Gossip Journal

Caroline & Damon II

2011-10-04T12:53:00.000+02:00

To whom it may concern (haha), I've been working on a Daroline story on FanFiction.net. Check it out and leave a review, if you like it :)

Like a Rolling Stone

Caroline & Damon

2011-04-30T17:09:00.001+02:00

I've been wanting to post here for a while now, but I didn't seem to find time until today.

I'm glad to announce that I've successfully quit Gossip Girl and managed to get addict to Vampire Diaries. It wasn't easy. I'm not saying I won't ever watch GG again, but I'm just simply not interested anymore.

As for the Vampire Diaries, well, let's say it wasn't love at first sting. The plot is so foolish that sometimes it's a pain. But the characters are good. I won't go ahead and say that I know where they stand as of now. I can't keep track of all the big, bad vampires, which ones are no longer, which ones still go bump in the night. But I watch it for character development. They're all good looking and cool and, every once in a while, they deliver a sharp line. It's no better than Gossip Girl, but it's unpretentious. Like a retarded dog you applaud for the smallest effort at not drowning in the pool.

So, these days, even though I barely remember Chuck Bass, I can't stop reading fanfictions about Damon Salvatore and Caroline Forbes. Because, seriously, Elena is nice and flawless, but Caroline is the only girl that matters. She's so real that I don't understand why all the people who bash Serena because she has everything so easy and love Blair because she's egoistical, scheming and tortured, why those people still prefer Elena with Damon.

How boring would that be? She's the one sucking the undeath out of him.

So, Damon and Caroline... If anyone can't see the sparkles but is still curious, I strongly recommend a multichaptered story set in 1864, Sweet Caroline.

I'll see if I can find any spoilers on this couple. Not gonna be easy, I just wished more people saw the potential of D/C.

~~I'd put an image to illustrate my point (that Caroline and Damon are endgame, let that be clear), but blogger just won't cooperate. Maybe later.~~ Done.

Vote for Community?

2010-12-22T01:03:00.000+01:00

Do it, please.

E! Online - Best TV Show of 2010

Favourite out of Fiction

2010-09-22T05:09:00.002+02:00

For those out there uninformed, FanFiction.net is a fantastic repository of stories based on books, films, TV series and even original outputs. It's a very clean website, strictly about storytelling and free of gifs, image flood and all-things-pink, allowing you to diffuse your composition, read others', bookmark it, set story or author alerts and review a story.

A few friends asked me about stories of late TV shows or shows that are going down the hill (no need to say I believe Gossip Girl fits in this category) to take them back to the good days. Well, I know of no better place than FF, and I highly recommend some of my personal favourite fan fictions*.

One shots:

Last Resort

By gleechild

Summary: Nate? Gone. Serena? Gone. Friends? Gone. Chuck? Gone. After being rejected by everyone in her life, Blair turns to the last person on earth that she ever expected to turn to. Imagine her surprise when he doesn't send her away.

Dan/Blair (Gossip Girl)

The Red Tights

By justlikebrooke

Summary: He loves her red tights. He’s not sure how a piece of clothing can evoke a feeling he didn’t even think he was capable of having, and honestly he doesn’t care. What could have happened if the CB makeout session in 1x10 hadn’t been interrupted.

Chuck/Blair (Gossip Girl)

General Scrubs

By Bunny1 **

Summary: A crossover between General Hospital and Scrubs. On a case with Sam, Spinelli runs into an old crush, Lucy Bennett.

Lucy/Cole (Scrubs)

Spring Break Denial

By Bunny1

Summary: Cole realizes he may have 'outgrown' Spring Break, and Lucy and Drew are curious as to WHY...

Lucy/Cole, Drew/Denise (Scrubs)

Multi-chaptered:

FUBAR

By gleechild

Summary: A scandal is about to drop and the Upper East Side will never be the same. You know you love me, XOXO Gossip Girl. Post 1x11.

Chuck/Blair (Gossip Girl)

Aftershock

By gleechild

Summary: B's decided to stay and get her groove back, but will she get her man too? Surely N won't want her now…and apparently C doesn't either. What's a girl to do? You know you love me, XOXO Gossip Girl. Post 1x13.

Chuck/Blair (Gossip Girl)

If Only

By TheMusicLives

Summary: How would things have been different if Blair had spent the night in Chuck's suite instead of going home after their infamous limo ride? Season 1 slightly rewritten from "Seventeen Candles."

Chuck/Blair (Gossip Girl)

Some Truths Hurt

By jenwin23

Summary: Jumping off point: V gets Duncan's journal in Echolls' Family Xmas. AU from there but many canon events happen too. All characters in the VM-verse make an appearance, but it is a LoVe story.

Logan/Veronica (Veronica Mars)

* The plot summaries were adapted from the ones provided by the respective authors, available at FF.net.

** I'm completely in love with this author's fics, perhaps the only one centered on Lucy/Cole's relationship. I love this couple!

I'll make a complementary list later, including other series, such as Gilmore Girls and Vampire Diaries.

Is Emma Stone an improved version of Lindsay Lohan?

2010-09-19T20:37:00.001+02:00

That's pretty much what it looks like, but she's still 21, many opportunities to turn into a skanky cocaine addict who might run over your puppy any day are yet to come.
But, anyway, although this chick looks a lot like a young Melinda Clarke, she also resembles a younger and fresher LL.
There's this new movie coming out, Easy A, in which, incidentally, Amanda Bynes is the antagonist and not the blonde round-faced heroin, for once. It appears to be a great film, not a cliché but still unpretentious. LL may have got lucky to land a role in Machete, but Easy A is my first choice between the two.

Oh, and Penn Badgley is in it as well.

The ugliest bags you could be inclined to purchase online

2010-08-21T21:28:00.004+02:00

There is a market for everybody. Any brand has a special line for people who are magnetically attracted to ugly stuff.

