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.
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