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Posted on May 11, 2009 with No Comments
Lily (Kelly Rutherford) proves the old adage “like mother, like daughter” holds true as she finds herself becoming just as controlling and manipulating as Cece just to avoid scandal and protect her family name while Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) learn GFs come before BFs. And hello, flashback city as creator Josh Schwartz unveils the Gossip Girl spin-off
Here are Blindie’s Top 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Valley Girl” episode:
- The zingers were flying all night as Serena zaps her mom with, “I would rather give my kids up for adoption than end up like you. Oh wait, you did that.” And Lily sums up Cece saying, “my mother doesn’t need forgiveness, she needs electro-schock therapy.”
- We’re so over the Dove Go Fresh commercials! Why is the only non-white girl featured in the series a broke filmmaker from Brooklyn? What, they couldn’t find any privileged Upper East Side ethnic girls?
- We’re loving Grandma Cece’s fondness for gin! “May I have a gin and tonic, no tonic,” she orders in an 80s flashback. And now her daughter Lily accuses her of “rushing back to that bottle of gin she has hidden under the sink.”
- How fitting for 80s dreamboat Andrew McCarthy to play Lily’s dad Rick. But wait, wasn’t McCarthy a preppy teenager wooing Jenny in Pretty in Pink in the mid-eigthies, not a big time music exec shirking his parental duties.
- We must have the music from the Gossip Girl flashback soundtrack: “Mirror in the Bathroom,” by English Beat; “Dancing with myself” by Billy Idol; “I Melt With You” by Modern English; “Blue Monday” by New Order; “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
- No Doubt posing as a punk band and Gwen Stefani looking so young and hot, like she doesn’t have two kids and a hubby at home.
- Loving how the lure of a tiara convinces Blair that prom queens aren’t just for “suburban schools and the lame teen comedies that are set at them.” And Mother-Chucker Bass making sure that Blair gets the crown and all her scrapbook prom dreams come true -right down to the dress!
- Now that Blair has achieved her ultimate high school dream of going to prom with Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), she realizes she’s over him.
- When is Lily’s sister going to resurface in the present day? She’d probably bring more drama than Georgina!
- Did the final flashback scene on the L.A. bus remind anyone else of Pat Benator’s “Love is a Battlefield”
Posted on May 4, 2009 with 1 Comment
The Gossip Girl gang is all here, Blair, Chuck, Nate, Serena even Georgina, and they’re scheming and plotting together like true Upper East Side friends. But can born-again Georgina take the wheel back from Jesus and steer everyone out of a financial mess?!
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Wrath of Con” episode:
- Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman) is using Gabriel (Armie Hammer) to run a Ponzi scheme on Serena’s friends and even Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) gets caught up in it. Because Ponzi schemes aren’t just for Jewish people anymore.
- We love how Lily Bass (Kelly Rutherford) would rather pay everyone off and prevent scandal and a ruined social image rather than go after the real crooks.
- Rufus Humphrey plans to surprise Lily with dinner and pop the question so he wheels the food to her ritzy Manhattan apartment in a rickety wagon! Hasn’t he ever heard of delivery?! Take that old lady wagon back to Brooklyn!
- Last season everyone wanted Serena (Blake Lively), now Blair (Leighton Meester) is in high demand as Nate (Chace Crawford) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) fight for her attention.
- Can Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Bagdley) big mouth ruin anymore plots?!
- Blair asks Chuck to declare his love for her or let her go. Of course Chuck does not let his guard down and he lets Blair go, then admits to Serena that it’s because he loves her and can’t make her happy.
- Georgina’s cell phone ring is a “praise the Lord” song.
- The big plan to bust Poppy goes south as Serena is hauled away by the cops and Poppy trots off with Georgina’s bible money.
- We lost count of the Jesus mentions after the first half hour, but here are tour faves: “I gave up my old ways when I let Jesus take the wheel,” Georgina tells Blair; “I will never forgive you for what you did and neither will Jesus,” Blair screams at Georgina; “You can tell Jesus that the bitch is back,” as Georgina finishes the job that Chuck and Blair couldn’t and goes after Poppy.
- How good and kind of cheesy was the teaser for the next episode featuring flashbacks of Lily and Rufus in their teen years and a performance by No Doubt! Yes, it’s a pilot for that Gossip Girl spin-off about Lily’s wild years.
Posted on April 20, 2009 with No Comments
Passover dinner was never as fun as on Gossip Girl! With Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) pretending to be together with Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and not married to Gabriele (Armie Hammer), and Dan pretending to not be a cater waiter and taking Elijah’s seat at the dinner table, it was the most entertaining Jewish holiday ever.
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Seder Anything” episode:
- We love Blair Waldorf’s (Leighton Meester) cockney accent as she channels Eliza Doolittle in her My Fair Lady dream sequence.
