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The Genius of Gossip Girl
How a wunderkind producer, seven tabloid-ready stars, an army of bloggers, and a nation of texting tweenagers are changing the way we watch television.
About the show
- Schedule
- Mondays, 9 p.m.
- The CW
- Cast
- Blake Lively
- 'Serena van der Woodsen'
- Leighton Meester
- 'Blair Waldorf'
- Penn Badgley
- 'Dan Humphrey'
- Ed Westwick
- 'Chuck Bass'
- Chace Crawford
- 'Nate Archibald'
- Jessica Szhor
- 'Vanessa Abrams'
- Taylor Momsen
- 'Jenny Humphrey'
- Connor Paolo
- 'Eric van der Woodsen'
- Kelly Rutherford
- 'Lily van der Woodsen'
- Matthew Settle
- 'Rufus Humphrey'
- Zuzanna Szadkowski
- 'Dorota'
- Creators
- Josh Schwartz
- Stephanie Savage
- Based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar
- Executive Producer
- Josh Schwartz
- Stephanie Savage
- Leslie Morgenstein
- Bob Levy
- Joshua Safran
- Debut
- September 19, 2007
More Gossip Girl news...
Gossip Girl Really Wants to Be on Your Arm at the Ballet
The recap of the recap.
Recap of the Recap: If Gossip Girl Knows You, There’s a Guy at the End of That Story
One of our commenters rounds up your best insights.
Video: Rachel Zoe Gets Covered in Chocolate Fondue on Gossip Girl
You'll never guess what her fictional self says when this happens.
Black People Cast on Gossip Girl
Two African-Americans will make a rare appearance on the show in the new year.
Chace Crawford Is Smart Enough to Know His Gossip Girl Character Is Stupid
There's a brain under them thar man bangs!
Cynthia Rowley, Joe Zee, and Rachel Zoe Will Be on ‘Gossip Girl’ Next Week; Judith Leiber Is Making Bridal Handbags
Also, Chinese tourists spend about $700 an hour while shopping in Paris.
Is Blake Lively Really the ‘Jackie O of Her Time’?
That's what 'Gossip Girl' costume designer Eric Daman thinks.
The Gossip Girl Team Is Producing a Series for Michelle Trachtenberg
Georgina Sparks turns criminal profiler in a show from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.
Eric Daman Calls Blake Lively ‘the Jackie O of Her Time’
Also: "She’s not an anorexic bitch, she has tits and an ass."
So Who Is Matthew Settle’s Girlfriend?
You know, the one who ditched him the night of our own steamy date?
Is Penn Badgley Bored of Gossip Girl?
"It's become routine."
The Gossip Girl Recap of the Recap: Classy and Somewhat True
The recap of the recap, compiled by one of our commenters.
John Mayer ‘Doesn’t Do Events Anymore’ Because They Are ‘Too Gossip Girl’
Oh, yeah? Well, we don't do "desperate fading starlets" anymore because that's "too John Mayer."
Gossip Girl Stylist Eric Daman Is Designing a Line of Party Dresses
They're marketed toward teens, unsurprisingly.
Josh Schwartz Explains It All
"Dan still goes to NYU. He was just hanging with Nate for a soccer game, and offered to accompany Nate to his health center."
Recaps
Ep.07 - War at the Roses
Gossip Girl Recap: A Good Party Gives People What They Don’t Expect
You know what they say, if a piano is mentioned in the first act, somebody's going to get off on it in the third.
Ep.06 - Easy J
Gossip Girl Recap: Not Quite Sure What Just Happened There, But It Seemed All Bad
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.05 - Goodbye, Columbia
Gossip Girl Recap: I Almost Forgot How Much I Used to Enjoy Your Pie
Love and anger on this week's episode of 'Gossip Girl.'
Ep.04 - A Touch of Eva
Gossip Girl Recap: Everybody Leaves
Love hurts, even when you're Chuck Bass.
Ep.03 - The Undergraduates
Gossip Girl Recap: How Do We Know What Matters If Gossip Girl Isn’t Around to Tell Us?
Our weekly reality index for The Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.02 - Double Identity
Gossip Girl Recap: It Takes More Than Even You to Destroy Blair Waldorf
This week's recap of The Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.01 - Belles Du Jour
Gossip Girl Recap: We Make Our Own Fairy Tales
The first reality index of the fourth season of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.22 - Last Tango, Then Paris
Gossip Girl Season Finale Recap: Dorota’s Water Wasn’t the Only Thing That Broke Last Night
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.21 - Ex Husbands and Wives
Gossip Girl Recap: All Angst All the Time
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.19 - Dr. Estrangeloved
Gossip Girl Recap: Unclench
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.18 - The Unblairable Lightness of Being
Gossip Girl Recap: Even Good Love Goes Bad
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.17 - Inglorious Bassterds
Gossip Girl Recap: Love Is a Battlefield
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.16 - The Empire Strikes Jack
Gossip Girl Recap: Does the Second Chance Ever Have a Chance?
