“Gossip Girl” — Bad News Blair
White Men Can’t Dress
Being rich and powerful can get you a lot of things. It can get you into the school of your choosing. I can get you tickets to your favorite events. It can buy you an awesome apartment in a cool part of town. Though it can’t make you not look like an ass while going to play basketball off Houston and Christie Streets in SoHo. Sorry Charlie, but no one looks good in a blue and yellow sleeveless jersey-shirt and matching headband. No one. Not Lebron, not Tony Parker and certainly not your curiously lumpy frame. More after the jump…
This week, the guy’s storyline was the weakest. Chuck throws a three-day party for the boys to celebrate their post-Ivy-League-mixer success (the success being that they managed to successfully survive the passing of time?). At the party, some joker in a wool pullover shows up and starts telling stories of exotic travel, public service and the rejection of his family’s money. This is enticing to Nate — who wants to be rich and famous anyway.
Unfortunately, the second ”Matthew McConaughey between movies” brings up a high stakes card game in Queens you know exactly what’s going to happen. Nate is going to lose his money, which wouldn’t be all that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things if his dad hadn’t just cut him off and drained his trust fund. BAM.
If there was anything we can rejoice that this saw-it-a-mile-away card game trap at least it gave Chuck something positive to do instead of just sneering at everyone and paying women to have sex with him. I take this as a good thing as I desperately want the character to be more than the token bad-boy — y’know, instead a bad boy with a heart!
On the always more interesting (and more attractive) side of things, Serena and Blair have momentarily buried the hatchet and are buddy-buddying around the UES as Dan patiently tries to get Serena to actually show up on a date with him. Things are complicated more when Blair’s fashion-designer mom hires her as a model for her new lineup, only to discover that she’s — wait for it — too cold and rigid to be an interesting model. Serena, on the other hand, is buckets of fun and coaches Blair on acting casual by jumping around and yelling things like “Do the tiger… Roarrrrrr!” or my personal fav, “Be Britney with the umbrella!”
The next day when Blair mother fires her daughter for the much hotter Serena all sorts of drama explodes over the screen. Blair scolds Serena for again taking something that belonged to her. Meanwhile Dan is there hearing all of this and acting uncomfortably-casual like only he can. By the end everything seems to work out, which is kind of a shame.
Oh, and there’s that story line about Dan’s dad, Rufus, and his art gallery. I can’t get into this as Rufus’ hair is far too ridiculous to warrant any real attention.
It was brought to my attention last weekend that I need to spend some time focusing on Blair’s minions. Fair enough. The two, who occassionally have a line, flank Blair like some kind of multicultural demon twin from The Shining. Honestly, they’re the only non-white kids in the whole series and seem to have attached themselves to Blair in an ethnic lackey exchange program.
Still, I’d have it no other way.
But back to the matter at hand, why the hell does Serena care about Blair? Why would anyone care about Blair? She’s totally boring. Nothing is worse than an insanely rich, insanely popular boring person. The least they can do is have a major substance abuse problem.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Duh Rick- Serena and Blair are bonded by their poor little rich girls with the troubled family status. They GET each other. And let’s love it and leave it that way because they are so HOT.