HBO Max is reviving Gossip Girl, XOXO

Per Deadline, the new series will move past the mythologies of Serena van der Woodson and Blair Waldorf, instead focusing on a new generation of romantically entangled, web-enabled socialites. All of them will once again be bedeviled by that public menace Gossip Girl, an omniscient observer who presumably tracks every details of her subject’s life by, like, following them on Instagram. The new series promises to offer a new look at the ways social media has evolved over the last few years, while still touching on universal concerns, like love, reputation, and looking at attractive young people in extremely expensive clothes.