Warning: This article contains spoilers gossip girl Reboot series finale.
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HBO Max’s once-talked-about standalone sequel to the CW series of the same name, based on author Cecily von Ziegesar’s popular book series, ended its run Thursday after two seasons. was nevertheless a great success.
The show’s core gang — Julian (Jordan Alexander), Zoya (Whitney Peake), Obie (Eli Brown), Max (Thomas Doherty), Aubrey (Emily Alyn Lind), Aki (Evan Mock), Luna (Zion Moreno), Monet (Savannah Lee Smith) and Shan (Grace Duah) — they had only one agenda. However, unbeknownst to most of the crew, Obie has been working with an Internet threat, revealed in the series premiere to be their own English teacher Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson), and he exposed the family of
At one point, Aki was able to craft a way for the group to access Gossip Girl’s burgeoning Instagram page using fake accounts sharing deceptive tips along with hacker links. Obie tried to warn Kate about the plan, but it was too late. I quickly realized that I had found a way to hide it.
Then it was Max who pointed out: “Someone must have flipped her over.”
“Not just anyone,” added Luna. “one of us.”
It is revealed that Kate’s boyfriend and former teacher, Jordan (Adam Chanler-Berat), has rerouted the account information so that Julian’s details are there instead. And given that this was a critical situation for Kate to be hacked, Jordan suggested it was “time” for Kate to give up being Gossip Girl. I wasn’t interested in at all.
Julian still had access to Gossip Girl’s Instagram account on her phone, so she was able to discover that her boyfriend, Obie, was the one who provided the information to the account holder. Obie used the social media app’s Vanish Mode feature to tell Gossip Girl of her new plan of action. However, his attempt to delete the exchange failed because he accidentally put it under general messages. Julian realized after seeing Kate’s reaction to a mutual agreement with Obie that she would help each other.
Julian later has a meeting with everyone except Obie to discuss a new action plan. One of them, calling herself Gossip Girl on her official account, takes the “reins” from Kate and tries to outdo her at her own game. A spectacular and headline-grabbing photobomb in ‘occurs in’.
“And when a real GG sees you claiming credit, she can’t hold back from going out to restore her glory.”
Zoya then offered to pretend to be a fake Gossip Girl. “It has to be me. It makes the most sense,” says Zoya, who is often an outsider in her group and even frequently clashes with her half-sister Julianne. said.
“She started when I arrived. Dan was an outsider,” she continued, referring to former Gossip Girl account creator Dan Humphrey, played by Penn Badgley in the original series. bottom. “He also talked about himself more than anyone else. So let’s lean in. If it works, people have to believe it’s true.”
The group also said that in order to make this piece, they had to expose their biggest secrets through their accounts and be willing to be more “scandalous” and “brutal” than Gossip Girl has ever had. I agree that there is
The gang then took their place at the Met Gala and began planning their takedown. rice field. Monet’s father is fixed on Zoya’s father, and Max cheated on his triple partners Aubrey and Aki with Obie’s older sister. However, Max breaks things off later that night when it turns out that Aubrey and Aki had kept him out of the relationship in private.
Realizing what was going on, Obie confronted Julian about her new plan. However, Julian called out his own act of working with Gossip Girl, which Obie defended, saying it felt like the “only option” to expose his family’s misdeeds. with permission to live stream a private conversation with my sister, exposing her misdeeds. This caused him to be escorted out of the event.
Zoya eventually walked up the steps of the Met wearing a gown that read “I’m Gossip Girl” by Aubrey’s designer mother, Kiki. A security guard took her out of the premises.
Julian is distraught that the plan is a “complete bankruptcy” and tells Aubrey that her sister Zoya will “go down for everything” while Gossip Girl will “disappear into the ether”. venting to Obie about her frustration, her lover said: “What’s the best way to catch a fly? Money”.
Kate’s boyfriend Jordan said “no one knows” that she’s actually Gossip Girl. rice field. NY Spectatorowned by Gossip Girl OG Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, and Danny Strong were meeting with Gossip Girl at the Minetta Tavern to discuss a film deal.
On the way to the restaurant, Kate is ushered to the table where her meeting with Danny begins, and says, “Mr. Strong, you can’t believe these women. You have the right to be heard.”
“Mr. Keller?” Julian said in amazement, as Zoya was equally stunned, “Oh my God.”
Kate says:
Besides, OG gossip girl Alum Jonathan Whitney (Matt Doyle) — who dated Serena van der Woodsen’s (Blake Lively) younger brother Eric (Connor Paolo) on an earlier series and is now married — has turned around. “And you’ll get credit for it,” he said, much to Kate’s surprise.
Even more surprising, Andy Cohen, who was sitting in the back next to Obie, yelled out, “And tomorrow night at my show!”
“Eric is now exclusive to Nate on Spectator,” added Jonathan.
Andy said he wanted to see Gossip Girl for himself, and that discovering the teacher was behind the new iteration was a “twist”.
However, Bravo’s producer’s appearance in Unmasking wasn’t random.
At that moment, Jonathan raised his voice to reference his disdain for Gossip Girl, recalling that the website had previously “kicked” Eric out. He also mentioned how “complicated” it was when he later discovered that they were siblings.
After Andy said this generation of Gossip Girl was “much more brutal” compared to its predecessor, Jonathan added, “I hope someone finds someone and stops them.”
But Andy and Jonathan aren’t the only ones who helped uncover Gossip Girl’s identity. Zoya’s lawyer father, Nick (Jonathan Fernandez), questions why Kate “cyberstalks and bullies, scares, hurts and confuses teenagers.” [and] .
“No matter what happens to me, I can sleep at night because I know I succeeded. I made you better. I made you feel better.”
“You made us nothing,” Julian said, as Zoya added.
The end of the episode began two months after the events that occurred.
Julien, Zoya, Aki, Aubrey and Obie have taken off for a fun summer vacation in Italy. All the while, Luna has found success as a model, landing her major billboard through her Oscar de la Renta campaign. (The opportunity was also offered to Julianne at the Met Gala, but when an Oscar de la Renta rep handed them both their business cards, Julian said Luna was just her stylist.
As for Max, he got kicked out of the club for being drunk.
In the final scene, Julian, Zoya, Aki, Aubrey, and Obie stroll through the streets of Italy with ice cream in hand. Obie cheers and says:
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gossip girl It premiered on HBO Max in 2021 and earned an early renewal for Season 2. This latest season premiered in his December. Creator Joshua Safran announced the cancellation on January 19th.
