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Admit it: You're dying to see "Gossip Girl" (premiering September 19th at 9 p.m.!), the new CW show that pulls back the curtain on the lives of spoiled rich kids on the Upper East Side. It's not just aimed at the youngsters. It's also brilliantly engineered, we think, to be enjoyed by those over 16 as a guilty pleasure—though we know there's no such thing. Now we've obtained this one minute clip, which demonstrates exactly why "Gossip Girl" is the show that will define a generation of New Yorkers. Culturally, this just might be bigger than... gosh, we'd say 9/11, but Chris Crocker already used that one about Britney today.
"The O.C." changed the life of the average to dull- to dull-average television viewer, for better or for worse, and you just know that show creator Josh Schwartz is going to bring that same level of realism and sophistication to his depiction of the East Coast's elite as they drink, snort, and screw their way through high school. This show is equally complex. The word "baroque" might not carry enough negative connotations to fully get our feelings across, but we're still gonna go with it.
This tiny excerpt shows exactly what we mean—and shows why we predict it's going to be absolutely the most newsworthy television show of the season. (Particularly when the Christian groups start freaking out.) It's a gripping confrontation between Serena, [SPOILER ALERT] who was sent to boarding school for being a bit loose but has recently returned, and Blair, her former best friend who is dating Nate, and is desperately jealous of Serena [SPOILER ALERT], possibly because she banged the hell out of him. Please enjoy the vérité of the verbal contretemps here: This is exactly how rich Upper East Side teens cut each other.
Our one negative thought: The actress who plays Serena looks WAY TOO OLD TO BE IN HIGH SCHOOL. For most of the episode we thought she was someone's mom.
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This show is going to make me cum with no hands!
Martha Stewart got pwned.
i thought this was reality tv. plainly not the case - that's toronto in the background.
Bored in 23 seconds, and that's WITH the adderal
I just gotta say that it's nice to watch a Gawker video where someone isn't shrieking in my face.
Don't play into the submissive stereotype! Say something, Asian girl, SAY SOMETHING!!!
Yeah, because the ruffled collar look is so classic UES....
Not Toronto.
It's clearly on the steps of the Met.
Oh my god, I watched the video before reading after the jump and I seriously thought Serena was their teacher.
I wonder which gay bar will be the first to have a viewing party? (Vlada, I looking at you.)
"way too old" -- an homage to 90210, no doubt.
"Looks like you got a lot of yogurt left!"
Ooooh! Burn!
Wait, what?
For me to tivo this I have to not get Fashionista Diaries or America's Next Top Model. Hello, people who make the schedules, the same person watches all this crap!!! Please space out the crap in the future. I like to watch my hateful bitches on tv so it reminds me it's not me when I deal with the hateful bitches in real life.
This show would be better if it was about fat indie-rock singers.
Oral sex really says a mouthful.
Blondie's the one who lost her virginity so devastatingly in Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
can we get doree back as a guest columnist to write, oh, i don't know, a thrice weekly analysis column?
@Hortense de Beauharnais: Aren't ANTM and GG both on CW? I ask this frantically.
After all that porcelain skin and tweed, my retinas are on fire.
But what KIND of yogurt?
The actress who plays Serena looks WAY TO OLD TO BE IN HIGH SCHOOL. For most of the episode we thought she was someone's mom.
That or the tutor who does all their homework. I will probably end up loving this show, although I predict a brief struggle trying to tear myself away from Bionic Woman (I love me some Kara Thrace).
Just the kind of show my wife will watch and damned if I don't wind up getting sucked in too.
But, having gone away to prep school in the seventies (showing my age, oops!) I'm a bit perplexed at the logic of sending the girl away to "boarding" school because she is loose. Didn't her rich parents go to prep school? I don't recall any loose girls being reformed at "boarding" school. To the contrary, I'm aware of quite a few who blossomed into particularly "liberated" sluts.
Please, baby Jesus, make the hot girl who purrs, "And you're kinda not invited," into a heartless, psycho-bitch. It's supposed to be a long, cold winter.
as an innocent freshman in college, i wasn't able to pry myself from the cold, calculating world of "The O.C." (at least until i gave it up after the second season). But, as a smarter, college graduate, i can honestly say that i won't even give this piece of shit show a flying chance. sorry, josh, the hills already fills my "white, generic looking, overprivileged teens" quota. and i can't look at blake lively's face without thinking of that shitastic movie "sisterhood of the traveling pants."
the best part: the girl who plays serena is actually still in high school. my best friends younger brother goes to the a new york public clas for people in the arts, and shes in his math class. so sad.
I appreciate how careful they were to include all the various ethnicities found on the UES: blonde, also blonde, brunette, and Asian.
@sexbot: I know exactly what you mean. This show is going to break my vaginity all over again, and I CAN'T WAIT.
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen an Asian on the Upper East Side. Seriously, now that I'm thinking about it. God, that's weird.
@Huitzi:
God, spoiler.
@gootah: Yeah, the cops were really surprised, too, but they still booked me.
@the cajun boy: Raises hand, wonders if cable can be written off on taxes.
@collegecallgirl: Also, Cedric Diggory dies.
@momo: it can. i've been doing it for about 4 years now.
@momo: Only if you can prove you only use it for work purposes and never for entertainment, according to my sources.
God, I need to go outside.
@momo: or XES
@Phyllis Nefler:
You're right. Maybe they're messing with the schedule to get people hooked. Those bastards probably already know I need me my hateful bitches.
It's like "Popular" but 7 years later.
i've seen the pilot and it made me want to wrap my car around a telephone pole. so did schwartz's other show "chuck" but more for the tired "quirkiness" outlined in that article posted here yesterday. so logically both will be huge.
Which one is Brenda, again?
and it's filming outside my office tomorrow on East 25th ... and I'm swampted with work ... i sooooooooo want a walk-on part ...
Fine, but why is she dressed like Barry Lyndon?
@Huitzi: Savior. God that was annoying.
It's like "The Facts of Life" meets "Melrose Place".
Please make me a T-Shirt that reads:
"Your Kinda Not Invited."
When will NBC create the "Park Slope Princess" Series?
ohh....I get it, because yogurt is for poor people. Or wait, did she mean yogurt was for slutty people?
Maybe it was just the quantity of yogurt in general?
...this show is SO confusing...
I don't understand why the Asian girl is there. Shouldn't she be at, like, Stuyvesant or Hunter?
@What it is: yogurt is for eating compulsive that are all, "oh, but it's okay, cuz, like, it's fat free"
Also, duh, backwards?
TRU GOY
@Phyllis Nefler: Pretty sure its on CW AFTER ANTM. And yeah, my wednesday night schedule is getting full. Monday has already suffered some losses. Note to programmers: If you spread out all the good shit, I will be glued to my couch for the whole week, so all your ad dollars can go to work!! Bitches.
@What it is: I played that clip 5 times. I need to know more about the yogurt!! Is she implying she has some trampiness-related yeast infection??
@Hortense de Beauharnais: Wait, isn't ANTM on the CW? How do they conflict? (This is important for my own TiVo-scheduling needs. Er. I mean someone's TiVo-scheduling needs.)
@TheUptightMidwesterner: Or maybe it's the calcium boost for her osteoperosis cuz bitch look OLD!
@Phyllis Nefler
@Hortense de Beauharnais: ANTM is 8pm, GG 9pm... start date Wednesday 9/19...your welcome. This vital information has been on a post-it on my computer for 2 weeks. Priorities in check.