“I know you love me”…obviously we don’t. After just two seasons gossip girl The reboot was pulled down by HBO Max, leaving OG fans stranded in the bitter Manhattan cold, wondering why the reboot fell flat more precisely than Serena’s attempt to reinvent herself as “Sabrina.” I got
Nine years after the original series ended, gossip girl The revival seemed to have all the right components for a compelling follow-up: say goodbye to the Comic Sans stylings of the Noughties blog and get obsessed with selfies, spongons and Virtue Signal social media. Hello to the world. Throw in a smartphone-savvy generation on a mission to earn Warholian’s 15 minutes of fame and there’s plenty of plot. gossip girl 2.0. Or you would think so.
Let’s start with the whole “Teacher as Gossip Girl”. The original series relied on an anonymous blogger – “Orwell’s older sister,” as one teacher aptly describes her – who, due to her disembodied omnipresence, is a character on the show. I was able to intervene in the lives of others for no good reason. Drama. But in the reboot, to the endless torment of Kate Keller (played by former teen blogger Tavige Vinson), a no-nonsense English teacher who decides to revive her blog in Instagram format to keep wealthy and eligible students. are exposed. Posting half-naked photos of minors online? It’s for their own benefit! Revealing that a student’s mother died during childbirth? Discipline and life lessons! The contradictory Kate and her amoral Hokey Corky took up too much airtime and ultimately felt implausible as a premise.
There was also a failure that could not get close to nostalgia. The reboot is hers starting in 2021. It was a year plagued by pandemics, rising costs of living and Boris Johnson. This year is a time when we wanted to disappear into a familiar and frivolous world populated by characters we knew and loved.To be honest, most of the time gossip girl Fans have heard the word “reboot,” so we hoped to see Serena start school, Nate campaign, and Chuck’s father figure. Think of all remakes – gilmore girls, sex and the city, top gun – all throwback and rough-and-tumble, and no shyness in returning old cast members (see SJP teasing Aiden’s return this month). The new series just didn’t deliver the familiarity we craved.
What about newcomers? Jordan Alexander played image-obsessed social media star Julianne in a very convincing way, but the whole Max-Audrey-Aki love triangle was Chuck and Blair’s drastic We never felt invested in their lives. Maybe it was the absence of sharp lines — the meme-worthy soundbite that brought the original character to life (“It baffles me how men settle for catfish after tasting caviar”). Or maybe the show just wasn’t given enough time to develop along with all the key themes it sought to address (culture cancellation, gun violence, prescription drug abuse, etc.). Nothing got the attention it deserved, including the personality.