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The season of “Dirty John” ends, following the frantic marriage of Dan and Betty Broderick. And a new series on Netflix is in the foreign drug trade.
By Lauren Messman
JOHN THE DIRTY: THE STORY OF BETTY BRODERICK 10 p.m. in the U.S. After the good luck of its first season, which adapted the hit podcast “Dirty John” for television, this anthology series chronicles the very public final results of a marriage. It stars Amanda Peet as Betty Broderick and Christian Slater as her husband, Dan, who seemed to lead an idyllic life in Southern California in the 1980s until Dan, a medical malpractice lawyer, hired a new legal assistant named Linda Kolkena (Rachel Keller). Dan and Betty’s marriage and divorce episodes took place in La Jolla for more than five years, until Betty shot and killed Dan and Linda, who had married, while they were sleeping. The season finale concludes with the case of Betty, who, the New York Times reported in 1991, “divided this placid city and drew attention to the factor of domestic mental abuse.”
SHOWBIZ KIDS (2020) 21:00 h on HBO. With Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, it’s less difficult than ever for other young people to achieve viral fame and use that celebrity to enter the entertainment industry. However, there are young aspiring actors, singers and dancers who go to auditions and spend their days educating themselves or taking classes, all hoping to fit into the next big novelty. But at what price? This documentary, written and directed by former child actor Alex Winter, discusses the story of the young celebrity, at a time when people in Hollywood are looking to make the industry safer and more inclusive for everyone. It features interviews with Evan Rachel Wood, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mara Wilson, who express in percentage what it’s like to grow or raise their children in Hollywood. The documentary follows emerging artists and examines the sacrifices their families make to help them achieve their dreams.
HOT 10 p.m. TruTV. What is very entertaining (and worthy of shame, if you are reluctant to hot sauce) to conduct an interview with celebrities has become a game show. In his first half of the season, host Sean Evans demanded situations from two more productive friends about their trivia wisdom and the threshold of highly spiced bird wings.
THE DRUG Stream BUSINESS on Netflix. In the trailer for this new series, its presenter, the former C.I.A. Analyst Amaryllis Fox says the only way to end the war on drugs “is to perceive the economy that motivates it.” In six episodes, Fox travels the world to perceive the lucrative and fatal global drug industry from a new heroin direction in Kenya to the legal marijuana market in California.
MARJOUN AND THE FLYING BATHROOM (2019) Broadcast on Eventive. Five years have passed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and 17-year-old Marjoun (Veracity Butcher, the protagonist of this film, is trying to get his father out of jail. He was arrested with fees similar to his alleged ties to Hezbollah. In his quest to erase his name, Marjoun confronts his dating with God and his identity as an American Muslim in his hometown, Little Rock, Ark.
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