Episode Report Card Jessica: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Queens For A Day
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.11.2006
However, Juston doen't get to weigh in. Instead, Wyclef Jean and Shakira inform us that hips don't lie as Betty waggles hers down the street. It turns out that the men in Queens think Betty looks hot, from Walter, to Walter's friends, to construction workers. Betty is adorably pleased by the catcalls from the dudes working on the street, going so far as to thank her hardhatted friends for whistling at her. It's really rather endearing. From a high-fashion standpoint, however, she looks...really over-the-top and tacky. I will say, however, that America Ferrera has great calves, and should wear heels constantly.
At Mode, Betty gets on the elevator with Bradford, who doesn't recognize her now that she has a fountain of hair flowing from the top of her head. She politely reintroduces herself, and you can tell that he's taken aback. "Oh. Yes. You look...taller," he finally manages. Betty just thanks him and smoothes her beehive. Excuse me, it's actually a beehive WITH A SIDE PONYTAIL. I don't think I need to tell you that everyone in the office stares at her as she walks from the elevator to her desk. Evil Marc actually even turns around and chases her, just so he can get a picture of her on his Razr. "I think I just found my new screensaver!" he crows.
Meanwhile, in his office, Daniel takes a phone call from "a woman who won't give her his name," but who we know to be Fey Sommers. Fey asks Daniel yet again how well he really knows his father, and suggests that he ask Bradford what he's been up to at "the Bayonne salvage yard." This plotline is moving as slowly as an actual daily soap opera, like how on Passions it takes one month to get through Valentine's Day. Which reminds me, I haven't watched Passions in ages. Once they dispensed with the storyline of the nun who was in love with her own brother, I was kind of out. Although, honestly, I was kind of out the moment they made the delectably evil Julian Crane -- a man who carried around a book titled How To Kill Your Sister And Get Away With It -- into kind of a lovesick sad sack. But then I was in again when they had a terrible tsunami and Katherine Crane surfed the wave on the coffin of her dead sister. But then I was out again when they decided to give the storyline about the girl who starts hooking for her boyfriend, who's brainwashed her into believing she's accidentally a serial killer, to the worst actress on the whole show. If it's picked up again, please email me.