Today I was looking through an online outlet and clicked on the purses' section. Oh, gee, it was horrific: everything, from the bags to the prices and the "sold out" sign. I couldn't help but imagine what kind of idle people would choose to spend U$1500 on some of the most awful handbags ever, that not even Felix the Cat would wear? Not models or socialites, but maybe congressmen's daughters and wives.

Cheap, just the looks of it. This Channel bag originally cost U$ 3914 and was on sale for only U$1678! Guess what? Sold.

And this one ain't no Lady Dior, though it is by Dior. You could purchase it for only U$ 1269, saving 50%, but only if you were faster than the coke crazed woman who grabbed it first. But what would you carry in a purse like that, anyway? A gun?

Speaking of fashion, fall is all about blazers! Yay!

Blake Lively can't stand Gossip Girl either

2010-08-14T00:27:00.002+02:00

Rumours abound that Blake Lively wants out of Gossip Girl. I laughed out loud.

Could that be Josh Schwartz's luck? To have his protagonists off the series before it is even cancelled? Although Marisa was such an awful character, Serena is essential for Gossip Girl. Leighton Meester may be the best stoner TV actress ever yet, but Blair isn't all that hot these days.

Then again, the rumours seem to be false - at least she ain't gonna get out during Season 4, but perhaps the next one.

Well, we'll wait! You know who loves rumours? Gossip Girl.

P.S.: Here's another rumour I would enjoy: Taylor Momsen leaving GG because she slept with Ed Westwick, just like Jenny and Chuck, and, thus, was the reason why he and ~~Vanessa~~ Jessica Szohr are on the rocks. That'd be so good.

Pretty Little Liars goes to that annoying place...

2010-07-24T02:24:00.003+02:00

I didn't have the stomach to watch the entire Homecoming Hangover episode yet, it was too nauseating.

Maya and Emily? Sean and Aria?

Seriously?

Who would ever choose Aria over Hanna? Only a complete moron like Sean.

And who would ever choose to have their first lesbian dating experience with someone as obnoxious as Maya? She's ugly, old, doped and boring.

But there's a pattern underneath. Maya is exactly like the chick Marisa did on The O.C. and Rumer William's character Adrianna did on 90210, and, even, that very violent lady Samantha did on Sex and the City: the lesbian counterparts are invariably weird, desperate and possessive. Emily should know better.

And you know what else? She smokes weed like one of those neo-hippie girls and that's really, really bad. I'm all up for heroin chic, but this alternative pothead shit in handmade clothing I can't stand.

Stupid common-place television.

Pretty Little Spoilers

2010-07-22T03:08:00.002+02:00

Since the series has to end each episode with a myriad of cliffhangers, it's time to gather some Pretty Little Liars' SPOILERS.

Here's a handful of spoilers I've been able to find:

Allison's brother is set to make a triumphant return to town and not in a welcome way. The long-gone lady's bro is out to take the girls down by discovering what really happened to A, thus ruining the lovely memorial Aria and Co. had planned for their friend.

“By the end of the first season, viewers will find out what happened to our friend and who is threatening us,” Lucy Hale reveals according to Ausiello. “And there are a bunch of twists and turns that would take us into season 2 — should we be so lucky.”

ABC Family has ordered 12 additional episodes of Pretty Little Liars to give its debut season a full 22. The show airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC Family.

Emily’s dad is about to come home and get a big shock from his little girl.

Agent Wilden’s “bad cop” will soon get a “good cop” counterpart, a lady fed who sounds like someone Diane Lane was born to play.

We're about to start spending more time at the bank where Ashley works – at least enough to delve into her desperate financial situation and meet her 30ish boss.

"In the books, [A is] Hannah's best friend, but we're doing it completely different on the show," says Lucy Hale. "They don't tell us anything. I don't know what's going on."

More from Kristin:
'Alrighty, but brace yourselves for this doozy: One of the Pretty Little Liars ladies is going to discover A's identity sooner than you'd think. Troian Bellisario (Spencer) tells us: "A lot of things are coming to a head. One of the biggest things is one of us finding out who A is." Even better? A wants to be found out! "We get invited to Mona's party, and it's nowhere that any of the PLLs, except Hanna, until we get a text that says that it's a scavenger hunt, and that A is the prize. Then we're all very interested in going." Guesses as to who the lucky lady is?'

Plus, this is what happens in the next episode, Please Talk About Me When I'm Gone (or something like that).

Quotes from Reality Bites Me

2010-07-11T17:47:00.000+02:00

Pretty Little Liars: quotes from S01E05 Reality Bites Me

Spencer: Here, put something in your mouth, besides your foot.

Hanna: It doesn't take four of us to clean a mirror, so why don't you three go and I'll just wait here?
Aria: Fine. Then you stay down here. Alone.
Emily: But make sure you lock the door.
Hanna: Great. You spray, I'll wipe.

Sean: My mom forgot to mention the job requires a uniform, huh?
Hanna: No, no, it's cool. Hideous looks good on me.

Spencer: You cannot seriously think that a blind girl broke into my house. That would take a lot more than a talking GPS.

Toby: So, whose house did you stay at last night? That new girl?
Emily: Who, Maya? Why would think that?
Toby: Just figured that she's the newest member of your posse. Has she learned the secret handshake yet?

Alex: Are you practicing for a tournament or something?
Spencer: No, no, it's just a friendly game of doubles. With my dad and some guests.
Alex: Well, you and I have very different ideas of what's friendly. That's an angry serve.
Spencer: Well, it's been a long week.

Ashley (Hanna's mom): What are we looking at?
Hanna: The worst part of my day. You know, I thought it bottomed out when a kid aimed at me for a rinse-and-spit, but now there's an Amber.
Ashley: What's an Amber?
Hanna: Amber is "a cheerleader at Rollins High
who loves skinny lattes". See for yourself.
Ashley: She's cute.
Hanna: She's trying to date Sean.
Ashley: She's evil.

Ashley: Eat.
Hanna: Mom! Why are you feeding me when my boyfriend left me for someone who weighs 11 pounds?

