It is Friday night and I am home alone with a television remote, a glass of wine and a computer. Two hard truths lay before me. 1) Gossip Girl is back and has been for three weeks. 2) I am so far behind on blogging that my DVR erased the first episode. So get a hat and hold the f onto it (TBTL)...I am giving you two posts in one. We find the gang finishing up the summer and preparing to head off for college. Dan, Rufus, Jenny, and Serena's little brother (what is his name again? Oh, Eric. Totally IMDB'd it. Maybe I forgot about he and Jenny because they are virtually non-existent.) spent the summer in the Hampton's. Serena spent the summer on an ashram, not really, but that is what she told everyone. She was really partying and sleeping around in Europe/looking for her father. Blair and Chuck spent the summer in love and scamming on girls. They had this thing where they tricked women into believing they were going to sleep with Chuck and then Blair would come along and shout at them about trying to steal her man. I didn't really get it, it was some kind of scheme to keep things hot. Eventually Blair tires of this and starts to really mistrust Chuck. Vanessa has been dating a new guy, Scott...the guy who just happens to be be Serena and Dan's half brother. She is put off by Dan's new found money (a wallet with money inside it, riding in a car instead of the subway). Naturally she goes to the Polo match to confront him. That's right episode culminates in a Polo match. Nate takes out his new lady friend, Bree Buckley, for the first time. She is the daughter or a warring political family and they have to avoid the trouble that might occur because of this. At the Polo match Serena is supposed to drop the first ball (puck, birdie, I don't really know, polo is a foreign language to me.). Rufus claims that Lily, who is absent (because of her mother's sickness/her real life domestic troubles ) would be so proud. Serena then makes a giant scene galloping away on horseback and chased after by Carter Basin. The same fellow she has been gallivanting around in Europe with and who she now claims is stalking her. Eventually the truth comes out, after they sleep together, that Carter was helping her to look for her dad and that Serena is desperate to get her dad's attention.
Episode 2:Freshman (Read this post while listening to "Good Girls Go Bad" by Cobra Starship and featuring Leighton Meester on repeat. I love this song. It is stuck in my head at least 3 times a week and I haven't yet tired of it.)
Serena is headed off to Brown or is she. She is having second thoughts and heads to Chuck's to find her way. Blair is headed off to NYU with high hopes. She is going to live in the dorms to try to gain control of the masses. Things take a turn for the worse when Blair's dorm roommate turns out to be Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg).Blair's usual ploys to win people over will not work at NYU don't seem to be working and Georgina is making a play to be the cool new freshman. Has she turned over a new leaf? Is she genuinely born again but not too christiany? Chuck is trying to start a speakeasy. Dan is nervous about making friends but is big time because of his New Yorker "20 under 20" installment. Is that a real thing? I don't think it is. Vanessa and Dan are at odds to begin with. Serena finally decides that she is deferring for a year and trying to figure things out. She also gets pissed at Chuck and blows his attempts at getting funding/space for his club. Blair gets majorly desperate and asks Dan to be her date to Georgina's party. The party ends with Dan as king, Blair as a nobody and Georgina and Dan hooking up. Gross! I still don't trust her.
Episode 3: Lost Boy
Serena is deciding to be in a relationship with Carter. (Did I mention I am sick of her? Up until this episode she seems desperate and crazy. What kind of a plan is it to get your dad too pay attention to you through the tabloids. Misguided!) Blair thinks that she is going to be inducted into a secret society and Chuck is trying to get an investor. They are both trying to get the same photograph from a Sotheby's auction. It turns out that this is all a Georgina grab for control. In the end; Georgina is revealed for the evil woman that she is. Dan starts out the episode hooking up with Georgina but ends up remembering how crazy she is. Remember when they first met and she pretended to be Sarah (or some other fairly common name) from Portland.
Scott is not a real student at NYU and the truth is revealed. He is the child of Lily and Rufus. (Still no Lily, by the way) The truth is revealed to Vanessa but not to anyone else and she is forced to keep the secret. Scott tells half the truth saying that he is the brother of Rufus and Lily's son. I don't entirely understand this move. I think it had something to do with sparing his adopted mother's feelings. He has a tearful good bye with Vanessa, but come on, he was totally using her. I have to take a minute and tell you about how creepy I find this actor. There is just something about him I do not enjoy. Of course Georgina finds out all of this and follows him back to Boston to get the dirt. Nate and Bree are still trying to make it work and Bree becomes a little more interesting when she threatens Carter Basin at the end of the episode. I don't know how much life her character has in her but it is worth a shot. She is an actress from another failed CW show that I watched (the entire season of) Privileged.
I wonder what Carter did? Oh well at least Serena and Carter are trying to make it work. In the world of Chuck and Blair, Blair's faith in Chuck has prompted him to do something insane. He is cashing out his Bass industries stock and buying a hotel. What kind of a crazy spinoff show would this create? It might be like Tori and Dean Inn Love only edgier. Look forward to Hilary Duff and Tyra Banks on the next Gossip Girl. What? It sounds like I am making this stuff up.
XOXO
this is so multimedia with the song recommendation. this is a lot of information to process and my head is spinning. i will say, though, that both the chuck and serena plots seem a little questionable. a bit upsetting that there will not be campus shots of brown. was really looking forward to that this season. maybe she was turned off by brown's being named america's douchiest college by gq?
ReplyDeleteinterested to see what tyra can bring to the table.