I know I'm late with commenting on this week's episode of Ugly Betty, but I've been busy with watching other TV and actually doing other things relative to my life, so here's what I think about this week's episode.
I think that Ugly Betty continues to get better and better each week it's on. This week was, by far, the best episode of their run so far. It surprised me, made me laugh, made me sad, and really expanded on many of the characters on the show.
If there is one thing that Ugly Betty has been doing really well is creating very real characters. Considering that this show has adapted from a telenovela and it started out as not much more than a odd comedy, I feel the characters on this show are very fleshed out. Especially the more secondary characters. Mostly I'm thinking of Wilhelmina here. When the show first aired I figured Willie to be just a classic bitch character, but as the show has moved on, we've seen more layers to her. She has a daughter that she really wants to have a relationship with and she was actually in love with someone this week. Her whole demeanor changed after spending time with her Texan. She was actually nice! Of course, that didn't last long because her beau decided to make it work with his family. The change in Willie's personality after that was shown really well. We didn't need to be told that she was back to her old self. The scene where she walks out of the elevator dressed in bright white with large sunglasses and her hair tightly pinned up clearly showed she was back to being a bitch. Her character was especially written well this week.
The main surprise to me was that Sofia was basically just playing Daniel to get a cover article for her new magazine. I'm not entirely sure if this is what was planned out Sofia's character arc, but it does make sense going back to everything. And it was a great way to force Betty back to Mode.
And I was actually feeling very bad for Daniel, too. Eric Mabius did a fantastic job showing Daniel's devastation that Sofia was playing him. I'm looking forward to where this story is going to go.
I also have to put in a little comment about Judith Light as Daniel's mom. Her reaction to Daniel being heartbroken on national TV (guzzling a bottle of wine) was priceless.
This was definitely an episode to see, and it really lays out good story for the rest of the season, so I'm looking forward to next week as well as the rest of the season.
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