Hanna: You're her therapist.
Doctor: You just said "her therapist". Martha, is there someone else joining us today?
Hanna: Uh...
Doctor: Is everything alright?
Hanna: Martha doesn't want therapy. Martha has to go!

Alex: Did you waste your real game yesterday?
Spencer: What? No, I was just off.
Alex: No, you weren't, not when the match started.
Spencer: Look, it's a long story. And it was important for our guests to win.
Alex: And so the only way for you to do that was for you to lose? What's up with that? Did your dad ask you to do that, or...?
Spencer: Look, he's not always like this.
Alex: Whatever you say. I just... I see a lot of it here.
Spencer: Lot of what?
Alex: People playing games. Just off the court, you know?

Hanna: I'm just giving him space.
Ashley: Don't give him too much. I tried that with your father, and he found a woman in Maryland who graduated with honors from William and Mary and loves to golf.
Hanna: How do you know that?
Ashley: I googled her.

Pretty Little Liars: Reality Bites Me

2010-07-11T16:03:00.003+02:00

Pretty Little Liars S01E05: Reality Bites Me

The previous episode, "Can You Hear Me Now?", left me eager for some answers. The plan to block out A backfired and every little liar burnt. I was left wondering what would Ella do, now privy to her husband's infidelity, and what would be the girls' next move, since A pulled out the big guns. And there's something else, even more important: what's with Alison and the "you have to tell the truth" thing? First with Spencer and then Aria. How come the blonde bitch, full of secrets, is so interested in sincerity? Is it because she was such a bitch, or despite her being so?
By the way, I don't think Aria should have told her mother anything. They moved out of the country for a whole year; now that Meredith is around again, she could have just given her mom's the heads up that a major slut was hitting on her father, and that would be enough.
This episode might be the best one so far. It was so pleasing, so authentic that it didn't leave much room for criticism.

Highlights:
- They own normal mobiles with normal text message screens: "Ever wonder what's going on when your back is turned? -A. Attachment... 64397.mov".
- If A broke into Spencer's house, we shouldn't expect any less than a hidden camera from them. The video was shot from inside Spencer's closet and there they also found the lipstick used to write in the mirror, but the four liars all look much more shocked to find the lipstick. Fashion whores, ha.
- Speaking of fashion, it's awesome that Aria's brother called her ot with the heavy eyeline. All teenage girls go through the raccoon eyes phase. I don't know whether he's gay or the producers are still deciding his fate, but I liked their dynamics in this eppy.
- Ella and Byron's conversation in the kitchen. He offers to get the hell out of the house, because it's so easy for him. But she's a mother, she's smarter, she doesn't want him to go to a hotel, leaving her alone to deal with the kids and be the woman who kicked their dad out.
- I'm so glad Chad Lowe is in this role and not guest starring Ghost Whisperer stupid episodes in which ghosts mess with computer systems. He and Holly Marie Combs are great together.
- Hanna was fantastically sardonic and her mother is great. I root for Mrs. Hanna's Mother to get mentally healthy again. Hanna's father is such a douche, he didn't even buy her a car?
- Sean is a good guy. On TV good guys usually don't stand a chance against bad boys, but PLL has the opportunity to go in the unusual direction.
- No Maya!
- After the sleep over at Spencer's, the four of them are officially friends again, which is great. But Spencer and Hanna are closer. They're so different from each other, but they are my favourite characters so far and I love their bond.
- The girls' houses have completely different architecture and decoration, but each one has a lot to do with the families that inhabit it.
- Of course Hanna's scared of children, they are frightening.
- The outcome of Spencer's little crime was so entertaining. And the way she revealed the truth to her father was the best part.
- Toby mentioned his sister in a conversation, because, you know, she may have her own agenda, but she's a real person, with a family and all. Not every line, every scene has to be a means for the main storyline, we appreciate the path for itself.
- Ezra's friend, Hardy, gives him shit about Aria, but plays the cool buddy in front of her. That's exactly what men do with their friends' dates.
- Hanna's uniform is the funniest thing with all those kitty faces.
- Hanna googled Amber and moaned about it, instead of sneaking somewhere to execute an extremely absurd scheme to make Sean despise the girl, that would only backfire. Take that, Gossip Girl. And well done with internet descriptions' little jokes, I agree they are often futile and meaningless.
- I don't know why A only sends media to Hanna, but it's so funny how she's acting like a cool parent regarding Emily, encouraging her to be with Maya, when Em is totally into Toby.

Very few things bothered me this week:
- Shay Mitchell still hasn't improved her acting skills. The way she looked down at Spencer's kitchen when Aria said her dad wasn't going to leave them... She knows no subtleness and she always looks like she's about to cry a river.
- Why such short shorts? Ain't them a little too sexy for a sleep-over?
- Since they are all to blame for Jenna's disability, why is Spencer implying that Toby is a rabbid freak, that "pulls the heads off of squirrels"? Get a clue.
- Why is Toby acting like he doesn't know Emily had a thing going on with Maya? Last week he pretty much appeared to know everything.
- But Toby is a weird boy alright. Every episode he states, completely out of the blue, stuff like "different is good, I like different". Unlike Martha, does Toby wants therapy?
- Jenna looks like she's seeing her own face reflected in the elevator door. Is it on purpose or - what?
- Real love waits? What a bunch of crap. Nobody could ever say that in the Upper East Side and get away with it.

- I hope that, when A's identity is revealed, we understand why their messages aren't witty at all.

Gossip Girl Spoilerbox 6

2010-07-09T02:50:00.005+02:00

Last updated in 07.08.2010.

Well, I started digging for spoilers for the upcoming Season 4 sooner this time. Nothing exciting, though, but you can judge for yourself.
Oh, and I realized I haven't preserved people's right not to be spoilt so far, so I apologize to anyone who has ever crossed with stuff around here they'd rather not know.
To get to the spoilers, click below :)

[SPOILER ALERT]

Georgina

Georgina is pregnant, but the father isn't Dan.

Georgina's baby father is an European mobster.

