I swear the show is at least a little better than that picture makes it look!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm i think i will pass on this, as much as i love shows about highschool is it funny in any way?
they all look like dicks
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i miss the o.c.
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
funny doesn't seem to be its main investment. it's sort of serious and arch at the same time. moments of clever dialogue and the acting is pretty good (except for the date rapist guy who is totally ridiculous.)
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the ones who don't come off as dicks are former bad girl Serena and slightly less rich dude Dan.
Serena looks cuet
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
she is the blonde girl from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. shut up.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the whole blogging thing about this is kind of stupid and annoying. but kristin bell sounds just like laurie anderson when she says "xo xo"
― akm, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Like many shows that are on TV, I'd love to watch this one.
― jaymc, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw the first half, and I was wondering if Jaymc caught it (it's written by the creator of the O.C.). I like that Serena character a lot, so that's enough to keep me involved.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I would watch this, but I can't, because it will be cancelled :(.
― svend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, it's on the CW. That guarantees at least a full season.
― milo z, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
you'd think it'd have a built-in audience, too, because the books are pretty popular, right?
am I ever going to get tired of watching shows set in high school?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i would probably watch this randomly if i came across it, but, like antm, i will never be home to see it :\
― tehresa, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
It was a good one to watch on the treadmill at the gym tonight. With all kinds of racy commercials, too.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
xxpost Those books are extremely popular. Esp with late teens/early twentysths.
The guy in the pic, at the bottom, looks extremely familiar.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 20 September 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I was wondering if Jaymc caught it
Nope, I had band practice. (And actually, twice-a-week band practice makes me forget that TV even exists on nights when I do happen to be home.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 20 September 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i have band practice twice a week and i don't forget the existence of tv and i don't even have a tv
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 20 September 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the guy dan is the new jesse bradford.
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hoping there will be an encore presentation.
― carne asada, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The new CW lineup is... surprisingly... solid-looking. WTF.
― Will M., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- rrrobyn, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
soulmate <3<3<3
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, ive read these gossip girl books and im quite a fan of blair. i havent seen the premiere yet. recorded it though. the guys look like idiots in those photos but theyre pretty much idiots in the books too. i hope they dont censor the drugs etc for the tv
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and i hope they keep blairs bulmia as an accepted thing instead of making it an afterschool special type lesson.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I AM GOING OT A REPRINT MTG TO DECIDE HOW MANY COPIES OF THESE BOOKS TO PRINT. PLS WATCH SHOW AND GO BUY THEM*.
*Or email me.
― Laurel, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
*bulimia
waht does that mean, laurel?
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope they dont censor the drugs etc for the tv so far chuck smokes a lot of weed and serena appears to have a drinking problem.
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
they show date rapist dude smoking weed constantly. but he is a date rapist, so I guess they're saying weed is bad.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
weed always make me want to rape too
― carne asada, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
ha!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
is chuck gay yet?
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
omg sunny, no!
oo..spoilerz! SORRY
― sunny successor, Thursday, 20 September 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i watched this
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't like the narration but i could get into the show obv has same structure as the o.c. but sadly is not set in california and is lacking in peter gallagher
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
oh how i long for those eyebrows
― tehresa, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The actress who plays Blair was driving me crazy, looking like some hybrid of Rory and Lyla from Friday Night Lights. And then I looked her up and found out she was Debbie, girlfriend of Behrooz "you are not your father's son" on 24, and Carrie Bishop on Veronica Mars. I can finally rest easy now.
― Yerac, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i felt like all the characters looked like other people! or like people on the oc! felt dizzy for the first 25 min b/c of it
after watching this i watched the last couple of eps from s6 of degrassi. that show owns
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
how do the books work? i've been searching on amazon.co.uk but it's CONFUSING as idon't know which one is the first. or are they not serialized (???)?
― stevienixed, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
this is from wiki, nath:
1. Gossip Girl 2. You Know You Love Me 3. All I Want Is Everything 4. Because I'm Worth It 5. I Like It Like That 6. You're the One That I Want 7. Nobody Does It Better 8. Nothing Can Keep Us Together 9. Only In Your Dreams 10. Would I Lie to You? 11. Don't You Forget About Me 12. It Had To Be You (Set to be released October 2, 2007)
somewhere around number 7 or 8 the jenny character branches off into her own series "IT girl" set in some kind of new england prep boarding school.
― sunny successor, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh thanks! After I made my post, I realizeds: Just wiki that shit, stupid Nath! I think I managed to put the compendium (?) in my Amazon basket. Can't resist these books! :-)
― stevienixed, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the books are pretty great but this show, ugh. i finally watched it last night. its all wrong. i want to remake it. also, i miss summer roberts :(
― sunny successor, Monday, 24 September 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesss, yeeesssssss....
― Laurel, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Sadly the series # is not included in the titles anywhere, or on the covers, so it's practically impossible to remember which is which. I can't decide whether that's brilliant or not in terms of making readers/buyers check the ENTIRE SERIES every time, but it's a pain in my ass, that's for sure.
― Laurel, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, do you lend books to peoples?
― Yerac, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Officially? No. Go and buy them.
BTW, what are you doing later this week? I've got some stuff for you.
