Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty is a American Televised series adapted by Silvio Horta and Salma Hayek of the Colombian Telenovela Yo soy Betty, the fea and diffused since the September 28th 2006 on the network ABC. This new series in France will be soon on the antenna of TF1.

Synopsis

Betty Suarez is not especially beautiful, but it is soft, intelligent and works hard. In a world governed by appearances, its qualities are invisible. However, President de Mead Publications urges it to become the assistant of his son, Daniel, recently promoted with the head of the prestigious Mode magazine. He thus hopes to oblige his future successor to be interested more in his work rather with the fair sex. So at the beginning their association is explosive, they soon will become a frightening pair…

Season 1

At the beginning, Fey Sommers editor association of the famous Mode magazine disappeared at the time of an car accident. With the general surprise, Bradford Meade chairman of the group Meade Publications, chose his/her son Daniel Meade to take to the reins of the magazine instead of Wilhelmina Slater the current director of the creation which passed all its career within the magazine. Indeed, Daniel is attracted more by the festivals and the young women that by the world of the mode and the businesses. He accepts this station in order to prove with his father who he is quite as qualified as his brother Alex Meade, deceased two years ago at the time of an accident of ski. In order to obtain an employment in the world of the press, Betty Suarez an young woman of 23 years Mexican origin postulates for the post of assistant in the Mode magazine. But Betty is far from being beautiful and equipped rather well to obtain this employment. From return in its house of the Queens, she learns that Walter, his small-buddy, decides to leave it. The evening even, it receives a telephone call of Meade Publications which informs to him that it was committed for the station which it coveted. Unfortunately, his/her Christina friend, designer with the magazine, thus inform that Bradford Meade chose it for its unpleasant physique, Daniel to him will not be tempted to sleep with her assistant and will concentrate of advantage on her work. Daniel hopes to get rid of his assistant but Betty will refuse to yield. The intrigue of season 1 will be based on the murder of Fey Sommers and the battle for the capacity in Mode, whose mystery of the identity of an unknown and masked woman with whom WIlhelmina details all that she makes in Mode.

What follows reveals key moments of the intrigue

By saving it on several occasions plots and traps tended by Wilhelmina, Betty proved to be an asset essential to its owner. All this and its physique, returns it the most hated employee Fashion. Its worst enemies will be of course Amanda Tanen, the pretty receptionist but compulsive eater, Wilhelmina Slater and Marc St.James, his assistant gay who yields into four to satisfy the needs for his owner. The more time passes, plus Betty feels at it in Mode but its opinions are far from being divided by the remainder of the magazine. The suspicions as for the meutre of Fey Sommers remain of topicality. Bradford seen on several occasions but nobody dares the coire. Daniel will fall in love with Sofia Reyes, réactrice as a chief of the recent magazine fémisite MYW. After having a long time resite with the young man, it finally will fall under its charm… but, seemingly only. Indeed, it will make use of him in order to publish the one of its magazine entitled " adventure with the Marriage in 60 jours". Daniel will thus have the broken Cœur, but quickly will go back some. Then arrives the Semaine of the mode, Christina wants to be made a place in the world of the designer while taking part in the selection of the 10 designers, but competition will be hard and it is Wilhelmina which will indicate gaining them. But Chrsitina will conclude a pact with the director from creation, she will belong to the three gaining but will have to deposit a package containing a proof at the police station. Thus, at the time of the procession, a guest of last minute will make irruption. Indeed, Alex Meade will leave the shade, but under the features of Alexis Meade, a superb blonde who was the famous masked woman. Immediately after, Bradford Meade will be stopped for the murder of Fey Sommers. But Claire Meade, the woman of Bradford and true fatal of the former editor association of the Mode magazine decides to go to the police force, which will compromise the plans of Wilhelmina. She decides to try the whole for the whole while trying to allure Bradford, even if that he says to him that he will not divorce Claire. But both " amoureux" approach and it is at this time there that Wilhelmina will use its trick. It will be made attack by Marc to make accept his " bien-aimé" that it was struck by Claire at the time of a visit in prison. It then decides to leave Claire and, a beautiful morning, decides to ask it in Mariage this one accepts. Betty will advise Daniel to put a term at its light tendency to Nymphomanie. This one goes procucrer of the Drogue to put an end to cete mauvase practice. It will make a faintness in the office of Alexis who will bring it at once to a center of Désintoxication with the car of his father. However, the young woman made adulterate the brakes of this vehicle in order to be avenged for her father who wanted to draw aside it from Mode since it changed sex. Daniel and Alexis thus will be victims of an car accident.

As for the other employees of Mode, they also will live their batches of adventures. Marc finally will declare his homosexuality with his mother. He will be helped by Betty in this heavy task. Amanda will discover the secret part of Fey in which she will find photographs of itself child. She thus realizes that she is the girl of Fey Sommers.

