April 21, 2008
OMFG...Gossip Girl's R-Rated Return
Photo via kaitlinyap's flickr.
When last the teens of Gossip Girl were gossiped about, it was pre-writers strike and Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf were battling through the tough adolescent years: sex, car services and cocktails at The Plaza. Tonight the drama returns, with the first of five episodes that will close out season one.
Serena, known IRL as Blake Lively, said that the advertising campaign (pictured) is accurate, and that every episode will contain at least three "Oh-my-goodness-gracious!" moments. She tones down the raciness there, but the show is allegedly "introducing a new generation to the city Sex [and the City] glamorized a decade ago," and they've also got ads running on-air that are steaming up small screens nationwide.
The show gained a lot of viewers through online streaming of episodes at CWTV.com, but the higher-ups that delivered that service will now taketh away, only offering iTunes downloads at $1.99 a pop. An experiment to "see if we can grow the ratings by keeping these five episodes exclusive to our airwaves." Failing that, will all the on-air bad judgments, low morals and wrong-side-of-the-East River relationships (Nate and Vanessa? OMFG!) save the struggling CW network? NYMag, in a lengthy article on the show, seems to think so.
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Gothamist : Gossip Girl = TONY : Julia Allison
i can understand a post on the use of "OMFG" but the show itself? not so much.
i expected more posts on New Amsterdam. it's not the best cop show on tv but every episode contains obscure trivia about nyc that makes it really interesting to natives like me.
you should cover that show more.
Remember the OC??? "Hot" show that flamed out after 4 seasons...weht to that cast.
I like Gossip Girl cause it shows teenagers who don't have jobs living a lifestyle that even I-Bankers can't afford. Just like real life.
People watch this shit?
Zodak: a big YES for New Amsterdam - very cool show, and well done.
"Ever since her parents set her loose from the woodlands of Connecticut, Jennifer Carlson has been absorbing the New York music and arts scene. Now, over 10 years later, her appetite for the cultural wealth of the city remains wonderfully insatiable. Jennifer breathes in the stuff that makes New York unique, and gladly lets the best of it out for you to read on the Gothamist Arts+Events section."
For instance, Gossip Girl.
anyone who watches stuff like this should be put down