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Finally, Gossip Girl will be back this Monday after a two month hiatus and E! has a sneak peek that reveals so interesting new developments for everyone’s favorite couples, Nate and Serena, and Blair and Chuck.
It looks like Nate and Serena are getting busy on top of Chuck Bass’ couch, and luckily for Chuck, Blair had it Scotchguarded.
The bad news is, that Blair and Chuck don’t seem to be “connecting” quite as well. “He’s shutting me out,” Blair tells Serena, “in his head, all the time. Last week he went through something and if he’s still upset, I just want him to be able to talk to me.”
Bad news for Bluck (or Clair or Chair) fans: Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester) are breaking up.
Rumors have been swirling on message boards that the two would split before the end of the season but now E! News has confirmed it. And there’s no way to sugar coat it. Insiders are saying, “It’s a bad, bad breakup.”
After almost a full season of peace and love between Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf, it will be Chuck who ends it.
One of the long running mysteries on Gossip Girl has involved Serena’s long-lost father, but it won’t be long before that mystery is solved. The show has booked a very recognizable face to make an appearance on the show in the spring as Serena’s dad.
William Baldwin, who was last seen in Dirty Sexy Money, has signed on to play Serena’s deadbeat father who returns for his daughter. Starting in April, Baldwin will appear in several episodes of the series, which is on hiatus until March 8.
Things start off several hours into the future as Serena and Tripp are both wearing gender-appropriate stupid hats in Tripp’s philanderer-mobile as he declares his love for her. Things turn all sorts of Chappaquiddick-flavored as Tripp swerves to avoid hitting a family of wolves who have escaped from Twilight and hits a guardrail, compacting the front end of his car and knocking Serena unconscious with a head wound. From there, the episode shifts back several hours into the time-space continuum to tell the story of how things got that way. By the end of the episode, things become further complicated for all of the Upper East Side crew, only resolved for a select few before Gossip Girl goes on winter break.
At Casa de Van der Humphrey, Lily is reorganizing her closet obsessive compulsively, as most of the females on this show do in times of crisis. Since Serena hasn’t been returning her phone calls, Lily is all verklempt, to the point of missing a condo association meeting, sending Rufus as her stand-in for him. Rufus obliges like a good little hubby and meets with Holland Campbell, a condo board meeting head who makes with the insta-TMI, divulging that “We all sacrifice ourselves for love,” particularly when your husband was nailing your yoga teacher.
It’s Thanksgiving at the Van der Humphrey house and everyone’s attempting to patch together their holiday traditions. What initially starts off as a small, intimate get-together turns into a multi-party Charlie Foxtrot – which can also apply to this episode.
The crux of the episode hinges on Serena and Tripp’s attempt to play JFK and Marilyn. The twist this time is that Tripp is planning on dumping his wife, Maureen. He tells Serena that the real reason why he wants a divorce are trust issues stemming from Maureen’s involvement in orchestrating Hudson-gate… not because he wants to boink his new, young, blonde assistant. Stupid Serena still wants to spend some quality time with the Tripp-ster. Although she’s still in unconsummated territory with her boss and vows to stay that way, Serena tells Lily and the rest of the Van der Humphries a big ol’ lie that Tripp’s forcing her to work the soup kitchen with him on Thanksgiving day. Oh, and the two make out like someone slipped them both some Spanish Fly in the elevator in Chuck Bass’s building. Little do they know, Chuck’s surveillance cameras got their little tryst on film.
This week, Gossip Girl has Dan feeling the effects of his threesome, Jenny taking a walk on the wild side, Serena hurtling towards the stupid end of the pool and Blair continuing to plot her domination of NYU as Lady Gaga puts in a guest appearance. Meanwhile, Nate manages to look pretty while being banished to the Friends Zone.
Dan Humphrey, who has been high-fiving his way across campus, has bought into his own hype as the man who scored with a world-famous starlet and somehow ended up pulling off a threesome with his best friend. Nate calls him out on his supreme stupidity, insisting that the “third” should have been a total stranger. He cites his credentials as the voice of experience as Chuck Bass’s best friend and having dated (Very Vocal) Vanessa. Dan still gloats it up and insists he and Vanessa are still BFF and nothing has changed, even going to a Morrissey concert with V later that night. Ah, hubris thy name is Humphrey!
The Gossip Girl threesome between Olivia (Hilary Duff), Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) may have upset parents last week but its the threesome who have the issues this week as they deal with the morning after and the news that Olivia isn’t leaving after all. Tonight’s episode will focus on the three of them reconnecting and the unavoidable awkwardness after a night of recklessness.
Gossip Girl springs back into fine form with an episode that ties together the floundering storylines of the past few weeks. Chuck and Nate scheme to get Serena and Blair back to BFF status. Jenny continues down the path to the Dark Side, owning to her Queen of Constance status at her society debut. And Dan and Olivia’s syrupy sweetness gets an added ingredient in the form of Vanessa.
Things kick off with preparations for the society debut of scads of teenage New York socialites, one of which is Queen J. Seems that Cinderella hasn’t found a suitable Prince Charming to stand with her at her debut, nor dance with her at the cotillion. Self-conscious of her Jenny From the Block Brooklynite status, she deems that no one less than hunky Graham Collins (a heretofore unseen character) will do. After brushing past a slightly dumpy “nobody” named Kira, Eric picks up the slack and talks with the girl who wants nothing more than to be friends with her idol, Jenny. Additionally, she knows Graham Collins and wants to hook him up with Jenny as an “in” into her circle of minions. Eric volunteers to be Kira’s escort to her debut.
The Parents Television Council has asked CW affiliates to preempt an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl in which a threesome between the main characters has been teased. Promos for the show identify the act occurring between unidentified characters in an episode entitled 3SOME. The episode is scheduled for November 9th.
In a statement, PTC president Tim Winter called the behavior “reckless and irresponsible” and called the show “”expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers.” The group has urged all stations carrying the popular show not to air it. Winter asked: “Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?”
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In spite of the fact that it appears that everyone is sleeping with someone new or no one at all, Season 3 of Gossip Girl seems to be floundering without much direction. While the changing natures of many of the main characters seems to be a main focal point, there is still no clear cut feel for the remainder of the season and what things may come. Blair and Serena’s tattered friendship seems to be a key plot point, and it’s fairly obvious that the ooey-gooey Dan and Olivia duo are destined to have a short shelf-life in spite of their massive amounts of PDA. Eric pulled a vanishing act and was nowhere to be seen after last week’s falling out with Queen J and Jenny herself was sidelined with a flu bug.
On the bright side, Nate got something to do other than be pretty background scenery and Dan and Olivia were marginalized to a nearly pointless side-plot involving Jimmy Fallon and Dan being dubbed “Bathroom Boy” on national television. The real kicker was that there was nothing nearly as interesting or perv-a-licious surrounding the “Bathroom Boy” moniker, as the story later played out. Nate, however, took center stage this episode with his family drama and the return of his domineering Grandfather. Playing an integral role in his cousin Tripp’s campaign to gain a New York Congressional seat, Nate teams up with Grandfather Van Der Bilt and his circle of Upper East Side friends to run the Van Der Bilt hype machine.
