She also introduced them to Jacob Willis, a tattooed and friendly real-estate agent from New Zealand with whom Ed has been playing pool all afternoon. Jacob hopes one day to sell one of the Gossip Girl cast members an apartment, which is why drinking with Ed on a Wednesday afternoon basically counts as work. Before it even aired, Gossip Girl was armed with two great advantages.
The other was the legion of young girls who had read the tawdry but addictive Gossip Girl book series by Nightingale-Bamford graduate Cecily von Ziegesar.
And yet, the numbers were bad. Really bad. New episodes pulled in an average of 2. New episodes routinely arrived at the No.
But this is the first show that seems to have succeeded primarily on the Internet. Not only do fans watch the show on their computers, but they post sightings of the actors on gossip blogs and exchange rumors about both the show and its stars on fan sites.
We are all Gossip Girl! And the whole experience can happen sans television. As with most bumblings into new terrain, Gossip Girl is causing some befuddlement at the network. Up to this point, the strategy for solving the advertising conundrum had been mostly product placement.
But placement is just no revenue match for broadcast ads. Theirs is a dynamic that dates back to the dawn of entertainment: the blonde bombshell versus the sassy brunette. Betty and Veronica. Ginger and Mary Ann. Brenda and Kelly. Just not in the same way. Like Soho? Leighton, on the other hand, has a mouth as big as her Bette Davis eyes. She willingly shares okay, overshares , even pointing out the exact building where she lives we promised not to set up a tent on the stoop, at least not before summer.
Leighton will even talk about a subject most starlets consider taboo: boys. Leighton and Sebastian were snapped kissing outside of a Halloween party in October, and now he might move in with Chace and Ed. For a girl who claims that she never has a good time on dates, she seems a little smitten. Lest anyone think, after all this dishing, that Leighton is our new BFF, it must be noted that the actress can easily slip back into her role as the Queen of Mean.
The first time we met her, at a party at Barneys for Donatella Versace, we nervously approached her and introduced ourselves. At a loss for what to say in the presence of Her Leightness, we complimented her on her dress and asked her what it was. We learned, in that moment, that it is indeed possible to be both appalled and in love at the same time. Her villain-you-want-to-root-for is the most sophisticated performance on the show.
He continued, "I don't even know how they did it. They kept it from everybody which is a testament to how good they are as actors. Because they did not want their personal drama to relate to the show.
Serena and Blair were the ultimate BFF duo. Off-screen, however, producers have said Lively and Meester were not as compatible. Safran told Vanity Fair in , "They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair.
Serena's look was modeled after Kate Moss. This included a lot of "nonchalant fashion," which he described as "having that 'I've traveled to Europe' vibe.
He said her wardrobe is "well thought-out, but also looks seamless and effortless. A few months later, Daman told Variety that men's belts were one of his fashion "pet peeves. This was also the era of metrosexuals, 'Jersey Shore' and hideous jeans with really ugly belts. No, this is not happening on my watch The costume designer also added that all the clothes were tailored very specifically so that they looked right on camera. The "Gossip Girl" showrunners didn't want the actors focusing too heavily on who would end up being the mysterious Gossip Girl, so it was not revealed until the final scripts were handed out.
In a interview with TV Line , executive producer Stephanie Savage said, "It was nothing that we talked to the actors about. It was nothing that we wanted to be part of Penn Badgley's performance as Dan. Although Meester seems like the natural fit for Blair Waldorf now, her connection to the character was not always so apparent.
Executive producer Schwartz told Vanity Fair in , "She came in and she was really funny, and really smart and played vulnerable. But there was one problem: She was blonde.
And Blake was blonde, obviously; Serena had to be blonde. So, [Leighton] went to the sink and dyed her hair. She wanted it.
I can't see it," the first time he met Meester at auditions. It began repeating its stories over and over again; with each iteration, they seemed to get a little colder. In its final season, it regularly pulled under a million viewers per episode, down from a peak of 3. The new Gossip Girl is, loosely speaking, an in-universe continuation of the old, taking place at the same viciously rich Upper East Side high school with a new set of students, nine years after the original show ended.
This dynamic is — as you will note if you watched the original Gossip Girl , and which the show self-consciously lampshades — very Serena and Blair redux. Which means very little about Gossip Girl feels new. You could practically draw a graph.
Frankly, the original Gossip Girl did not really have enough personality traits to sustain its first cast, let alone a new one. Disclosure: I come to this new show as a viewer who found the original to run a maddening spectrum of nearly brilliant to unwatchably awful, but I also watched almost every episode, with the exception of the final season.
The new show is reiterating the same set of tired tropes as the first, so even four episodes in, it has acquired an exhausting sameness. The new students of Constance Billiard School, we learn, are terrorizing their underpaid teachers with bitchy quips about their Zara wardrobes and threats to get them fired for giving out bad grades.
Back in , all the students were well-behaved model pupils who respected authority because they were all being terrorized into submission by Gossip Girl. Before long, the teachers are happily filming their underage students changing in front of windows, digging up smut on all the cool kids, and publishing the results on Instagram for all the world to see.
Every lead character is gray. If you need a show with clearly delineated heroes and villains don't watch. You'll hate everyone by the end. It's not a show with a moral code.
It neither reflects traditional conservative values nor progressive liberal values. If you need a show that promotes "good values" of either kind, I'd stay away. It deviates wildly from the books.
If that matters to you, stay away. But if you want a glossy glitzy glamorous guilty pleasure filled with beautiful people like Chace Crawford and Blake Lively, tons of drama, fashion, and some over the top but emotionally compelling characters and relationships? Give it a shot. FAQ 9. Is the series available to own? Where can Gossip Girl be viewed online? Details Edit. Release date September 19, United States.
United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 42 minutes. Dolby Digital. Related news. Nov 12 Film-Book. Nov 11 SneakPeek. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
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