Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fey's Sleigh Ride
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2006
Downstairs, Hot Photographer Vincent, Daniel, and Wilhelmina (in yellow this time) are working on the feature spread for the December issue. Daniel eyeballs two models wearing vaguely military-inspired get-ups and posing in front of some kind of nuclear landscape, and notes that he'd like to see a bit more skin. "It's a post-nuclear scene. Exposed skin would melt off their bodies," Wilhelmina wisely points out. Enter Bradford. Wilhelmina describes the concept of the shoot: it's a "post-apocalyptic Christmas." Daniel nods enthusiastically: "A Mad Max-mas, if you will." Bradford remains impassive as Wilhelmina waxes poetic about a Vietnamese designer she recently uncovered, who is doing an exclusive line of flak jackets for them. Bradford atonally approves the shoot without even hearing the rest of the details, and wanders off to figure out how he can recover the item that proves he's probably a murder. Everyone looks concerned. And maybe moderately relieved.
Cut to the Den of Recuperation, Bandages, and Ambient Lighting. "He was disturbed?" asks Fey (OR IS SHE?). Wilhelmina confirms that Bradford seemed very disturbed indeed. "He should be. He got sloppy," Fey notes. "And WE got a music box," Wilhelmina replies, fondling it. It is indeed the music box inscribed to Fey that Bradford is so peevish about losing.
Betty gets home from work to find her family knee-deep in Tamale Night...with Walter. Walter who dumped her for the neighbor. It seems rather rude of them to destroy the sanctity of tamales like that. Also, why is Betty's family on Team Walter? If I were in Betty's position, my father would be shooting warning shots at Walter from the front porch if he so much as darkened our doorstep. Except we don't have a front porch. Or a shotgun. As far as I know; presumably, my Dad could secretly be a spy. Anyway. Betty also would like to know why, exactly, Walter is partaking of Tamale Night. Everyone else sort of looks at her like, "Um, because it's Tamale Night?" America Ferrera has an awesome reaction to this, which is basically the facial expression you get when you're thinking, "HELLO, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHEATING?" But instead, Papa Suarez just tells her to be nice to their guest. Betty sort of shakes her head and sits down, explaining that she had a great time at that evening's networking event: "But it's not professional to eat, so I just had a mango margarita." As she says this, she repossesses her dad's coffee cup and rebukes him for not following doctor's orders. "What?" she asks Walter when she sees his disapproving face. Walter just thinks it's INTERESTING that Betty's DRINKING now: "You used to get woozy from your astringent." Oh, step off, Walter. She's not your girl anymore. Let the girl have a cocktail. Betty ignores this and just chuckles that she really had fun with the networking. She's finally starting to feel like she belongs!