Serena

Her story with Dan is "reactivated".

Blair

Chuck and Blair are still on (duh).

But the writers keep their mind open to the possibility of pairing her up with Dan (huh).

Blair and Chuck get closer because of his near-death experience.

Nate

Ex-Melrose Place Katie Cassidy guest stars as a Columbia student for a multi-episodic arc. She will be a love interest for Nate and she's bound to "stir up trouble" (duh) for everyone, specially Blair.

Chuck

Chuck is "a changed man".

Chuck is still a douche, only now a serial dater. He got himself some girl or other named Eva, played by gorgeous Clemence Poesy. They are going to show up in Paris and, intentionally or not, annoy Blair.

Chuck has a new identity when he runs into Blair and Serena in Paris (wtf).

Chuck hasn't suffered amnesia.

Eric

Eric's getting a new boyfriend.

Without Jenny and Jonathan, he's getting tougher.

Jenny

Jenny is expected to return in the second half of the season.

Vanessa

... is still a series regular, sadly.

Hilary Duff is coming back for some sort of revenge against her.

Everyone

In the first couple of episodes, there's a mystery to be solved, in Paris.

Also in Paris, there will be a visit from someone from home.

An important new character will be introduced during season 4.

What changes do you want for Gossip Girl 4th season?

2010-07-04T20:49:00.003+02:00

I should really start talking about Gossip Girl every once in a while, since the show is the theme of everything around here. But I am having more fun with Pretty Little Liars. Sorry, GG, I cheated on you.

The awesome B-Side, on the other hand, took some time to select the top 10 Things to Change About Gossip Girl, because, really, those writers need a wake-up call.

1. Get Rid of Vanessa

I have a longstanding and well-documented theory when it comes to Vanessa, and it goes as follows: VANESSA RUINS EVERYTHING. It’s time for her to meet an untimely end, perhaps at the merciless wheels of an oncoming subway train (ideally the 4, 5, or 6).

2. Shave Dan’s Chest Hair

I think we were all able to look the other way when the first few sprigs of Humphrey Hair appeared above his collar, but now he’s sprouted a full-on man-garden under his Adam’s apple, and it’s getting somewhat distracting. Then again, this might be a good thing since I’m not sure we really need to pay attention to what he says anyway. So I suppose it would be nice if that could be fixed too.

3. Get Thee Out Of Brooklyn

I don’t turn to Gossip Girl for accurate depictions of college, but I do expect a touch of reality, and quite frankly, I don’t believe for a second that Dan would rather hole up in BROOKLYN than hang out in his dorm. The last thing you want to do is get up thirty-five minutes earlier so you can trek out of DUMBO to get to a lecture. And since we’re talking about Dan again, why does everyone like him? He used to be the outsider. Don’t they remember he’s from across the river? It seems as though only Blair Waldorf can appreciate such things, as evidenced by her fantastic line in last night’s finale: “Signs are for the religious, the superstitious, and the lower class.” Memo to writers: class warfare is what we tune in for. More please.

4. Give Nate Something To Do

Even Jenny has moved on, losing her V-card to Chuck.

5. Give Eric Something To Do Also

I think the producers should do something fun with him. Have him get sucked into some sort of awful New York City gay circuit thing, causing him to return home in the morning with glitter on his face and three candy necklaces around his neck. At the very least, give him something better than what he does every episode: either preach about the right thing to do or awkwardly flirt with some dude in a lobby somewhere.

6. Keep Jenny Kind of Psycho

When Jenny tries to be a fashion star, she’s idiotic. When she tries to fulfill social ambitions, she’s a campy mess.

7. More Eleanor Waldorf, please

The Waldorfs are what make Gossip Girl great. That cheeky mix of melodrama and comedy is what we love, and while it’s best exemplified by Blair, we also find it in her mother Eleanor. Sadly, the momma bear popped up in only a handful episodes this season, and while I do appreciate the increased presence of Dorota, the joke is getting kind of old. Eleanor and Cyrus are the supporting players we truly love.

8. Stop Making Rufus Such A Bitch
I almost would rather listen to him resurrect that insufferable Lincoln Hawk song than hear him bitch and moan anymore.

9. No One Cares About Chuck’s Hotel

There once was a time when Chuck Bass was known for galavanting around the city, date-raping whatever piece of ass wound up in his limo (or on his roof). Those were the fun days. But then his dad died, and Chuck became inconsolable. Long story short, this ridiculous plot about him buying a hotel and owning it and trying to be the man his dad said he’d never be is so tired and played out. We didn’t tune in to watch Chuck be a businessman. We tuned in because he’s the ultimate playboy, and excepting perhaps the touch-and-go deflowering of Jenny last night, we haven’t seen that side of him in aeons. Let’s inject some scallawag back into Bass. Let the grownups have the grownup problems (ie. mergers and acquisitions of hotels), and let the kids have kid problems (gossiping, etc.). Which brings me to my next, most important point of all:

10.Make This Show Petty Again

Much like The OC before it, Gossip Girl has slid a touch too far into melodrama. Luckily, there’s enough cheeky snark in it to save it from being the depressing mess of its predecessor, but still, more work needs to be done. In the beginning, the show was about jockeying for social position and using Gossip Girl as a tool to wage wars on the steps of the Met. We had wonderfully silly secondary characters — Hazel, Penelope, Nelly Yuki. The backdrop of Constance also provided a wonderful Upstairs / Downstairs social conflict with the Humphreys. Plots didn’t revolve around unfaithful congressmen or devious hotel schemes. They focused on throwing the coolest party, dating the hottest guy (even if he was gay), and covering up a pool party scandal. Point is the stories were organic to the teen universe, and while now most of the cast has left high school, college is still a wonderful backdrop for continuing the same shenanigans. However, the kids suddenly act like adults now — another plague from The OC — and it’s just not quite as fun. Let’s let the silliness reign supreme in season four. It’s not too late to turn this around!

