Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.27.2006
Cue the montage of people yelling Betty's name: Gina, pissed about the TV; Amanda, pissed that she's still stuck at the reception desk; Walter, sad about his romantic rejection; and Daniel, who needs to get some paperwork from her as he leaves Mode for the day. Betty comes out of the building with Christina, and thanks her for planting her proposal on Daniel's desk. Christina will have none of her thanks, and leaves with a smile. Daniel, for his part, tells Betty that she should have let him tell Bradford that the whole thing was her idea. "Don't worry. I will the next time," she says, and they laugh. She starts going over Daniel's schedule for the next day, but he tells her it can wait. And it must -- the woman in Daniel's town car is getting antsy for his attention. As Betty walks off, she trips and almost falls on her head, but recovers nicely. Daniel, watching her, makes a face that clearly says, "that girl has MOXIE," gets in his car, and speeds off. KT Tunstall sings on the soundtrack that finally, she sees, this is what she wants to be. I think she means that she means to make a load of money off ABC this pilot season, because I've heard that song like nine times today alone ["not to mention over the 'fabulous outfits' montage in The Devil Wears Prada that made my sister and me clutch each other's hands and cry a little" -- Wing Chun]. I mean, I'm glad Betty's got her shit figured out, but enough already.
Next week: Betty loses the book. This is not going to convince the people who feel that this show is too much like The Devil Wears Prada that they are wrong.