Ugly Betty: Scheming pretty people

Meet Betty. She's ugly. Well, not really ugly, TV ugly. She's not a size 0, she has glasses, and there's the giant braces. All she wants is to work at a magazine. Thanks to her uggitude, she gets the chance.

Meet Daniel. He, too, has a simple dream: to screw every attractive woman in New York. And not to screw up the job that his dad got him as editor-in-chief of fashion magazine Mode. Mostly the former, though. So to help him beat the problem he has with sleeping with his assistants, Daddy gets Daniel a new assistant: Betty. But Daniel really likes things the way they were, so he decides to go all Devil Wears Prada on Betty to get her to quit. It works.

Meet Wilhelmina. She's got Botox in her office and an assistant, Marc, who just got here from the 80s (black and pink sweater, black and white checkered shirt, yellow tie. Did he leave his Members Only jacket at home?). Wilhelmina thinks she should have gotten the editor-in-chief job. And probably, she should have, because she's right: Daniel only got the job through nepotism and doesn't know what he's doing. She sabotages Daniel's presentation to a major client to bring him down.

So: Daniel needs to present a new idea to the client next morning or he's toast! Betty has a good idea but is still upset with how she was treated! If you need me to explain what happens next, you have never seen TV.

The verdict: I like this show. It's light and fun, and sometimes over the top (there's even a death-faking), but as long as they can keep from ruining it like they did Desperate Housewives, it should be good times.