Sentimental side of Betty, it learns that his/her boyfriend left it for Gina Gambarro, mangeuse men of the district. This one made use of him only to have a reduction on its flat panel display, because Walter works in a store of electric household appliances. After this short relation, the young man tries to repurchase himself near his e.g. Betty agrees to give him one second chance but will fall under the charm from Henry Grubstick, an employee of the accounting department, with which she gets along with wonder. Finally, it decides to leave Walter with the profit of his colleague. This last believed that it always had this relation and benefitted from it to meet Charlie and to fall in love from there. After being itself well heard at the beginning, the two women will fight for Henry. The battle becomes difficult because of the character jealous of Charlie. All becomes complicated when it decides to leave New York for Tucson and claims to be pregnant of Henry so that he leaves Betty forever.

All is not pink for the Suarez family. Ignacio is seen refusing care because it is clandestine. His/her daughters will help it for the lawsuit by joining together money in order to engage a lawyer. Hilda, the older sister, will call upon Santos, the father of Justin who has left fallen his son for several years. The Suarez family will have evil to engage a lawyer, and Ignacio is constrained to remain with the Mexico. The arrival of Santos has permi with Hilda to attend it again. After having hidden this relation with her entourage a long time, the young woman decides to become engaged to Santos since this last spends more time near his/her son. In the last episode, it decides to attend West side story, the spectacle of the school of his son. It stops with a grocer to offer a gift to him, but the tradesman is victim of a holdup. Santos saves the life of the tradesman; , but is made draw above. While it attends the spectacle, Betty announces the news with sister, it melts then in tears and the season is completed on this image.

Season 2

What follows reveals key moments of the intrigue

Season 2 will be based on the mourning of Hilda and Justin, Amanda in the search of her father, Daniel and Alexis who will have to recover of their accident, the escape of Claire Meade and the Mariage of Bradford and Wilhelmina.

Distribution

Main actors

Secondary actors

Several guest stars makes appearances in the series among which:

Rewards

  • Golden Globe Award 2007: Better musical or comic televised series
  • Golden Globe Award 2007: Better actress in musical or comic televised series for America Will shoe
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007: Better actress in a comic series for America Will shoe
  • WGA Awards 2007: Better news series

Episodes

First season (2006-2007)

      1 (1-  1) : Directions for use ( Pile )
      2 (1-  2) : The box and the pink rabbit ( The Box and the Bunny )
      3 (1-  3) : The queen of the Queens ( Queens for has Day )
      4 (1-  4) : The sledge of Fey ( Fey' S Sleigh Wrinkles )
      5 (1-  5) : The butterfly, the watch and the evening gown ( The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe )
      6 (1-  6) : Capacity, the duty and the desires ( Trust, Lust and Must )
      7 (1-  7) : First test ( After Hours )
      8 (1-  8) : Four Thanksgiving and a burial ( Four Thanksgivings and has Funeral )
      9 (1-  9) : One difficult following day ( Roofing stone the Boss? )
    10 (1-10) : Accounts of Christmas ( Fake Plastic Snow )
    11 (1-11) : The spoils ( Swag )
    12 (1-12) : The choice of Sofia ( Sofia' S Choice )
    13 (1-13) : " In" or " Out" ( In gold Out )
    14 (1-14) : Coming out ( I' m coming out )
    15 (1-15) : Brothers and sisters ( Brothers )
    16 (1-16) : Friendly friends? ( Derailed )
    17 (1-17) : The icing on the cake ( Icing One The Cake )
    18 (1-18) : Lies and mysteries ( Don' T Ask, Don' T Such )
    19 (1-19) : Intimate confessions ( Punch Out )
    20 (1-20) : Scandal with the one ( Petra-Spoils )
    21 (1-21) : Secretaries with the honor ( Secretaries' Day )
    22 (1-22) : Return to Mexico ( has Tree Grows In Guadalajara )
    23 (1-23) : East side story ( East side story )

Second season (2007-2008)

    24 (2-  1) : Titrate French unknown ( How Betty Got Her Grieve Back )
    25 (2-  2) : Titrate French unknown ( Family Affair )
    26 (2-  3) : Titrate French unknown ( Betty' S Wait Problem )
    27 (2-  4) : Titrate French unknown ( Grin and Bear It )
    28 (2-  5) : Titrate French unknown ( has League Their Own off)
    29 (2-  6) : Titrate French unknown ( Something Wicked This Way Comes )
    30 (2-  7) : Titrate French unknown ( has Nice Day for has Posh Wedding )
    31 (2-  8) : Titrate French unknown ( I see me, I.C.U )
    32 (2-  9) : Titrate French unknown ( Giving Up the Ghost )
    33 (2-  10) : Titrate French unknown ( Bananas for Betty )
    34 (2-  11) : Titrate French unknown ( Zero Worship )
    35 (2-  12) : Titrate French unknown ( Odor in the Court )
    36 (2-  13) : Titrate French unknown ( has Thousand Words By Friday )

Diffusion

The first episode was diffused the September 28th 2006 on ABC. The episodes are diffused Thursday with 20:00.

Comments

  • In France, the series should be diffused on TF1 which acquired the rights of them, after the oddment of the same kind the Destiny of LISA .

See too

Related article

  • the Destiny of LISA : the German adaptation of very the telenovela which inspired Ugly Betty .

External bonds

  • Official site of the series
  • Official site of the character of Betty
  • Allociné
  • UBF
  • UglyBetty.fr
  • French-speaking Uglybetty-fr.com
  • forum on Ugly Betty
  • Article on Ugly Betty

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