I gotta, be honest here when, gossip girl came out
I un-ironically watched it all from beginning to end back in like 2007 or eight or whatever it is a show
Started I mean I guess I was like 19 or 20 at the time, which
Is kind of mind-blowing to think about because I turned 30 this year what am I doing with
My life but anyway I was really into the show, when it was on I mean I wasn't like, making my
Own fan pages or whatever but it was pretty bad for a
While there so now that i'm much older and allegedly much wiser I thought
Oh, gee wouldn't it be nice to take
A trip down, memory lane and see how, old gossip girl holds up now up to now i've talked, mainly about teen shows
That i'd never seen before and I was just kind of giving my
Initial impressions but this time i'm in the same boat as a lot of you this used to be one of my
Favorite shows some eight or nine years ago but now that the rose-colored glasses are coming off how, does it hold up
Well let's take a, look, the show starts out with Serena suddenly arriving back in New York
York, city after being away all of last year for some mysterious and very sudden reason
When she gets back we're immediately introduced to the main plot stick or whatever the show
wWhich is that there's a blog called Gossip Girl that gathers and distributes all the gossip hence the very clever name of the show
About the social elite teams of New York City
"One of my many sources melanie91 sends us this spotted at Grand Central
Bags in hand Serena Van Der Woodsen
Was it only a year ago our It girl mysteriously
Disappeared for quote boarding school" at the same time we're introduced to Dan Humphrey the poor brooding nobody kid
Who writes novels and fell in love with Serena back in ninth grade and now just stares at her
From afar because he's very well-adjusted. Flashing sideways, we meet Blair and Nate who are at some kind of party
Which literally, is the setting of every episode in the show and we see them trying to do the devil's tango
"I love you Nate Archibald always have always will"
Ha! liar Serena shows up, which Surprises everyone and then suddenly leaves because the party's like, so lame flashing back to Dan
We see him his sister and his dad in their we're barely scraping by apartment
"Guess who's dad is cool. Its a trick question. Yeah because it can't be ours. Hahaha look at this"
"Top, ten forgotten bands of the 90s yeah check out number 9 he's very proud hey, hey, way to be forgotten"
You know this is one of those like, hollywood things, where, okay?
So like dan is supposed to be the poor kid the everyman you know
His, dad's working hard trying to make ends meet for his kids and all that and somehow
They can afford to live in the apartment on the cover of every interior decorating magazine, yes clearly times are tough Dan hard cheese
He only, has triple ply toilet paper, won't someone think of the children
"But that's how you get remembered maybe you'd care if dad's band was on Gossip Girl
What I don't read Gossip Girl that's for chicks
So that wasn't your laptop open to it last night reading all about Serena Van Der Woodsen" hey, yeah speaking of which you didn't
Check, any of the other, tabs did you I mean those were just pop-ups I swear it wasn't
Me stop stop looking upon learning that Serena is back in town Nate decides to wait for her outside her hotel
"Nate, oh, hey"
"Your mom told me you guys were staying here at the palace, yeah we're renovating again you know my mom it's not broke break it
So, what are you doing here oh i just wanted to see how
You were" and before you, ask, no I wasn't just standing here waiting for you to come out like, some kind of creepy stalker
Why, would you even say that and also before you, ask, yes as a matter of fact i am trying to look like
Jonathan taylor thomas circa 1993 thank you for noticing
"Serena, no"
"No, no but you're, back now I didn't come, back for you"
Look, Blair's my best friend and you're her boyfriend and she loves you" Liar! now the kids have
Their first day of school Dan hops on the public
City bus and for some reason Nate and his friend Chuck are on the same bus, maybe it's just because it's like
The first episode or whatever but given the setting of the show
And how, these characters are presented you know like there's super-rich kids, who live in mansions and they have their
Own personal drivers and everything but here they are riding the public
City bus, which is something they never do ever again, in the entire show at school Serena meets up with Blair and they
showcase the power of girl friendship
"Well we should get going then"
"Unless you want us to wait for you looks like you got a lot of yogurt left, no go ahead"
"Blair, think, we could meet tonight
I'd love to" After school, by the flagpole loser has to string up their underwear for a week "The palace 8 o'clock
Nate will wait" Spotted on the steps of the Met an S & B power struggle
"I could probably do a half hour", did S think she could waltz home and things, would be just like they were thanks for making the time
"You're, my best friend"
Could have fooled me now later Serena and Blair meet up in Serena's hotel and talk about what really happened over the last year
"I'm really, sorry
Yeah, I could, tell since you didn't call or write the entire time It was happening. No I know I was just
Boarding school
Do you know how it felt calling your house when you didn't show up at school and having your mom say
