Goodbye Gossip Girl

Hey Upper East Siders,

So we’ve heard our final (and juiciest) Gossip Girl blast ever and finally the identity of everyone’s favourite mystery blogger has been revealed. But who has been our one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite? Well as this is a much nicer blog than G.G, I won’t spoil the surprise for those of you who have yet to watch it (and what are you waiting for?). Sadly though, this means there will be no more gossip about our favourite socialites, it-girls and outsiders so instead of recapping the final episode, I’m going to take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of my favourite things from the past 6 seasons of Gossip Girl.

To start, I have only two words for you:

GEORGINA SPARKS

Ok, I will elaborate. I think we are meant to find Georgina despicable but love to hate her. I just love her. True she’s one crazy bitch but without Michelle Trachtenberg Gossip Girl would not be the same. Fact.
There are so many great Georgina moments and quotes that it’s hard to choose which ones to include in this little retrospective: outing Eric over the dinner table, her temporary stint as Gossip Girl, rooming with Blair at NYU...but one of my favourite Georgina moments came in season two when she converted to Christianity and became a sweet-natured, saintly young woman (for all of 5 minutes) until she receives a tongue-lashing from Blair Waldorf and thankfully turns back into the bitch we I love.

“You can tell Jesus the bitch is back”

                           

Basically, this could easily turn into a love letter to Georgina Sparks/Michelle Trachtenberg but she did only appear in 28 episodes so clearly there were other things I loved about Gossip Girl.

One relationship in particular: Chuck and Blair. Chair if you will.
Separately they are amazing characters. Chuck has evolved so much, but I liked him both as the entitled, scarf-wearing villain and the troubled, businessman that was in love with Blair Waldorf. Blair is one of the show’s funniest, most ambitious and power-hungry characters and she came out with some blinders like “Damn that mother-chucker”. Together they are pretty much everything the show is about: frenemies, sex, love, scheming and New York class. Looking back at their ups and downs it really is the highlight of the series. Once again it’s impossible to choose a favourite Chair moment, but I think I’ll go right back to season one for Blair’s striptease.

And back in season one the question on everyone’s lips was “Serena, where has she been?”. The seedy backstory of heroine Serena Van Der Woodsen came together in the end, with a little help from the one and only Miss Georgina Sparks, and gave us one of the most shocking bits of gossip of the series. SVDW reveals she killed a man (well sort of)!! 

Serena is another one of my favourite characters; her constant bitch-fighting with BFF Blair, her many many boyfriends and troubled past are just some of the reasons why she’s so brilliant. Plus, she is played by the stunning Blake Lively!  Her relationship with outsider Dan Humphrey had some lovely moments also: remember the beautiful snow scene she set up for him when they started dating.

You can probably guess by now that I was no big supporter of The Blair-Dan fiasco but Lonely Boy has definitely had his moments, including a brief romance threesome with Vanessa and Olivia (Hilary Duff) in season three. 

                             

And I seem to remember a really sweet relationship between Dan and his sister, Jenny. Ah, Little J...I have missed you (thankfully a lot of long departed characters make cameos in the finale). I’m not sure if many people like Jenny Humphrey or Taylor Momsen in general, but the show was undoubtedly at its best when she was in it, desperate to surpass Blair as Queen B. One of my favourite moments had to be her debut at Blair’s sleepover where she makes one fierce exit from B’s slumber party.

But now their stories have come to an end and I can assure you the season finale is a truly amazing episode and a fitting end to the past six seasons. It’s definitely been fun over the years, being taken into a world that seems ridiculously extravagant and always full of drama.

                                                                                                                                                                     xoxo