The Critic
From Thursday's Washington Post:
THE NEW SEASON TV Preview
Look Homely, Angel
ABC's 'Ugly Betty' Is Plainly Lovable
By Tom Shales
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 28, 2006; Page C01
"Ugly Betty" isn't just entertainment, it's therapy. Nirvana therapy. It's happiness in a tube, or rather The Tube. It's a pint of Ben & Jerry's with no fat or calories. It's tuning in to "The View" to discover they all have laryngitis. It's Florida without those disgusting bugs.
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Mmmmkay... When I walked into the house Thursday evening, Ugly Betty was what the girls were watching. Aside from the fact that it was arguably too adult for my 11 year old to watch ("Too many icky parts!"), it was one of those painful 5 minute periods where I see a show and immediately tune it out as not worth any further attention. A total piece of crap, even before the girls had a chance to vote. Who gets off on watching the lead character be serially treated like crap by a bunch of hoes?
I had no idea, until they ladies stopped watching it, what the they were watching, and hadn't even heard of this new show, Ugly Betty. I thought, in the short time I saw it, that it was some spiced-up made-for-Disney movie, thus guaranteeing that it would be a one-time event in our house. It just had that look to it. Luckily, even though it was a series, not a movie, the girls were pretty merciless ("needlessly catty!", "deep, evil plot twist at the end!", "totally derivative of a bunch of earlier 'Girl Meets World' movies!"). It seems we won't be cursed, in my house, with its ongoing episodes between now and its cancellation.
So there's that.
But when I looked at what the WaPo section of my Google home page showed, I saw a story about a review of the series, excerpted above. I took a look, assuming that whomever reviewed it would have roughly the same views as those on the softer side of my house. Newp.
Gushing review. "...therapy", "Nirvana therapy", "happiness in a tube", "a pint of Ben & Jerry's with no fat or calories".
What the hell? Who could possibly think such a thing? And then I looked at the header over the review:
Well, never mind - that explains everything.
[wik] Hey, for all I know, he's otherwise a genius. (That is a "he", isn't it?) I'm only casting aspersions on this particular critique.
[alsø wik] Of course I can make such a catty swipe, because I'm perfect. Except for my yoooge head. He's apparently got more hair than I, but he also has more chins.
[alsø alsø wik] As la mia figlia would say "Woof!"
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I think it's less that he has
I think it's less that he has more chins than you, than that he has a meta-chin. A single neck-chin structure, joined by age and flab.
And you'd think someone who writes about style would have a better haircut.
Just looking at the picture,
Just looking at the picture, he looks like (with that self-involved smirk, beady eyes and lanky hair) someone I'd probably end up wanting to smack after five minutes of conversation.
B,
B,
You know, judging by his picture- reinforcing we're talking solely about a single image here- I doubt you'd get 5 minutes of conversation, since conversation means alternating between listening and speaking.
I think it would be more like you'd meet the guy and hear him talk for about 3 minutes, then either look for a graceful way out or just slap him in his meta-chin. With his chinmeat rippling and flapping, blocking others' line of sight, you could probably make a discrete getaway.