No one could have said it better. I can only agree absolutely 100% with him:

Chuck and his STUPID HAIR has sucked the life out of Gossip Girl;
stop giving Dorota screen time, that's NOT FUNNY anymore;
and, COME ON, stop creating such adult-like and melodramatic storylines. Gossip Girl should be about young years debauchery and about New York city. Nowadays, the show is mainly filmed indoors and the plots are exaggerated and tasteless to the likes of the Sexy Dirty Money fandom.

And the Daily Intel can bite me. They keep praising this stupid show in all its stupidity instead of using their great powers to do good and improve the series' writing.

If Gossip Girl doesn't revert to the Season 1 ways, it's bound to be cancelled after Season 4. History has taught Josh Schwartz so.

Pretty Little Liars: Can you hear me now?

2010-07-04T04:25:00.004+02:00

Pretty Little Liars S01E04 Can you hear me now?

Previously on Pretty Little Liars...

Emily and her lesbian yadda yadda; Spencer stole one of her sister's school papers; Hanna's boyfriend denied her sex and so she crashed his car; Aria is trying to keep Meredith, a major crazy bitch who once carried an affair with Aria's dad, away from her family; Toby Cavanaugh saved Emily from a possible rape, by beating the crap out of her boyfriend.

Speaking of crazies, Hanna is totally gone. She crashed her boyfriend's car because she feels like he isn't attracted to her no matter how thin she is now. Talk about complex. Her mother is mad, but what about Sean? She hasn't spoken to him ever since. Instead, her father and his new family are trying to get through to her. It seems as though her father is a complete asshole. I feel so sorry for Mrs. Hanna's Mother. She's really nice.
The girls reunited for the Alison's memorial project, and also to keep talking about the mysterious A. Hanna and Spencer are really bonding now.
They were all talking about life, the universe and everything whilst Emily kept posing for stills. Hanna had been carrying around Alison's stupid bracelet but she doesn't want it anymore, so Spencer takes it and decides to block cyberaccess from people she doesn't know in order to neutralize A. They all go along with it. But A isn't ready to let them go just yet.
There's something in the air that smells like Emily's redemption. She seems very much into Toby Cavanaugh and even took some time off Maya and her gay stunt. Em and Toby are now lab partners, but sadly he appears to incentivate her damaged relationship with Maya, who keeps pushing too hard. Let's see where it heads, and I hope directly towards Toby's arms. Emily is too pretty to be comdemned to an obnoxious existence.
Spencer's history essay, the one she took from Melissa's archive, was submitted into a writing competition named after some flower or other and she's scared to death. But when Wren pays a drunken visit to the Preppy House and everybody is out she still finds it in her heart to kiss him roughly and drop him home afterwards. Then she sent a desperate SOS message to Hanna, because she's suddenly desperate for a lift back home. Nope, I didn't get that either.
Speaking of desperation, Aria went to school dressed like a hooker-gone-hippie, looking for Ezra. She wants to discuss the fact that her friends thought he had nice legs (she probably meant ass, because really). He begins acting indifferently, barely aknowledging that they are in an illegal relationship, but when she pretends to give up he invites her to come over his house that evening. Finally their first date. Except that, when she comes by and starts babbling about her family problems and he hints that she should mind her own business and allow her folks to deal with their marriage by themselves, she goes nuts, looks scandalized and offended and slams the door shut, leaving a dumbfounded Mr Fitz behind. Aria looks all maniacal with those huge eyes wide open. Lucie Hale should really tone it down.
In class the next day, it's his time to act like a mad man with an axe. He verbally attacks a male student who disagrees with Aria's literature interpretations. After another altercation they finally make up, but they won't make out. I believe they would, but all of a sudden Aria decides to tell her mother all the truth about her father. If only A hadn't have the idea first.
A is for vengeance. She dedicates a cheesy song to Hanna on the radio, leaves the pictures of granie and Emily lesbian kiss inside Em's chemistry book, sends Ella a letter telling about the cheating and revealing Aria knew it all the time, filmed Spencer and Wren kiss in the kitchen counter and "broke" into Spencer's room to write in her mirror that "it won't be that easy".

Up until now, I think the story is shaping up well. The chemistry between Spencer/Wren and Aria/Ezra is enough to keep me hooked. Hanna, like Spencer, is interesting for herself, but her boyfriend is alright too. Emily found her chance to become interesting too through Toby, he's a truly promising character. The relationships, with the exception of the one including Maya, all have their merit.
The writers might be planning on setting Emily as bi, but my favourite theory is that Alison just messed up with her mind. Perhaps another character could flirt with a less contrived homossexual plot later on, but let's dispatch Maya ASAP, pretty little please.

Oh, and Hanna needs to start using her hair straight. She's looking too plastic. The message A should have written in a mirror was "lose the babyliss, bitch".

Pretty Little Liars: The Jenna Thing

2010-06-25T02:50:00.007+02:00

Pretty Little Liars: S01E02 The Jenna Thing

Pretty Little Liars second episode is named The Jenna Thing for a reason. That's all the girls say, nonstop. "Do you think somebody knows about The Jenna Thing?", "maybe we're supects because of The Jenna Thing", "look, it's Jenna, that girl, from that Thing!". The only ones not to get what The Jenna Thing is all about? You and me.

