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Gossip Girl – 1×03 Recap

October 4th, 2007

So we start this week off with the longest “previously on…” segment I have ever seen. Seriously, my hair grew an inch while I was waiting for the show to start. It felt like I watched the first 2 episodes over again from beginning to end. This show is only on episode three, how much catching up do people need to do? Ridonkulous!

Once the overgrown prologue concludes, we are treated to the weirdest yet most awesome thing I’ve heard in awhile…a school choir singing (at an assembly) an all-out choral version of Fergie‘s Glamorous. Brings back the memories of the days I spent in choir trying to perfect my vibrato on November Rain…good times. The assembly is to discuss Ivy Week with the students – a week where the junior students take the time to interview and meet up with their perspective Ivy League university reps. Dan’s dying to get into Dartmouth but despite killing the interview, loses out on getting the Usher spot to Nate. This suckage is especially painful as Nate has made it clear to everyone who will listen that he really really doesn’t want to go there. Nate’s dad isn’t interested in hearing his son’s opinion though and continues to push Nate toward his destined perfect life. Meanwhile Blair wants into Yale, Serena’s yearning for Brown and Chuck could care less about either because he knows he’ll get in wherever he wants. Serena and Blair raise the bar in bitchy ingenuity until finally, Blair outs Serena for an alcohol problem she doesn’t have in front of the entire Ivy Week group. Realising that Blair (or in this case, Chuck) must’ve seen her going into the Ostroff Centre where her brother is recovering from his suicide attempt, she decides to take the rap herself rather than out her brother for his psychilogical issues. She scores some major points with her mom, her brother, Jenny and Dan for taking the heat. Eric shares the truth with Jenny (who tells Dan) and in the moment of the episode, comes clean with Blair. She feels horrible and her stone-cold facade starts to crumble ever so slightly. She meets up with Serena in Central Park and they have a fairly cathartic discussion about how Blair felt abandoned by Serena when she needed her most. Serena apologises again but the walls haven’t come tumbling down and their truce still appears to be fairly fragile. I’m sensing a pattern that is about to get old very quickly.

The Good:

* Less Chuck…and when he was there, he was well-used and didn’t overstay his welcome in whatever scene he was in
* Family scenes with the Humphrey’s – although a little schmaltzy, the 3 of them have a chemistry that works
* Eric – he is awesome..and he and Jenny are adorable.
* Dan and Rufus – still hot

The Bad:

* Blair – it’s okay for the resident “baddy” to have layers (she’s not all good, she’s not all bad) but she’s way too much like the girls I used to hate in high school for me to ever care about her character in any way that makes her interesting
* Lily – I’m just not loving Kelly Rutherford‘s chemistry with anyone on this show – she comes across as super stiff (which might be a character choice but me no likie)
* The fact the best chemistry on the show comes from Dan and Nate doesn’t bode well for any potential couplings that may or may not happen down the road.

So what does everyone think of the show now that they’ve had time to get into it’s groove? I have to say that I’m not loving it…it has potential and some of the actors are good (or could be good given the right material) but something just isn’t clicking….any ideas what? I can’t put my finger on it.

Episode Rating: C

Posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 3:52 pm by Sabrina Jalees and is filed under We <3 TV.