Gossip Girl

Didn't realize it started tonight. Will have to download instead.

WHO WANTS THE BOOKS?

FUCK THIS SHOW FOR CUTTING THE TOP MODEL PREMIERE IN HALF.

okay I'm totally going to be addicted to this show.

i have no idea what this is
don't make me go to the internet, plus it'll be better if people just explain it here with words and maybe pictures

okay, well, I don't know anything about the books but it's kind of like Cruel Intentions, but serialized? (didn't they already make a show like that?)

set at a schmancy Manhattan private school, it's about, you know, high school drama, with the added stress of being very rich and beautiful. the central formal conceit is that what the show is about is being reported on a gossip blog kept by anonymous "gossip girl"=Kristen Bell voiceover.

do you want me to recap the first episode, rrrobyn?

this is Serena:

http://www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl/gallery/101/images/c/0002/cw-gossipgirl-genericshow-gl-17_007031-312e41-500x280.jpg

she's the former bad girl who skipped town under mysterious circumstances and has just returned in time for school to start. everyone is apparently in love with her.

oh, wait, here's a full cast photo:

http://www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl/gallery/101/images/c/0002/cw-gossipgirl-genericshow-gl-07_006724-c9248b-500x280.jpg

I swear the show is at least a little better than that picture makes it look!

hmm
i think i will pass on this, as much as i love shows about highschool
is it funny in any way?

they all look like dicks

i miss the o.c.

funny doesn't seem to be its main investment. it's sort of serious and arch at the same time. moments of clever dialogue and the acting is pretty good (except for the date rapist guy who is totally ridiculous.)

the ones who don't come off as dicks are former bad girl Serena and slightly less rich dude Dan.

Serena looks cuet

she is the blonde girl from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. shut up.

the whole blogging thing about this is kind of stupid and annoying. but kristin bell sounds just like laurie anderson when she says "xo xo"

Like many shows that are on TV, I'd love to watch this one.

I saw the first half, and I was wondering if Jaymc caught it (it's written by the creator of the O.C.). I like that Serena character a lot, so that's enough to keep me involved.

I would watch this, but I can't, because it will be cancelled :(.

Nah, it's on the CW. That guarantees at least a full season.

you'd think it'd have a built-in audience, too, because the books are pretty popular, right?

am I ever going to get tired of watching shows set in high school?

i would probably watch this randomly if i came across it, but, like antm, i will never be home to see it :\

It was a good one to watch on the treadmill at the gym tonight. With all kinds of racy commercials, too.

xxpost Those books are extremely popular. Esp with late teens/early twentysths.

The guy in the pic, at the bottom, looks extremely familiar.

I was wondering if Jaymc caught it

Nope, I had band practice. (And actually, twice-a-week band practice makes me forget that TV even exists on nights when I do happen to be home.)

i have band practice twice a week and i don't forget the existence of tv
and i don't even have a tv

the guy dan is the new jesse bradford.

hoping there will be an encore presentation.

The new CW lineup is... surprisingly... solid-looking. WTF.

i miss the o.c.

-- rrrobyn, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

soulmate <3<3<3

actually, ive read these gossip girl books and im quite a fan of blair. i havent seen the premiere yet. recorded it though.
the guys look like idiots in those photos but theyre pretty much idiots in the books too. i hope they dont censor the drugs etc for the tv

oh and i hope they keep blairs bulmia as an accepted thing instead of making it an afterschool special type lesson.

I AM GOING OT A REPRINT MTG TO DECIDE HOW MANY COPIES OF THESE BOOKS TO PRINT. PLS WATCH SHOW AND GO BUY THEM*.

*Or email me.

*bulimia

waht does that mean, laurel?

i hope they dont censor the drugs etc for the tv
so far chuck smokes a lot of weed and serena appears to have a drinking problem.

they show date rapist dude smoking weed constantly. but he is a date rapist, so I guess they're saying weed is bad.

weed always make me want to rape too

ha!

is chuck gay yet?

omg sunny, no!

oo..spoilerz! SORRY

ok i watched this

i don't like the narration but i could get into the show
obv has same structure as the o.c. but sadly is not set in california and is lacking in peter gallagher

oh how i long for those eyebrows

The actress who plays Blair was driving me crazy, looking like some hybrid of Rory and Lyla from Friday Night Lights. And then I looked her up and found out she was Debbie, girlfriend of Behrooz "you are not your father's son" on 24, and Carrie Bishop on Veronica Mars. I can finally rest easy now.

i felt like all the characters looked like other people! or like people on the oc! felt dizzy for the first 25 min b/c of it

after watching this i watched the last couple of eps from s6 of degrassi. that show owns

how do the books work? i've been searching on amazon.co.uk but it's CONFUSING as idon't know which one is the first. or are they not serialized (???)?

this is from wiki, nath:

1. Gossip Girl
2. You Know You Love Me
3. All I Want Is Everything
4. Because I'm Worth It
5. I Like It Like That
6. You're the One That I Want
7. Nobody Does It Better
8. Nothing Can Keep Us Together
9. Only In Your Dreams
10. Would I Lie to You?
11. Don't You Forget About Me
12. It Had To Be You (Set to be released October 2, 2007)

somewhere around number 7 or 8 the jenny character branches off into her own series "IT girl" set in some kind of new england prep boarding school.

