Ok, so I’m a thirty something woman who is addicted to this show Gossip Girl.  So sue me, but it is one of those shows you pop in the DVD player (I rented the season off an online DVD rental place), and you find that a few hours later you’ve blown through like four episodes because it’s just so much fun to watch.  And don’t get me wrong, I know the show is totally unrealistic.  I mean, it’s all about the “Manhattan elite”, but what they fail to recognize is that their stories are about teenagers that are basically acting and talking like adults, which can be a bit over the top at times.

However, the writing is scandalous and the story lines are pretty juicy and just the type of stories that you love to hear about because they are the vicarious nature.  I’ll give you an example, a few episodes ago in the first season I was watching, there was an episode where the priveleged teens attend a masked ball.  Whether these types of events even occur any more, I don’t know, but it was interesting and fairy tale like, and I have to admit, I was waiting for prince charming to show up for his princess. Of course, there was a little more intrigue thrown in there with a side story about mistaken identity (it was a masked ball).

The story centers around the lives of 7 teens, Blair, played by Leighton Meester who does a great job of making you love to hate her, Serena played by Blake Lively, who is just so likeable and yet so stylish that you are really magnetized toward her character, Dan, played by Penn Badgely (he and Blake are an item in real life), who plays the guy from the other side of town who is an admirer from afar for a long time until he and Serena become more than friends, Chuck, who plays basically the John Malkovich character from Dangerous Liaisons, only much younger and with a more hip hairdo, Dan’s sister Jenny, the freshman who seems to always be in the middle of every story somehow, and Blair’s boyfriend Nate, played by the very pretty Chace Crawford.  What’s with these kids names these days anyways? And I’m talking about the names of the actors, not the names of their characters!

Every episode seems to be about some sort of an event in high society, and they are pretty interestingly portrayed, although I wouldn’t know a high society event if it hit me in the face, so it could all be pretentious stereotyping for all I know.  At any rate, Gossip Girl is definitely a guilty pleasure that you’ll enjoy if you like this sort of thing.