
When I traveled to Napa to attend the premiere of
Bottle Shock, one of the stars I was most excited to speak with was Gio. Freddy Rodriguez. I've always admired his work on shows like
Six Feet Under and of course
Ugly Betty, and I'm excited to see that he'll still take part in an independent movie now and again.
His character in the movie, Gustavo Brambila, is a person in real life, and Rodriguez appeared to have a good relationship with him at the premiere.
Ugly Betty didn't have its own session at this Summer's
TCA press tour, but executive producer Silvio Horta did stop by ABC's showrunners panel (delivering one of the
best lines of the press tour in the process).
Afterwards, a few other reporters and I huddled with Horta to find out what's on tap for season three of Betty. While he didn't, you know, reveal
which guy Betty chooses, he still had a lot to say about Betty's growth, Lindsay Lohan's arc, and what will become of Hilda and the coach.

The onset of Summer also means the return of my
Five Questions series, in which I take a look back at the most recent seasons of some favorite TV shows and pose some hypothetical questions about their future. Today's questions are for
Ugly Betty, which will start its third season in the Fall.
- Is it time for a new focus other than Betty's love life.

Is
Ugly Betty's love triangle about to become a love . . .

The title of the
Ugly Betty finale is also the title of one of my favorite Madonna songs (not on her
new album, FYI), and it was used to close the episode. It's a fitting tune for this episode, since a lot of the characters were forced to take a proverbial leap of some sort last night — especially Betty.
If the
Gossip Girl finale revealed too much, Ugly Betty left us with a considerable cliffhanger which actually surprised me. Overall I thought the show was really cute, as usual, and I'm sad to see it go.