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User Reviews for: Gossip Girl

Khaleesiorsomething
5/10  3 years ago
I was a fan of the original GG. It wasn’t great, it had plenty of flaws, but it managed to have a cast of talented actors and an enjoyable story focused on spoiled rich high schoolers. I wanted to give this one a try out of nostalgia and.... ooooh brother, I should have just rewatched the original.

The first episode starts with a large cast of characters, parents, teachers, etc. all having their drama in the most nonsensical plot I’ve ever seen.

In the original, Dan being GG was creepy and weird but he was a loser character in high school so it made sense. In this... the freaking :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:teachers:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: are GG. Lmao yes, the teachers. They have a talk about how the students used to behave and respect the teachers because they wanted to go to college and GG kept them in line... now they can just be influencers so they don’t care about school... so the teachers start being gossip girl.

I just... did the writers even watch the original? If “kept them in line” means “they were never rude to the teachers” then sure, but that’s cause they were too busy getting pregnant, running off to opium dens, getting high, ruining each other’s lives, committing fraud, blackmailing everybody, getting statutory raped, all under the age of 18.... like... yes clearly GG is what kept them “in line”.

The fact that the teachers - actual adults who claim to care about helping these children and have dreams of changing lives - could read the old GG posts about all the drama and bs I just mentioned, and then - actual adults who claim to care about helping these children and have dreams of changing lives - decide that creating a new gossip girl to harass :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:children:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: is appropriate is just mind blowingly insane.

So clearly the writing is lacking in this reboot. Teachers acting like children, people getting mad irrationally or inferring things that weren’t at all obvious from the performance, it’s bizarre.

The acting is also a little dull. It feels like the characters are _trying_ to act, they just aren’t all very good at it. A lot of performances just feel off.

There’s a knock-off Dan Humphrey, a knock off Chuck, a knock off of Jenny/Serena/Blair. Overall, the first episode just felt like a cheap attempt to reproduce the magic of something that had barely managed to capture any magic itself. I’ll update this if episode 2 changes my opinion, but for now this is worth skipping.

:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:Rating on my scale::asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:
Exceptional
Memorable
Entertaining
Corny
Boring
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Reply by Ultrajante
3 years ago
@khaleesiorsomething Couldn't disagree more. The OG GG was so bad with the fake suspense of who gg is, when we knew the writers themselves didn't know and it was impossible anyone in the cast was GG otherwise it'd make no sense. And we were right, Dan being GG made no sense, and thats bc the show was just a whole bunch of bs.<br /> <br /> This a reaaaally refreshing take on the whole thing. I mean THE TEACHERS are GG?? lol thats crazy and it made me lol. The story is compelling enough that it's believable and yet subveersive enough that its fun. OG GG had so many problematic plots and this one not only makes sure to have those problematic plots be debated but is also very keen to calling out hypocrisy in some of the influencers we see today, like when the girls reinforce patriarchy clearly aware that they are doing it.<br /> <br /> OG GG just wouldn't fly today, at least not with me. Thereve been so many GG shows after it, like Pretty little liars, and the whole "who is GG" suspense would be dull. This flips the script by having we know who GG is and ROOTING for them. Their case is solid enough that we want them to succeed in getting the kids to behave a little more. This is such a fresh take on GG that is just amazing to watch, I'd hate it if it was just a redo of the original.<br /> <br /> But besides all that I found the story funny and interesting enough, along with feeling really fresh a lot of the time. I also wanna disagree with your take that the acting is bad, I could not disagree more, none of the cast from OG GG was superb at all, they were at most fine, and on this one Obie and Zoya have really good actors. I wouldn't be surprised if Zoya turned out to be a household name like Zandaya. She's really solid and I can see her succeeding. The rest of the cast is ok, but on the same level if not better than OG GG.
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