Monday, 12 May 2008
After watching last week’s Gossip Girl and its end-of-episode revelation, I wondered if the series had already reached its shark-jumping moment. And it turns out I wasn’t the only one to react that way.
Previously, we thought Serena’s realized that she didn’t like the person she was when she slept with Nate, her best friend’s boyfriend… but now that’s been overshadowed by a darker and more dramatic turning point — a turning point that completely overshadows Serena’s tryst with Nate. For her to want to become a different person because she found betraying Blair too easy helped made the Blair/Serena friendship one of the more complicated female relationships on television (usually on TV it’s finding the right man who motivates a bad girl to reform her wicked ways, until recently the right man was the test of her reformation, not her motivation).
And, more importantly, throwing all that depth out won’t mean much more than a cheap shock:
…the whole thing [will be] forgotten a few weeks later when so-and-so sleeps with the hot history teacher. It’s unrealistic, it’s an obvious ratings ploy, and it’s upsetting to dedicated viewers like myself
Gossip Girl was for a while the best show I never expected to totally fall for. It was the kind of show I used to totally love — something that looks like utter trash on the surface but reveals surprising amounts of depth. Lately, it’s just been trash that forgot it had hidden depths.









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