Monday, February 23, 2009

I miss Blair.

The third Monday in a row will go by tonight that my roommates and I won't get to divulge in our weekly ritual of watching the best cheesy CW show in recent years: the one and only "Gossip Girl."

I don't care what any non-believer says about GG, because it's a fantastic use of an hour on any Monday night, especially when you're already reeling from the week ahead. While it is so totally OMFG (Oh My Fucking God - the show itself has coined this new amazing acronym), it also is completely entertaining and addictive!

It's not just a show about spoiled Upper East Side socialite teens with raging hormones (there's also a family from Brooklyn), but these kids have real issues other than which designer shades to sport on the first day of school. There's drug and alcohol addiction, relationship woes, high school drop outs, illegitimate half-siblings shared by a couple, money problems, homosexuality, and even murder! Okay, so maybe these aren't common issues, and maybe the drama level is blown a little out of proportion, but the point is don't knock it til' you've tried it. I guarantee you, after watching 8 episodes from Season 1 of "Gossip Girl" you will be hooked!

GG comes from that guy who brought us the missed but not forgotten "The O.C.", and while the shows are strikingly similar in their plot twists and the way the parents are featured just as much if not more than the teens, the character Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) is far more interesting than Summer or Marissa. And while Serena Van der Woodson (Blake Lively) has her Mischa Barton moments every now and then (and the wardrobe designer MUST have a thing for tits and ass because she is barely ever seen wearing something with a more than plunging neckline), you can't help but be jealous of her good looks. The men on the show are also fun to look at, but it's Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) that takes the cake. What a WOMANIZER! Seriously though, I don't care if he's supposed to be in high school, any woman from age 14 to 60 would want to hit that. The other characters fall into place and make up a pretty good ensemble of pretty rich people with "serious" issues.

But it's all about Blair! Her obsessive antics, suppressed jealousy, need to succeed, poised fashion sense, and of course her undeniable reign over the other mean girls have risen to a level of art. I need my Blair fix! As my roommate so delicately put it, "I feel like the dirty escapades of Blair are merely a glimmer in the past, I barely know the show anymore. Wtf?"

So, if you're reading this producers and director of Gossip Girl: bring back the Blair! We don't even care about the other characters. If you wanted to do an entire episode featuring Blair and nobody else, we would definitely be cool with that. But if you make me wait another week, you may very well lose a valuable fan.

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