New TV Show: Gossip Girl

I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately, mainly because I’ve been in the bedroom on the laptop thanks to my back acting up, and company in the house. While flipping through channels last night I came across Reba and figured “Okay, why not?” By the next commercial break I was climbing out of bed to get myself a drink and I saw the preview for a new series called Gossip Girl on The CW. I heard something about a blog, so being a blogger I was interested from the get go. I did some searching around the Internet to find out what the show was really about though, I came across the IMDB listing for it.

Welcome to New York’s Upper East side where the wealthy and connected mingle at benefits and try to deal with their always dramatic love lives, not to mention picking colleges. Blair Waldorf is the so-called toast of adolescence in her world; she and her friends, Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates, go to a prep school and fancy parties with their rich parents. Blair is envied by her adversaries because she is thought to have the perfect life, not just because of her gorgeous boyfriend, Nate Archibald, but because she’s also planning on getting into her dream college,Yale. With everyone worried about college(or procrastinating on worrying, which everyone seems to be doing), and senior year dragging along, her seemingly perfect life is interrupted by her ex-best friend, the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, coming back into town after getting kicked out of boarding school. Serena comes back into her life, and into the eyes of Blair’s boy friend. When everything Blair knows starts to fall apart, everyone will realize that her life is far from perfect. Will life in the the Upper East Side redeem itself of what it’s really supposed to be? Or will the false facade reveal that the rich have the same problems as the not so rich (Jenny and Dan Humphrey), if not more. And just maybe Jenny and Dan are all the more happy with their simple, not so expectant lives.That was a plot summary submitted by an IMDB user, but it got the point across either way.

The series is narrated by “Gossip Girl” which is the voice of Kristen Bell, she runs a website where she blogs about her fellow Upper East Siders, stirring the pot and feeding potential rivalries in this supposed exclusive and vicious circle of “friends”. It premiers on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 on the CW if you’re interested.

I was going to paste in the special widget that the site offers, but it’s messing up the entire site. So just head to the site I linked above, you can see the previews there.