Our weekly reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.15 - The Sixteen-Year-Old-Virgin
Gossip Girl Recap: Two Legs Close, And A Heart Opens
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.14 - The Lady Vanished
Gossip Girl Recap: Turning Over a Leaf From the Trust Tree
This week's reality index for the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.13 - The Hurt Locket
Gossip Girl Recap: Is Love Going the Way of the Clog?
Apparently, it is.
Ep.12 - The Debarted
Gossip Girl Is the Jackie and You Are the Marilyn
And Trip is both Jack and Teddy Kennedy.
Ep.11 - The Treasure of Serena Madre
Gossip Girl’s Heart Pumps Secrets and Gin
Just like Grandma CeCe! Our weekly show recap.
Ep.10 - The Last Days of Disco Stick
A Little Bit of Danger Makes Gossip Girl’s Life Worth Living
This week, Jenny and Serena live on the edge.
Ep.09 - They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?
Gossip Girl Is the Last Person in New York Who Still Thinks You Matter
Try not to take it too personally.
Ep.08 - The Grandfather: Part 2
Gossip Girl Loses Her Moral Compass
Serena and Blair are at each other's throats in a way they haven't been since the first season.
Ep.07 - How to Succeed at Bassness
Gossip Girl’s Mask Is Becoming Her Face
It's Halloween, but the masks our characters are wearing aren't just festive strips of silicone donned for a night of carousing.
Ep.06 - Enough About Eve
Gossip Girl Fastens Its Seatbelts
What was true to life about this episode, and what struck us as faker than a Photoshop of a politician holding a giant cherry-red bong?
Ep.05 - Rufus Getting Married
Gossip Girl Finally Gets Out of Its Maid Outfit
What rhymes with Sonic Youth and is also music to our ears? Truth, friends. And that was what we heard a lot of on last night's Gossip Girl.
Ep.04 - Dan de Fleurette
Gossip Girl Remembers Who She Is
For the first time this season, we found ourselves actually listening to what Gossip Girl herself was saying, and were happy to see that she had a role to play.
Ep.03 - The Lost Boy
Gossip Girl Makes a Bid on Love
And guess what? Even at Sotheby's, it costs less than $8,000. Read all about it in our episode recap.
Ep.02 - The Freshmen
Gossip Girl’s Heart of Darkness
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time: The College Years.
Ep.01 - Reversals of Fortune
Wild Gossip Girls Can’t Be Broken
The recap of the season premiere of the third season of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.25 - The Goodbye Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl’s Georgina Ex Machina
Our reality index of the season finale.
Ep.24 - Valley Girls
Gossip Girl Always Tries to Make the Movie in Its Head Resemble Reality
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of our Time.
Ep.23 - The Wrath of Con
Gossip Girl Explains It All
This week's episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time imparted several important lessons.
Ep.22 - Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gossip Girl Gets Us Where We Want It
Finally, an episode worthy of our Monday nights!
Ep.21 - Seder Anything
Gossip Girl Matters
Our weekly reality index: with a special guest star!
Ep.20 - Remains of the J
Gossip Girl Faces a Dilemma
If a woman has thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions and doesn't make an effort to groom them, do they really exist?
Ep.19 - The Grandfather
Gossip Girl Has a Personality Crisis
It's time for our weekly episode recap!
Ep.18 - The Age of Dissonance
Gossip Girl Changes the Seasons for Us
Unfortunately, it does not quite melt our hearts along with the snow. But who cares? Our episode recaps are back!
Ep.17 - Carnal Knowledge
Gossip Girl Meets Stanley Kubrick
Our weekly reality index returns, just in time for an extremely upsetting episode.
Ep.16 - You've Got Yale
Gossip Girl’s World Is the Only World That Matters
Are you in it? If not, you can get into our weekly recap.
Ep.15 - Gone with the Will
Gossip Girl Notices It Has a Penis
This week's episode had us doing mental pirouettes.
Ep.14 - In the Realm of the Basses
Gossip Girl Catches Us When We Fall
Or, you know, before we fall. Or after we metaphorically fall. Whatever, our episode recaps have returned!
Ep.13 - O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
Gossip Girl Takes Us Through the First Two Stages of Grief
Our weekly reality index.
Ep.12 - It's a Wonderful Lie
A Chilly Night in ‘Gossip Girl’ Country
Our weekly reality index of the most important show that you pretend you aren't watching.
Ep.11 - The Magnificent Archibalds
Gossip Girl Is Where We Belong
It's Thanksgiving already! And there's lots to be thankful for in our weekly 'Gossip Girl' recap.