I concede that another flashback guided us through the quasi-explanation, an evening in which the girls try to pull a prank on Toby, Jenna's brother. They were all shakingly hesitant, except for Alison, of course. Soon she had set a shed on fire, they all ran away like chickens and, somehow, Jenna went blind. We get it, but it was a mind exercise to connect the absurd events.
The whole situation serves well to illustrate why it is so hard to relate with the little liars, they are horrible human beings. After what happenned to Phoebe Prince, and the global debates about bullying and to bear bad kids, I consider this series an faux pas. I want to know what happens next, but I can't quite enjoy it. Those girls egoistical and unconcerned attitude left a girl blind.
Gossip Girls Blair and Serena are superbitches. But they are two of a kind: full of life and with a big heart (which is evident through all the cleavage) and we are suckers for their friendship. Aria, Emily, Spencer and Hanna, on the other hand, are a bunch of self-centered weaklings.
Aside from the empathy issue, PLL has a casting problem. The parents are awesome actors, but the young starlets wannabes simply can't deliver it. They have the same exaggerated facial expressions, Spencer being the only exception. Emily is the worst. She's always looking girlie, silly and about to cry. If the series get renewed, I hope they dismiss her (thinking ahead, here are a few ideas: college in another state, job in another country, married with children in another planet).
Emily annoingly asks "How does A knows something about me that only Alison knew?", Aria replies: "Alison knew all of our secrets, but we never knew any of hers". It's not like when one is contemplative and doesn't really listen to the question. She said it like it answered the query.
So, what's with Alison's big secrets?
She was seeing some guy, behind Emily's back, but everyone is just going to pretend they don't really know Emily is so gay.
Sometimes, though, when Emily isn't around, it can be easy to tolerate the uninspiring dialogue, that, every now and then, teachs us some of the most certain things in the universe, such as teenage girls are all moody and unpredictable or there will be candles, vigils and teddy bears for all dead teenage girls, even if they were in life the bastard spawn of satan.
Also in this episode, Detective Asshole is still sleeping with Mrs. Hanna's Mother; Hanna wears shorter and shorter skirts in attempt to get her prude boyfriend in bed; Emily's girlfriend is a retarded 35-years-old highschool student; in the preppy house, Melissa caught Spencer and Wren kissing; Mr Fitz and Aria possibly had sex in his car, and Aria bought herself a new cell phone. Good for her!
The writers deserve the credit for not immediately restabilishing the bond between the girls. Even when they sit together at lunch, the chairs are far apart, and the conversation revolves around a sole subject: Alison.
Aria's individual storyline got my attention. She decided she wants out of Mr Fitz's class (not really, she probably just wanted to provoke his reaction and a make-out session), but the plead was rejected by the administration. It is still unclear how come she is so passionate about a guy she fooled around with in a public WC, but it's a hot plot all the same.
Ironically, the trumph of Pretty Little Liars is precisely something we don't want from Gossip Girl: it carries the promise of revealing who's A and how do they know so much.
As for Alison's murderer, I hope it's Emily. That's my favourite excuse to get rid of her.

The Pretty Little Liars

2010-06-20T03:55:00.007+02:00

Pretty Little Liars: S01E01 Pilot

Gossip Girl may finally loose the thin audience left after the third season to a brand new teen comedy/drama show on ABC, based on the homonymous book series: Pretty Little Liars.

I have just watched its pilot and found it promising, but not special. It tells the story of five popular girls who happen to be friends and share a frivolous life, until one of them - Alison, the Denise Richards look alike and most popular one - goes missing.

Here's the Pilot complete recap:

The episode opens with a flashback of the said golden girl scaring the shit out of her dear friends, who seem to fear and worship her. They're sleeping over, but, when they wake up in the middle of the night, Alison and Spencer aren't there. Spencer comes right after, weirdly announcing that she's been looking for Alison, but she seems to be gone.

Back to current days, Aria, the protagonist so far, returns to town with her family, after being away for a year, due to her father's sabbatical (which she explains in an awfully unnatural dialogue with her perfect, loving and tiresome mother). The father, by the way, might be a cheater, alcoholic and/or gambler because she couldn't stop snapping at him that she would still keep his dirty secret (also, because what else is there? Every series, same stupid plots).

I won't question why they had to move out with all their stuff, like, they didn't leave a single chair behind. Let characters be characters.

Aria seems to have a good relationship with her brother in a very 90210 dynamics. She drops him at the lacrosse practice (thank you, Gossip Girl, for making it popular) and decides to go to a bar, where a hot guy hits on her as if she doesn't look like 16. How very Serena. He says he's about to become a teacher, she says she'd like to teach. He asks her what's her major and she sort-of lies, saying she's "leaning towards English". Which is his major. Then he gets closer, saying he'd love to read the stuff she says she's been writing and she totally falls for that. So, they go at it in the bathroom. Just like Serena would. I'm telling you, this is small town Gossip Girl. Even its theme is a song that I'm pretty sure was played in some Gossip Girl cotillion.

So far, it resembles not only Gossip Girl, but 90210 (ah, the middle class!), Vampire Diaries (cheerleaders from a tiny little town) and Desperate Housewives - someone said it was Desperate Housewives for teens. Well, they nailed it.

Subsequently, we meet Hanna, the blonde one. She walks like she owns the store where she's shopping with a friend Mona, but she's not really a bitch, since she sees Spencer from afar and just goes chitchat with her about schedules and cold cases. Hanna suggests a top for her to use in a family dinner and turns away with a pair of Prada sunglasses she'd be wearing around the shop. And she walks right to the door, where she meets Mona who's shoplifted a scarf!

Aria's father drives her to school. He delivers his guilty dad line and she flashbacks to a day when she walked around with Alison, ignoring a nerd girl calling them in the street. Around a corner, they see her father in his car getting off with some blondie.The flashback ends with another girl calling. This time we meet Emily, the last member of the decayed clique. They inevitably comment on Alison's disappearing anniversary and Emily points out A must be dead.

Both go to class, and are soon after joined by Hanna and Mon(tan)a, her sidekick. Emily explains Hanna is the it girl now and all of them lost touch with each other, not only Aria. Everyone is friendly, but not friends, Aria assimilates.

Mr. Fitz, the teacher, begins to introduce himself but stutters when he notices Aria - a high school student... of his... with whom he went hot and heavy in a bar's strangely clean bathroom. Everybody in class were paying so much attention to a teacher that they immediately turn to locate the reason of his shock. Aria's one-year-old-fashioned Motorola rings and she apologizes. It's a text message that reads: "Maybe he fools around with students all the time. A lot of teachers do. Just ask your dad. XOXO, Gossip Girl".

No, I'm kidding. The person signs as "A". Dumbfounded, Aria murmurs "Alison?". By the way, told ya he was a cheater.

