Author: Morgan Flake
Gossip Girl is back, complete with the usual sex scandals, the cutest couture and the beloved and beautiful cast we know and love (or love to hate); not to mention a few new Manhattan elites and naughty plot twists.
You can criticize Gossip Girl all you want for its superficial values, supposedly unrealistic storylines and promotion of bad behavior, but you know those are the exact reasons dozens of girls crowd into common rooms across campus Monday nights and steal the TV from football fans to watch. What billboards advertise as “every parent’s nightmare” is a fantasy world for girls (and some awesome guys).
The Hamptons are a nice change of pace from flashy New York City. Here, main characters and exes-for-the-summer Dan Humphrey and Serena van der Woodsen reunite just moments after he catches her kissing lifelong friend Nate Archibald, which she never does explain to Dan. In their hurry to get it on, the two neglect to resolve the issues that caused their break-up last spring.
But what issues are those, really? So Dan is a little too sensitive and Serena needs to be more forthcoming. To the horror of every Gossip Girl fan, the two decide to call it quits after they return to the city despite their unabated love for each other and the lack of real problems in their relationship.
I have to admit this is going to be an issue for me. The adorable moments shared between Dan and Serena are one third of the reason why I watch the show. There may still be hope, but sources reveal that a new character on the scene might distract Serena further from her affections for Dan. Some juicy new developments have emerged this season, including the blossoming relationship between Nate and an older woman, Catherine.
What started out as a summer romance has rolled into fall, and Catherine’s promise to help Nate’s family with their money crisis in exchange for you-know-what has essentially transformed Nate into an Armani-sporting prostitute from the Upper East Side. How far will this affair take Nate before he realizes what he’s gotten himself into?
As for the showdown between Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass, the two most deliciously devious characters on the series are enemies of one another and perfect for each other. A match made in hell, in a sense. The two continue their back-stabbing, blackmailing battle to incite jealousy in each other in the hopes of . . . attracting each other.
Only Gossip Girl could create such a vindictive version of foreplay.
Blair’s ridiculous faux-relationship with Lord Marcus can’t last long. Either Marcus and Blair will have to get real, or Chuck just might win the war-and Blair.
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