By Drew Grant 12/20/12 1:25pm

Gossip Girl

Goodbye strangers, it's been nice! (CW)

Gossip Girl Finale Keeps Fans Wondering Why We Loved These Jerks in the First Place

One time we tried to watch an episode of Gossip Girl. It was 2007, and Obama was gaining grass-roots support among young voters thanks to the hard work and dedication of Will.i.Am, Scarlett Johansson and two teenage newcomers, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley.

Yes, these two–dare we say–heroes had stood up together (in accordance with CW regulations) and announced in a commercial that they were voting for Barack Obama. The two co-stars, who, from the little we had seen of their program, were not especially interesting but found themselves endlessly fascinating, were given special celebrity passes because they were dating both on and off the show. And that’s always fun. Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/01/12 4:44pm

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The Secrets of Cameo Appearances on Gossip Girl: Exposed!

There’s no telling whether or not, on Gossip Girl debut in September 2007, the show’s creators anticipated the distinct fervor over the show from adults. In turn, this obsession turned into a mobius strip perpetuated by the mechanism that is the Highbrow Cameo Appearance, whose significance would only be truly appreciated by those with the context to understand what canny remark the writers were making by bringing them in. Read More

By Drew Grant 1/03/12 12:32pm

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Predicting the Most Annoying Celebrities Of 2012

2011 was full of a terrible celebrity solipsism played out on a giant stage. Sure, some of it was entertaining– Alec Baldwin‘s Words with Friends incident, for instance, or the national train wreck of Charlie Sheen (first half of the meltdown only)–but for the most part, our enabling of famous people to act like literally the worst people in the world resulted in only tears, annoyance, and the Kardashian wedding. Read More

By Nate Freeman 7/19/11 7:31pm

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The Wee Hours: High-Performance Hamptons

“DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DO an evil laugh?” asked the 10-year-old son of artist Lee Quinones, standing last Friday in the packed and tiny Eric Firestone gallery, an art space slotted in a nook between East Hampton fashion stores.

The sun had not yet gone down and the attendees had dragged their kids, pets Read More

By Christopher Rosen 9/15/09 3:25pm

Gossip Girl Returns on Horseback!

For most teen shows, the transition between high school and college is the beginning of the end—the death rattle before inevitable cancelation. For Gossip Girl, however, it appears nothing will change at all. Think about it: has a show about high schoolers-turned-undergrads ever cared less about featuring its characters in class? We can Read More