I’m so depressed that tonight’s Ugly Betty was the penultimate episode of the season! So much is going on, it’s hard to imagine them tying up all the loose ends in next week’s episode. Ah, but they don’t want to tie them up now, do they? Then what would we have to look forward to next season? Okay, enough lamenting the inevitable end of the season, let’s talk about tonight’s episode. It was a doozy…
So much for my placebo theory, seems that Daniel is buzzing around about 106 miles an hour on the new mystery drug, making a fool of himself at editorial meetings, most of which end with Alexis and Daniel bickering like grammar-school siblings in a sandbox. An old girlfriend of Alex’s, Jordan, is hired for a feature in the magazine, causing some tension (since the last time she saw Alexis, she was a he). Daniel decides that he will join Jordan in the bungee-jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge photo shoot, just to piss his sister off. Of course, he manages to seduce Jordan before the episode is half over, upsetting Alexis even more.
Tensions are running high on the trip down to Mexico. On the plane, Ignacio admits he’s nervous about going back. When they arrive, we meet his sister Mirta, played by the incredible Rita Moreno! It is so nice to see her again, and boy howdy, does she looks fabulosa! At the gathering to welcome the visiting Suarezes, Betty meets a curandera, a healer who tells her she will be unhappy for the rest of her life unless she finds the answers behind the missing branches of a big tree. Given that Betty was working on her family tree on the flight down and has been unable to fill out her mother’s side, this seems the obvious place to start. But she soon discovers that no one is willing to talk about her maternal extended family. Betty gets Aunt Mirta drunk to pry information from her, and finds out that her maternal grandmother, her abuela, is still alive.
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