A “betty” is known as a woman who dresses like a skateboarder but doesn’t skate. Her sole purpose is to be a hanger-on in the often male represented skate community. HBO’s BETTY, a comedy created/directed by Crystal Moselle, takes this concept and kick-flips it on its head. We follow the all-female Stake Kitchen collective throughout their misadventures in New York City. The "Skate Kitchen" Cinematic Universe BETTY is a continuation-slash-reboot of 2018’s Skate Kitchen, with the origin story of Skate Kitchen getting remixed to fit the series. Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) served as the protagonist of Skate Kitchen. But in BETTY, the other girls - Indigo (Ajani Russell), Kirt (Nina Moran), Janay (Dede Lovelace), and Honey Bear (Kabrina Adams) - pull equal weight in character development. The first three episodes of the series lay the bricks of the girl’s arcs. The hard pivot of the story from the film takes a while to calibrate in your mind if you’ve seen the film before. But once it doe
