What I’m Watching: Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty: Season 4, Episode 9 “Be-Shure” (B+)

I love the world of coincidence this show lives in, where Betty, Hilda, and Ignacio all go to the same pharmacy at the same time and then it turns out that the woman who discreetly sold both Suarez daughters pregnancy tests is Ignacio’s new Jewish girlfriend. It’s marvelous entertainment, and this show has always been great at playing everything over the top. Betty and Hilda both thinking they were pregnant because of the dropped pregnancy test was fun, and Matt’s reaction was particularly great. It’s nice that he and Betty are no longer at odds and that they’ve come to reconcile, and even if both of them might take things say something that seems to take things too far occasionally, they still make a great couple, and the show could use one of those, especially with Hilda and Archie’s relationship no longer going along swimmingly. Marc’s inability to be critical of Daniel was pretty hilarious, though it seems that his joyful employment may be short-lived since the ever-duplicitous Wilhelmina has managed to become the lesser of two evils as Daniel’s solution to buying out the tyrannical and obnoxious Cal Hartley. I hope Cal’s departure won’t mean the firing of Matt, since his working role with Betty is just as good as his romantic one. Claire’s search for her son was a pleasant vacation, and it’s the kind of plotline that could easily be dropped after this one visit, or continued along further. I can’t imagine that he’s the type who would take advantage of her fortune since he seemed very down-to-earth, so I’d predict that he’ll be a sort of saving grace for the Meade family, a potential new Mode employee, perhaps?