Ugly Betty: Pilot 9/28 & 2nd ep 10/5/06
Thursday 10.12.2006
alice ttlg || 10:38 AM
I just have problems with this show. No matter what, it seems to come back to a one-note joke about how ugly Betty is. And no matter how bright or determined or just plain nice she is, she'll never be good enough, despite the beautiful people being mean-spirited and nasty, they'll always be better than here just because they are better looking. Uh, isn't that the message we're trying to stop sending our kids and ourselves?
If the show actually let her succeed because she's smart and nice, it might work better, instead she seems to blunder along and happen into doing the right thing and she comes off rather dumb. I had hopes in the pilot when she came up with a great idea for a layout that they'd go more the Working Girl thing, that street smarts and determination can pay off, even if your accent and where you live isn't the current style. But the second episode made her a victim of just about everyone and she keeps her job only because someone else does the right thing. She's the kind of female Forrest Gump dropping simple good-isms and so everything works out right in the end, tra-la!
I'll keep watching a bit more to see if they do improve it...
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