Another installment on “Gossip Girl” from Rya, MTV News intern and former Upper East Sider:
Last night’s finale was so great, I can almost accept that I won’t see my favorite fictional friends for nigh on three months. A lot of things set this episode apart from all the others. Namely, that it was -- OMFG, I cannot believe I'm about to type this -- mostly accurate. That said! There were some glaring discrepancies that I’d be glad to share. Because, as we all know by now, for every handful of things on the show that are accurate, there are about 10 zillion more that are mostly wrong. My UES insider’s rundown, after the jump. Read more...
Another installment on “Gossip Girl” from Rya, MTV News intern and former Upper East Sider:
Hi, guys. So, it's our second-to-last meeting. I feel like it's the last night of sleep-away camp, you know? I just want to stay up all night, and write on everybody's pillows, make out with the boy I had my eye on all summer (OK, that part never actually happened), and just revel in this really good, safe place. I don't want the morning to come, because in the morning (that's a metaphor for next Monday), it'll all be over (as in this season of “GG”). Anyway!
I guess we need to talk about last night’s episode, even though it was about as exciting as that song Lincoln Hawk (or whatever the name of Rufus's band was) played at that Rolling Stone 90's party. Let me just get that part out of the way right now, actually:
Lily, your young and wild days were spent photographing Hootie and the Blowfish Lite? Rufus's band (and the decade-old photo of him, which looked curiously like Pete Yorn) wasn't even ironically good/redeeming, and I'd rather be caught with a Kenny G cassette than anything of the Lincoln Hawk persuasion. That's the song that got you to re-evaluate your life with Bart Bass? Have you zero standards, Lil'?? And Rufus, I think I speak on behalf of the entire universe when I say WE GET IT. You are WITH IT. You can play more than three chords! Now put down that guitar, and find a new blonde to obsess over -- preferably one whose daughter isn't going all the way with your son.
But now for the weird stuff. Because for every handful of things on the show that are accurate, there are about 10 zillion more that are mostly wrong. My UES insider’s rundown, after the jump. Read more...
Another installment on “Gossip Girl” from Rya, MTV News intern and former Upper East Sider:
OK, before I start this post, I just have to do this: OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! *MAJOR SPOILER ALERT* Serena killed a guy. Or a girl. Whatever. In the parallel universe that is “Gossip Girl”’s Upper East Side, a person is no longer alive, and Serena (and, presumably, Georgina) is to blame. But we won’t know the details until next week.
So with that off my chest, let's get down to the business of this week’s episode. Because, you see, for every handful of things on the show that are accurate, there are about 10 zillion more that are mostly wrong. My UES insider’s rundown, after the jump. Read more...
Another installment on "Gossip Girl" from Rya, MTV News intern and former Upper East Sider:
Hello, reader(s)! Can you believe it's already been a week? It feels like yesterday that I was sitting on my couch trying to wrap my head around Nate squiring Jenny to Butter -- but alas, that was then. Last night's episode was about as explosive as chugging a Coke after eating some Pop Rocks (read: overrated), but such an idle viewing made for even more keen observations.
Because, you see, for every handful of things on the show that are accurate, there are about 10 zillion more that are mostly wrong. And so in the spirit of Georgina, I too will shake things up a little and run down my list of Things That Could Never Happen in Real Life That Happened on "Gossip Girl" (SAT Edition). My UES insider’s rundown, after the jump. Read more...
A way-too-passionate missive from Rya, MTV News intern and former Upper East Sider:
Hello, again.
As you may have gathered from my last post, I am nothing if not an arbiter of very good taste. Mind you, this trait was cultivated over years of being reared on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (heretofore known as the “UES”). Thanks to this upbringing, I now have a taste for some of life’s finer things, like hand towels, crudités, and the all-important “Gossip Girl.”
"GG" -- have I read the original books? No, since reading anything tangible is overrated. Instead, I come with a knowledge of the subject matter that can't be culled from some bestselling work of teen fiction -- you had to live it. Which I did (kind of).
You see, for every handful of things on the show that are accurate, there are about 10 zillion more that are...well…slanted. Not to be the type who tells you Santa Claus isn’t real, but I thought I’d straighten out some of the plotlines from last night's much-touted season premiere. My UES insider's rundown, after the jump. Read more...