Afterwards, Emily is at home with her mother, who comments that she has never understood Aria's family "letting her run around like a goth" (and I first understood dog), just because she used to have fucsia highlights. So we learn that Emily wants to get the hell out of Rosewood and Emily's mother fancies herself fancy enough to send Emily with foie gras (animal rights, anyone? The dish is banned from a few countries' menus) as a welcome gift to the new owners of Alison's old house.

Emily reveals to the new girl in town, ~~Vanessa~~ Maya, who looks about 30, that she and her boyfriend are swimmers. Maya replies that she's probably a good one, because she "totally has the body", which can't be a compliment, because I never heard "that girl has swimmer's shoulders" meaning anything complimentary... Maya then says "excuse me, gal, but I'm gonna hit the bong right now, wanna join?" and then Emily simply accepts to smoke weed with a recent acquaintance.

Meanwhile, Spencer's bitch preppy sister, Melissa, tells her she's staying in the barn Spencer worked hard to decorate and was counting on inhabiting. By evening, Spencer is reading outside when Melissa's preppy fiancé, Ren, comes out to smoke a cigarette and apologize.

In the next day, Aria arrives early at school to talk to Mr. Fitz. She tries to convince him to continue their fling, but he puts an end to it. Cuts to Maya and Emily having an almost lesbian kiss. It's so annoying to have another Vanessa screwing around. Afterwards, Emily receives a note saying "Hey, Em! I've been replaced, you've found another friend to kiss. - A". So, Emily is a repressed lesbian, but here's a big question: does that mean the straight viewer will have to witness her experiences?

After school and a hockey practice, Spencer is at home, in her bikinis, when Ren comes in, just in his shorts, and they can feel the weird electricity passing between their naked bodies. It's time for Spencer to receive a message from Alison, and she gets an online one saying: "Poor Spencer, always wants Melissa's boyfriends. But remember, if you kiss, I tell." It flashbacks to a day at Spencer's house with the girls, interrupted by Melissa's arrival with a guy. Alison almost rats Spencer out and states she has to tell her sister the truth or else she will, to which Spencer responds that, if Alison does that, Spencer will spill out the beans about the "Jenna thing".

Flashback over, Spencer goes to the window and divises a long yellow hair through another house window, exactly like Alison's, or Hanna's, since they look just about the same.

Speaking of Hanna, she's having dinner with her mother in their kitchen, talking about how her father left them, when there's a knock in the door. It's the police, about those cute sunglasses. It cuts to the police station. Hanna receives a text message: "Be careful. I hear prison food makes you fat. -A". Which doesn't make any sense. Ask Paris Hilton.

There's some commotion in the street. Emily is all worried about Maya's security, but turns out that Alison's body was found in the property. Aria arrives at the scene and watches it from the other side of the street with Spencer. She says she heard Hanna was took to the police station. Spencer asks if she thinks Hanna would say anything about... "About what?", asks Hanna herself, popping out of nowhere, "the Jenna thing? Of course not, we made a promise".

Later that night, Hanna is watching the news. The journalist says that the corpse was discovered in a gazebo that was under construction a year ago. H jumps when a man enters the house (the detective?), but he's followed by her mother. They go upstairs and Hanna's mother looks back at her indifferently.

The service gather everbody, including Mr. Fitz and Aria. He affirms, stoically, that he wasn't very keen on being away from her, they both apologize and he grabs her and they furiously kiss. They do have chemistry, and did I mention he is hot? Superhot. But she leaves him there and heads to the church, where she compliments Mrs. DiLaurentis, Alison's mother.

All the girls sit and grieve upfront and we can see Hanna still found time to babyliss. Suddenly, a blind girl with a Georgina attitude enters and the four girls mutter "Jenna?" and look afraid. Even more so when a detective approaches them in the end, swearing he will find out who's the murderer. When their phones ring at the same time, they almost look desperate. Hanna read the text aloud: "I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. - A".

Sex and the City 2 - Did you hate it?

2010-06-04T03:29:00.004+02:00

A quite ordinary first half and a horrible second one. These impressions constitute the whole SATC2 experience for me.

Perhaps in black & white...

I, for myself, used to like Sex and the City because I enjoyed seeing NYC through the eyes of those four bold and sexual women. I did like the first film, but in this one there was barely any sex and the only city I remember is that awful caricature of Abu Dhabi.

I had read the critiques before I went to the cinema, so I was expecting it as crude as it came. ThoughI did have the one-hour illusion that it was only a colourful, silly and pointless film, ll of a sudden, I can't really remember when (perhaps by the kareoke shame), I started to feel terribly embarrassed for everyone involved in such a shallow work (as if - they couldn't care less and I'd better follow their lead).

Samantha was the only character who had an issue to deal with, as well as the only girl who gave us hot naked guys. Aging is a women's nightmare, there's no denying. My only complaint is on the lack of a naked Smith Jerrod.

But the good part end just there. Charlotte was kind of boring and her kids are really annoying. I miss it when SATC wasn't at all about children. Miranda's family life isn't irritating and unreal, like Charlotte's, but her story ran through unexplored as if the character was a mere sidekick. As for Flamboyant Carrie... the two days off thing was a quite valid subject, but the Aidan encounter - come off it. A kiss? Talk about much ado for nothing.

The islamic women, however, overstepped the cheesy horror of the "everybody!" that gave me chills in the karaoke sequence. They were so, so ridiculous (and used so much makeup) that right then I wanted my money back, I couldn't help cursing Michael Patrick King and regretted contributing to his richness.

In the end, Sex and the City 2 was nothing beyond a cheap and unconvincing imitation of the TV series' sparkle. It didn't mean anything, said Carrie. It really didn't: it failed to captivate the audience and lacked emotion and authenticy.
They shouldn't have tried so hard to be funny and the movie wouldn't feel like a joke that fell flat.

Is any cancellation really surprising?