- Still lovin’ that zinger dialogue: Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) declares “I’m a 17 year-old billionare with incredible stamina,” referring to his sexual prowess; and Dan confesses he’s Eleanor’s “bitch boy” for the night as he caters her Passover dinner.
- Blair strikes a deal with the devil, er, Nate Archibald’s grandfather to convince Nate to go to Yale instead of Columbia. And when she doesn’t deliver, the old man sells her up the river!
- It’s all about the verbal smack down! First, Nate tells off his grandfather for snitching on his corrupt father in front of a roomful of partygoers, then Little Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) serves up some sharp words as she tells off little orphan Chuck for his womanizing ways.
- Chuck can’t have sex with the same random girl twice?! Really? Who the hell does he think he is? Oh yeah, he’s a 17 year-old billionaire. Carry on!
- “Williamsburg is already over,” the art dealer at Eleanor Waldorf’s seder dinner declares. You heard that hipsters? GG has decreed it and so it is!
- A little remorse goes a long way! Chuck apologizes for nearly raping Jenny last year (it’s about time!) and Blair apologizes for plotting with Nate’s grandfather, snubbing her stepfather Cyrus’ seder dinner and turning her nose up at NYU.
- Just when we thought Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) was going to be upgraded to Manhattan bitch status she disappears! And where is Dorota? Probably off filming her own spin-off.
- Serena isn’t really married?! What a fake out! We thought she was going to get her first quickie-d.
- Come on people, this is the Upper East Side where Bar Mitzvahs are more common than Communions and these people can’t even get past the third stage of the dinner! And how sacrelig was it when when Dan sat in Elijah’s seat and Serena and Eleanor drank the wine before they even dipped the parsley in the salt water? “Oy gevalt!”
Posted on March 23, 2009 with No Comments
Everything is coming full circle on the Upper East Side as Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) returns to his family fold, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) goes from bitch to slut to bitchy slut, and Lily Bass (Kelly Rutherford) and Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) fight and make-up again!
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “The Grandfather” episode:
- Nate reluctantly attends his wealthy family reunion and it’s like a J.Crew/Abercrombie/American Eagle sweater ad campaign. Ok, maybe America Eagle is a little too low rent for the Vanderbilts.
- Blair Waldorf and Carter Basin hooking up – downgrade! But kind of ironic considering they’re a hot item in real life.
- What happened in Santorini?! Apparently Serena has some more scandalous secrets up her sleeve and it involves her and Carter Basin and some Greek police.
- Serena calls her mom’s list of lovers the “yellow pages” saying it’ll take Rufus “20 minutes to get through the 90 alone.”
- Dorota goes all Stolichnaya on Chuck and tells him off in Russian. We can’t wait for the Dorota episode!
- Again with the pierogies?! And now Vanessa and Nate are planning to go backpacking in Eastern Europe. Are we supposed to believe that ambiguously ethnic Jessica Szohr is Polish?
- Blair debases herself and begs to be accepted at Sarah Lawrence. Hello? It’s not like it’s a city college, it’s still private.
- We love inappropriate-loud-mouth Blair much better than controlling-scheming Blair or even slutty-wild Blair, because lines like, “garcon, with the bubble butt” is priceless!
- Enough with the Kennedy references to Nate’s family. We get it, they’re rich and they can trace their lineage to the early settlers. Now let’s hear some of the double-handed dirty deeds they did to get their tony status!
- Little Jenny Humphrey deserves a medal for watching Vanessa cry over Nate and for saying “you guys belong together” without so much of a lip curl.
Posted on March 16, 2009 with 1 Comment
As the Upper East Side private schoolers put on a play (The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton), it’s their lives that end up taking center stage!
Here are the TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s TV return in “The Age of Dissonance” episode:
1. Even though the role she wanted as innocent May in the school play goes to Serena (Blake Lively), Blair (Leighton Meester) perks herself up by saying all the role required was “pretty” which Serena had a lot of!
2. Dorota (Zuzanna Szadkowski) tries on the play’s wardrobe weave and gives herself a sultry look in the mirror, while she exchanges a look at Penelope (Amanda Setton) who is also dressed in a maid outfit for the play.
3. Nelly Yuki (Yin Chang) stepping up and really bitching Blair out and giving her a taste of her own medicine makes us proud of GG’s resident Asian!
4. Twilight DVD commercial plays during a Gossip Girl commercial break! Also, the United Color of Bennetton-esque Loreal commercial featuring Beyonce, Eva Longoria and Elizabeth Banks equally made us happy we were recessionistas and didn’t have DVR!
5. Chuck (Ed Westwick) is sidelined and given yet another bizarre storyline that doesn’t involve Blair. We need to really start a Chuck-Blair petition!
6. Carter Basin (Sebastian Bach) is back! The poker-playing bad boy who nearly stole Nate’s (Chace Crawford) money last season returns in Chuck’s bizarre storyline…We’re guessing he’s really going to be Chuck’s nemesis–we love bad boys!
7. Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) as the liason of culture and the arts for Serena to nab the play’s director was yet another useless storyline! We’ve given up, just write her off! We’d rather see her kissing Ed Westwick courtside!
8. Ment-whore teacher Rachel (Laura Breckenridge) gets it on with Dan (Penn Badgley) in the wardrobe closet at the school–but she turns out to turn off righteous Dan when it’s revealed that she is trying to sabotage Blair! We celebrate her return to Iowa!
9. Hags around the world rejoice! Serena’s efforts don’t work on the hot director–he reveals he’s gay.
10. “Chasing Dorota” teaser plays…We’re putting our money on the fact that Dorota IS Gossip Girl!
Posted on February 2, 2009 with 1 Comment
Is Gossip Girl jumping the shark? A teacher-student romance and an “Eyes Wide Shut” storyline in one episode?! These kids aren’t even in college, let alone the big bad world of finance and they’re already embroiled in scandals.
Here are Blindie’s over-the-top ten moments moments of Gossip Girl’s “Carnal Knowledge” episode:
- Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) gets detention! We should’ve known this episode was gonna be a shocker when the Queen Bee actually gets punished. Well, at least she made Dorota (Zuzanna Szadkowski) do all the work.
- Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) wakes up in a hotel room with a strange tattoo on his arm, and flashbacks of a night of debauchery reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut.” All obvious questions aside, but does Chuck even go to school anymore?
- Does anyone else think the english teacher Rachel Carr (Laura Breckenridge) looks like Shannon Doherty (from the original 90210 years)?
- That awesome dialogue that keeps us coming back for more: “Is a scandal still a scandal if you can’t text about it?” Hazel (Dreama Walker) complains when their cell phones are confiscated at school; “Talk about the filthy rich,” Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) says when she sees Chuck in his apres-party unkemptness; “I can’t believe we’re here on a Saturday evening, that’s a lot of cancelled retstaurant reservations,” Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford) laments when she has to attend an emergency parent meeting at the school.
- We love when Blair compared Dan and Ms. Carr to that infamous teacher who had an affair with her student, Mary Kay Letourneau!
- Blair’s plan to take down the english teacher backfires and she faces expulsion for spreading a rumor about Dan Humphrey getting it on with Ms. Carr.
- Rumor starts to become truth when Dan meets with the english teacher at a dimly lit cafe. Really? Who does that? Like they couldn’t talk at school?
- We love how Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) is quick to sell Dan up the river as soon as she sees him barely touching Ms. Carr for like a split second. Blair snaps a photo on her cell phone and uses it to bail Blair out of her lies so she won’t have to go to Oberlin!
- Chuck goes on a wild goose chase for the mysterious masked woman who pleasured him the previous night and finds out his father was involved in a secret gentleman’s club. We’re not sure where this is going but since the woman has already turned up missing it’s definitely gonna be scandalous and shocking and age-inappropriate!
- Dan and Serena are splitsville again! And Dan’s already jumped into bed with the english teacher, or should we say the english teacher has already jumped his bones. Too bad the dean of Constance Billard was about to call and offer Ms. Carr her job back!
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Posted on January 19, 2009 with No Comments
We thought that after the Rufus and Lily spin off was announced, their Gossip Girl lovefest would take a backseat to the teenage drama, but the parent PDA continues! And what’s with the obsession over Yale? Pick another Ivy League, there are seven others!
Here are Blindie’s top moments from Gossip Girl’s “You’ve Got Yale” episode:
- Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) tries every trick in the Blair Waldorf book of backstabbing and then some to kick his Uncle Jack out of the company - from planting drugs, to setting him up with a transsexual and putting his name on Megan’s’ List (the California sex offender’s list).
- Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) and Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford) are playing sleep-over and her daughter Serena complains she is “pretending not to hear what [she} hears in the middle of the night.” Awkward!
- Why is Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) still sacrificing herself for Blair (Leighton Meester)? She even gives up her spot at Yale so Blair can move off the wait-list. Bring back bitchy Serena!
- Blair gets a dog! We were expecting a Labradoodle or a Portugese Water Hound, because we heard those are quite trendy now.
- Genius dialogue from Chuck as he calls Rufus a “half-priced hustler!” and says “I don’t care where you import them from, I want them young and unstable,” as he orders up some women.
- Nice to see Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) and Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) still hanging in there with the minimum amount of lines needed to receive a paycheck, but really their scenes were so unnecessary.
- Chuck finally gets a mother as Lily follows through with her plans to adopt him to help him gain control of his father’s company. And Chuck returns the favor as he comes to Lily’s aid when a coked up Uncle Jack tries to rape her at the opera.
- Serena oders a home dread-locking kit! Really? There’s a home kit?
- We love that Serena is choosing the slackers Ivy League, Brown University!
- Blair gets schooled by the new teacher! That’ll teach her to “act out on people.”
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