Thanks for visiting swg.c!

Why not subscribe?

My Watch List

Appointment Television
30 Rock
Battlestar Galactica
Big Love
Big Bang Theory
Californication
The Daily Show
Dexter
Entourage
Friday Night Lights
Lost
Mad Men
Robot Chicken
The Office
Pushing Daisies
Samantha Who?
The Tudors
Weeds

Homework TV
House
How I Met Your Mother
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
My Name Is Earl
Saturday Night Live
     
(w/DVR fast-forward)
Two and a Half Men

On the Bubble
Canterbury's Law
Grey's Anatomy
The Riches
True Blood

Currently Catching Up NewsRadio
Curb Your Enthusiasm

To-Do List
Malcolm in the Middle

Sex and the City
The Sopranos

Have Definitely Seen Every Single Episode
Action
Angel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Carnivale
Coupling (BBC)
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Firefly
Freaks & Geeks
Rome
Scrubs
The Shield
Slings & Arrows
Anything with “Star” in the title
South Park
West Wing
Wonder Falls
Veronica Mars



SUBSCRIBE!

Add to My Yahoo! Google Reader or Homepage Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe in NewsGator Online Add to netvibes Add to My AOL

Most Read Posts

Top Commenters

Archives

Search


My Regular Reads:

new show review (catching up): Gossip Girl

October 19th, 2007 by screenwriterguy

Gossip GirlYou remember when Dangerous Liaisons came out as a movie, in English, and then it became an obnoxious high school flick called Cruel Intentions? Well, if you found all the spoiled rich kids cavorting in an adultless world believable and interesting in that, you might swallow what Gossip Girl offers. If, on the other hand, you like your entertainment to be about humans, you might look elsewhere.

The premise seems to be that there’s a web page devoted to the doings of a circle of posh New York school children. Gossip Girl is the name of the site, and also the name of our omnipresent faceless narrator who somehow knows what’s happening to all the characters in the story all the time.  Somebody’s back, and someone cheated one someone, and some other girl wants to seduce this one boy, and there’s these girls that are best friends but not really…  You get the picture.

Best aspect: Remembering Veronica Mars when Kristen Bell’s voiceover kicks in.

Worst aspect: I’m sorry, but what do these underaged, boozing, sexing beautiful people have to be so angsty about?

Verdict: It’s a guilty pleasure teen soap serving up mostly guilt.

Odds of success: Who cares?

Similar Posts:

Posted in |

Leave a Reply