"Gossip Girl" (2007) TV series

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Creators:

Stephanie Savage
Josh Schwartz

Seasons:

1 | 2

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

You're nobody until you're talked about.

Plot:

Privileged teenagers attend an elite private school in New York City. Based on Alloy Entertainment's book series.

Plot Keywords:

High School | Jealousy | Manhattan | New York City | Private School

Awards:

6 wins & 7 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Oct. 13	8:00 PM	CW	New Haven Can Wait	#2.6
Mon. Oct. 20	8:00 PM	CW	Chuck in Real Life	#2.7

Cast

Blake Lively	...	Serena van der Woodsen (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Leighton Meester	...	Blair Waldorf (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Penn Badgley	...	Dan Humphrey (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Chace Crawford	...	Nate Archibald (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Taylor Momsen	...	Jenny Humphrey (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Ed Westwick	...	Chuck Bass (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Kelly Rutherford	...	Lily van der Woodsen (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Matthew Settle	...	Rufus Humphrey (24 episodes, 2007-2008)
Kristen Bell	...	Gossip Girl (22 episodes, 2007-2008)
Nicole Fiscella	...	Isabel Coates (16 episodes, 2007-2008)
Jessica Szohr	...	Vanessa Abrams (16 episodes, 2007-2008)
Zuzanna Szadkowski	...	Dorota (15 episodes, 2007-2008)
Connor Paolo	...	Eric van der Woodsen (14 episodes, 2007-2008)
Nan Zhang	...	Kati Farkas (11 episodes, 2007-2008)
Robert John Burke	...	Bart Bass (11 episodes, 2007-2008)
Margaret Colin	...	Eleanor Waldorf (11 episodes, 2007-2008)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

College Hill Pictures Inc.

Trivia:

Originally, Georgina Sparks was offered to Mischa Barton, who turned down the role. Michelle Trachtenberg was then cast as Georgina Sparks

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Jonah Hill/Mariah Carey (#33.8)" (2008)

TV for the easily entertained

Admittedly I only watch this type of thing with my girlfriend and I know shows like this aren't meant to be high art - but even as chewing gum TV this show fails miserably.

I can only imagine that the writers of this show hold their intended audience in utter contempt:- The characters are lazily sketched, the plot is improbable, the script bears absolutely no relation to the way real people talk - I know this is a show about the super rich American teenagers so it'd never going to plumb the depths of the human soul but even so you can almost hear the crank turning as the plot develops.

Some very crude and laboured cultural references paired with almost universally mechanical acting serve only to highlight the lack of quality writing in this show when compared to much better "teen shows".

In short this is dumb TV. The situations in which the protagonists find themselves in, make the similarly puerile "Veronica Mars" seem like gritty, hard-boiled realism. Watching the first episode of this was in fact the longest hour of my life.

It's like "Cruel Intentions" on heavy prescription pain killers.

I could actually feel my IQ dropping as one laboured, heavy-handed and obvious scene played into the next like so much paint drying.