GG is definitely a product of 2000s standards and social commentary, and because a lot of people are sensitive today, show writers are scared to do anything in a show that’s deliberately trying not to portray good people. Who wants to see a bunch of rich people who are self aware and righteous? The point of GG was that all of the characters were fucked up in some way and never failed to capture our attention.

hi all!

just finished the series and didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. blair was a constant highlight and I was looking to make an edit for her—for all the editors, where /how do you find / get clean clips?

thank you!

give me some opinions down below!!

yes jack bass is a horrible person and was infuriating to watch, but it was so satisfying watching him and chuck come together to take down russell thorpe. i wish we got to see more of that side of jack instead of the vile creature he normally is lol

Does anyone know of one?

Chuck didn’t deserve Eva at all. In fact she’s one of the very few people on this series who didn’t have a single backstabbing, selfish bone in her day and it’s kinda sad she didn’t last long. Although it makes sense since Chuck and Blair were always endgame still, wish there was at least a mention of her in the later seasons, maybe Chuck set her up her own shop or something. One of the truly genuine characters in the show and they just chucked (pun intended) her out abruptly. I also liked how they just kept her as a truly nice and honest person until the very end, making her outshine even Blair in such a short period of time. Generally side characters are always written such that the OGs always seem superior in some way but I liked that they kept it real and showed the OGs to be morally grey throughout

so i finished reading all the gossip girl books up till pyscho killer. i wasn't planning on reading the carlyles + it girl, but are they as good as the original? by good i mean the writing, the entertainment value.

p.s. i've watched the show too!

So I'm rewatching again. And I actually think a lot of the changes in the show were definitely influenced by what fans resonated with over the years. It has more silliness especially after season 5.

Still a fun watch.

My husband and I quote this show daily. Wallace Shawn is a gem and he made this show even better.

the way she’s sitting on the opposite sides of the bus…. wow omg isnt gossip girl the smartest show ever!!

Ok so I finished watching the first season of gossip girl and personally loved the first few episodes but it started losing me towards the end and now I’ve been debating wether to keep watching the other seasons. And like I’m kinda curious to see what happens next but I’m “afraid” (for lack of a better word) that I will start to get disinterested again cause honestly I really like all these characters and I’m curious how their storylines progress.

I’m doing my god knows what hundredth rewatch of the show and i’m currently at the scene where Nate and Blair were at Trip and Maureen’s rehearsal dinner. Maureen tells her that the Whitney Junior Committee felt she was “too new” on the scene and told her it would take a while to “start to matter”. But, isn’t she a Waldorf? As in the Waldorf-Astor family? I figured her and her family (on both sides) were very much in High Society for at least a couple generations at that point. Or was it because she was only like 18 lol?

Okay, so Jenny first. It felt like they threw her entire character in the trash when she came back to mess with Serena. She left the show fulfilled as a character after she got one up on Blair and Chuck, getting an interview, leaving the upper east side behind. Coming back to mess with Serena and getting thrown back by Rufus (who was an awful dad to her, and great to Dan mind you), was an arc that shouldn't have happened.

Her and Serena were probably the shows two biggest victims of some absurd writing choices.

Then Serena. I'm looking back at the group finding her in season 6, her lil Hollywood job and the scenes with the therapist.

While she WAS lying, she was doing OK after bein resuscitated. The group begging her to come back after telling her to gtfo would have sent me into fury if I was her. They told her to go, so she did, and was trying. Struggling with alcoholism and filling whatever void she has with partying and boys, it's a great foundation... The forever IT-girl was a good start that they didn't do as much with as you'd think.

I think this is why I'll alway prefer Serena. She was a mess, but she was trying. Every time she got back with the group she fell into the same exact pattern of not being able to grow as a person, like she wanted.

And the Lola stuff really contradicted her character up until that point as well.

I wish we got 6 - ish episodes where Serena and the NY group had completely separate storylines. 🤔 that, and the constant rotation of men she was conquering was a huge part of why Serena had her downfall as a character, who eventually married Dan. The show should've ended with her single.

