Season 1 ended with some pretty big cliffhangers and several unanswered questions:
Does Charlie's pregnancy mean the end of Betty and Henry? And is the baby even Henry's?
Will Claire Meade be caught after escaping from prison?
Will Daniel and Alexis survive the car accident? And will Daniel find out that Alexis paid a guy to cut the brakes in an attempt to have their father killed?
Did Santos survive the convenience store shooting?
Season 2 kicks off with the resolution to a couple of these questions, namely Daniel and Alexis survive the accident but Alexis has amnesia, and, sadly, Santos did not survive, leaving a devastated Hilda to pick up the pieces. The answers to the other questions unfold as the season progresses. And it's another season of sometimes hilarious sometimes cringey one-liners, ridiculous storylines, Betty screwing up and/or saving the day, Wilhelmina and Marc scheming and brilliant cameos.
Here are my highlights from the season:
- Betty's telenovela dream
- Justine as Wilhelmina's little fashion elf
- Wilhelmina (speaking to Claire): "Hello? Is that no one's most wanted?"
- Amanda thinking Betty has always worn an eye patch
- The 'Naomi Campbell Tuna Meltdown' on the cafeteria menu
- Wilhelmina's bodyguard, Duane
- Marc creating a thunder sound effect for Wilhelmina's confrontation with Betty on the rooftop
- Henry getting drunk on wine coolers
- Amanda dressed as Fey Summers on the red carpet at the Black and White Ball
- Betty's Troll pen
- Victor Garber as Betty's writing professor
- Betty's bear calling her a "lying bitch" before attacking her in her dream
- [after Daniel finds Betty at a french fry stand...]
Betty: "How'd you find me?"
Daniel: "It's no secret, you turn to potatoes in time of need" - Wanda (aka Ugly Willy) - Wilhelmina before her glow-up
- The underwear model
- Betty typing "I love blowing" instead of "I love bowling" on her Internet dating profile
- The Wicked episode
- Marc dangling pork rinds in front of Wilhelmina
- Marc's boyfriend, Cliff - and "Mr Gutsly"
- Victoria Beckham outshining Wilhelmina at the bridal boutique
- Amanda singing Milkshake at the Wilhelmina and Bradford's wedding ceremony
- Mo'Nique as Lamanda, the weekend receptionist/security guard at Mode
- Lamanda referring to Henry as "sugarstick"
- Hilda's makeover of Claire so she can flee the country on a fake passport
- Justin referring to himself as a "Ag Hag" (Christina Aguilera fan)
- Marc (after Bradford's funeral): "Nobody pushes Wilhelmina Slater into an open grave!"
- Wilhelmina's Medusa X virus that crashes the Mode network and erases all their files
- Betty making a banana split on Henry's (ripped) stomach
- Justin's makeover of Henry
- The paintball war at Mode
- Wilhelmina slamming Betty White's hand in the cab door and the subsequent feud between the two
- Annie Potts as the psychic
- Amanda thinking Gene Simmons is her biological father
- Wilhelmina (referring to Christina): "That is one scotch on the rocks."
- Betty's encounter with Bow Wow when they're stuck in the elevator (and Betty referring to him as Mr Wow)
- Betty's to-go Ziploc bag of fondue cheese
- Betty and Gio's carriage ride
- Amanda thinking Betty is turning 40
- Justin's PE teacher, Coach Diaz (played by Eddie Cibrian)
- Lindsay Lohan as one of Betty's former school mates in a flashback (who uses her as a human shield in a game of dodgeball)
- Naomi Campbell batting for the Elle baseball team
- Five Madonna songs featured in the final episode: Spanish Lesson (Hilda and Coach Diaz have lunch), Miles Away (Gio helps Betty with her baseball skills and subsequently asks her to go to Rome with him), She's Not Me (the Mode vs Elle baseball game starts), Candy Shop (Naomi Campbell is up at bat) and Jump (Betty packs her bags, leaving us to wonder if she's going to Rome with Gio or Arizona with Henry - or neither!)
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