I will admit: I watched the first season of Gossip girl with some reservations but now, even after a sort-of-slow opening, I am in the trenches with the rest of America and OBSESSED. Gawker will do a better recap than me but still…
Just last night (spoilers coming so those with fragile hearts, look away):
- -Serena’s Mom tried to re-ignite her flames with Rufus (Dan’s dad) after being married to Chuck’s father for what? 2 days? The method used: strumming at the strings of his Harry Dean Stanton L.U.V
- -The first day of school happened and in it: Blair threatened some girl with a (field) hockey stick, Serena and Dan fought and made up and fought some more
- -The Dutchess, who puts Mrs. Robinson to shame was caught (by Vanessa, whom she tried to bribe for her silence in terms of her OTHER illegitimate affair) in a tryst with her son, The Lord (who is also dating Blair) because one 17 year old (Nate, who USED to date Blair) is just not enough when you are 38
- - She, and her son got subsequently exiled to NY
- - There was bleach spiled into people’s hair
- -Blackmails (by Blair, played by “born-in-prison” Leighton Meester”) and counter offers (by The Dutchess, played by “was battered by Leo in “Twin Peaks” Madchen Amick) were made
- -Blair did not show up at a party for one night and Serena regained her Queen (Bitch) status which was visually presented with girls in school stopping to wear alice bands (Blair’s trademark hair style) and starting to wear bandannas (Serena’s trademark hair style), subsequentially shunning Dan off the face of earth (read:quad)
- -Chuck paid someone to make all that happen
- -And got away with it (WHILE drinking champagne in a limo en route to school-naturally)
- -And the Dalton lacrosse team was somehow involved
I am pretty sure other things happened as well, but my head was too busy spinning to catch it all.
Naturally, in the process, no one’s hair (but that one girl’s) got messed up, make up was flawless, there was a lot of outfits I want to own but cannot afford being tossed about and a girl got reprimanded for wearing “last season’s Tory Burch flats” and ran off crying in a manner one cries only when a very close relative or at least a beloved puppy dies.
and Next week is the FASHION WEEK! episode.
Lets just hope they don’t burn through it all too soon like they did on that other Josh Schwartz show that could (but didn’t) “The O.C.”
It was a nairtini that was thrown on Amanda’s hair and I only know this because I’m subscribed to the Gossip Girl texting system…
September 23, 2008 at 2:10 pmnairtini? that chuck, he’s full of all sorts of tricks.
September 23, 2008 at 2:54 pmpains me to say this as a bro, but GG is WAY better than Entourage right now. Johnny Drama and/or the writers are ruining every episode with his predictably erratic, one-dimensional bullshit. do you have to be a good actor to play a bad one?
September 24, 2008 at 9:50 am
i missed that head-wear change, that is too funny.
September 23, 2008 at 1:45 pm