Well we saw the end of the episodes that they were able to wrap up before the strike and as much as I can’t say it’s a quality show, I’ll miss this guilty pleasure in my schedule. So what’s been going on? Well we’ve come back to a theme. We started the show with former queen bee Serena returning from boarding school after fleeing her sexual indiscretions. And we end the season (or the seasonette at least) with current bee Blair heading off to school in France slinking away in shame after losing it all. What led to this fall from Grace?
Well Chuck was keeping Blair away from Boring B with threats of exposing their tryst. But Boring B kept trying to woo her back. After they all got caught at an illegal on school pool party, Boring B even turned himself in facing expulsion since he thought Blair let them all in. Blair decided that they could forgive each other,
And Dan was caught up in the cast of characters illegally partying at the school pool. The new head mistress planned to expel the culprit who broke them in, or without a person to pin it on the whole gang would get the heave ho. And of course Dan the charity case (aka scholarship candidate) couldn’t afford to lose his future. This was made all the more difficult when it turns out Serena was the culprit, so she turned herself in to save dear old Dan.
And as Dan’s former flame followed him around with a camera (still pining for him much?) she caught Chuck and Blair arguing about his fessing up. Apparently Blair’s plan to call Chuck a liar won’t work if she’s filmed planning it… But little miss filmster had enough scruples to handover the tape to Blair. Not before Chuck offered her some cash which she traded for the tape that happened to be in the camera. So to balance out the evil she handed off the cash to some sort of herpes fund in Chuck’s name.
So video wasn’t the only problem, camera snapped photos circulated about Serena buying a pregnancy test… of course Dan would be there for her. He loved her and she even eventually admitted that she loved him. Now we all know from the previews that it’s really Blair who might be pregnant. What we don’t know is whether the father is Boring B or What up Chuck. Alas no father at all, though not pregnant Blair’s walls still came tumbling down.
When Chuck got dissed he risked it all to ruin things by emailing GGirl. Oh right that’s the premise of the show, there’s a Gossip Girl who posts all the dirt. So when the school started talking about Blair, her pregnancy, and her two fellas… Boring B checked in with the Littlest Humphrey. Though she’s been laying low these two eps she stepped in just in time. Blair kept her at arm’s length a little too long and after she overheard Serena telling Dan the sordid details she confirmed the Chuckness to Boring B.
So after some public fisticuffs Chuck and Boring B are friends no more. Boring B gave Blair the heave ho. And then Blair called Serena a ho yet again, apparently there are two sets of standards, and Blair blamed her for letting it slip to Little Humphrey. Serena and Dan just escaped a fight about whether he told Little H. And when Blair showed up to school she got dissed by her former snooty posse. Even a final threat to Little H rang hollow. And the snooty mcsnooterson gals adopted Little H back in and hired on a new lackey to treat like crap. So to whom does Blair turn in desperation? She admitted that he won but would you think Chuck would welcome her with open arms? He is a man who’s never seen a high road he didn’t pass up.
Chuck’s now busy hitting on his sister to be. Chuck’s dad won the fight, unbeknownst to him, for Serena’s mom. Serena’s mom was about to run off with the elder Humphrey but Serena pushed the issue… she’d rather be part of Chuck’s family than part of Dan’s because Dan was the most important person to her. Was Dan’s dad the most important thing to mom? Clearly we gathered that Serena was the most important thing to her as she accepted the Chuck family engagement and let Rufus go. This chapter may be closed but we haven’t seen the last of that age old romance.
And Chuck’s dad welcomed Serena to the fold by buying her out of her got-the-key-to-the-pool fiasco, community service in place of expulsion. And I was misleading… Serena who of course believes in second chances, or third, or fourth, talked Blair out of heading to France at the last minute. Wanna bet if Blair’s gonna come back, she’s gonna come back swinging? I wouldn’t bet against me on that. Though we’ll have to wait a while to see…
And for an honorary show close:
– xoxo gossip girl
So if I’m sharing end of the year best lists I would be remiss not to throw down a little tv. The problem is it seems like a strange time to do a best tv list. So though midseason shows may be getting the short shrift we’ve probably seen enough of things to give it a go.