Another free download in iTunes. This CW teenager “dramedy” is set in a private school in New York, where Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) has returned after a stint in boarding school to find her best friend Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) pissed at her. Blair’s boyfriend is secretly infatuated with Serena. Creepy guy Chuck tries to hump anything that moves, and the only normal students are a brother and sister who attend the same school but are considered uncool.

The “gossip girl” of the title is a mysterious narrator (Kristen Bell) who runs a gossip blog about said school that nobody knows the identity of. Yes, there’s an amusing technological obsessive side to this show, as all these materialistic debaucherous debutantes have cell phones or other glamorous gadgets, on which they’re constantly texting one another, spying with the built-in cameras, and obsessively reading the Gossip Girl blog (XO XO!). Twitter has nothing to worry about – this is your target market.

These unfamiliar faces remind me of amalgams of other actors – Serena looks like equal parts Cate Blanchette and Gwenyth Paltrow, Blair equal parts Rory Gilmore and Mila Kunis, and the creepy guy: a skinny Jonathan Rhys Meyers or Joaquin Phoenix.

In retrospect, there’s something fairly depressing about rich girls and boys in a big rush to act like grown ups – which to them means blowing tons of money, drinking profuesly, searching for hot sex, all set to a popular music soundtrack.

While Gossip Girl seems like a fairly cool show that folks who liked the OC might get into, it’s not for me. These kids are half my age. The sad-sack father – who was in a popular band back in the nineties – must be the representative thirty-something. At least Gilmore Girls had some several oldsters to whom I could somewhat relate.

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