Oh thanks! After I made my post, I realizeds: Just wiki that shit, stupid Nath!
I think I managed to put the compendium (?) in my Amazon basket. Can't resist these books! :-)

i cant even tell wtf this show is abt n.e. more

^^yes!!

lolcollege

uh, nate and serena are the hottest couple on tv, like, ever

But what about the abandonment of "Karen Finley" mentioning gal

I've never seen GG and I never watched the OC, but I looked forward to watching the 'L.A. in the 80s' spin-off "Lily," (starring Brittany Snow and tom Cruise-impersonator Miles Fisher). Why on earth was this not picked up by the CW?

Because GG hardly does great in the ratings dept already so a spinoff ended up not making a lot of $en$e to CW

Ah, i see.

But then why commission a spin-off pilot to start? That's like beginning the human cloning process before remembering that the person being cloned has an IQ of 78.

Gossip Girl started off strong, and I imagine crafting that episode probably had a longer lead time than average. And at the very least it was a buzz-worthy GG ep (I didn't watch the show at that time but was hearing all about it).

it was fine as an episode, not particularly whatever

and i think GG is strong at this time, in terms of quality -- it had a definite bullshit phase last season

Doesn't the exec producer of GG (the same guy who did the OC - Josh Schwartz - thanks, Wikipedia) always do this, where he'll have this buzz-worthy show that is much talked about and occasionally riveting but then it starts a steep decline way too soon? Wasn't that the problem with the OC? Didn't that shows' second season have a bullshitty phase, too?

yes

but i don't know if that one ever got better

Last season of The OC was the second best of the series.

fuck u

haha just kidding xo

imho. The series really improved after they killed Mischa Barton.

mischa barton's a fuckup with no skillz. sad thing about her recently cancelled "the beautiful life" . . . .

shes so nice to look at though

the oc went to shit after the novelty of how improbably beautiful mischa barton is wore off

Improbably beautiful? Were her parents hideous monsters?

that sandy guy was memorably gross

keeeeerstin was hot though

Improbable, but not impossible, it seems.

summer kicked everyone's ass though, no question

that last season of the oc where mischa barton's pothead sister showed up was pretty good iirc

the real problem w/gg btw is that is seems to want to make the old ppl the moral center of the show but is unaware of loathsome and boring and terrible they are

wait so was that chuck's mom?

That is what she is gonna say in March when the show comes back.

The third season of The O.C. was the shitty season. It rebounded a bit for the fourth and final, but it was too late by that point.

Downloaded the second season of Gossip Girl - so weird how it wanted to be OC East, I think, but missed out on everything that made everyone in The OC likable (or interesting, at the least). Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are v. v. pretty, tho.

Speaking of The O.C., I never knew anything about this idea:

There were plans to turn the show into something of a reverse spin-off. Schwartz being the creative force behind the television series Gossip Girl planned to release a spin-off entitled Valley Girls, originally to premiere in the fall of 2009. Schwartz wanted to tie in the younger versions of the characters from both The O.C. and the principals from Valley Girls to establish a continuity with Gossip Girl.

blair and dan!

LILY - omg the episode of lily's downfall was my fav episode

(not bc i dislike lily - i think kelly rutherford is aMAYzing on this show - just a great ep)

schwartz-verse

I'm unsure about this new one on three listens yet, but the song where Mark constantly rhymes about Gossip Girl plotlines is pretty LOL.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, November 4, 2011 11:51 PM (1 week ago

New song by the Mark E. Smith and the Fall

So that was a painfully bad episode.

catching up with the last three episodes - it's not as bad as it was toward the middle of the season.

also, Leighton Meester just gets more amazing looking

series finale

anyone else bother watching?

YES. What did you think, single other ILX viewer?

I know objectively speaking that the show is terrible, but it's me and and my partner's comfort viewing, and we'll both quite miss it.

otm ^^

Yes, it was completely terrible, but I loved the final episode in a ridiculous way.

The ending is incredibly awful (and dark!) though, but if they were going to do the reveal I suppose it made sense in a fucked-up way.

I was reminded of when it was great/watchable (s1, s2) and that was about the most I could expect from the finale.

was really happy that lily ended up with scheming jerk ex

poor pretty Nate, after all that trouble trying to uncover Gossip Girl's identity, he doesn't even get to find out for himself.

I'm gonna miss Georgina the most.

Biggest surprise of the six seasons -- Liz Hurley was actually pretty great in this show. I mean, wooden as fuck, but somehow great nonetheless.

My favourite period of this show was the second season, when every episode it was Blair or Chuck doing the "I love you," "We can't do this now" conversation, and even thought they did it every bastard episode, it was somehow ALWAYS HEARTBREAKING.

oh wait is this where I post the trailer for the new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsah5yCzh-U

anyone else watch the premiere? thoughts?

i liked it, though the main boyfriend's guilty rich/wokeness thing is a bit heavy-handed and not sure about spoiling GG's identity so early on gives the premise a bit of an expiry date

I liked it too but criticisms that it's devoid of humor are OTM; the teachers are kind of funny but the kids are not, so there is a big Blair/Dorota shaped hole in the middle of the show.