Betty la fea capitulo 4
It is, therefore, no surprise that today, 22 years after premiering, Yo Soy Betty, La Fea is one of the most-watched shows in Latin America. It is set in a country that pairs its stark racial, economic, and gender inequality with resilience, liveliness, and creativity. The show is outdated in many ways – I couldn’t tell you how many times I cringed while watching! – but it also offers endless opportunities for reflection. Another example is how Armando and Betty’s dad, don Hermes, psychologically abuses and controls Betty. For instance, the show emphasizes the fashion industry’s frivolous side with tired clichés such as the shallow homosexual designer, the empty-headed, sexually available model, and the glorification of fit bodies and European looks. During my marathonic re-watch, I found examples of superficiality, corruption, power abuse, misogyny, sexual harassment, homophobia, and more. I recall the show being very funny and absorbing, but I also remember how it attempted to shine a light on some of Latin America’s ugliest behaviors. This is a country that is not quite my own, but that feels very much like home. Re-watching the show was meaningful to me because it stirred my complex relationship with his country – there are many things I admire and many I don’t – but it also made me feel in touch with my younger self and my roots. Little did I know that, years later, I’d find them equally fascinating in my Colombian husband. One of the things that stood out to me then was the characters’ catchy accents, words, and sayings. Yo Soy Betty, La Feawas my first conscious contact with Colombia. Betty’s laugh made her unique, and so did her intelligence, humility, and occasional talent for concocting plots of her own. My best friend, a fellow Betty fan, laughs the same way (her mom once told her off in front of me for laughing like Betty, but when I found that funny and started laughing the same way, she had to drop it). I looked forward to seeing it with my sister who, like me, happens to laugh just like Betty in what I can only describe as a peculiar mix between a choking spell and a creaking door. I was 13 years old when I first saw Yo Soy Betty, La Fea.
Luckily, Betty has a loving family and supportive friends, including her work clique – also known as “el cuartel de las feas” – and an eccentric best friend, Nicolás. In her time working for Ecomoda, a renowned textile company based in Bogotá, she is manipulated by her boss Armando and his friend Mario is emotionally abused by her boss’ fiancée, Marcela Valencia, and her friend Patricia and is bullied non-stop for her appearance. She has facial hair, glasses, and braces, and wears loose-fitting clothing that wouldn’t typically be seen as fashionable. The story centers around Betty, a kind, smart, and funny woman who is not considered attractive per her society’s standards. Betty) and Jorge Enrique Abello as Armando Mendoza. It stars Ana María Orozco as Beatriz Pinzón Solano (a.k.a. Yo Soy Betty, La Fea– or “ Ugly Betty” as it’s known in English –premiered in Colombia in 1999. Feeling too weak and foggy for anything else, I binge-watched a ridiculous number of episodes in a single day and embarked on a nostalgic journey where I reconnected with the story’s humor and quirkiness, but also with the issues it knowingly and unknowingly spotlights. It is the first telenovela to have been remade worldwide and has been regarded as bringing the telenovela to new levels of success.A few weeks ago, while convalescing from Covid in my mother-in-law’s home in Colombia, I re-watched Yo Soy Betty, La Fea, the famed Colombian soap opera that I’d originally come across two decades ago in Costa Rica, my home country.
In addition, the premiere episode doubled and in some cases nearly tripled its prior audience among all key demographics.Due to the success of re-runs aired in the United States, in June 2009, Yo soy Betty, la fea re-aired in México on Canal de las Estrellas.Betty, la Fea is arguably the most successful telenovela of all time and one of the most popular television shows in the world. Eight years after the telenovela's original run, the highly anticipated return of the original version of Yo Soy Betty, La Fea delivered impressive ratings for the network, attracting over one million viewers, more than half a million of which were adults aged 18–49. In the United States, both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Televisa program La Fea Más Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera.Betty, la Fea re-aired on Spanish-language U.S. More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. Yo soy Betty, la fea is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced from Octoto by the Colombian network RCN.