new show review (catching up): Gossip Girl
October 19th, 2007 by screenwriterguy
You 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?
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