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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 22, 2009 with 3 Comments
Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford and Blindie’s ga ga starlet Zoe Kravitz are in New York this week filming the rich kid drama Twelve with director Joel Shumacher.
Crawford plays White Mike, the overcoat-wearing, private school drop-out turned drug dealer and we’re hoping Kravitz is playing Sara Ludlow, the “hottest girl in school.”
Adapted from the 2002 novel by then 17 year-old teen Nick McDonell, Twelve also stars 50 Cent, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Ellen Barkin and Kiefer Sutherland.
Blindie just loves over-privileged teenagers behaving badly!
PHOTO CREDIT: Just Jared
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 January 12, 2009 with No Comments
Backstabbing? Check! Underage drinking? Check! Drugs and hookers? Check, and check! All of the regular Gossip Girl plot points are present. So why did the last scene fizzle into a Brady Bunch moment? We’re starting to suspect the Gossip Girl writers must live in Brooklyn because all of the betrayal seems to happen on Manhattan’s Upper East Side but warm and fuzzy moments are always going down at the Humphrey’s Brooklyn loft. WTF? We love the Serena and Dan thing and even the Rufus and Lily affair, but only if it’s going to cause drama!
Here are Blindie’s top ten moments from Gossip Girl‘s “Gone with the Will” episode:
- Chuck Bass’ (Ed Westwick) father leaves him the majority share of Bass Industries, and Chuck is upset! Huh? What?
- Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) is totally playing the third wheel hag role and blocking Eric van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo) from getting some alone time with his boyfriend Jonathon. Get your own guy Jenny!
- I can’t believe Dan Humphrey told Vanessa about his father’s love child in a candy store! Well, at least it was Dylan’s candy store. And of course it gets leaked to Gossip Girl -on purpose! Silly Dan, doesn’t he know the walls have ears on the Upper East Side.
- We love how the little Upper East Side girls call Dan a “Brooklyn pig” and accuse Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) of “failing upwards” because she couldn’t make it work with Dan and she’s now dating Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford).
- We love that Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) has a sign reserving the eclairs for Chuck at his celebratory brunch!
- OMFG!! Are we sure these kids are in high school?!! Chuck is caught by Bass Industry board members sitting behind a desk covered in drugs and two lingerie-clad women perched at his side! And all thanks to the ultimate backstabber Uncle Jack.
- And amidst all of the drama, Lily and Rufus are lounging in bed basking in their afterglow and reminiscing about old rocker days.
- Too bad Chuck chose “cocktails and coquettes” over “business and Blair” because this time Blair is not sticking by his side!
- So Lily and Rufus’ son is not dead? Damn! Everyone’s a liar on this show! Even the adopted parents. EW’s Ausiello was right!
- The Chuck and Jack feud is ON! And our money is on Chuck for the win.
PHOTO CREDIT: Craig Blankenhorn / The CW
Tags: blake lively, chace crawford, Chuck Bass, Dan Humphrey, Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, Jenny Humphrey, Jessica Szohr, Nate Archibald, penn badgley, Serena van der Woodsen, Taylor Momsen, Vannessa Abrams
Category: Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester, TV
Posted on January 7, 2009 with No Comments
Grammy nominee Leona Lewis recently filmed a music video for the song “I Will Be” with Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford and then gushed on her official website that the scandalous prep show is her “new fave series.”
Even Paris Hilton’s former BFF Nicole Richie reportedly “loves Gossip Girl and…wants a really bitchy, juicy role.”
So, can we expect to see either one of these ladies on the Upper East Side?
According to the NY Daily News Richie is in talks to guest star on Gossip Girl. Can you say bitchfest? As for Ms. Lewis, maybe the new song will make it onto the GG soundtrack.
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