Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fashion Roadkill!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.09.2008
There's a completely idiotic thing about how Hilda's made -- and is currently, at this very second making -- a huge gross mistake, but after all is "a good person," which I guess gets her off the hook somehow. I hate that so much. All you are is your behavior. If you're acting like a bad person, you're a bad person. Stop doing it, and go back to being a good person again. It's that simple. There are a million ways of expressing the idea that Betty knows Hilda's capable of better and loves her regardless, but that useless "good person" thing leaves a Big Brother taste in my mouth too easily. It's something a stupid person would say.
Blah blah, is she naïve or the most amazing person ever for being naïve and whatever, the whole point of Betty Suarez is that she's smart enough to be pessimistic, and chooses to be optimistic, and that's why she is strong. Betty's belief in people and faith in herself is not a symptom of some greater retardation; it's the reason I love the show. This has come up three times in three episodes, but it's like, you don't have to be innocent or particularly naïve to believe the best of people. You just have to do it. So they pop the tape in and rather than Daniel shoving a Scottish girl down some stairs, he's fucking some girl on the Xerox machine. Betty's funny: "Ew! Daniel! This is dirty! ...And awkward." Ignacio just kind of stands there feeling weird.
Betty drops the tape on his desk -- how great is it that his first week back it's still so scary in there? -- and starts yelling at him about how she had to watch him fuck some girl with her dad, which admittedly is yucky, and he stands up and explains that he's borrowing Ignacio's storyline from last year and is seen here boning Holly, that forgettable State Department liaison who's helping him retain custody of the awful French child. He's worried that it will look like he's doing exactly what he's doing, so he was willing to do a little time in lockup until they found the real "culprit" to keep Holly's job and his custody case safe, because DJ gives him a reason or something. Betty throws her arms around him and immediately starts talking about herself.
After about ten minutes of Betty patting herself on the back for believing something so obvious that everyone on the show told her fifteen times in every scene, Daniel excuses himself to "pick up DJ," which I think is code for "go throw up," and tosses her the raincoat, explaining that Alexis can just have it anyway: it looks better on her.