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I am afraid I am not qualified to review Gossip Girl—The hittest and latest soap opera in America with several hit characters, based on Cecily-von-Ziegesar's best-selling book series of the same name because I saw the reviews and the videos the big fans made on site. They are mad about Gossip Girl but I am not so crazy. However, I have to review it now while I am still keeping calm with it.

The “it” characters are best friends Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Blair’s boyfriend Nate (Chace Crawford) and his friend Chuck (Ed Westwick). These four are from the New York City's Upper East Side, they own “sprawling apartments, endless designer wardrobes, and enough wealth and privilege to last them several lifetimes over”. In contrast, Dan Humphrey, the lonely boy and poor little Jenny, two outsiders, have to work hard to get what they want. And they are talented and did work very hard. But Dan works hard on his study and Jenny works hard on her stepping into that upper world. These six kids are in the same private school, that’s how and where the story started.

So, who is gossip girl? An omniscient blogger. It’s a blog, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite. What does gossip girl want? They want everything and they are everywhere. Spotted, the bad girl Serena comes back from the broading school from last year’s mysterious shipping off. We all know why, she “kissed” with Nate and “killed” someone. She is guilty and trying to change. However, so many people dragged her into her old memories.

With the so called aspirational plot, latest clothes, handbags and shoes, our characters hook up, party, and play out adult-sized dramas. They play social-climbing, back-stabbing, boyfriend-stealing, pot-smoking, rumor-spreading, suicide-attempting and even murdering. We will soon find out what it’s trying to tell us—their lives are complicated because their parents’ lives are more complicated. It turned out to be a theme of reality, we can touch the real world and think through all these fairy tales’ scenes. What’s gossip? What’s gossip for? As Oscar Wilde said “Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

Glossary

sprawling (adj.) – covering a large area of land

wardrobes (n.) – all of the clothes that a person owns

omniscient (adj.) – having unlimited knowledge

scandalous (adj.) – causing shock and disapproval

elite (n.) – the riches, most powerful, best educated group in a society

aspirational (adj.) – ambitious

pot (n.) – a slang for marijuana

tedious (adj.) - boring

Discuss

Have you watched Gossip Girl? What do you think of this drama series?

Do you think that blogging has become part of people’s lives? Do you think blogging can be as powerful as it is portrayed in Gossip Girl, where people gossip and spread rumours through it?