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Gossip Girl
SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)


7.6

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Starring Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Connor Paolo, Ed Westwick, Kristen Bell, Kelly Rutherford, Leighton Meester, and Matthew Settle

The O.C. moves to New York City's Upper West Side with a dash of gossip in the guise of Kristen Bell.

GENRE(S):	Drama, Soap Opera
CREATED BY:	Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage Cecily von Ziegesar (Book)
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 19, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

New York Daily News Cristina Kinon

While it remains to be seen if Gossip Girl will take the plot plunge "The O.C." did after its first season, the beginning here is encouraging.

Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara

Gossip Girl is eye candy, and mind candy, as pretty as a perfectly prepared martini--one that some nasty, picture-perfect have-it-all may or may not have drugged.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Welcome to the tawdry, tantalizing and altogether terrific world of Gossip Girl.

Time James Poniewozik

Packing a sharp designer shiv, this clever saga of haves vs. have-mores proves the East Coast can be as enjoyably sudsy as the West.

Washington Post John Maynard

At times, it's overboard and maybe a bit giggle-inducing, like watching little kids play dress-up. But overboard is exactly where Gossip Girl wants to be--and what viewers must embrace when taking the guilty plunge.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Some of the lines are witty, and while parents won't approve of all that goes on, the kids talk about much more than they actually do.

Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker

The cast is as good as its target demo, but I admire its fleet pace and sly craft. [21 Sep 2007, p.72]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

Gossip Girl offers a fun, juicy mix of popular music and melodrama.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

Your feelings about Gossip Girl will depend on just how guilty you are willing to feel about your guilty pleasures. It can be entertaining to watch adults throw around money, attitude, and alcohol on soap operas; it can be grotesque to see teenagers doing the same things.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

It's very well-done teen angst, but at the same time made me feel very old and slightly pervy while watching it.

Newsday Verne Gay

Gossip Girl actually isn't bad by the standards of the medium--with "The Hills" pretty much being the standard--and it's even surprisingly competent.

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

It's a sleek, glossy, musically enhanced soap opera centered on wealthy, gorgeous high school students who connive and cavort to the sound of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Peter Bjorn and John, Angels & Airwaves, and Timbaland.

Slate Troy Patterson

The prep-school soap opera Gossip Girl is not as good--that is, not as bad, not quite so fabulously trashy--as the best-selling series of young-adult novels on which it's based.

Variety Brian Lowry

Gossip Girl hardly breaks any new ground.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

Gossip Girl should be a good ride, at least until all the characters become more and more likable and there's no conflict or tension anymore, and then you have to kill off the weakest one just to get people to pay any attention.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

The main action is pretty much standard soap fare.

PopMatters Marisa LaScala

If you strip away the designer shoes and drinks, the show is left with all the hallmarks of a typical teen melodrama.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

Gossip Girl lacks the heart, humor and sweetness that balanced out the soapy happenings on "The O.C."

New York Magazine John Leonard

I don’t care whether Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) can ever be best friends again after what happened with Blair’s boyfriend before Serena ran off to boarding school is not just because I’m an old fart.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

But it's not just that the Gossip Girl cast lacks chemistry. Among these characters and threaded through these predictable, thin stories, there's precious little of anything that approaches sweetness, kindness, altruism or heart.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

It's one of the worst new series--but for its cardboard acting and writing, not for the morals.

New York Post Linda Stasi

It's a nasty piece of work filled with underage sex, vulgar, hateful kids and references to young girls that are flat-out ugly and disrespectful.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Slick, cynical teen soap nonsense.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

Gossip Girl is a bad mix of the popular book series by Cecily von Ziegesar and the production talents of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who made "The O.C."

Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

It's so consumed with its of-the-moment zeitgeist embodiment that it forgets to give its characters any depth beyond their reshaped noses.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

I hate it.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 63 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Curtis E. gave it a5:
I felt like the rivalry between Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen ended too early, as the storyline for Jenny Humphrey had little to no depth to it. Chuck Bass also remained a flat character to me though the storyline of his equally dastard father's criticism was not good enough to give him the heart of gold complex; Dan Humphrey's chasing of Serena was less than entertaining, while the love triangle between the parents was actually comical but dramatic and intriguing. On the brightside, although most protagonists in the show start off as rich and one dimensional, you see them slowly evolve - that is what a Season Two is for... Further character develop that every character on Gossip Girl so desperately needs.

Janice I. gave it a10:
Narratively more complex than you would expect, plumbs the depths of the tension between what you are and what you present yourself as when you are really trying to figure out what you want to become. Oh, and also, the chemistry & the fashion.

Jul R. gave it a0:
Very, very bad!! Worst series ever!!

Angie B. gave it an8:
It sucks bad sometimes, but sometimes it is awesome. The music, costumes and cinematography are pretty good. The actors work well with what they've got, but it gets pretty hard to say sentimental crap all the time. The scandal is often well-crafted. I think that's what brings me back.

Matt A. gave it a7:
I can't say it's as much a trashy guilty pleasure as the first season of The O.C. was, but it is still good stuff. The characters are more likable and the fact that it is set in New York is a huge plus, but The O.C. has the advantage of coming first. Other than that, great TV where you don't need to think.

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
The best show on TV today.

Evelyn T. gave it a1:
The story never kept me, and the 1st book was the only good place in this thread.

Gossip Girl SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Gossip Girl
SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)