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14 April 2010

goodbye to an american beauty

After four seasons of bright and noisy comic melodrama, Betty Suarez is leaving us to our own devices, as "Ugly Betty," which bowed in an explosion of color and fairy-tale tropes in the fall of 2006, rushes toward its end Wednesday night on ABC.

A multicultural fantasia that celebrated difference and the acceptance of difference, whether of race, class, sexual orientation or fashion sense, "Ugly Betty" was also unique in its tone, a mix of comedy and melodrama, the funky and the refined, the fanciful and the actual.

The show ends, as it began: a story of renewal, of identity claimed and proclaimed, of lighting out for the territories.

Read the entire story here.

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