That Sue Sylvester meme is a show now… and the environment really is so toxic!
Anyway, let’s face it:Gossip Girlhas always been and always should be for the teens.
In these areas, this reboot more than succeeds.
This is one of the most beautiful collections of TV teens I’ve ever seen.
Chiseled from the same stone as the Met steps where they drink their Sakara juices.
The tattoos they gave each other with seam rippers?
Still regrettable by episode’s end, but discreet enough to cover with a necklace.
It is easier to imagine them flying on a private jet than eating a slice of rectangular cafeteria pizza.
And for that, we can thank theGossip Girlreboot.
It is definitely a choice; one that’s not only problematic but makes negative-zero sense.
Jude’s with the likes of Nate Archibald and Dan Humphrey (“the novelist!?")
She kept us accountable.”
You’re hearing that right: Gossip Girl… made the students… respect their teachers?
But then they…do it?
It’s nuts, man.
Which brings us to the most popular kids in school.
And get this they hate headbands!
The sands of time, theydokeep it moving.)
(Teens can’t scheme with ‘em, can’t scheme without ‘em!)
to hang out with her crew at Dumbo Hall that night.
Or didn’t you know on the Upper East Side, scholarships aren’t granted, they’regifted."
Surprisingly, Julien is unphased by the photos of Obie and Zoya together after hours.
She believes that nothing happened the only problem is that no one else in school does.
Hardly, I say.
And it’s also the best scene in the episode: finally full of color, andactuallydiabolical.
She tells Zoya she hasno ideahow hard she’s worked to become who she is today.
Which is, of course, a 16-year-old influencer and she does not mean that ironically!
I don’t even want to begin to imagine the self-congratulations that Miss Keller gave herself for that one.
