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8 Reasons You Should Be Watching Gossip Girl Right Now
- by elijay
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- April 14, 2009
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At first, I resisted watching Gossip Girl. After watching The OC throughout college, I felt I had outgrown the teenage high school dramas of network television. Boy was I wrong. While The OC lost its luster after the first season (Seth sailing off into the sunset? Come on now), GG is still going strong-- let's just hope one of the characters doesn't sail off to Nantucket and ruin it all.
1. The Fashion
Just as people watched Sex and the City to see what Carrie Bradshaw was wearing (and what Samantha wasn’t wearing), folks tune into GG to see what the (Upper East Side) kids are wearing nowadays. Here’s a quick primer:
Blair Waldorf
While Blair looks the part of the preppy princess most the time (thanks to her collection of headbands and her penchant for plaid), this girl can still rock quirky bright red tights and sexy cocktail dresses to make Chuck ooze with jealousy.
Serena van der Woodsen
If GG has a resident rock star, it’s Serena (sorry Rufus). Serena isn’t afraid to rock cleavage-bearing dresses, leather jackets, short skirts, and high boots. And while the aforementioned articles of clothing sound like the contents of a hooker’s wardrobe, Serena always looks chic, but in a sophisticated, bohemian, rock star sort of way.
Jenny Humphrey
If anyone’s undergone a transformation it’s little J. While trying to ingratiate herself among Blair and her minions at Constance, Jenny was all headbands and trench coats. Then she went rogue, got herself a sassy new do (hello Debby Harry) and traded in preppy for punk.
Vanessa Abrams
Vanessa brings in the noise and the funk to GG (well maybe not so much the noise, but definitely the funk). A budding artist, Vanessa always looks the part, which means she usually looks like an Urban Outfitters poster child— and yes, I do mean that as a compliment.
6. The Fights
I have to admit it’s sort of difficult to figure out who’s hating on who from week to week. One week S. and B. are BFF the next week they’re having cat fights and leaking rumors about each other to Gossip Girl. But if everyone was all buddy buddy all the time it wouldn’t be nearly half as interesting. Remember when…
Blair and Serena Had it Out at on the Yale Campus?
The above pictured scuffle happened just moments after the girls were looking so prim and proper at the Dean’s reception at Yale. Oh, and moments after Blair tried to sabotage Serena by bringing up her murky past in front of the Dean. Oh, and moments after Serena stole Blair’s long-practiced response to the Dean’s (rather stale) question of who they’d like to have dinner with— Blair wanted to have dinner with George Sand (how pretentious…)
Jenny Gave Vanessa a See-Through Dress to Wear?
After Vanessa ruined her chances with Nate, the catty girls at Constance persuaded Jenny to give Vanessa a see-through dress to wear to the school ball. Little did Jenny know, the stunt made Nate love Vanessa even more so. Don’t you just hate it when a plan backfires like that?
Blair and Miss Carr Waged War?
To think it all started with one measly “B” paper. After that things only got worse, leaving Miss Carr almost fired (she ended up leaving Constance of her own accord in the end) and leaving Blair without a Yale acceptance.
8. The Music
If you’re going to have a show about teenagers who look like fashion plates, then you have to have the music to go with it. Oh so hip bands like MGMT, Santogold, The Black Kids, Kings Of Leon, The National, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Department of Eagles and Cold War Kids are just some of the regulars when it comes to the show’s soundtrack.
2. The Off-Set Hook Ups
So maybe what makes GG so juicy is the fact that some of the show’s couples are hooking up on and off camera. Read on to find out what couples are actually for real.
Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick
Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick, who recently started heating up the screen as Vanessa and Chuck (after they’d both been “spurned”), also get steamy real life.
Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan
Not too long ago, Serena and Chuck shipped Carter Braizen off to Dubai, but in real life Carter (Sebastian Stan) isn’t going anywhere. He and Blair (Leighton Meester) are lovebirds. Rumor has it the couple got engaged at the end of last year, but no one has seemed to confirm this…
Blake Lively and Penn Badgeley
While Dan and Serena have called it quits (at least for the next 15 minutes), Blake Lively and Penn Badgeley are a bonafide couple.
3. The City
While Blair, Serena, Dan, Nate, Jenny, and Chuck are battling their teenage demons they’re doing so against the glorious background of New York City. Kisses in Central Park, violence at the opera, and drama at Bryant Park are only the beginning.
4. The Scandals
A GG episode without scandal is like a sundae without ice cream. Whether Rufus and Lily are trying to hunt down the child Lily gave up for adoption, or Serena’s being blackmailed by Georgina Sparks for sort of (but not really,) killing some guy with a drug overdose, or Nate’s dad is pulling a Bernie Madoff, there’s always something going on.
5. The Illicit Relationships
What’s with the GG men and older women? I’m not surprised at who Chuck sleeps with (because come on now, he’s Chuck), but Dan and Nate?! They’re supposed to be the good guys!
Dan and Miss Carr
If you’re looking for a Dawson’s Creek flashback, you definitely got it with Dan’s tryst with Serena’s English teacher Miss Carr. While they seemed to have fun going at it in the school’s drama department costume closet, Miss Carr just couldn’t hack it in the big city. Back to Iowa she went.
Nate and Catherine
And how can we forget Nate and his affair with Catherine, an older, married woman. Little did Nate know she was also having an affair with her stepson (who was dating Blair at the time). Ouch.
7. The Cameos
The show gets a fair share of cameos (though I have to say they can be a bit random!), here are some of the more interesting ones:
Cyndi Lauper
Girls like Blair just want to have fun, so it only makes sense that Cyndi Lauper should show up on the Upper East Side.
Tinsley Mortimer
Why make up fake New York socialites when you can have real ones on the show! (That’s real-life socialte Tinsley Mortimer playing herself on the far left). Not to mention real fashion designers— I see you Michael Kors!
Nastia Liukin
Perhaps the most puzzling of the GG cameos is the one made by Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin. I did root for her when she was doing her thing in Beijing, but I don’t understand why she ended up on GG a short while after winning a gold medal. Is she a fan of show? Does she have a crush on Ed Westwick? Was she just sick of doing floor exercises? Who knows.
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I am resisting!!!!! I have never seen the show either. I get TOO hooked on shows, so I pretty much don’t watch TV…or at least, I don’t watch series. (I am, however, the proud owner of The O.C.: Season 1).
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I have never seen one episode of Gossip Girl. But the thing is, I really want to watch it. I just know that I would get totally obsessed with it and I already have way too many time-sucking things going on in my life as it is. Ack. Oh, I also heart Leighton Meester.
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