<![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @TedSez: I am enlightened, and you have made my morning. I think I love you.

lurkystars

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @hamburgerhotdog: i know but it's so good, especially his analysis of the best episode this season "all about my brother". now here's my dilemma: is the show really that brilliant as jacob says it is, or is he overestimating the genius of the writers by projecting his own genius on them? discuss.

bess marvin, girl detective

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: I've always thought Jacob should have Alessandra's job. Well, that seems like damning with faint praise. But you know what I mean.

BeRightBack

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> "The series's underlying tone is knowing and sarcastic because viewers who grew up on 'The Simpsons' expect even their teen melodramas served dry, with a dash of satire.'' Okay, Matt Groening meets Edith Wharton. So, Lily Bart is Bart in the Simpsons. Okay...

cosmiclove

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @bess marvin, girl detective: I couldn't get through the last one, it was 23 pages. That's longer than my senior thesis!

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> In the opening scene of House of Mirth, we see Lily Bart in Grand Central Station. Just sayin'.

plunk

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @jrhys: The New Adventures of Old Christine?

MattGaymon

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: If you like the Gossip Girl, recap...you should see them go to town on Friday Night Lights. Sometimes preferable to the actual show.

Hockeymom

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @bess marvin, girl detective: I know, right? It's like reading someone's Lit thesis if you actually cared about the topic.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @Phyllis Nefler: just read a recap on TWOP and that Jacob guy is fucking good. He makes this show worthy of being overanalyzed.

bess marvin, girl detective

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @TedSez: Ha! Ha! ( I'm not wild about" ha!" for some reason, so I'm saying it twice)
But where oh where is our Undine Spragg?

jrhys

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> Secret? The Emperor Wears No Clothes!

BunnySoup

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> I read that whole god-awful column and I kept hoping that it would finally make some point, but it never did. It was like watching an episode of The Hills, only not entertaining. How on earth does she have a job?

lordkinbote

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @TedSez: ha. or chuck can derive from the term "upchuck" which means vomit, a reaction blair has to the younger bass everytime she sees him.

what about vanessa? is it sanskrit for "hipster"?

bess marvin, girl detective

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @TedSez: Ha!

@Alessandra Stanley: Stop, just stop. I'll stick to Television Without Pity (would it be higher-brow of me to call it Television Sans Pity? I bet you would do something like that) for my micro-analysis of the show. Jacob's line-by-line lyrical analysis of the background music and its implications for plot advancement is way more "in the now" than arcane literary-historical references are anyway. Nobody needs to know those things anymore because of Wikipedia, remember? Kthx.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> @TedSez: Solid gold, as usual. Thanks for the cliffs notes!

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> Also, the name Serena is derived from "Serene," even though the character is frequently under a lot of stress. And Blair is the name of a cheap clothing catalog, even though she wears outfits that are very expensive. And Dan could be taken from Daniel Boone, who lived on the frontier, just as this character lives in Brooklyn. And Nate might as well be taken from Nathanael West, a writer who satirized the wealthy, just as this character is wealthy and never says anything interesting. And Jenny is the prostitute in The Threepenny Opera, who, if given the chance, might also have stolen a dress. Chuck, of course, is what closeted "Peanuts" character Peppermint Patty called Charlie Brown, so, you know.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> Oh noes.
I was at my local pirated dvd shop and I almost picked up the first season set but put it back.
Well hot damn, I'm going there first thing tomorrow.

All six of those girls are really pretty...

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[What is <i>Gossip Girl</i>'s Big Secret?]]> yet another page wasted to "analyzing" a show i only watch to kill brain cells and to see leighton meester/ed westwick.

i'm starting to think that someone at the CW is going around giving blowjobs to all these writers. give it a rest dear literati, please.

bess marvin, girl detective

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