UGLY BETTY
Almost every Television show I've ever watched from the beginning of the series usually ends up being canceled after a season, if not sooner. This time, it was a little bit backwards. I came in towards the end of the Series after finding out it had been canceled.
Four weeks and a few hours ago, I had never seen an episode of Ugly Betty. Tonight I watched the series finale and almost wanted to cry at the loss. Somehow Ugly Betty, a show that I once refused to watch because I thought it wouldn't be good, grew on me quickly and I found myself hooked.
I watched the episode titled: "All The World's A Stage." I only watched it because my brothers friend was a guest star on it. He was only on it for this one episode so I figured I'd watch it for him and then wouldn't need to watch it again. Then for some reason, then next week on Thursday, I watched "Million Dollar Smile" on Hulu. Why? I don't really know. Then the next week I watched "London Calling." The show that I never thought I would like, had me intrigued. I started searching for the episodes on YouTube.
After finding someone that had posted all the third season, I started to watch all the episodes.I was a little lost but it was nothing Wikipedia couldn't help solve. Then as I got towards the middle of the third season, I found someone that had all four seasons. I stopped at the episode I was watching and started from the very beginning.
What was I thinking? I've spent the last two weeks watching seasons 1,2,3, and now after tonight, 4. I spent my spare time watching all the episodes when I could have been cleaning my disaster of a room, catching up on some homework, or better yet, going to class sometimes. It was like an addiction.
Now the thing feeding my addiction is gone. Sure, I'll always be able to watch the seasons over and over again, but I'll never get to know what happened after we see Betty walking our into Trafalgar Square....That is unless by some miracle a movie is made. Which to be honest, most likely won't happen. I would love it if it would, but I just don't think any producers would think it'd be a big success.
I am honestly mad at myself for never giving this beautiful show a chance before now. Although, sometimes the best things in life just happen by chance. I watched an episode to watch Aaron for an episode, and by chance, I fell in love with what the show had to offer.
In the second to last episode, "The Past Presents The Future," Justin came out to his family. It seemed like it happend in such a simple and not a big deal kid a way. But it was. After watching him grow from a young, fashion conscious kid, dealing with whether or not to conform to societies standards, to coming out to his family, not through words, but back actions? It was anything but simple. It was ginormous, at least in the big deal of things. We need shows like this on television that are able to show things in society and show how they can be handled. It's shows like Ugly Betty that will help "coming out of the closet" not a big deal. In fact, one day in the future, people won't have to announce that they are homosexual, it will be just as normal as when heterosexuals are in relationships.
Being true to who you are is another big thing that was in Ugly Betty throughout the series. Whether or not you are being a nice person, you should always be who you are and not pretend to be someone you are not. It's like like in the season 1 episode "Sofia's Choice."At the end of the episode when Betty is quitting MYW, she says something (referring to the people at MODE) along the lines of "they might be superficial, but at least they know it and don't pretend to be something they're not." If you know who you are and you're okay with it, then that is better than being fake and untrue to yourself any day.
It's almost 2 am where I am right now and I honestly am so tired (from watching the finale and from a long day of school/work) that I don't think I could write more if I tried. It's unfortunate that such an amazing show had to be canceled. But I am happy that I discovered it before it was gone completely. Because of this show, in the past 2 weeks, I have learned more about myself than I have in a while, and I am so grateful for it.