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A Little Bit of Danger Makes Gossip Girl’s Life Worth Living
This week, Jenny and Serena live on the edge.
Gossip Girl Is the Last Person in New York Who Still Thinks You Matter
Try not to take it too personally.
Gossip Girl Loses Her Moral Compass
Serena and Blair are at each other's throats in a way they haven't been since the first season.
Gossip Girl’s Mask Is Becoming Her Face
It's Halloween, but the masks our characters are wearing aren't just festive strips of silicone donned for a night of carousing.
Gossip Girl Fastens Its Seatbelts
What was true to life about this episode, and what struck us as faker than a Photoshop of a politician holding a giant cherry-red bong?
Gossip Girl Finally Gets Out of Its Maid Outfit
What rhymes with Sonic Youth and is also music to our ears? Truth, friends. And that was what we heard a lot of on last night's Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl Remembers Who She Is
For the first time this season, we found ourselves actually listening to what Gossip Girl herself was saying, and were happy to see that she had a role to play.
Gossip Girl Makes a Bid on Love
And guess what? Even at Sotheby's, it costs less than $8,000. Read all about it in our episode recap.
Gossip Girl’s Heart of Darkness
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time: The College Years.
Wild Gossip Girls Can’t Be Broken
The recap of the season premiere of the third season of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Gossip Girl’s Georgina Ex Machina
Our reality index of the season finale.
Gossip Girl Always Tries to Make the Movie in Its Head Resemble Reality
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of our Time.
Gossip Girl Explains It All
This week's episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time imparted several important lessons.
Gossip Girl Gets Us Where We Want It
Finally, an episode worthy of our Monday nights!
Gossip Girl Matters
Our weekly reality index: with a special guest star!
Gossip Girl Faces a Dilemma
If a woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really exist?
Gossip Girl Has a Personality Crisis
It's time for our weekly episode recap!
Gossip Girl Changes the Seasons for Us
Unfortunately, it does not quite melt our hearts along with the snow. But who cares? Our episode recaps are back!
Gossip Girl Meets Stanley Kubrick
Our weekly reality index returns, just in time for an extremely upsetting episode.
Gossip Girl’s World Is the Only World That Matters
Are you in it? If not, you can get into our weekly recap.
Gossip Girl Notices It Has a Penis
This week's episode had us doing mental pirouettes.
Gossip Girl Catches Us When We Fall
Or, you know, before we fall. Or after we metaphorically fall. Whatever, our episode recaps have returned!
Gossip Girl Takes Us Through the First Two Stages of Grief
Our weekly reality index.
A Chilly Night in ‘Gossip Girl’ Country
Our weekly reality index of the most important show that you pretend you aren't watching.
Gossip Girl Is Where We Belong
It's Thanksgiving already! And there's lots to be thankful for in our weekly 'Gossip Girl' recap.
Gossip Girl Gets Its Muff Stuffed
Oh jeez, where to begin? It's our weekly episode recap!
Gossip Girl Leaves Us Writhing in Excruciating Pleasure
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
The Secret Life of Gossip Girl
Our weekly reality index of the only show we've ever liked before it became cool.
Gossip Girl Gains the Freshman Fifteen
Fifteen POINTS, that is.
Gossip Girl Allows Its Light to Shine
‘Gossip Girl’ attacks the city at its very heart: Fashion Week. We tell you what was real and unreal.
Gossip Girl Tosses a Nairtini in Our Faces
An epic recap of an epic episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Even More Lynchian Than Before
In which we overanalyze the blackout, the outfits, and the terrifying small children that participate in the latest episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Gossip Girl Is Royally Pimpin’
Our recap of the second episode of the second season of the Greatest Show Ever.
Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love
It's the return of our exhaustive, obsessive, and unattractively loving recaps of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
‘Gossip Girl’ Ditches Us the Morning After
We tally up the points that made the season finale of the Greatest Show of Our Time real, unreal, or maybe just annoying.
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the High of Our So-Called Lives
Let's face it, this episode rocked. Our recap is within.
‘Gossip Girl’ Blows Our Minds
And that's not all. You'll have to see it — or read our recap — to believe it.
‘Gossip Girl’ Blinds Us With Color, Evil
In which Michelle Trachtenberg is the Marcia Cross of the Greatest Show of Our Time, returning from a mysterious absence to ruin everything and everyone.
The ‘Gossip Girl’ Recaps Returneth!
In which we calculate the reality index of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
In Which We Finally Say Those Three Little Words to ‘Gossip Girl’
We've realized our relationship with Gossip Girl has followed a path not unlike Dan and Serena's.
‘Gossip Girl’ Takes Us Back to the Future
It was kind of a refreshing change to get vodka in plastic cups and an impromptu party at the school pool.
A Very ‘Gossip Girl’ Christmas
Our mind-shatteringly detailed guide to what in this week's episode of Gossip Girl could pass for real-life New York experience, what seemed kinda fake, and what really put the "Jesus Christ" back in our Christmas.
‘Gossip Girl’ Says, ‘Granny, Get Your Gun!’
Drunk with power (and Tanqueray), Grandma CeCe stole the shit out of this episode.
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the Thanksgiving We Always Deserved
Who writes this show? Former members of the Children of God?
‘Gossip Girl’ Threatens All of Its Great Loves
"I performed in a speakeasy and surrendered my virtue to a self-absorbed ass."
‘Gossip Girl’ Exceeds Our Expectations … Again!
Our Einsteinian comparison between the real, the unreal, and the crap that made us groan out loud to our gay friends in the living room.
‘Gossip Girl’ Makes Us Color-blind
Our highly calibrated point system of... um... points.
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Lost in New York
Isn't it weird when a show's writers forget their own plotlines? Isn't it weird we're paying such close attention?
‘Gossip Girl’ Embraces Friendships, Reality
And that's what this recap is all about, right? Realism!
‘Gossip Girl’: There Are Only Eight Colleges in America
Our vaguely researched, but mostly completely subjective, guide to what in this week's Gossip Girl was as fake as Melania Trump's face, and what could pass for real.
‘Gossip Girl’ Goes Straight to the ‘O.C.’ Place
In case you forgot, on the second episode of Gossip Girl, otherwise known as Statutory Rape in the City, the anonymous narrator really drums it in that this show is based in Manhattan, more specifically Upper East Side.
‘Gossip Girl’: The Most Important Show of Our Time
Last night's giddily awaited premiere of Gossip Girl did not disappoint.
- Schedule
- Mondays, 9 p.m.
The CW - Cast
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- Blake Lively:
‘Serena van der Woodsen’ - Leighton Meester:
‘Blair Waldorf’ - Penn Badgley:
‘Dan Humphrey’ - Ed Westwick:
‘Chuck Bass’ - Chace Crawford:
‘Nate Archibald’ - Taylor Momsen:
‘Jenny Humphrey’ - Jessica Szohr:
‘Vanessa Abrams’
- Blake Lively:
- Creators
- Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage
- Producers
- Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Bob Levy, Leslie Morgenstein, and John Stephens
- Debut
- September 19, 2007
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