What a surprisingly lame, cliched episode. I hope Wilhelmina and whoever’s under those bandages cuts Daniel Meade off at the knees. He’s too dumb (plus racist and sexist) to be in charge of anything.
Niko’s speech to mom was also pretty lame, but I could excuse that, since she’s just a kid. The only TV kids I’ve seen who knew how to really get to their parents were Darlene and Becky Connor.
If I never see another man mistake a non-Caucasian woman for a menial again, it’ll be too soon. The elevator scenes – puhleeze!
The guy who wrote this episode has credits at IMDB for Charmed and Smallville. I’ve never watched those shows so don’t know if this is typical of his “style”.
I watched this show for the first time tonight, but only because a friend of mine at work is a fan of this show and she asked me to watch it so that she would have someone to talk about it with. So I did. I don’t watch much television.
I thought that Betty was a bit overreactive to the photo of her mother (deceased?) with some other guy’s hand on her’s. Big frickin’ deal, take it easy fer chrissake. I wasn’t really paying attention when he revealed what the whole thing was about, he clocked some guy for hitting on his woman, or something. That’s your big secret?
When the $20,000 was first given to her I called that she would refuse it in the end. Big surprise, I was right.
I doubt I qualify as part of the target demographic, judging from the commercials, so my opinion counts for nothing.
I’m sorry this was your first exposure – the show’s been pretty good up until tonight. Witty, not too deep, and no hitting over the head with the message stick.
My wife and daughter like this show, so I watched it with them last night.
At the end they commented that the dad sure has a habit of tossing them for a loop at the very end of the show. Is that a fair observation?
Heck, anytime this lech can see Salma Hayek strip down to a black bra on network TV, you ain’t gonna hear too many complaints!
The other line I REALLY liked was the sister’s description of the magazine offices as “a gay Star Trek!”
It was OK, but the weakest of their episodes so far–they can’t all be winners. Salma Hayek’s character was obnoxious (of course, Salma Hayek always looks snooty, because her mouth and nose are too close together). I hope we weren’t supposed to like her or identify with her?
I think it’s curious that they’re making a concerted effort to add depth to some of the “bad” characters (Wilhemina, Amanda) but are perfectly fine in removing some of the original sympathy we had for Daniel–almost to the point that we’re rooting for Betty but question her loyalty to the skeez.
And Salma Hayek was H-O-T in that first elevator scene (even my wife did a double take), and the funniest thing in the episode with the soccer ball.
I was so stoked up about Salma Hayek making a guest appearance that I barely noticed that this was the first “meh” show of the series. But, in retrospect, it was. Nevertheless, there were enough good things about it that I’m not gonna grumble too much. Not-so-good “Ugly Betty” is, for me, more enjoyable than most of the other offerings on TV this season.
Sure do hope Wilhelmina’s daughter doesn’t stick around.
To offer a slight and weak defense, he didn’t assume she was a servant because she was Latina. He told her that it was because she was the only person in the room who he didn’t recognize as an editor-in-chief.
Still stupid, and I absolutely loathe his hair, but not racist.
I like how they’ve been showing Wil as having a brain in her head. This is the second or third time she’s taken a potentially troublesome situation and turned it on its head to the advantage of the magazine.