Gossip Girl Redeems Itself… For Now
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Gossip Girl is one of those shows that is really bad when it’s bad, but so good when it’s good. Yesterday’s GG episode was another make or break episode, at least for me. It started to take itself too seriously. It tried to make you care for the characters like they were real people or something. Please. Gossip Girl’s appeal is in its scheming, its bitchitude, its scandal and its wars.
Rufus and Lily searching for the kid Lily secretly gave away 20 years ago… boring. Serena ripping that bow off Blair’s head… brilliance. Nate Archibald and Vanessa’s on and off relationship… boring. Chuck Bass doing pretty much anything… brilliance.
Gossip Girl is most fun when its characters are pit against each other in epic gladiatorial battles. I literally cheer when I hear Blair Waldorf say things like, “It’s what’s going to happen that you should worry about.” And when Dan gets a little hot for teacher, I anticipate the fireworks like it’s dusk on the Fourth of July.
The escapades of the Upper East Siders make for are delicious drama, and yesterday’s episode brought some change I can believe in. The tired Uncle Bass storyline finally flamed up and was quickly (and thankfully) extinguished. Dan and Serena’s relationship is now headed toward disaster thanks to Serena’s dishonesty and, of course, a certain young female English teacher. And Blair. Oh, Blair. She’s going to do some serious damage to that same teacher who doesn’t seem to know her place.
But I’m begging the GG writers to do a couple things to get back on track. 1.) Kill Vanessa. 2.) Send Jenny Humphrey to boarding school. 3.) Have Nate show up only for aesthetic purposes. Easy enough, right? But don’t forget to give me sex, scandal, scheming and a little figurative blood. I’m hooked again. Don’t let me down.
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