Oh dear. I'm a girlie wuss. I'm a mental feeb.
I'm addicted to Gossip Girl.
This everyday tale of irritating rich kids, narrated by an equally irritating blogger obsessed with Upper East Side rich kids (thank God someone finally had the guts to expose those evil bloggers for what they are in this week's CSi: Miami) is as powerful as crack cocaine.
Fundamentally, I love a good romance and this is a traditional romance – rich girl meets poor boy and two worlds collide – with a Web 2.0, cell phone-enabled polish. The leads are all very appealing and endearing, the baddies are suitably mean but sympathetic. The plots are light and fluffy without much realism.
It's all so marvellous.
It might not appeal to adults that much, but if you can tolerate near-teen angst and rich-kid anxieties, you'll enjoy Gossip Girl as of holiday, chick lit reading for the small screen.
The Medium is Not Enough declares Gossip Girl to be 1 or “Caruso free” on The Carusometer quality scale. A one on The Carusometer corresponds to “a show in which David Caruso might try to appear, claiming to be the best actor to play the part of a mid-30s father of an early-20s 'teen'. Despite brushing down his hair to cover his bald patches and ostentatiously listening to 'young people's music' such as Led Zeppelin, he'll fail to get the part and be forced to lurk around at the corner of party scenes, glowering.”
Updates and related entries
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October 4, 2007 | Reply
I was planning to watch this anyway.
And for the record, I'm much more interested in Kristen "Veronica Mars and the Gossip Girl" Bell coming to Heroes than in certain other guests that show's had, mentioning no names (*coughEcclestoncoughshutupalreadyBBC2cough*).