“Gossip Girl” — Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
Mmmmmm… pie.
Now, there is nothing funny intrinsically funny about eating disorders, but the sight of Blair grabbing that enormous apple pie was hilarious. That she did so after being more or less dared by her mother makes everything that much more ridiculous and by extension awesome. I hate to be crass but there is an unmistakable comedic brilliance in anyone holding a giant pie with a pouty face. The following binge/montage (including the knowing-look from the kind Russian maid) was so over-the-top it was hard not to smile at this poor girl’s struggle. More after the jump…
I still don’t understand why Serena and Blair are still friends. Bulimia or no, that girl is a lousy friend. What was up with her fight with Serena at the beginning of the episode? She’s mean for the sake of mean, so its no wonder I find her “problems” laughable.
Now then, speaking of Serena we were given a solid glimpse of her old self in a series of flashbacks from “Thanksgiving… …Last Year.” I really liked these flashbacks and not just because in one of them Serena says to Nate, “But you look like and ass-tray!” which is easily the quote of the week. I hope they continue to show us these character’s past because it helps put things in context. For example, we all know Nate and Serena hooked up but seeing the two together, laughing, having fun is far more visceral than they how they behave now (which in Nate’s case is generally somewhere between comatose and boring). Generally speaking from the look at one year prior it seems like everyone was having a really great time. We need this. We need to know life hasn’t always been a series of THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS EVER like it is now, that these are characters in flux and our investment in their lives is about where they are going as well as where they’ve been.
The adult Humphrey love-triangle finally shows itself in full, causing the episode’s best moment when the kids sat around discussing the freaky possibility that they could all be related — which was great not only in their delivery (”ignore my roots”) but also because it nipped in the bud precisely the type of soapy twist that my mind immediately assumed would surface. By episode’s end everyone had made the “right” decision which allowed us to see an epic, cheery, Thanksgiving montage of everyone smiling and having fun. Frankly, I wish Rufus would have picked Lily over his current wife because it would have been brutal and would have thrown a massive monkey-wrench into everything. Still, the look on his face suggests his affair with Rosewood isn’t quite over.
And then there’s Nate. Is this kid on a whole different show? Seriously, they need to get him and Jenny together more often or have him reconnect with Blair because right now he’s the star of his own series and it’s BORING.
Tags: Gossip Girl, The CW
