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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 10
"The Last Days Of Disco Stick"
November 17, 2009 - 12:11a.m.
The other day, the fiancée and I were talking about how Abed Nadir, the possibly Asperger’s-addled mega-geek Danny Pudi plays on Community, is one of our favorite new television characters. And as glad as I was to have ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 9
"They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?"
November 10, 2009 - 12:11a.m.
I think I'm on the verge of having a falling-out with Gossip Girl, and I'm worried that no manner of Chuck Bass-orchestrated apologizing will fix this rift. I mean, seriously, Gossip Girl? Another Cotillion episode? Another episode where ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 8
"The Grandfather: Part II"
November 3, 2009 - 01:11a.m.
Three weeks after its last big celebrity cameo and two weeks after a barely scandalous same-sex kiss, the latest episode of Gossip Girl dove into November sweeps by engaging in some meta-plotting and centering its A-story around political intrigue involving ...
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Gossip Girl
How To Succeed In Bassness
October 28, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
Hello, Gossip Girl TV Clubbers. Erik Adams is off covering the Austin Film Festival, and entrusted me with coverage of the show... which he'll never do again, since I promptly forgot to cover it. Since I'm a full ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 6
"Enough About Eve"
October 20, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
"What are friends for?" Vanessa asked Dan during a pivotal scene of tonight's Gossip Girl. Well, in a good episode of this show, like "Enough About Eve," friends are for deceiving, manipulating, and using to score a major blow ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 5
"Rufus Getting Married"
October 13, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
Let's address the shaggy, well-dressed-but-still-really-not-that-well-dressed elephant in the room: As the photo above makes apparent, "Rufus Getting Married" is the "Sonic Youth episode" of Gossip Girl. Not only did the band arrive just in time to play an acoustic ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 4
"Dan De Fleurette"
October 5, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
A couple episodes back (not that the past counts much when talking about Gossip Girl), we established that the creative minds behind Gossip Girl aren't ones for slipping things under the surface. Watching tonight's episode, "Dan De Fleurette ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 3
"The Lost Boy"
September 29, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
Secrets! Lies! Sabotage involving high-priced auction items and fine champagne! We didn't get Gossip Girl at its peak tonight, but the stagnant waters of the third season's first two episodes were definitely churned, and the show is starting ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 2
"The Freshmen"
September 21, 2009 - 11:09p.m.
The theme of tonight's episode of Gossip Girl was "starting fresh." And how do we know that? Because the phrase "fresh start" or some similar permutation was uttered several times by different members of the principal cast. Clearly, the ...
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Gossip Girl: season 3, episode 1
"Reversals Of Fortune"
September 14, 2009 - 11:09p.m.
College is the curse of the modern teen drama. While the show that set the template for the genre, Beverly Hills 90210, managed to survive for several seasons after its characters earned their undergraduate degrees, few others make it past ...
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Gossip Girl: season 2, episode 1
Gossip Girl
September 1, 2008 - 08:09p.m.
(Note: Alas, this isn’t the return of the Gossip Girl blog, but a check-in on the beginning of Season Two. Much as I enjoyed writing the GG recaps pre-strike and tried to lobby our readers into watching along with ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 13
"The Thin Line Between Chuck And Nate"
January 10, 2008 - 12:01a.m.
“You held a certain fascination when you were beautiful, delicate, and untouched. But now you’re like one of the Arabians my father used to own: Rode hard and put away wet. I don’t want you now and I ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 12
"School Lies"
January 2, 2008 - 08:01p.m.
Before signing off for a two-week holiday respite, the Gossip Girl promos promised that the next two episodes—the last ones before the show runs out of scripts—would be OMG, the best episodes ever. So did the first, “School ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 11
"Roman Holiday"
December 19, 2007 - 11:12p.m.
“The ER said he would make a full recovery. Everything is ruined!”
Has there ever been a more delicious piece of dialogue on Gossip Girl than those two lines—so plump with the petty, blinkered self-absorption of the young and ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 10
"Hi, Society"
December 5, 2007 - 11:12p.m.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Gossip Girl needs evil like a flower needs the rain. As I suspected, last week’s hideous Thanksgiving episode was an anomaly mostly because of the holiday: Thanksgiving is supposed to ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 9
"Blair Waldorf Must Pie"
November 29, 2007 - 07:11a.m.
One of the strengths of The O.C., at least during its addictive first season, is that the adult characters were just as interesting as their kids. For primetime soap opera fans weaned on the bland authority figures of Beverly ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 8
"Seventeen Candles"
November 14, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. Big time.
When last we left Blair, she was riding her inebriated burlesque buzz into the back of a limo with Chuck, but I never once considered that she’d have loosened her ...
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Gossip Girl: season 1, episode 7
"Victor/Victrola"
November 7, 2007 - 11:11p.m.
Never judge a show by its pilot (not always, anyway): A couple of months ago, I weighed in with a negative review of Gossip Girl, the less heralded of O.C. creator Josh Schwartz’s two new series, and the ...
