We made it! Those of you still with me on this dramatic, unpredictable, sometimes fun, often difficult, far longer than expected ride- we made it all the way to the end of Gossip Girl. That’s 6 seasons, 121 episodes, approximately 90 straight hours of television (without commercials)- and I watched every single moment. I know […]
Rachael’s already talked about the phenomenal Valentine’s Day episodes from New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Up All Night and (my personal favourite) The Middle. But the schmoopiest holiday seemed to reach every show on the air this year, so I thought I’d add a few to the list: E) Glee. It’s been weeks since […]
This week, the CW’s first hit not born on the WB or UPN hit the 100 episode milestone. That all-important right of passage not only proves a show’s lasting appeal and lends it a bit more gravitas, it’s the point at which the syndication money becomes a major factor (most shows sell their rights at […]
This week’s Gossip Girl brought a rocky half season to a close as the primetime soap gears up for its hundredth episode this spring. It’s been a rough couple months on the upper east side. The boring story about unlikable actress Ivy defrauding the family into thinking she’s long-lost cousin Charlie has done nothing but […]
I have stuck with Gossip Girl long past what most people seemed to consider its expiration date. I do this in large part because it’s addictive and filled with really pretty people. I’ll probably continue “XOXO”ing until the day the dialogue loses its juicy flavor and the drama stops being oddly intriguing. But the real […]
Sometimes it’s fun when your favorite TV star pops up in a movie (I know I got a little thrill every time I heard the erst-while Chuck’s voice coming out of Flynn Ryder’s mouth in last year’s Disney offering Tangled). And sometimes you find yourself wondering, “Why is McDreamy being so mean to Shia LaBeouf?” […]
Dear Writers, You’ve got a lot going for you. The Gossip characters a really interesting lot. Blair and Chuck, especially, are some of the best out there for complexity and comic potential in one. Kristen Bell brings a perfectly dry sensibility to those voice overs of hers and the scale of the scenarios open to […]
The holiday movie rush has produced some truly excellent and some disappointing fare. But one thing has remained true: TV stars are really bringing it to the big screen this season. Click on the movie titles to read reviews from our sister site My Cinema. First there’s the rush of TV faces who play a […]
Gossip Girl is one of the few scripted shows I actually look forward to week after week. After a few month hiatus, the show returned a three weeks ago to some less than stellar episodes. The main problem with Gossip Girl is it’s focusing on story lines and characters I don’t care about, and the […]
Grey’s fans get excited for February because 2 TV All-Stars are coming to play the younger versions of The Chief and Ellis Grey. The star-crossed lovers will be played by Angel‘s J August Richards and Studio 60‘s Sarah Paulson. (Which brings the Shondaland/Buffyverse crossover count to 7, unless I’ve missed one). In other exciting casting […]
My love for the redeemable bad boy has been well chronicled on this site, and with my ever-abiding and increasing love for Glee‘s Puck and HIMYM‘s Barney as continuing proof, I suppose it hasn’t really ended. But recently, while rewatching Veronica Mars Season Three (because, well, if it’s a season that I can’t quote entirely […]
Tonight’s Gossip Girl had all the elements for a great hour of my favorite guilty pleasure: more Jenny/Eric feuding, tons of Chuck and Blair moments, near-death drama, big reveals, and scandalous secrets. It could have been the perfect episode but things sort of went limp toward the end. The interesting aspect is that the thing […]
There were so many things about this week’s Gossip Girl that I absolutely loved. In fact there were (insert number here): 1/ The Threesome: So the infamous threesome has been making headlines for a while now. It was a big question as to who would participate. From the beginning I had a good feeling about […]
Gina Torres of Firefly fame will be joining the cast of the #1 guilty pleasure show Gossip Girl for a few episodes. Gina will be staring as none other than Vanessa’s (!) mom and it is being said that the role may be recurring after the initial episodes. It’s nice to see an amazing actress […]
After you’ve recovered from the incredibly sad (read: ridiculous, wrong and simply unfair) cancellation of Privileged, don’t despair that you may never see your favourite cast members again. It seems that the adorable Joanna Garcia (Privileged‘s leading lady) will be heading to the upper east side to romance one Mr. Nate Archibald. Her 4 episode […]
This weekend I sat down to watch the (awesome) movie Star Trek for the third time (yes, yes, I’m a dork. Let’s move on). And, not for the first time, I marveled at the epic awesomeness that is JJ Abrams blockbuster success. A large portion of that success has to do with its two leads […]
Rachael already covered the finale in her trademark depth in the post “What If” so I’ll try and keep it brief on this one. Gossip Girl‘s sophomore season was a bumpy one. There were low points at which it seemed like the worst of teenage television (Blair and Nate’s early season entanglements with the duchess […]
What if your two favorite, bubble-stuck shows both got renewed? And what if your other two favorite shows had finales that restored your faith in them AND made you incredibly excited for next season just at the moment when you thought there was nowhere left for them to go? Yeah. That’s right. That’s the world […]
This week’s was the best episode of Gossip Girl since Bart died. It’s the first episode in a while that I didn’t spend half the episode hating half the characters. Plus, it brought the funny in a big way, from that beginning Audrey Hepburn sequence that featured a double-dose-of-Blaire-Waldorf to the Schmutz Happens apron Cyrus […]
Don’t get me wrong, this week’s episode of Gossip Girl still hadn’t completely recovered from the whole Rachel/Secret Sex Club debacle, but it was the first episode in ages that I felt that old pre-break Gossip Girl flair. Oddly enough, though, I managed to like this episode a whole bunch despite being pretty mad at […]
One of my closest friends always tells me that the thing he loves most about me is that I define “cool” in the complete opposite way from most people. The generally accepted truth is that “cool” means something or someone popular, aloof and a leader of the crowd; “Cool” is the ability to remain calm […]
Last night’s Gossip Girl had me and a room full of Gossip Girl fanatics ping ponging between near-hysterical laughter and groans of annoyance. It felt a lot like a cleansing for the show, flushing out the old story lines that just don’t work and purifying the show (and us) for the much more exciting ridiculousness […]
In case you weren’t excited about the Gossip Girl spinoff already (a distinct possibility, I grant you), the latest casting news should have you not only jumping on the bandwagon but also jumping for joy. Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter are set to star as the central sisters in the series. Snow, who is best known […]
Now, I’m not one of those people just looking for the Daily Show proclaimed President Gallant to fail. I’m willing to give him time on the Stimulus plan, on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on closing down Gitmo and getting the educational system back on the right track. I don’t shake my fists in […]
It’s that time of year again. Flower prices are skyrocketing, restaurant reservations are hard to come by, jewelry stores are bustling and all around North America people are wishing that life were as romantic as their TV. So in honour of this most auspicious holiday, that of St. Valentine, I thought I’d revisit the issue […]
Each week, my two most hotly anticipated shows vary. But this week, after two weeks off, they were 100% Gossip Girl and How I Met Your Mother. Both of which had pretty “meh” episodes, with sprinklings of the brilliance we normally see. Gossip Girl this week told us the tale of Blair’s seemingly-apocalyptic quest to […]