Before Dirty John, the Netflix dramatisation, came Dirty John the wildly popular LA Times podcast featuring the real voices of Debra Newell and her family and hosted by award winning journalist Christopher Goffrey. The podcast has been downloaded over 50 million times and while the Netflix version starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana had a glossy, trashy appeal it couldn’t live up to the podcast both for being not actually real, and also too tethered to the real, never quite being able to reach the full on bonkersness of fiction series like You.
Dirty John was the nickname of John Meehan, the confidence trickster at the centre of the original case and while at first it was hard to imagine how a season two would be possible, Meehan’s story having been concluded, the show has expanded its remit so it can serialise and dramatise other true crime cases with...
Dirty John was the nickname of John Meehan, the confidence trickster at the centre of the original case and while at first it was hard to imagine how a season two would be possible, Meehan’s story having been concluded, the show has expanded its remit so it can serialise and dramatise other true crime cases with...
- 8/13/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
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