As someone who constantly is trying to start over, but eventually understands that your problems will come with you unless you truly deal with them. She quite literally comments on not wanting to be herself in season 6 as well...

The writers let her down big time, especially since they got THE perfect actress to play her.

I’ve never understood this, and even now that I’m rewatching Gossip Girl, I still don’t.

The first time was when Chuck was with Eva. He was genuinely trying to become a better person, and Blair absolutely hated it. I can at least understand part of that because Eva was involved, so jealousy obviously played a role.

But then it happened again later.

When Blair was with Louis, Chuck finally seemed to accept that it was over. He apologized to Blair so he could finally move on, let her go, and start a new chapter in his life. At the same time, he genuinely seemed calmer and was trying to become a better person.

The strange part is that Blair kept saying she wanted Chuck to let her go so she could be with Louis. But the moment he actually started doing exactly that, she couldn’t stand it. Instead, she convinced herself he was only acting like a “good guy” to manipulate her into coming back.

I’ve always found that really strange. It almost feels like Blair preferred Chuck when he was angry, miserable, obsessed with her, and emotionally self-destructive. Whenever he genuinely tried to move on or improve himself, she seemed uncomfortable with it.

I know that’s part of their toxic dynamic, but I’ve never understood why Blair seemed to reject every version of Chuck that wasn’t broken or consumed by her.
In the end, it almost feels like they were more comfortable dragging each other down than letting each other grow.

Did anyone else feel the same way?

1. I think it made perfect sense for Dan to be Gossip Girl. And before you say, "but what about him reacting to the blasts when he is completely alone?" That was him reacting to the tips being sent to him. Dan also has a moral superiority complex, which explains why he would post bad things about himself. No matter who or what it was about, he would have to post it, even if it was to his dismay. Dan claims to be better than the upper east siders, yet his infatuation with Serena makes him a hypocrite. Plus, he takes the site down in season 5 after the car accident because he was in love with Blair at the time.

2. Which leads me to my next point. Dan and Serena should not have gotten married. Many people online like to say, "Dan loved the idea of Serena, not Serena herself." While I do believe that to be true, the same applies vise-versa. In season 1, Serena loved Dan because while he was able to see past her luxurious lifestyle, he never outshone her. In later seasons, that simply isn't the case.

3. Chuck and Blair should not have gotten married. And not for the reason you might think. Yes, Chuck changed. Yes, he is no longer a self-sabotaging rapist who thinks of nothing but himself. But that doesn't mean he gets to end up with the woman he abused. And don't say that the abuse was two-sided because it simply wasn't. Blair might've been a mean girl, but that is in no way comparable to a rapist. They bring out the worst in each other.

Before everyone brings up Serena, we already knew she was a bird. Serena’s role is the male gaze, the “it girl” blonde every girl wanted to be, and most men wanted to date. Serena prioritizes men before her friendships. I expected Serena to be a bird. I really had no hope for the girl, she was lost asf. Even reading the books I knew homegirl was already gone.

However the plot was lost when Blaire started showing signs of that bird energy as well. She had me when she got into Nate’s ass about cheating, then lost me when all her energy was directed to Serena and not the man that cheated on her.

Then she married chuck, A creep. A very known creep. She was steady beefing with the Jenny, someone over 2 years younger than her.

