Hello, it was Simple Listeners. Up next, you'll hear the second episode of Dirty John, Season 2 The Podcast, a paid podcast from USA Network.

Dirty John Season 2 The Podcast is a series paid for by USA Networks and produced by LA Times Studios in support of the television series Dirty John, The Betty Broderick Story.

The riveting and complicated tale of the San Diego mother of four who murdered her ex-husband and his new wife more than three decades ago.

The crime in its aftermath captivated the nation, dominating headlines with intense trial coverage and providing a complex portrait of the woman at the heart of the story. Betty Broderick.

The creators of this new series on USA Network relied on female directors in this retelling of the infamous murder.

In this episode, you will hear their insights on what it took to bring a fresh approach to this enduring story.

Among the directors whose work shaped the series are Maggie Kylie and series director Alexandra Cunningham, who made her directorial debut.

I have a new respect for directors that can just come on board a series in the middle of a season that they have not been part of all the story discussions because I felt like

the only reason that I survived was because I was the person who had created everything that put us there in the first place.

So hopefully that respect will translate even more to the directors that I work with in the future because now I know how hard it is to be them.

Maggie Kylie has directed lots of episodic television, including American Horror Story and Riverdale.

For Dirty John's second season, she directed four episodes, including the first and last of the series.

She talks about what attracted her to the project and how she and the other women working on the series connected to the story.

This is Maggie Kylie.

When I first spoke to Alex Cunningham, I was excited by the idea of coming at a story like this one that we'd so often heard sort of the big, big elements of.

I'd heard kind of the salacious headline, but coming at that story from the inside out as opposed to the outside in seemed really intriguing to me.

I'm sure it's a very fortunate and that we had a great collection of women directors for this particular project.

I'm not sure if it was a conscious decision early on.

It was about who was the right fit for this particular show.

It was wonderful.

I was certainly compelled by the story of a woman who had a very specific idea of how her life was going to unfold and how along that journey,

many things changed very drastically for her as she went.

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