Imagine that you have unlimited access to money, drugs and whomever tickles your fancy. Did I mention that you are 17 years old and in high school?
This isn’t just any teenagers life, these are the lives of the young, wealthy and privileged who attend a private high school in New York City’s Upper East side.
Their lives are so riveting that there is actually a show about them called Gossip Girl.
Every week Gossip Girl gives us the update on all of our favorite characters and lets us in to their world for an hour a week.
Gossip Girl is a website in the show where everyone’s lives are documented for everyone to see.
At all times.
The Gossip Girl herself narrates the show and explains exactly what she would be writing on the website to taunt everyone readying.
The characters are having sex with their best friends girl in the back of a limousine, finding their fathers cocaine hidden in the study and black mailing everyone around them to get what they want.
Sounds like a soap opera doesn’t it?
It basically is without so many characters. I always feel like there are so many characters in a soap opera that I can’t even keep track of everything that is going on.
Anyway, back to the rich kids.
It is very hard to remember that these “kids” are in high school but the new season, that started this fall, is transitioning them into college. Thank goodness for kids in the real world.
This show is definitely not suitable for kids in high school or younger and not a real representation of high schoolers in the real world.
The main character is Serena van der Woodson who is played by the lovely blonde actress Blake Lively.
She is a sweet girl but always getting herself into trouble and giving in to temptation.
The other main character is a beautiful brunette bombshell that everyone loves to hate and hates to love.
I am talking about Blair Waldorf played by Leighton Meester.
Blair is the queen of the school and a flat out “mean girl.”
The boy version of Blair is Chuck Bass, whom everyone also loves to hate and hates to love, played by Ed Westwick.
Chuck is gorgeous, charming and, oh yeah, a womanizer.
Everyone tunes in every week to see what scandalous thing is going to happen and who will end up on top.
That is why everyone watches it right? Because of scandal? Lets not forget sex and relativity.
Sex sells. We’ve all heard that before and up until now it is still true.
The sex appeal in this show is unbelievable that it’s surprising that it is aired at 8 p.m. pacific standard time when shows that have curse words in them on the Comedy Central are only aired after 10 p.m.
Shows are also very successful if they are relatable in some way.
You might be thinking, “How does this relate to me?” Well, it might not.
But to the everyday college kid it does because this show is more about the college life than the high school life, even if they do have more money than the average college student.
The fashion is fun to see these girls in Dior, wearing Tory Burch flats and carrying L.A.M.B. purses that most college students will never own but that’s the point, to create something relatable but also an escape.
Gossip Girl has been compared to Dawson’s Creek that was popular in the 90’s and very dramatic.
It hasn’t yet reached the popularity level as Dawson’s Creek but I have no doubt that they’re on their way.
With all the characters betraying one another and sleeping with everyone who would get sick of that?
Not me.
For those of you with cable, or even without, Gossip Girl airs on the WB Mondays at 8 p.m. pacific standard time.
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The writer starts out well and does a credible job of explaining the premise of this program, which really sounds like something I would never watch.
One phrase was quite troubling however:
"This show is definitely not suitable for kids in high school or younger and not a real representation of high schoolers in the real world."
Well, the first part of that sentence is fine, the second is quite arguable and if the writer wants to make that point, the writer needs to prove it.
I suspect the earlier sentence:
"The characters are having sex with their best friends girl in the back of a limousine, finding their fathers cocaine hidden in the study and black mailing everyone around them to get what they want."
might have some validity somewhere.
And not that I am going to rush out and get cable, but how would I watch this show (where and when) if I wanted to check out Gossip Girl?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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