So what's going on with Georgina Sparks is that she's got herself a UES husband to take care of her baby, but it turns out that being Rufus is boring, so when she comes to the Constance Alumni Fundraiser despite never having gone there, she's immensely excited to find everybody running around and screaming and on fire. Why are they in such a tizz?
Well, nobody can find Charlie because she's off her meds and stomping around the place drinking vodka straight, and nobody can find Blair because she's being held hostage in Brooklyn by the shambles of Russell Thorpe, who plans on blowing them both to hell. Shortly thereafter, Serena has talked Charlie off a literal ledge, while Nate and Raina have stood around watching while Chuck rescues Blair. That's when things get interesting. (Raina takes off back to Chicago, but that isn't the interesting part.)
Blair and Chuck, en route to the fundraiser -- where Prince Louis is waiting, stalwart, for his Princess Bride-to-be -- stop off to have some childlike fun at a bar mitzvah, then some grownup fun in a room adjacent to the bar mitzvah. Upon returning to the party and finding Louis still there, Chuck decides that Blair would be better off actually being happy with Louis instead of crazy and scary with him, and after some tearful goodbyes she agrees. Nate buys Chuck this antique globe and makes him pick a spot on it where they can go and then spend the rest of the summer fucking their way back to the UES, and that part was awesome.
Dan and Eric decide to the do the same thing, and take off for the Hamptons so that Dan can whimper about losing Blair and Eric can cheer him up again. Little do they know that Vanessa has discovered the manuscript for Dan's secret novel -- an autobiographical tale of class fetishism proving Gossip Girl's been right about him all along -- and, as her last act of extreme nosiness, sold it to Simon & Schuster so she can play Laura Albert to his JT LeRoy.
After a stern talking to from both Queller and the Peanut Gallery Girls in which she realizes she is human tofu that has never made a decision in her entire life, Serena decides to spend the summer in Montecito with CeCe. She immediately meets Ethan Peck and David O. Russell, becomes a D-Girl, and gets into a fistfight with Lily Tomlin. Oh, and there's a pregnancy test in the Blair/Serena bathroom that could belong to either of them, but who knows how that will go. We can only hope it's Eleanor's and that Blair gets to name the baby.
And what about Cousin Charlie? Well, that part was amazing. Georgina takes a shine to her crazy ass, instantly figures out that her whole storyline has been a lie, and tells her to give her a ring when she comes back next year as a series regular. But wait, who is Cousin Charlie really? Just a random low-level Florida con artist named Ivy, whom Aunt Carol installed as her fake daughter in order to get access to Charlie's trust fund and protect her real daughter from the UES/Rhodes crew.
But now Ivy's got the sneak for UES living, and an extra book of Charlie's checks in addition to her payoff, so we'll be seeing her again shortly. Hopefully getting neither raped nor abused by Chuck so those four shipper nutsacks on the internet can scream and yell about whatever the imaginary hell they're always screaming and yelling about. And, of course, the inevitable Real Charlie Rhodes/Fake Charlie Rhodes Faceoff. Or the Ivy/Juliet Faceoff. Or the Ivy/Juliet/Poppy/Georgina four-way Selina Kyle Invitational.
So that's the score for next year: Blair's planning on a November wedding, Chuck and Nate are off doing it with each other, Vanessa has moved to Spain, Dan's about to be the most hated man in Manhattan, Serena's gone Hollywood, Russell got 20 years for killing Avery, the mysterious pregnant person is pregnant, and Lily's going to be getting her ankle jewelry off around the season premiere. XOXO, and I honestly hope you enjoyed this season as much as I did.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!
TAXICAB
Vanessa: "Finally somebody everybody can hate so much that you're nice to me!"
Serena: "Not even Cousin Charlie's ten tons of crazy could possibly affect the balance of power that makes you a worthless pariah pawn."
Vanessa: "Are you kidding me? Rufus just said she stalked her college roommate and ended up wandering through the snow in her bare feet."
Serena: "...What part of that story did you think I wouldn't identify with?"
Vanessa: "Any case, we have to save Dan. Dan Dan Dan."
Serena: "And also Charlie. Trust me when I say that with Rhodes Women, all roads eventually lead to the Crazyhouse."
Vanessa: "But Dan."
Serena: "Look, the reasons Dan hates you have nothing to do with me."
Vanessa: "Not only is that factually untrue, but everything Dan everythings ends up being about you."
Serena: "[Dismissive but satisfied smirk and sigh.]"
CONSTANCE BILLARD SCHOOL FOR LOVESICK CHUMS & AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENTS
Dan: "Good God, Nate. How I have missed you."
Nate: "Let's run away together. Raina just dumped me once again. Let's talk about your problems instead."
Dan: "So I was about to fuck Cousin Peepers on Queller's desk..."
Nate: "Nice!"
Dan: "...But then she's all call me Serena, and I wigged."
Nate: "Sometimes Chuck makes me say that."
ibid., verbatim/awesome: "Just tell her that's not necessary, and get back to doing whatever it is you two were going to do."
If only every crazy scenario in this show could be dismissed with a "that's not necessary," what a wonderful world that would be. Just like when Serena is right she's really right so too does Nate know how to solve problems. He's like the kid that noticed the Emperor was naked. Occam's Razor is a lot easier when you can't handle more than a couple of things.
Dan: "Oh look, it's Chuck. I thought he was going to rehab."
Nate: "He said no, no, no. He said, 'That's not necessary.'"
THE BAR
Chuck: "Eleanor, we've never spoken before. I'm Chuck Bass. I'm kind of a big deal."
Eleanor: "You listen to me. Blair is nowhere to be found, but I'm not worried about it. She would kill a person, literally kill them, to walk into this alumni dinner on the arm of a prince. She's kind of stuck in high school. And you're a ridiculous person, so..."
Chuck: "Nevertheless I am freaking out."
Eleanor, verbatim: "She is finally getting her fairy tale. She doesn't need the Big Bad Wolf to ruin it. Why don't you say good-bye once and for all? And let her go."
Chuck: "thanks for not calling me the Evil Queen, for once, but... Isn't that sort of paternalistic and weird?"
Eleanor: "You're the one with the imaginary systematic abuse going on, you tell me."
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