Gossip Girl - We Know We All Love Her XOXO!

Gossip Girl - We Know We All Love Her XOXO!

Hi from the upper east side!

A catchy phrase that keeps you hooked from the very first episode of the Netflix show Gossip Girl Season 1. Starting off with a wonderful cast including Blake Lively, Leighton Meester and my favorite Penn Badgley. The story revolves around a group of over privileged teens in Manhattan’s upper east side and an outsider mysterious entity who leaks out their deadliest secrets. Clearly gossip girl does not feel belonged to upper east siders’ fancy world. So, she makes sure not to let go of any tip she gets to reveal the secrets publicly and drives out the worst in them for the sake of keeping her blog spicy and sensational.

What makes Gossip Girl worthwhile is how it goes against the norm, not follows it. Gossip Girl actually puts a distinctive plot by making everyone kind of nice by the end of the day irrespective of their usual cunningness. Although this approach leads to controversial story plot for a soap, but anyhow it worked. Surely people are selfish and mean. At the same time, everybody is treacherous and loved to so party hard acting as status seeker.

Charles Chuck Bass, the manipulative teen seems to have pretty much Sherlock influence, starts as a sinister character -  but his pervert image gets quickly scrubbed off. The story plot consistently makes us feel that he's up to naughty behavior, but he's out to impress his dad, win the girl he loves, break free of societal stigma, etc. And when his friends need him - he's always there for them, no questions asked.

This element adds oddly-realistic approach to the soap. In Gossip Girl, although the core cast argue, fight and are bitchy to one another, but they're all there for one another in the end. There's not an obvious evidence of affection, but there is an underlying mutual respect and concern.

By using the Gossip Girl Blog as a plot vehicle derives that series has a subtle theme about honesty: truth always prevails. However, in all episodes I'm watching a pattern according to which teen (30-year-old) leads don't just tell one another what's going on. They're all stupidly internalizing everything, which causes chaos, which leads to confusion, which leads to cheating on him with his best friend, hard drug use and hair-pulling in the 3rd floor bathroom.

Gossip Girl, to its credit, never uses this as a twist. The all leads tell one another things and clear misunderstandings, so all the painful little bits and pieces that could burst out, are very rapidly diffused. I love it!  

But... the question remains unanswered that who is that gossip girl? Is it really a she or could be he too? Well we don’t know it yet… but one thing we all know that we love her!

XOXO!

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