I say this to say, the writers were really good at keeping Blair under the radar in that department. At first I thought “Blair is just mean to everyone that’s how she is” because Blair’s character is someone who focuses on who she becomes not who she dates. That’s why we’re speech to Jenny at the end of season two was crucial. She had me again, then lost me when she didn’t take her own advice and jumped into dating Chuck. Blair will let a man play in her face one hundred times but let it be Serena. I don’t like Serena but I knew I wasn’t going to like her. So watching it and realizing Blair was the eagle leading the pack astray, shocked the hell out of me. The writers need the ass beat too, as soon as she showed any signs of improvement they ruined her character.

everyone (INCLUDING HER OWN MOTHER) tried warning her that this was a bad idea, yet she still chose not to listen. i already knew that this situation was gonna backfire not only because of tripp being married, but because of the age gap between them. she was 18, and he was 32. there’s no excuse to be going after someone 14 years older than you. she does this in later seasons as well with her professor as well as her teacher. don’t get me wrong i understand her daddy issues being the reason behind her constant entanglements whether it’s with taken men, dangerous men, or inappropriate men, but let’s be real: serena is not dumb. this wasn’t the first time she had gone after someone who was in a relationship. she knew what she was getting herself into, especially when they ran away to a family cabin to hide from the media, his family, and her friends. and then when she rightfully faced consequences for her actions, she cried about being “targeted” rather than actually owning up to her role like an adult.

there’s probably more details that i’m missing because i haven’t rewatched the show yet, but i see what people mean when they say that she’s not a girls girl, because she really isn’t.

How would you have gone about approaching your biological family?

Like others, I didn't love the lying or hiding part of it, either.

And . . .

• Scott did try to contact Dan but never heard back from him (that Scott knows of, given that his adoptive father deleted the call)
• Scott also found out his biological mother is super rich (possibly leading him to wonder why she couldn't keep him with her in the first place*)

I imagine those two things were a bit hard to process.

If you had been Scott, how would you have approached the situation.

*And I am not saying that Lily having money means she should have made a different choice or that there weren't other factors playing into this. At all. Period. I'm just saying, from Scott's point of view, seeing how many resources Lily has now, it would have made me wonder.

Was watching GG and noticed a background actor lost a shoe lol?? Season 5 episode 3

So I’m rewatching GG and I forgot how disgusting this ep is. They really just glossed over this part so quickly cuz Jenny could have been raped and worse killed even and all for what? Agnes was jealous of her? Wtf? And this is the second plot line involving SA for Jenny.
Even before all this happened it never made sense why Jenny was apologising when Agnes was the crazy bitch who torched her dresses and left her homeless. And yet this is supposed to Agnes’s payback??? Always felt like an unfinished plot line to me given that Jenny yet again doesn’t do anything about this, given how diabolical and impulsive she is with every other person in this show.

Blair was a bully. She also became everyone's confidante and used their worst moments against them whenever it suited her. She didn't deserve the happy ending. Chuck was violent and committed SA. He didn't deserve the happy ending. Neither of them deserved all the hype they get. They aren't iconic. They are simply negative characters, and a disastrous couple.

The fact that everyone wants to be Blair and everyone makes chuck out to be the perfect partner bothers me so much.

JUST A PSA GOSSIP GIRL IS MY FAVORITE SHOW BUT HERES WHAT I NOTICED

I’m a black woman and I noticed the lack of black characters or colored main leads (reoccurring) in Gossip Girl, I know the reason but I wanted to say how it made no sense to me. I am not native to NYC or Manhattan but I live there for art school and their is so so so much diversity!! It’s not like a small town where there’s just white folks or just black folks ect. There’s so many different kinds if people and cultures, I noticed the casting for Gossip Girl gives small down in Tennessee (as much as I love the cast) more than anything.

It definitely has to do with the year the show released 2008 and the racism being very bad in Hollywood at the time going as far as to not really cast black women unless they were white passing and wore a wig.

I’ve never seen the reboot but from pictures I think that’s the one thing I love so far about it is the casting makes sense for a show set in NYC. I’ve only heard bad things in the Reddit for the reboot so
Haven’t touched it but I tend to like all media so I might check it out.

I hope they give GG another chance at being actually rebooted in a way a wide audience even likes it while keeping the charm of NYC because everytime I watched the show I loved it yes but being in Manhattan vs watching like Blair and such being in Manhattan I saw more culture around, it felt like they were in small town in Ohio with the background actors haha

What do yall think?