Is that the bitch with the show that's like a gender reversed version of "Flavor Of Love"? Ugh, someone shoot her with a flamethrower.
No, it's a sitcom about an ugly looking chick who manages to get hired at a big-time fashion magazine or something of that sort. It's a remake of a telenovela.
Giving some little honey a bad haircut, braces, and glasses is not enough to qualify as "finally writing a lead character who represents the un-pretty home audience". She needs to weigh like 300lbs, with her whole body covered in cystic acne and a giant cauliflower wart for a nose. And hairy moles on her eyelids. All that image does is shift the sliding scale so that something beneath "ugly" actually covers most people. "See this? We call that ugly, and you only wish you could look that good! HA!"
Never watched the show, but a friend of my daughter's had a continuing guest star role during the first season.
Well, I think she's fairly unattractive whether she's made up as "ugly": or made up as "pretty": Well, maybe without the TV show get-up, she's not really "ugly", she's just sort of average. Something about beauty being in the eye of the beholder comes to mind.
Talking about how so-called 'unattractive people' in movies and films usually aren't reminds me of the funny parody of 'She's All That' that's in 'Not Another Teen Movie.' Austin bets Jake that he can make any girl Jake chooses prom queen. Jake promptly fixates on the least attractive girls in the school... Jake: "What about her?" [indicating hunchback girl walking by] Austin: "So baby's got a little back. Hunch, that is. Naah, way too easy." Jake: "OK." [indicates hippy albino girl playing guitar] Albino Folk Singer: [singing] "I have no pigment..." Austin: "Any girl with a guitar is hot." Albino Folk Singer: [continues singing] "I need sunscreen..." Austin: "Granted, she's a hippy albino. She could still be prom queen." Jake: "OK, uh, what about the Fratelli sisters?" [indicates awkward Siamese twins conjoined at the head] Austin: "So they're slightly disfigured and connected at the head. But combined, those two make up one pretty decent chick." Reggie Ray: "Yeah, I'd do 'em." Austin: "I know you would, Reggie Ray. But no, I'm looking for somebody who's really messed up. I'm talking about a real shitbomb." [Janie Briggs walks by] Austin: "Well, bombs away!" Of course, Janie Briggs is clearly a really, really unattractive girl, not a hot girl made up to look a little tomboyish or anything... This is clearly too big a stretch for Jake... Jake: "No, no, no, no, anyone but her! Not... Janie Briggs! Guys, she's got glasses and a ponytail! Aw, look at that, she's got paint on her overalls, what is that? Guys, there's no way she could be prom queen!"
