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This is the third in a series of features on Recapist recappers professing their love for their shows.
By Ran Cansely
Why do I love recapping Gossip Girl? Because way down deep, I'm shallow.
The scenery's great, and I'm not just talking about all those Manhattan location shots. The girls of Gossip Girl are pretty, but the boys are even prettier. Plunk them down on the steps of the Met, or outside Bendel's department store, and they're like a picture-postcard of dissolute youth...with great grooming and fabulous clothes. It's Sex And The City: The Next Generation.
It's a hyper-reality where a high school kid can get served a martini at the Palace Hotel bar, where teenagers take limos to clubs on a weeknight, and nobody blinks when a girl waits at a helipad for someone to take her to Paris. It's not my life, in other words, or yours either, probably, but it's fun to visit now and then. It's even more fun since I get to poke at it with a stick via my recaps. I get to commiserate with the parents (when they bother to show up), and chastise the young whippersnappers when they get into trouble (which is pretty much constantly).
More of Ran Cansley's ode to Gossip Girl is after the jump.
