Ugly Betty

So I was watching Ugly Betty today. I'm not exactly huge fan of the show. I saw the premier and I was like "eh" but you know I'd catch it on now and again and I'd think we'll gosh this show has gotten interesting. So this season I've been watching every episode. It's been really great thus far.

Now I know my emotions have been a little too close to the surface lately so it may be nothing but I got really upset with today's episode. Basically Lindsey Lohan plays Betty's High School bully. You know Lohan was like head cheerleader, Miss popular and made poor nerdy Betty's life miserable.

Well now they're all grown up of course and Lohan is working at some fast food restaurant and Bettie's is assistant to the editor and chief of Mode magazine (which is pretty much the equivalent of Vogue in fantasy T.V. land) So a few episodes ago Bettie and Lohan have this big fight and Lohan ends up telling Bettie that she is sorry she's been such a bitch to Betty but she is just jealous of her success at mode and the fact that lohan is stuck in this crappy dead in job etc etc. Betty basically tells her to be the master of her own destiny and get out there and change her life if she isn't happy.

So in today's episode Lohan shows up at Mode and tells Betty that she was so inspired by her that she decided to come down to mode and see if she could get a job. Betty, while seemingly happy that Lohan is trying to make better of her life, is horrified at the thought of having to work with her. She tries to let her down easy by explaining that Mode isn't hring but if they decided to start Lohad would be the first person she called. Well of course in Mid let down Daniel (Betty's Boss) walks up and say to Betty, Gosh you've been so swamped lately why don't we get you a temp? So of course Lohan gets the temp job and end up as Betty's assistant.

At First Betty feels like after all the grief lohan has given her over the years maybe she should just let her fail miserable at Mode to teach her a lesson or at the very least get a little pay back but then she has a change of heart when she remembers how hard things were for her when she first started at Mode and she decides to be the bigger person and show Lohan the ropes.

The whole time you're just waiting for Lohan to stab Betty in the back and they keep eluding to it but then they do a 180 and it seems like maybe lohan really has changed and her and Bettie are quickly becoming the best of friends but by the end of it things are just how you knew they'd be.

Betty freaks out when she thinks lohan is trying to screw her over and inadvertently embarrasses Lohan in front of their co-workers by pantsing her. When Betty realizes that Lohan really wasn't trying to screw her she feels just awful and goes to her boss to asks for a promotion for lohan. Of course as soon as Lohan gets said promotion she really does Drop Betty like a rock leaving you to wonder if that had really been her plan all along.

As I am watching this all play out I found myself getting more and more upset. Like I was literally angry at the producers of the show for letting such an awful thing happen to our dear sweet Bettie Suarez. Before I knew it I found myself all choked up and teary eyed whipping my snot on my sweatshirt in between sobs.

I felt like I'd been warped back in time to Jr. High where girls were so mean it didn't seem human. Sure, in high school I got a thick skin and some amazing friends who would gladly spit in the face of any mean girl that dared to look down on me but in Jr. High I was still sweet as pie. Not a mean bone in my body and no one had my back.

Anyway like I said I've been a little over emotional lately anyway but something about tonight's Ugly Betty just seem to hit home in a way I was expecting.