror Story and Black Mirror, Dirty John is an anthology series—each season is an intimate retelling of a real marriage, gone awry.
The first two seasons of Dirty John also share another crucial quality: They're utterly binge-worthy. Essentially, you'll want to race through the story of Betty and Dan Broderick, as quickly as you raced through the saga of John Meehan and Debra Newell (Connie Britton) in season 1.
After a premiering on Bravo in 2018, season 1 of Dirty John landed on Netflix in the fall of 2019—and the same will occur for Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story. Here's when you can find season 2 of Dirty John on Netflix.
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story will premiere on Netflix internationally.
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story will premiere on Netflix internationally in 2020, meaning that a binge-watch is most certainly in order. Specifically, the show will arrive to Netflix in the U.K. on August 14. In comparison, the eight-episode second season of Dirty John unspooled gradually in the U.S., with a new episode landing on USA each week.
Expect Dirty John to land on Netflix in the U.S. in the spring of 2021.
Representatives from NBC confirmed that season 2 of Dirty John would hit Netflix, but could not provide an exact date. However, season 1 of Dirty John gives us a clue. Dirty John came to the streaming platform in November of 2019, 11 months after its premiere on Bravo in 2018.
Based on that pattern, we may have to wait an entire year for Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story to be released.
While you wait, read the book that inspired season 2 of Dirty John.
In a video on the NBC website, writer and show-runner Alexandra Fuller spoke about her inspiration for season 2 of Dirty John. Fuller revealed she was in high school when the case occurred.
"The case was juicy, and dramatic, and Betty was just like all of my friends' rich, blonde, suburban moms. I was fascinated by the idea of one of those women totally losing control," Fuller said.
As she grew up, she accumulated knowledge about the case—especially by reading Bella Stumbo's 1993 book, Until the Twelfth of Never. The series finale borrows its title from the book, too.
When she became a suburban mom herself, Fuller found that she could relate to Betty. "One day I realized I was a middle-aged, white, upper middle class wife and mother. The whole thing had transformed from a fun yarn to a completely relatable, suspense horror documentary," Fuller said. "I was lucky enough to write about how that made me feel as part of the Dirty John franchise."
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