Love it or Hate it? Love it!: Gossip Girl

I really think that I loved Gossip Girl, the CW’s new show that premiered last night—but I couldn’t fully enjoy it. My tv experience was littered time and time again with “Where in God’s name do I know her from?!”  I just couldn’t figure out why the main blonde looked so familiar.

A cursory search on imdb this morning made me see the light -- The blonde from Gossip Girl (a.k.a.  Blake Lively) is the hot soccer player from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! Perhaps I blocked it out of my memory because it is…well….Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Gossip Girl is based on the young adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and brought to life by Josh Schwartz, the teen-drama obsessed creator of "O.C.”. It is the story of a group of impossibly wealthy and gorgeous teenagers gallivanting around New York City (that is, when they aren’t cutting class, smoking weed, cutting class to smoke weed, shopping, or private-jetting to St. Barts).

Gossip Girl pulled me in last night. I forsee countless Wednesday nights in my future hanging on the every word of Kristen Bell (a.k.a Veronica Mars) as she gives us the omniscient narrator voiceover have been withdrawling from since Sex and the City went off the air. Already I have massive sympathy for Blair (she is to Gossip Girl as Summer was to The OC) whose boyfriend has fallen out of love with her and in love her best friend, Serena. Serena is blonde, stylish, and has the magnetism of girl hiding countless skeletons in her closet.

Mix that with a thinly veiled allusion to incest (“My little girl is a woman now! You look so much like your mother”) and you’ve got a hit on your hands! Well played, Josh Schwartz, well played.

I can’t wait for next week’s episode. It’s only a matter of time before their smoking weed turns to shooting heroine, everyone develops an eating disorder, and a beatdown from the delinquent public school kids introduces an obligatory hottie from the wrong side of the tracks!

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10k+ Emily Published 9/20/07   Message Add to Friends