Ugly Betty is finally back! They have really been stingy with the episodes the past few months, but let's hope that means they were saving them up to show us all at once. This episode opens with Amanda drawing a picture of Betty. She covers it up with a crossword when Betty comes by, but as soon as Betty leaves, she adds some hair to the eyebrows, which are "even bigger than I remember."
This opening scene leaves me with a few questions. Mainly: Does anyone actually believe that Amanda does crosswords? Are Betty's eyebrows really that big? Is Amanda secretly in love with Betty? She has to be, because I can think of no other reason that she'd be drawing pictures of her. I know this because every notebook I have from my younger days includes drawings of John Taylor from Duran Duran. And I wasn't drawing him for his interesting eyebrows.
Unaware of Amanda's true feelings, Betty makes her way to Daniel's office. Daniel isn't there, of course, because he's off hooking up with many different women. And honestly, who can blame him? What sounds like more fun to you - working or sex? In fact, what isn't more fun than working? Given that most of you are probably reading this during working hours, I'm pretty sure that TVgasm wins out over working, too.
In Daniel's office, Betty finds a strange small man in a white suit and a red hat. Is Truman Capote paying a little visit to Meade Publications? Sure he's dead, but that shouldn't stop a show like this, should it? We quickly find out, however, that this is Quincy Combs. He uses words like 'feckless' and 'chaise', so we know right away he's a writer, and we learn that he's writing a tell-all about the Meades.
Betty ushers him out, something Quincy is none to happy about. He tells her "You may be the beast that guards the gates, but I've taken down kings, presidents, the electric car. Daniel Meade doesn't stand a chance against me." Way to go, Show, ruin the punchline of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Guess none of us need to watch it now!
In an effort to seduce Bradford, Wil is having Christina hem the skirt of an already short skirt even shorter. Marc's sure that the outfit will work. Marc, naturally, being the expert on what a woman should wear to turn a man on. Sadly, Wil turned down his suggestion to dress up as Liza Minnelli.
After approving Wil's outfit, Marc becomes concerned that Christina was invited to Prague, one of the hottest clubs in the city, and he was not. Christina is unimpressed by her newfound fame as a fashion designer. But Wil thinks that Christina is ungrateful, because she knew exactly what she was getting into, so she should enjoy the spotlight. Kind of hard to disagree with Wil - either do something nasty and embrace being nasty, or don't do it. But don't do it and whine about it afterwards. But I still heart Christina, and she makes me want to talk in a fake Scottish accent for the rest of my life. (But since my fake Scottish accent is exactly the same as my pirate impression, I will refrain. Ahoy, mateys!)
Meanwhile in Queens, Constance removes Ignacio's leg monitor. She explains that she was just doing her job because she saw Ignacio as a flight risk. Ah, yes, typical of US immigration policy - trying desperately to help illegal immigrants stay in the country. We won't let them go, even if they want to!
Ignacio is also worried because his court date is approaching and he hasn't met with his lawyer yet. Constance says that she'll call him and have both Ignacio and the lawyer over for dinner at her place that night. Ignacio feels a little uncomfortable, but he really wants his green card. Hilda warns him to stay home. And if you can't listen to your daughter who spends all her time in the living room playing with a plastic head, who can you listen to?
Seriously, isn't it about time she actually worked on real people?
Meanwhile, Daniel shows up at Mode at 2pm, hung over and disheveled. Betty immediately starts to give him messages and harp on him for appearing in Page Six. And if I were Daniel, I would immediately check the company manual for the policy on firing someone for nagging while hung over. I'm pretty sure that OSHA should get involved.
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Comments (3)
Statutory rape...Errr. I hope this storyline ends soon. O_O
I love Mark and Amanda. They're the best part of the show. ABC needs to give those two a spinoff!
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Posted on April 25, 2007 7:31 PM
I am really happy that the Constance and Ignacio plotline is winding down. The whole thing was slightly creepy and didn't interest me much.
I really missed Justin and Walter in this episode!!!!
Regarding Betty's outfit when they went to the club, seriously why couldn't they have put her in something a little more fun/sexy? I'm not looking for a total makeover but clothes a little more stylish would have made more sense. Again I know it's not the point of the show and Betty should wear what she's most comfortable in...
It was so satisfying when Betty refused to speak to Daniel b/c she'd "punched out." Serves him right... She was only looking out for him and he completely took her for granted.
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Posted on April 26, 2007 7:25 AM
The whole statutory rape storyline really annoyed me because they did the exact same storyline on "Dirt" earlier this year. The conclusion from last night's episode was even the same as on Dirt. That was very disappointing.
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Posted on April 27, 2007 10:27 AM