Ep.09 - There Might be Blood
Gossip Girl Gets Its Muff Stuffed
Oh jeez, where to begin? It's our weekly episode recap!
Ep.08 - Pret-a-Poor-J
Gossip Girl Leaves Us Writhing in Excruciating Pleasure
Our weekly recap of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.07 - Chuck in Real Life
The Secret Life of Gossip Girl
Our weekly reality index of the only show we've ever liked before it became cool.
Ep.06 - New Haven Can Wait
Gossip Girl Gains the Freshman Fifteen
Fifteen POINTS, that is.
Ep.05 - The Serena Also Rises
Gossip Girl Allows Its Light to Shine
‘Gossip Girl’ attacks the city at its very heart: Fashion Week. We tell you what was real and unreal.
Ep.04 - The Ex-Files
Gossip Girl Tosses a Nairtini in Our Faces
An epic recap of an epic episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.03 - The Dark Night
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Even More Lynchian Than Before
In which we overanalyze the blackout, the outfits, and the terrifying small children that participate in the latest episode of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.02 - Never Been Marcused
Gossip Girl Is Royally Pimpin’
Our recap of the second episode of the second season of the Greatest Show Ever.
Ep.01 - Summer Kind of Wonderful
Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love
It's the return of our exhaustive, obsessive, and unattractively loving recaps of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.18 - Much 'I Do' About Nothing
‘Gossip Girl’ Ditches Us the Morning After
We tally up the points that made the season finale of the Greatest Show of Our Time real, unreal, or maybe just annoying.
Ep.17 - Woman on the Verge
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the High of Our So-Called Lives
Let's face it, this episode rocked. Our recap is within.
Ep.16 - All About My Brother
‘Gossip Girl’ Blows Our Minds
And that's not all. You'll have to see it — or read our recap — to believe it.
Ep.15 - Desperately Seeking Serena
‘Gossip Girl’ Blinds Us With Color, Evil
In which Michelle Trachtenberg is the Marcia Cross of the Greatest Show of Our Time, returning from a mysterious absence to ruin everything and everyone.
Ep.14 - The Blair Bitch Project
The ‘Gossip Girl’ Recaps Returneth!
In which we calculate the reality index of the Greatest Show of Our Time.
Ep.13 - A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate
In Which We Finally Say Those Three Little Words to ‘Gossip Girl’
We've realized our relationship with Gossip Girl has followed a path not unlike Dan and Serena's.
Ep.12 - School Lies
‘Gossip Girl’ Takes Us Back to the Future
It was kind of a refreshing change to get vodka in plastic cups and an impromptu party at the school pool.
Ep.11 - Roman Holiday
A Very ‘Gossip Girl’ Christmas
Our mind-shatteringly detailed guide to what in this week's episode of Gossip Girl could pass for real-life New York experience, what seemed kinda fake, and what really put the "Jesus Christ" back in our Christmas.
Ep.10 - Hi, Society
‘Gossip Girl’ Says, ‘Granny, Get Your Gun!’
Drunk with power (and Tanqueray), Grandma CeCe stole the shit out of this episode.
Ep.09 - Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
‘Gossip Girl’ Gives Us the Thanksgiving We Always Deserved
Who writes this show? Former members of the Children of God?
Ep.08 - Seventeen Candles
‘Gossip Girl’ Threatens All of Its Great Loves
"I performed in a speakeasy and surrendered my virtue to a self-absorbed ass."
Ep.07 - Victor/Victrola
‘Gossip Girl’ Exceeds Our Expectations … Again!
Our Einsteinian comparison between the real, the unreal, and the crap that made us groan out loud to our gay friends in the living room.
Ep.06 - The Handmaiden's Tale
‘Gossip Girl’ Makes Us Color-blind
Our highly calibrated point system of... um... points.
Ep.05 - Dare Devil
‘Gossip Girl’ Gets Lost in New York
Isn't it weird when a show's writers forget their own plotlines? Isn't it weird we're paying such close attention?
Ep.04 - Bad News Blair
‘Gossip Girl’ Embraces Friendships, Reality
And that's what this recap is all about, right? Realism!
Ep.03 - Poison Ivy
‘Gossip Girl’: There Are Only Eight Colleges in America
Our vaguely researched, but mostly completely subjective, guide to what in this week's Gossip Girl was as fake as Melania Trump's face, and what could pass for real.
Ep.02 - The Wild Brunch
‘Gossip Girl’ Goes Straight to the ‘O.C.’ Place
In case you forgot, on the second episode of Gossip Girl, otherwise known as Statutory Rape in the City, the anonymous narrator really drums it in that this show is based in Manhattan, more specifically Upper East Side.
Ep.01 - Pilot
‘Gossip Girl’: The Most Important Show of Our Time
Last night's giddily awaited premiere of Gossip Girl did not disappoint.