Serena didn't tell you that she moved to Connecticut I just I had to go like I needed to get away from
everything"
Yeah, you know I get that feel I mean I moved all the way around the world to get away
From everything to but I mean Connecticut really pretty sure, no one goes there on purpose it's like, Narnia but like if Narnia
Was full of garbage I've actually never been there I have no
Idea what I'm talking about I mean I'm from Iowa I got nothing to brag about anyway so Serena and Blair make up
Kind of I guess, and we flash sideways again
Back to Dan who earlier had a near-death experience when Serena showed up at the same department store that he and his sister were at
"Hey, wow the invisible man returns you know I really had, no idea he could move that fast
Yeah, well uh your fashion emergency, was solved so I figured, my work, was done come on Dan
Sarina, said hi to you at
A ninth grade birthday party and you've never forgotten it" you know, this line, basically, sums up
my entire high school experience Imean some poor girl, would make, eye contact with, me like once of the hallway
And that was it we were getting married it was destiny after Blair leaves the bar Serena stays behind drinking martinis
Which I mean I guess it's better than mimosas for breakfast am I right and here she runs into Chuck
Who, gives us all a lesson on how to really get to a
Girl's heart "how about I just get a bite to eat I've been drinking on an empty stomach I heard you didn't do that anymore
special occasion
Well how, about a grilled cheese with truffle oil"
So that's how
You get girls in high school I thought I needed to have like
Hollister jeans or like a bunch of wrist bands or something but, no I just needed to go around handing out grilled
Cheese sandwiches I've been doing it wrong this whole time
While this is going on Nate and Blair are trying once again to do Satan's mambo but
Nate has something very very important to tell Blair "is it too much I
Want it to be special
What's wrong?
Look, I don't how, to say this"
But in gremlins the rule is that you can't feed them, after midnight but, like, what about daylight savings time
And isn't it technically always midnight somewhere can gremlins travel through time zones Chuck tries to act out
50 Shades of Grey with Serena, who just isn't having it that night Blair is hosting a party, because like I said, that's quite
Literally, the only thing that ever happens in this show
And while getting ready we get a small look at her relationship with her mom
"Why are you wearing that one didn't you see the dress I left on the bed
I like this one
this one is not as elegant a choice, as that one
Why, do you care so much
because I love you
Blair, you will never be more beautiful or thin or happy than you are right now"
Boy, you know nothing that girl likes to hear more than hey, you're an appreciating
Asset it's all downhill from here and then we end up at the party remember back, when
We all thought that school dances and parties would be like this you know. Like all glitzy and glamor with like
Camera angles all the time you know and then you finally go to one and it's just people standing around, doing like a
Whole lot of nothing and they play a slow
Song and you just kind of like shoot right for the snack table because you know
That's where you're, gonna be the whole night anyway but it's fine I don't care I came here for this next anyway, okay
Who, wants a doughnut
Then Chuck, goes after, Dan's sister Dan punches. Chuck it's a, whole thing you know, watching the show. Back now it's interesting how
Like, okay so this show
Came out before youtube, was really a big thing certainly before twitter or instagram even existed but, like if this show
Was made today with the internet the way it is now this would be a really different show
The most jarring thing for me watching the show. Back now it's just how
Analog, everyone's life is the show, was about social elites in like crazy rich teenagers in New
York city but like, no one's vlogging or Snapchatting, no one's talking about Instagram followers or likes or whatever I mean this show
Might as, well be in a different universe the world of like 9 years ago it's like watching a documentary on ancient
Egypt this, world just doesn't exist anymore but, yeah like I said I used to really love this show, and honestly i couldn't
Tell you, why although i'll, be honest here compared to what, we have now, where everything is vampires werewolves
Shape-shifting things or whatever i mean this show is actually a really tame and chill I think we could use a few more shows like
This, nowadays you know i'm saying, hey
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Big fan of Gossip Girl, when it came out I mean i guess I was kind of in like the perfect
Age demographic whatever but now you know as someone who's almost
30 going back, and watching it it's like man this show, was really weird I mean compared to the other teen, shows
right like you know like I said you got vampires you got
Wearwolves you got shape-shifting aliens and stuff and this is like teen dramas just gotten so weird now but you look
Back and it's like you know. Gossip Girl, was really simple it was rich kids in New
York, City being rich kids in New York City, and that was it there was no
Secret twins there, was no like shape-shifting demons there was no late magic powers that manifest
When you're 16 or whatever it was just rich kids being rich kids you know maybe, we need, more shows
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