After 25 years and one year since the announcement of her return, Prime Video launches Ugly Betty on July 19, the story continues. Despite emerging as a typical Latin American soap opera (Colombian to be precise), over time I am Betty the Ugly one (popularly known in the country as Ugly Betty) became a practically avant-garde novel rescued by popular feminism to show more than just gender vindication, the sufferings to which millions of women, especially in the region, were subjected. : mistreatment, mistreatment, discrimination and other aggressions that patriarchy has sophisticated (and continues to do so) for millennia, in principle because of her appearance, but more because of her condition as a woman.
In 355 episodes between 1999 and 2001, the character of Beatriz Pinzón Solano won the hearts of an audience that exceeded women and identified hundreds of thousands of people discriminated against daily because of their appearance. Betty represented them: her suffering, persistence and determination to find a job and have the possibility of showing all her knowledge in the textile industry until Armando Mendoza chooses her as her personal secretary and changes the direction of the company. .
This time, as far as is known, the story will go between the management of Ecomoda and the family frictions and concerns, where the couple’s crisis in the midst of raising their teenage daughter has a central place. This new part contains a good number of the original cast, starting with Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello being the protagonists. Julián Arango, Natalia Ramírez, Lorna Cepeda, Luces Velásquez, Marcela Posada, Mario Duarte, Julio César Herrera, Ricardo Vélez, Alberto León Jaramillo and Estefanía Gómez are also part of it.
Speculation about this return is not abundant, and the few that exist relate it to the lucrative aspect. However, the series could serve to show aspects of gender and harassment in a different era than the original Betty. Now there are networks, women have won some struggles and especially visibility over the discrimination they suffer, and men are also different, either because they have become more reactionary as libertarians, or because they demand freer places to which, they too, patriarchy forced it for so long.
Ugly Betty, the story continues
Premiere: July 19 Prime Video.
