Betty Broderick

Betty Broderick is a wife who built her entire life around her husband's rise, working to put him through law and medical school while raising their children. She is proud, funny, sharp-tongued, and certain of her place in the marriage she helped create — until the ground beneath it starts to shift.

Amanda Peet plays her not as a cautionary tale but as a woman blindsided by her own devotion, funny and furious in equal measure, refusing to go quietly. The performance leans into Betty's specific, prickly charisma — the way her humor curdles into rage without ever losing its wit — making her impossible to look away from.