It’s going to be hard for me to make this blog post short,
because I have an infinite amount of love for Gossip Girl.
I started
watching this show when it came out in 2007. I was in 8th grade at
the time. Looking back, I may have been a little young to watch that show, but
it became an obsession and something that always looked forward to watching in
my teen years (all throughout high school basically). I watched every single episode when it aired,
and when it came on Netflix (a long time ago), I was overjoyed.
Since I
watched this show as soon as it came on the air, I became more attached to
these characters than any other show I’ve watched. I’ll rewatch the episodes over and over again
when I’m bored because I know this show will make me happy.
Incase if
you don’t know what Gossip Girl is about, or have never heard sbout it before,
it’s based on a young adult book series of the same name. However, the
television show strays completely away from the books. The show follows six
Upper East Side high schoolers: Serena Van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate
Archibald, Chuck Bass, Dan Humphrey, and Jenny Humphrey. They all attend all girls’ and all boys’ prep
schools and are mostly friendly with each other. There is an anonymous website/blog that
reports of all the “gossip”, “scandals”, “drama”, and “dirt” on “Manhattan’s
elite”, aka the tips that the Gossip Girl blog reports are mainly about the six
characters. There was a lot of controversy about this show when it first came
out, because a lot of the show’s plot lines involve several elements of sex,
drugs, and underage drinking and partying. Gossip Girl shows the fabulous lives
of these teenagers that (let’s face it, doesn’t exist in today’s society.) As
much as I admire this show and the glamorous lifestyle that go along with it, I always have to remember that it isn’t real.
Watching this show makes me want to be rich, famous, and live in NYC forever
and ever. However, I’m genuinely surprised that my parents let me watch this
show at thirteen years old. Although I may not have understood all the elements
of the show at that age, I still enjoyed it. Now being older, I realize some of
the negative effects that that show can display to people in my generation and
generations below me. This is still a great television show to watch (and binge
watch) on Netflix, because there are so many characters that you’ll fall in
love with and the scandals that they are involved in will make your jaw drop
and want to watch more. If you like juicy drama – watch Gossip Girl. I promise
you won’t regret it.
