I've been meaning to write a post about Gossip Girl's blatant shark-jumping for a while now. The show has been downright dull, and when they took a month's vacation in February, I felt no pangs. This is exactly when (midway through a second season) The O.C., creator Josh Schwartz's last teen drama effort, lost steam (it came back for a genius final, fourth season, but that was largely due to some heart-full character development that hot-airy GG has always lacked). Rolling Stone has put the two comely female leads on their cover in a miserable effort to keep "buzz" going as interest falls away. The picture is really gross (I'm embarrased for these girls!). I mean, whose dick is that ice-cream cone supposed to be?
This "buzz" stuff is not fuel enough for a moldy, feathered, brainless jive-turkey like Gossip Girl; no amount of press and costumery can undo bad writing and boredom, or the new, "recessed" American psyche. Whatever.
2 comments:
It would have been a much more interesting cover to put Chase Crawford and Ed Westwick in these exact poses and costuming. A nice swan song to their relationship (as I hear they're breaking up).
that would have been fantastic!
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