― Laurel, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The T.V. show, not the place. It debuted on Fox this week. It stars Peter Gallagher's eyebrows and a very attractive actress with very sharp teeth who the IMDB tells me is named Mischa Barton. It was created by McG and the pilot was directed by Doug Liman. It's about a kid from the wrong side of the tracks (and with a v. bad haircut) who ends up being taken in by a rich family from the O.C. Melodrama ensues. -- amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:55 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember TV exists, I just forget that there are shows on that I might want to watch that I can basically just go over to my living room and press a button and there they are. Although sometimes I don't get home until 7:30 or 8, and then I have to make dinner, and so I'd be missing some prime-time comedy, anyway.
― jaymc, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
(Basically, I only watch TV on DVD, so I'll come back to this thread next summer, when S1 is released.)
― jaymc, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
L , halftime for roller derby this week was a yo yo master!
― Yerac, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
it was fine as an episode, not particularly whatever
― Do you love me now? (surm), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
and i think GG is strong at this time, in terms of quality -- it had a definite bullshit phase last season
Doesn't the exec producer of GG (the same guy who did the OC - Josh Schwartz - thanks, Wikipedia) always do this, where he'll have this buzz-worthy show that is much talked about and occasionally riveting but then it starts a steep decline way too soon? Wasn't that the problem with the OC? Didn't that shows' second season have a bullshitty phase, too?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― Do you love me now? (surm), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
but i don't know if that one ever got better
― Do you love me now? (surm), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Last season of The OC was the second best of the series.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck u
― Do you love me now? (surm), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
haha just kidding xo
imho. The series really improved after they killed Mischa Barton.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
mischa barton's a fuckup with no skillz. sad thing about her recently cancelled "the beautiful life" . . . .
― Do you love me now? (surm), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
shes so nice to look at though
― drinking coke in the kitchen with a kid that doesnt know his n (sunny successor), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
the oc went to shit after the novelty of how improbably beautiful mischa barton is wore off
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Improbably beautiful? Were her parents hideous monsters?
― Cunga, Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that sandy guy was memorably gross
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
keeeeerstin was hot though
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Improbable, but not impossible, it seems.
― Cunga, Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
summer kicked everyone's ass though, no question
― Do you love me now? (surm), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
that last season of the oc where mischa barton's pothead sister showed up was pretty good iirc
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the real problem w/gg btw is that is seems to want to make the old ppl the moral center of the show but is unaware of loathsome and boring and terrible they are
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wait so was that chuck's mom?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
That is what she is gonna say in March when the show comes back.
― svend, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
The third season of The O.C. was the shitty season. It rebounded a bit for the fourth and final, but it was too late by that point.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Downloaded the second season of Gossip Girl - so weird how it wanted to be OC East, I think, but missed out on everything that made everyone in The OC likable (or interesting, at the least). Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are v. v. pretty, tho.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 15 November 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of The O.C., I never knew anything about this idea:
There were plans to turn the show into something of a reverse spin-off. Schwartz being the creative force behind the television series Gossip Girl planned to release a spin-off entitled Valley Girls, originally to premiere in the fall of 2009. Schwartz wanted to tie in the younger versions of the characters from both The O.C. and the principals from Valley Girls to establish a continuity with Gossip Girl.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
blair and dan!
― i like lucy (surm), Monday, 7 February 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
LILY - omg the episode of lily's downfall was my fav episode
― i like lucy (surm), Monday, 7 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(not bc i dislike lily - i think kelly rutherford is aMAYzing on this show - just a great ep)
schwartz-verse
― Mordy, Monday, 7 February 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm unsure about this new one on three listens yet, but the song where Mark constantly rhymes about Gossip Girl plotlines is pretty LOL.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, November 4, 2011 11:51 PM (1 week ago
New song by the Mark E. Smith and the Fall
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 November 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
So that was a painfully bad episode.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
catching up with the last three episodes - it's not as bad as it was toward the middle of the season.
also, Leighton Meester just gets more amazing looking
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 13 April 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
series finale
anyone else bother watching?
― gyac, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
YES. What did you think, single other ILX viewer?
I know objectively speaking that the show is terrible, but it's me and and my partner's comfort viewing, and we'll both quite miss it.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
otm ^^
― just1n3, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, it was completely terrible, but I loved the final episode in a ridiculous way.
The ending is incredibly awful (and dark!) though, but if they were going to do the reveal I suppose it made sense in a fucked-up way.
I was reminded of when it was great/watchable (s1, s2) and that was about the most I could expect from the finale.
― gyac, Friday, 21 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
was really happy that lily ended up with scheming jerk ex
― mh, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
poor pretty Nate, after all that trouble trying to uncover Gossip Girl's identity, he doesn't even get to find out for himself.
I'm gonna miss Georgina the most.
― Roz, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Biggest surprise of the six seasons -- Liz Hurley was actually pretty great in this show. I mean, wooden as fuck, but somehow great nonetheless.
My favourite period of this show was the second season, when every episode it was Blair or Chuck doing the "I love you," "We can't do this now" conversation, and even thought they did it every bastard episode, it was somehow ALWAYS HEARTBREAKING.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait is this where I post the trailer for the new one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsah5yCzh-U
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
anyone else watch the premiere? thoughts?
i liked it, though the main boyfriend's guilty rich/wokeness thing is a bit heavy-handed and not sure about spoiling GG's identity so early on gives the premise a bit of an expiry date
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
I liked it too but criticisms that it's devoid of humor are OTM; the teachers are kind of funny but the kids are not, so there is a big Blair/Dorota shaped hole in the middle of the show.
― akm, Thursday, 8 July 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link