Well, this week on Gossip Girl we clearly need to discuss Dan and Serena’s latest effort to become friends. Uh, yeah, not so much — the main couple on this show could get hit by a bus right now, and I’m not really sure that anyone who watches would care.
New Levels of Inappropriateness: What’s happening in this country? John McCain is tanking in the polls and there isn’t a Bible Belter to be found to protest this show? I feel like a respected adversary has abandoned me.
It was one thing to have Blair and Serena dressing up like Maxim girls and touring the bar scene, but 15-year-old Taylor Momsen? Wow. Little Jenny has a new hairdo. She’s got a new goth look. She’s trolling bars and exchanging dresses in the bathroom with an arguably bisexual, coked-out model and her creepy photographer boyfriend. Hey, look, now she’s dancing in her bra with the model as the boyfriend chronicles the escapade on film! Hmm, how do we top this off? Hey, let’s have her passionately kiss 23-year-old Chace Crawford! Poor Jerry Falwell is somewhere spinning in his grave and the moral majority is nowhere to be found. Does the Parents Television Council know about this show? They’ve been whining about profanity on adult shows for years and this gets a pass?
Oh wait, they were the ones that called the show's porn-like ads “mind-blowingly inappropriate.” You remember the quote that the producers of the show gladly incorporated into their “mind-blowingly inappropriate” ads like a badge of honor. Ten years ago this would have been the apocalypse. Now — yawn! Yes, folks, the election isn’t until Tuesday, but you heard it here first. The right has lost the culture war.
How I Feel About This: I don’t have any kids. I love it. Okay, the 15-year-old dancing in a black bra, I technically have to say I’m uncomfortable with that, but … you know.
The Jenny Coup D'Etat: It’s hard to figure this one. Jenny’s clearly out of her league with her new model friend, who wants to show her the fashion industry and have her start her own line. Her argument that she knows who she is and won’t get sucked in doesn’t carry much weight seeing that this was exactly what she said last season about her flirtation with Blair that ended with her stealing a dress that was worth as much as Papa Rufus has made in his entire life.
Article comments
1 - Molly
Your reviews on Gossip Girl are brilliant. You say everything exactly how I also see it. I love the show. Are you going to review the last episode??
2 - brad laidman
thanks
yes, sorry i'm behind - should be up monday and then more prompt after that