For my second teen girl-cult craze-iconic television show, I’ve selected Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl, in my opinion, is one of the best teenage drama shows to be created. This show ran from 2007 to 2012, with 121 episodes across 6 seasons. In informal terms, the premise of this show is juicy. It follows a group of privileged upper class high school students in the Upper East side of New York City, and the anonymous “Gossip Girl” blog that discusses the school and city’s hot gossip. The entire span of the show, “Gossip Girl” posts about betrayals, cheating, secret deals, relationships, drug problems, and even family disasters of all characters. Any rumor ever fabricated makes its way to “Gossip Girl” and instantly on to the blog, it was the perfect storm of drama, gossip, and rumors.
With Gossip Girl coming out when I was 3, I wasn’t able to watch the show as it was premiering, with a massive media presence due to its extreme popularity. I first watched Gossip Girl in the last month before it left Netflix in 2021 and maybe my love of Gossip Girl comes from how insanely bingeworthy it was to me. When I heard Gossip Girl was leaving Netflix, I wanted to give a try to see if I’d like it, and I was instantly hooked. I consumed so much Gossip Girl content in such a short time, it took up a large part of my winter break from school. No joke, it was like I ate, slept, and breathed Gossip Girl. In my defense, fitting 5 years of television into roughly 30 days is no easy feat and I even impressed myself by finishing the entire series before it left.
Gossip Girl had a huge impact on the culture of television at the time, and still stands as one of the most popular teen TV shows. In 2021, nearly 10 years after the ending of Gossip Girl, a rebooted series was released on HBO Max. I haven’t seen it yet myself, because I don’t want to change my view of the original, and simply haven’t gotten around to it. Gossip Girl is also still relevant on social media platforms, from Tik Tok sounds to memes. Personally, my friends and I quote “Go Piss Girl” probably too much for our own good, and we owe that to whatever Gossip Girl fan created it.
With how popular Gossip Girl was, the ending of the show and the reveal behind who “Gossip Girl” was became a huge controversy and debate after the series finale. After 6 seasons of each character having a deep, dark secret spilled to the internet, fans commonly changed their guesses and considered every angle. However, the finale revealed “Gossip Girl” to be Dan Humphrey, the main male character and love interest of Serena, the main female character.
This reveal outraged and baffled everyone, including me. For 6 years, this guy posted dirt on himself, his friends, and his girlfriend consistently, and kept it all to himself, even when people were so disgraced by the blog. I think that reveal was not what the writers originally planned, but it did have the shock factor we were looking for. All in all, Gossip Girl has justifiably earned its rank among the top teen television shows.
I love this passion blog. It is so relatable and I love the way you analyze in such a personable way. I also quote go piss girl very often. That being said, there are a few sentences where you used commas where I believe a semicolon would be more appropriate. For instance, “Any rumor ever fabricated makes its way to “Gossip Girl” and instantly on to the blog, it was the perfect storm of drama, gossip, and rumors” should become “Any rumor ever fabricated makes its way to “Gossip Girl” and instantly on to the blog; it was the perfect storm of drama, gossip, and rumors” and “I consumed so much Gossip Girl content in such a short time, it took up a large part of my winter break from school” should become “I consumed so much Gossip Girl content in such a short time; it took up a large part of my winter break from school”, because you are explaining two separate ideas. Nonetheless you did a great job and I definitely would love to read more!
I feel like I’ve missed out on all these interesting shows you’re talking about in your blogs! Also, very impressive how you watched the entire show within winter break. To help add some ‘drama’ to your post, so to speak, you could change “any rumor ever fabricated makes its way to “Gossip Girl” and instantly on to the blog, it was the perfect storm of drama, gossip, and rumors” to “any rumor ever fabricated makes its way to “Gossip Girl” and instantly on to the blog; it was the perfect storm of drama, gossip, and rumors.”
I love how descriptive and emotive your writing style is! The only suggestion I have is to put a semicolon before the word however in the sentence “After 6 seasons of each character having a deep, dark secret spilled to the internet, fans commonly changed their guesses and considered every angle. However, …” to have the sentences flow easier.
Hi Jessica! I remember when I was in middle school and Gossip Girl was a hot conversation topic among my classmates. I’m happy you offered some insight about the show! Keep up the good work.