TV Review: 'Ugly Betty' quickly ties up loose ends
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ABC's "Ugly Betty" (8 tonight, WTAE) returns for its second season, wrapping up May cliffhangers, including the latest in the relationship drama between Betty (America Ferrera) and Henry (Christopher Gorham); whether or not Santos (Kevin Alejandro, "Drive") survived a shooting; whether Ignacio (Tony Plana) made it back to New York from Mexico; whether Daniel (Eric Maibus) and Alexis (Rebecca Romijn) survived their car accident; and how Amanda (Becki Newton) copes with the news that the deceased Fey Sommers was her mother.
Those are a lot of loose ends to wrap up (and, actually, there are more, including the whereabouts of prison escapee Claire Meade, played by Carnegie Mellon University alumna Judith Light), but "Betty" does a surprisingly nimble job of hopping from story to story without the hour feeling like a janitor cleaning up a mess in aisle five.
Written by executive producers Silvio Horta and Marco Pennette, it's a fun, free-wheeling frolic, filled with hilarious dialogue, especially the put-downs by one character of another that have become this show's creative specialty.
Next week's episode isn't as successful, mostly because the writers put Betty into a divided-loyalties situation that's too similar to the predicament Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) put seamstress Christina (Ashley Jensen) in last season.
First Published September 27, 2007 12:00 am
