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'Ugly Betty' gets her groove back: A chat with creator Silvio Horta

Posted May 12th ago via The Watcher 
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It's easy for a young woman making her way in the big city to get lost. Just ask Betty Suarez. As its second season wore on, Ugly Betty,' which follows the awkward but winning Queens native Betty (America Ferrera) as she navigates the dangerous waters of the Manhattan fashion world, veered further and further away from the things that had made it such a roaring success. The plots were too numerous, too repetitive and sometimes overly outlandish (yes, even for this frequently arch soap). The show's mixture of sly humor and earnest sweetness took a back seat to frenetic plots and predictable, often irritating, supporting characters. One story line involving Betty's choice between two suitors seemed to go on forever, as I noted in this recent post.    We lost Betty's point of view,' Ugly Betty' creator and executive producer Silvio Horta said in a recent interview. We kept adding layers and layers to the cake.' Though the season started out promisingly, things had gone off course even before the writers' strike, Horta noted. We'd have seven or eight story lines and it started to feel more sitcom-y,' he noted. We needed to get back to the basics of what you felt in Season 1 and the first few episodes of Season 2. ... We think there's much more that the show can be.' But just as the writers were in the midst of making many post-strike course corrections - Thursday's episode (7 p.m., WLS-Ch. 7) is by far the most enjoyable and least frantic Ugly Betty' outing in some time - news broke that the entire production would be moving across the country. Last week, the cast and crew were told that, thanks...

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