By Montykins
Mode doesn't have the money to pay full price for photographers, and Wilhelmina is unwilling to let Daniel do all the paying. So she makes some sacrifices to hold up her end, including selling some furs and eating almonds instead of caviar. I did not know that almonds were considered the nadir of snack foods, but now I do. Wili has a moment of doubt, but finally throws all her furs at Marc and looks awesome doing it. But she's not giving up her caviar and champagne, because she's gotta be who she is. And who is she? Someone who reclines on a couch and eats caviar and drinks champagne in the middle of the day.
Betty unexpectedly meets Matt's mother, who is played by Christine Baranski. She is icy and rich and, I think, drunk 100% of the time. I guess she's as close as we're going to get to my dream of having AbFab's Patsy Stone on the show (seriously, what's the hold-up here? Get this done!). Matt brings Betty to a torture-themed party at his mother's place, and Betty inexplicably does not wear that barbed-wire hat she got from Heinrich. I guess it's a good thing, because the party is really about opera. Betty bluffs her way through that but discovers that Matt's mother looks down on her.
Let's see, what else... oh, right. Daniel and Molly have a difference of opinion about her cancer treatment and Elena tries to set Hilda up with a Queens Councilman played by Ralph Macchio. Ralph Macchio! I know! Anyway, more on them in the weecap.
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