Spotted, E watching Gossip Girl around the clock

My roommate and I have gotten ridiculously into Gossip Girl.  We both knew this was going to happen.I saw it happening to some folks around me….but I had my reservations about the integrity of the show, as wall as the deterioration of my brain cells.  I watched a few episodes, and pretended to still doubt it.  I even decided to ‘stop watching’ for a brief period of time .  Then bored one day packing,  I put this show on again, and got completely and intensely sucked in to the glamor, wit, self-awareness, and deception of Gossip Girl.

I don’t  know why I keep acting like my adoration for Gossip Girl is unexpected.  Who am I kidding, I love overanalyzing teen shows.   I don’t like to overanalyze (or even watch) all teen shows, but ones I find that are personally and culturally significant… hence my currently-in-the-works series on the decade-long iconic Beverly Hills 90210.

The cultural significance is easy to spot in Gossip Girl with its scheming hand on the pulse of our media technology frenzied and digital networked culture.

Yet Gossip Girl doesn’t just focus on the fast-changing nature of contemporary digital media, fashion trends, or teenage gossip.  It touches base on the oldest social systems and scandal….the offspring of America’s industrial moguls.  Gossip isn’t a new tradition, especially when you get to the uppity uppity scale of Van Der Bilts and Waldorfs…..but what is new is seeing these iconic American empires intertwined with our current rapid technology world of blackberrys and blogs.

The Henry Clay Fricks, and Andrew Carnegies had to create epic philanthropic institutions and monuments to overpower their scandalous pasts.  How will these 20-something heiresses, moguls and socialites compensate for their scandals when their deepest secrets can be caught by the click of a camera phone and the send button on a smartphone?

I would like to go all Gossip Girl on you all, and say that’s one secret I’ll never tell…

…..except I know I will keep blogging on Gossip Girl to attempt to tell, and tackle, the richness of this teen drama.

Until next time, xoxo.