Gossip girl 2021 episode 21/3/2024 The success of the second season is largely due to the elevation of Monet (Savannah Lee Smith). But in Season 2, the reboot is finally finding that joy again. By trying to right the wrongs of the 2000s show, the reboot lost what made the original so great: fun. With the exception of a handful of scenes and some particularly juicy dramatic climaxes ( the Thanksgiving episode is truly a thing of beauty), Season 1 of the reboot was dragged down by the burden of accountability for the original. Sure, the stakes were higher than in the original, but that also made it more difficult to swallow as a viewer. It’s one thing to watch rich people ridicule each other or make fun of the scholarship kid it’s another to watch rich girls try to get a freshman and her father evicted from their Brooklyn home. And Season 1 faced similar issues with how it handled the teen drama. Without lighter, sexy storylines, Gossip Girl lost the naughty allure of the original. These storylines were dramatic, yes, and they made the show more current in a post-Weinstein scandal world, but they were also overwhelming. The other two major sex storylines were more Law & Order: Special Victims Unit than GG: Max (Thomas Doherty) had an affair with his teacher, and Julien’s dad, Davis (Luke Kirby), was exposed as a serial predator. So, instead of indulging in hot sex scenes, the reboot took a more realistic approach to sex: What happens when a couple that loves each other has some trouble in the bedroom? It was a honest and refreshing, but not quite the salacious escapism Gossip Girl fans are used to. The logic behind this was sound: overly sexualizing teenagers - even fictional ones - is definitely not what contemporary audiences are looking for. Sex has always been a GG selling point, but the first season shied away from the kind of hedonistic idealism that made the original so popular. Season 1 of the reboot was almost too aware of its predecessor’s sins. How do you take a very 2000s -and very white - show and make it relevant post-2020? Plot twists that may have once been deemed forgivable - like Chuck Bass attempting to rape two girls in the pilot and then becoming a main romantic interest for Blair - are now universally regarded as horrible examples of rape culture, elitism, and the oversexualization of teenage characters. When the reboot premiered in 2021 it was a show at odds with itself. And never has that been more clear than in this week’s episode, “One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest," which has everything: a lavish party, recreational drug use, sex, scandal, comedy, and a Charli XCX cameo. After an uneven first season, the HBO Max reboot has finally found its footing.
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