Can you believe it’s been a decade and change since the original Gossip Girl premiered on The CW? It’s been a while since our favorite …
Can you believe it’s been a decade and change since the original Gossip Girl premiered on The CW? It’s been a while since our favorite pot-stirring blogger signed off with her signature “XOXO”, but the Gossip Girl reboot, now streaming on HBO Max, is here to prove she’s alive and well. So welcome back, Upper East Siders. It’s been a minute, but we’re back with addictive updates about the lives of the elite students of Constance Billard and allllll the drama that follows them. Opening Shot: Subway trains move along the tracks in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Gist: Zoya Lott (Whitney Peak) is new at Constance Billard. The theater-loving freshman, who is attending the elite school on scholarship, seems to be dreading meeting her half-sister, Queen Bee Julien (Jordan Alexander). While the two lie to everyone (including family) that they don’t know each other, it turns out that the duo has been excitedly plotting this move for months. Despite the sisters’ best attempts to stick to their plan, things quickly go awry, however, forcing the duo apart in ways neither of them could have anticipated. It is Constance Billard, after all. What were the chances of having a quiet, drama-free start to the year? As everyone returns to school after a long period of Zoom classes and quarantine, it’s clear that it’s going to be an interesting year – to say the least. Julien and her friend group – including her sweet boyfriend Obie (Eli Brown), Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind), Max (Thomas Doherty), Luna (Zión Moreno), and Monet (Savannah Lee Smith) – run Constance Billard, and they run the teachers, too, making these educators’ lives something of a personal hell. These teachers, including Ms. Keller (Tavi Gevinson), try their best to stay optimistic (Keller believes they’re supposed to send them out into the world as Barack Obamas, rather than Brett Kavanaughs), but in a world where they’re fired for not changing grades to make parents happy, they find themselves with few choices. When one staff member – and Constance Billard alum – informs them about Gossip Girl, the “Orwellian big sister” who terrorized students back in the day, it seems like they may have found a way to take the power back.
