Dirty John on Bravo Premiere Recap, Season 1, Episode 1

There are really two debuts in the first episode of Dirty john. In the first, Connie Britton walks in a hospital corridor towards a police officer while we see flashes of something bloody and awful that has happened. Anyone who listened to the LA Times the podcast on which this show is based (me included) knows exactly what this event is, but it lets us know that in the near future a tragedy will visit Connie. Seeing her strolling down this antiseptic corridor with a crown of curls that can only be described as a chorus of angels angels drowning in gold pots, it is impossible to imagine that something serious will happen to anyone. One whose hair is so beautiful.

The second beginning takes us back to the beginning of the story rather than to the end. This opening is made up of seaside houses, sexy surfers and the different charms of life in Orange County. It should be immediately familiar to anyone watching Bravo's shows. True Housewives of Orange County because we see similar montages in just about every episode. The content of this show on a grifter and how it spoils a woman's life should also be familiar to fans of RHOC since, well, one of the women's friends has spent many seasons simulating cancer and has virtually ruined her life. Damn, Orange County seems much more dangerous than anything B-roll suggests.

We then meet Connie's personality, Debra, a lucky woman in her interior decorating business – though everything she chooses is straight out of a Pottery catalog. Barn – but unlucky in love. As for anyone who has tried online dating, she embarks on a series of horrible setups with total misses and is ready to give up when she finally meets someone with a promise. His name is John and he seems to be a true gentleman because he proposes to take her for an appointment.

When the doorbell rings at the door, Eric Bana is standing, wearing a cargo pants and a patterned t-shirt. I do not care what he wears, because Eric Bana could wear a combination made of poison jellyfish and I would always try to overcome the problem. Debrah's daughter, Veronica (Juno Temple) is not so impressed. She immediately gets cold with him and starts treating him like someone else's baby who has just spit on his good blouse.

His mother has the opposite reaction on their date. They hear each other wonderfully and she tells her about her design philosophy, which she calls "accessible dreams," which could also be the name of Britney Spears bedding line at Target. This echoes something that Debra said at the beginning of the series: "I believe in dreams. Dreams in which you can live … If you design the most beautiful life, nothing very ugly can enter it. Oh, the dramatic irony is almost impossible to bear.

Back at home, John is really weird when Debra asks him to leave rather than spend the night, but he quickly catches up with him and they make an appointment for a second meeting, much to Veronica's dismay. This seems to erase the already tenuous relationship between Debra and Ronnie, as her mother calls it. In a group therapy session, Ronnie explains how scary he is and probably uses only his mother for his money. She also discusses how he sees her opening the blue safe from her Tiffany paperback (seven million exclamations) and states, "What's in the safe?" , kiddo? "She does not mention the fact that she swings a bowl of fruit on the floor in a dive after she discovers that he has spent the night.

What I like most about this series so far is that all the characters are awful. The plot and the acting are a little "movie of the week", but, for example, these people are interesting. Ronnie is the live worse, the kind of toxic, privileged girl who would throw you pumpkin and spice milk if you look at her badly. At one point, she told her sister, "I do not deal with people, but with me." With this kind of attitude and her beauty, I am surprised that she was not recruited to be a villain. The single person. His contempt for John, which can be well deserved, is also shown in the most brilliant way.

His mother is not better, though. When John takes her to a posh house by the bay and tells her, "I'd like to be able to buy it for you, with the exception of my child support and my problems Taxes, "she says, she can get home for them. When the camera moves away, the message "FIVE WEEKS" appears at the bottom of the screen, as if to indicate: "These people are crazy!" The problem is that she explains how she wants to move and give the lease to Ronnie. in the apartment that they share, she gives the impression that she is doing it for the benefit of Ronnie while she really wants to live with John without arguing seriously with her daughter .

Debra always breaks up and avoids a confrontation. When her other daughter Terra (Julia Garner) confronts her about John living in her home, which her mother denies, it turns into an outrageous match in which John essentially threatens to hit Terra. Rather than asking John to get out of the conversation or get his daughter back, Debra lets Terra go so that she can spend the rest of Thanksgiving with her sister in the kitchen. other the mom of the apartment pays.

Terra seems to be the best of the group. Although she is strangely obsessed with the apocalypse of zombies, she seems gentle and benevolent, with only a small trace of the softness that her sister displays so brazenly.

But the show does not call Dirty debra or Dirty terra (although this should probably be called The treasure of dirty America Jean Smart plays a grandmother) we call it Dirty John, So we know that it is him who is the bad news. We see some of the early signs, such as when he overreacts when Debra asks him to leave, but the worst thing for me is when he comes in front of a cancer benefit sought by carrying his excrement from the hospital. He claims to be an anesthesiologist, but he is actually only a nurse who distributes pain medication. How will he look like a "pile of laundry" as he says and we will not see a reaction of how much everyone looks in the eye?

John engages in the classic gestures of the grifter, which is to pretend to be Debra and away from all those who are interested in him so that he can control it completely. He even exploits all his insecurities about how she ruined her children and the fact that she does not deserve love. The saddest line of the night is when she says that she has been married four times and that she feels like she has exhausted all her chances. I just wanted to give him a big hug and make him better. John, on the other hand, uses it to reinforce his grip on it.

Until now, he's been only kind to Debra and horrible to his family members, and we see what a wonderful trip they have together in Vegas. (And again, it's Eric Bana, so you try to tell him no.) That's why he's cheating on her so that she ends up getting married in Sin City without anyone watching. The episode ends with a big "white eight weeks" at the bottom of the screen. We already know how it ends, and it's not going to be good. I can not wait to get there. (Sorry, Debra and company.)