Happy 10th anniversary to Gossip Girl, TV's coldest teen soap

[notoriousreign]

How Gossip Girl became TV’s coldest teen soap https://t.co/wdRXQEGXm7
- Vox (@voxdotcom) September 20, 2017

- talks about how the show went from concentrating on Dan as the moral compass/audience proxy with Blair and Serena navigating human relationships in a world of privilege, to a show about how romantic relationships were exploitative and

Comments

[sugarspice101]

Still watching it for the first time but I might be done after this episode in season 3. Chucks Mom came back and surprise! She’s evil and was doing an evil plan with his evil uncle. I had to stop there.

If she ends up being redeemed, go ahead and spoil me but I wanted one cute~ (yet OTT) lil storyline but no.

I watched to see a young Sebastian Stan and I wanted to see how his character leaves but damn, I can’t anymore. They’re all loosing it.

idek why i still had this gif saved

[just444]

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[__onthebound]

Nnnnnn. nagl

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[notoriousreign]

lmao this show was so randomly gross about rape...

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[sherrilina]

How is this the show being gross about rape? It's one character's perspective, and a character who consistently displays fucked-up socialization and worldviews

[sadmagikarp]

lol people need to stop with all the thinkpieces on this dumbass show. it was mildly enjoyable for 2 seasons before circling the shitter and more people watched for the clothes than the plot

[dior_chic]

Mte, it's not that deep and went to shit really fast

[chungkingxpress]

Mte, Vulture are embarrassing themselves.

[burntxtoashes]

more people watched for the clothes than the plot

expose me!

[pikapika217]

Obligatory comment on how us knowing Dan was GG from the beginning and instead the show being about us watching him navigate this world & trying to make decisions as him vs. GG would've made for a better show.

My feelings on it are mixed but we at least had some cute initial moments and good music. Apparently GG was almost Eric too, which would've both been interesting and made a lot more sense.

[burntxtoashes]

i guess i could've seen eric. i felt like he was barely there half of the time, so at least people wouldn't have been able to go back and see him reacting weirdly to gg posts.

[yami_no_hoshi]

Eric should have been Gossip Girl for sure, he was on the periphery and besides outing him, he wasn't really mentioned on GG (as far as I remember).

[screamingintune]

should've been Dorota tbh

[_scarlett_icons]

Blair was a straight up sociopath in the first season.
Dan was always a fucking asshole who threw his "niceness" in everyone's face. And obviously the fact that he turned out to be Gossip Girl made him appear deranged half the time.
Chuck tried to rape both Jenny and Serena and the show just glossed over it.
All the relationships in this show were toxic.

[kashiyaek]

holy shit

[hereforthedrama]

Blair was such a bully most of the time tbh. I remember that episode where she basically goaded Serena into visiting Yale and then set her up and embarrassed her by telling the dean and all the other applicants about her friend that overdosed, like wtf? And of course all her stans defended her, because they were just as insecure.