Betty’s been getting rather down in the dumps lately, realising she’s made no progress towards her future goal of becoming an editor…until she learns about YETI, which is a program for assistants to train to become editors.
Except the deadline is the next day.
Of course, Marc is also in the running, which puts the pressure on as only one assistant from each magzine gets chosen, so one of them can get in and the other one won’t. Initially Betty decides to go the crap, easy route of putting together a fashion magazine as she can do that easily overnight, but when things go wrong she gives up. And you know, this was a stupid premise to begin with because if the whole point is to show your unique twists on magazines and provide something new, how is presenting another run-of-the-mill magazine going to get you a place?
So then Betty steals my idea of a magazine celebrating strong women in the world, women whose lvies don’t revolve around being a size 0 and who they’re dating, but one celebrating intelligent and creative women from all walks of life. They’re obviously impressed.
But Marc has also come up with an impressive idea, having spent several months working on his pitch. Betty believes she has no chance, so is shocked when she gets in. Marc, extremely upset to have lost his place and probably still upset over losing Cliff (which causes me to grieve for days in bed yet again before picking up and continuing this review), lets her know it’s because she’s latina, so she fills their ethnic quota. Ouch. When she calls to ask, they don’t deny it. Wow. Yet again, this frivolous show about clothes and makeup manages to delve into a deeper issue with such grit and gumption….it’s what I lvoe about this show. Even if Amanda is spiralling like a roller-coaster between sweet and bitch too often for my liking. She’s starting to act like one of the characters on Heroes.
So, Betty resigns from YETI and allows Marc to take the spot. He in turns receives praise from Wilhemina, something he thought didn’t exist. And Daniel, who wrote an essay-length feature on how great she is, manages to get her another spot, so the 2 of them are in YETI after all.
In other news, Willy tries getting Connor’s attention by taking him to a lush hotel and getting him while drunk, while Daniel tries not to fall in love with Molly. Boh fail miserably, thus proving how inferior they are as opposed to the wonderful, amazing Alexis. I miss her already.
Justin’s budding romance comes to a crashing halt, as his friend realises how his gang is laughing at him for hanging out with the camp musical guy. So he ditches Justin to be a jock again, and Justin cries in his pillow without fully understanding why. It was really sweet, this little budding relationship without ever coming out as a relationship. I hope they find Justin a boyfriend soon.
Like nobody saw that coming.
