****WARNING**** – you don’t get any more spoiler-ish than this.  If you haven’t seen The Born Identity yet, and don’t want to find out what happens till you watch the episode, STOP READING NOW!  This is the end of the episode, where the writers always throw some big change at us.

This was Christina McKinney’s goodbye.  In it, she and Stuart get their baby, and tell Betty that they are going back home to Scotland to raise little William.

I can’t overstate how well this scene was done.  It could have very easily been OVER DONE, with gushing tears and maudlin music, but the writers, America Ferrera, and Ashley Jensen showed some restraint.  This is what goodbyes look like in real life.

I’d love to take responsibility for the joke about not understanding a word Yanks say, since I once said that Jensen should be subtitled.    Regardless, it was a nice touch.

With Christina gone, Betty now has no true, “normal person” ally at Mode.  But, judging from her confrontation with Wilhelmina earlier in the episode, I think she’s ready to stand on her own.  Maybe we’ll finally get some of that growth many of you have been asking for from Betty.

Does anyone know the Enya-like song playing at the end of this clip?

Post from: Ugly Betty News

The included Ugly Betty clip is hilarious, not only because Tony Plana does the exasperated father better than anyone, but also because he guessed that Hilda is pregnant, then Hilda quickly corrected him.  I don’t know, I just found it funny because Ana Ortiz really is pregnant.

I’m glad that Archie is going to run for Queens borough president, because that will make for all kinds of interesting story lines; and Ana Ortiz as Hilda is funniest when she’s out of her element, which she’ll be as a political girlfriend.

The interview itself reminds me what seems so odd about the entire cast of Ugly Betty: they just seem so doggonned humble.  Even Vanessa Williams, Bernadette Peters, and Macchio, who were celebrities in their own right before joining the cast, seem in interviews like someone you’d just love to go have a beer with.

I’d really love to see the feature film Macchio is developing.  When I find out more about it, I’ll pass it along to you.

Post from: Ugly Betty News