School Ties

I don't know if you watch Gossip Girl. For better or worse, I generally do each week. In the midst of its second season, the writers have come to a thrilling climax . . . impasse? Star-crossed lover leads Dan and Serena (continually outshone by the caddish and human Blair and Chuck) evidently share a half-sibling. Their parents were rock star and groupie in the long-ago olden-days of grunge, and now, in the gloaming of the aughtsies, as gallerist and icy socialite, they have found each other again and (among other things) brought to light a secret lovechild situation. At the end of last night's episode, we were led to believe that both couples, Dan and Serena and Papa Dan and Mama Serena, would be making a go of it (at the same time!). I think this is all very brave. Let's see what "The Last Time I Saw Richard" thinks.