Well, if it’s a Josh Schwartz show, and Gossip Girl is, then you know that every time there is a huge party there will be at least an emotional blow up and probably a fist fight, and tonight’s episode was no different.
There’s clearly a big storm brewing among the “beautiful people,” but it’s also clear that the show’s main concern is how Dan and Jenny interact with their moneyed “betters,” who consider living in Brooklyn about as seductive as Larry Flynt would find moving back to the deep South.
Dan clearly has a long history of class issues. He’s been batted around by Nate, Chuck, and their like for years and has a big enough chip on his shoulder to toss away his dream girl, Serena, to show his perceived moral superiority. I’m all for taking a moral stand, but what a moron! Serena’s heartfelt explanation, plus her beauty, and the fact that she’s willing to date out of her tax bracket deserved a second chance.
Jenny, on the other hand, has clearly been seduced by evil. She wants to be accepted by Blair and her gang so badly that she seems to have been able to brush aside Chuck’s rape attempt as mere collateral damage to her social climbing. This is going to get ugly.
Chuck continued to ooze slime this week, and of course there was never any doubt that he has had a lifetime of good examples from his father, who wants to see his son make a difference (whatever that means) and stay away from hard alcohol, well, at least before noon. I couldn’t tell if Chuck sent Blair off her “mission to lose her virginity to Nate” knowing that Serena was up in his suite waiting to talk, but I wouldn’t put it past him. Nevertheless, you have to be impressed when a guy who gets a black eye after trying to rape an underage girl still somehow manages to wake up with twin girls in his bed.
Article comments
1 - iCVelX
I agree the narration is completely wrong, but that is not the only thing wrong. All the characters are simplistic one -dimensional versions of their book selves
Book Blair was not in fact an evil bitch, she did have some serious control issues but in the TV show she is actually the devil in Prada. Book Serena on the other hand was less of a charity case and more of a larger than life character. In the books the line between good and evil is less clear and more of a blurry mess, which make them much more interesting and much less predictable.
The necessity to make every single character hot fucked up the whole Humphrey family. Book Jenny was short and had humongous boobs, which made her unbelievably self - conscious, Dan was a coffee addicted, slightly depressed poet (he did get Serena, for a while anyway) not that pretty or self righteous . Rufus was a very scruffy, not very clean, washed up writer, not that much important to the plot.
Book Nate used to be a whole lot more interesting, he in fact even talked. He was truly a victim of his environment( more or less what Serena is made to be in the show) and chuck, well he is just epitome of the one-dimensional character.
and i wonder where Vanessa is...
one thing granted is both the show and the book have the magical power of being addictive even though you know every minute watched(or read) equals about 10 IQ points lost forever.
Considering The OC (which on its last season gave us cage fighting, holy experiences, an earthquake....i could go on) Gossip Girl will not seize to surprise us, not necessarily in a good way, more in a WTF way.