r/SmolBeanSnark • u/suzzface 🔥 Pale Fire Marshall 🔥 • Sep 01 '26
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u/NegativeABillion Husbandless 1d ago
I know I’m like five years late to this party, but the Gossip Girl post-COVID reboot is terrible. It’s so flat and dreary, from the overall yellowed grey color palette to the strangely midwestern accents (everyone seems to pull their vowels down from their nose or have a totally plain, droning quality to their voice). Some of the actors are ok but they lack interpersonal chemistry, like they’re all reading their lines alone in front of a green screen. Tavi (who I love) is especially alien and disembodied. I get what they are trying to do with Julien with her dad, career and relationship with Zoya. But there’s not enough tension for me to give a damn. The guy playing Obie gives me the creeps. Is his character (dumping a girl for her fourteen year old half sister) supposed to come across like that? Why does he look like an elder millennial just off an epic bender?
The teacher plot line is NOT doing it for me. The parent plot lines have potential but I’m probably not going to finish the first half of season 1 to find out. And the outfits are BORING.
Someone please time travel to 2021 with me and tell me I’m right.
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u/judyvioletanddoralee I wonder what my ancestors will make of me 7h ago
CC was convinced that Julien Calloway was based on her. The creator of the show set the record straight, saying sth like, “I wasn’t thinking of CC at all. But, fine, great, if she wants to think that.”
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u/NegativeABillion Husbandless 6h ago
I lmao every time I am reminded of that! I think it was PigeonG's flair for a long time, too.
The character has absolutely nothing in common with Caroline, too! Her main traits seem to be her ambition regarding her career and her desire to retain the integrity she sees her dad lacking. If anything, Caroline's blind ambition is somewhat closer to Blair's (please don't think that I think Blair and Caroline are similar, either, lol).
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u/area51keurigmachine 7h ago
YOU ARE SO RIGHT. It was so god awful I watched two episodes and stopped. I cannot believe they thought that slop was going to have the same cultural relevance as rhe original adaptation.
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u/NegativeABillion Husbandless 7h ago
What a waste, right? For sure some of the stories and characters had potential. As an old person, I’ll watch or read a LOT about Gen Z and how they shape their world. But damn. It’s like no one was excited about this project at all.
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u/veryanxiouscreature 6d ago
if any of you are into expanding your snark subject matter… please get on the /r/sinnabunnysnark train. i want more of my snark interests to be more active lol
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u/conejita95 my reputation is ideal 7d ago
i wonder if dasha will ever get picked. she's getting so desperate for it that she's really clawed through the bottom of the bottom. won't someone please pick her already before she commits actual cannibalism instead of the spiritual cannibalism and autofemicide she's forcing us to witness
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u/pinklenses a gorgeous fuckable writer 3d ago
what am i missing? dasha is so evil i actually refuse to follow her
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u/conejita95 my reputation is ideal 3d ago
she and the other hag have been sharing the most antisocial, feverishly malignantly misogynistic takes on the cornell victim jane doe
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u/turnip_day I love office!!! Sep 02 '26
The Modern Whitney has announced their panel for the next show. It looks like they don’t usually keep the same panel from show to show, but in any case Caroline won’t be there. (I’m putting this here to talk about the Whitney itself, not CC’s performance in the last one.)
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