2010-05-22T15:05:00.002+02:00

For the time being, Gossip Girl is safe, but, just like Serena, it may not be be credited to its own merits, but rather to all that cleavage.

Series that got lucky:

30 Rock, 90210, American Dad, Bones, Breaking Bad, Brothers & Sisters, Castle, Chuck, Community, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Family Guy, Fringe, Glee, Gossip Girl, Greek, Grey’s Anatomy, House, How I Met Your Mother, Human Target, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lie to Me, Life UneXpected, Mad Men, Make it or Break it, Medium, Modern Family, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, One Tree Hill, Parenthood, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Royal Pains, Smallville, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Cleveland Show, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Middle, The Office, The Simpsons, The Vampire Diaries, Two and a Half Men and V.

Series to which we bid adieu:

Defying Gravity , Eastwick, FlashForward, Happy Town, Lost, The Deep End, The Forgotten , Ugly Betty, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Miami Medical, Numb3rs, Three Rivers, 24, Dollhouse, Past Life, Heroes, Law & Order, Mercy, Trauma, Melrose Place, The Beautiful Life: TBL, Nip/Tuck, Raising the Bar.

Cold Case... I've watched a few episodes, But I always thought, as it dragged itself through the seasons, that its formula was one of the most predictable and plain cheesy. The dead person was 9.9 out ot 10 times a wonderful person or somebody trying to be a better person. I do get that the victim is the innocent one in a murder case, but let's not be so contrived.

But the good news is: no more Jenna Elfman or Ghost Whisperer! Will somebody else in the future history of television insist on making Jenna Elfman the protagonist of a comic series? The woman is an outrageous actress, she should retire before it gets more embarrassing. As for Ghost Whisperer, extiction came only too late, what a ridiculous little show.

Melrose Place is pure crap. But the fact that the actress, whatever-her-name, is actually good but not gorgeous probably helped the show going down.

I only really feel for Raising the Bar and Ugly Betty. Two good shows I wouldn't mind watching one season more.

Gossip Girl Spoilerbox 5

2010-05-04T05:01:00.006+02:00

So close to the end of the season and only now I cared enough to go through google's depths to collect gossip spoilers. If many of them are old news (or even happened already, 'cause I didn't really pay any attention this season) I'm so-so-sorry.

Jenny

Taylor Momsen is so over Gossip Girl. She is expected to leave the show for at least 1/3 of the season:

Question: I need Gossip Girl gossip. Please? —Alyssa
Ausiello: Jenny’s descent into madness will become darker and much more twisted. Some seriously effed up shiz is going to go down before the season is over.

Taylor Momsen is a complete Agnes. As for Jenny, we'll soon find out what that little delinquent pulled to be kicked out of the house. Drugs, participation in attempted rape, fraud, stealing, stealing a hotel? Seriously, we're running out of plots here.The rumour is that she tries to mess with Lily, the first queen bitch in this series.

The actress will be departing The CW show that made her a household name for a number of episodes of the show’s fourth season, due to what has been described as creative reasons.
However, Taylor chalked it up to more of a scheduling conflict, as she will instead be promoting her album in place of filming, including on the Warped Tour.
“The show’s been really great and I’m going to be missing from a little bit of it because I am finishing the Warped Tour,” Taylor explained. “I’m on tour this summer and the show starts back up during the middle of the tour.”
While she will be leaving her character, Jenny Humphrey, behind this summer, Taylor said she’s enjoyed playing the Upper East Side teen queen.
“It was a really great arc. I’ve had such a great time playing Jenny because she is the most transformational character,” Taylor said. “She’s the one who transforms the most and is constantly kind of reinventing herself from figuring out who she is… This season, she kind of hits a peak of insanity and loses her mind a little bit and I think the audience will be very shocked and surprised to see where the story goes.”

I think she is a "little bit" right about Jenny. But does that mean she will be back sooner than we'll miss her? Huh.

Georgina

Again. Every season. C'mon. We absolutely love her, but this is ridiculous. According to Trachtenberg she'll be stalking Serena or Dan or something. So we can rule stalking out of Jenny's evil deeds.

Vanessa

Best spoiler ever? Vanessa, the one who Ruins Everything, will finally, finally, get the fuck out of our sights. Oh, please, PLEASE, make it true, make it true! And make the "series regular" part go away. Well, I'd better not get my hopes up, her murder is the only satisfactory storyline possible. So here's a suggestion as to what Jenny should do to be banished.

Now to the (even more) shady spoilers:

- Something in the season finale smells like... death. Wait, death? There was a baby just a few seconds ago. Make up your mind, folks.

- Chuck will wait for ~~Jay-Z~~ Blair on the Empire State Building rooftop. How chessy. Then something bad is gonna happen (maybe she'll dispatch him to Italy this time around).

- Chuck and Blair go to couple's therapy. This series turned into a cheesy fanfiction.

- Georgina's return is all about Dan Humphrey.

That's that, the best I could gather. Unless another spoiler hit me in the head, this ones are the only ones I'll be posting. Enough is enough.

Nothing Can Keep Us Together

2010-05-03T02:29:00.005+02:00

Say hormones. The Gossip Girl cast is a bunch of 20-something years-old going on 18. When they couple, they usually run around like little rabbits, nibbling and giggling and bewildering us with their combined beauty. And even though they keep a bit of the New York-ish urban discretion, everywhere I look right now I see a breakup headline.

According to very few sources who care, Ed Westwick broke up with Jessica Szohr out of jealousy. Apparentely, her proximity of his friend, ~~Marcos Beaton~~ Marco Minuto made his giant nostrils flare like crazy. Breath with pressure, Westwick, breath with pressure. Some publications hint that Vanessa is a super nympho and hurt Westwick's macho feelings. We all know Vanessa is a bitch, but this may not be accurate. Maybe he's just gay.

Good timing? Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan seem to be in the outs as well. First I thought it was disappointing news, because they're such a cute couple. But then I read that she dumped him because she doesn't like relationships, and it reminded me that LM is a pothead. Even so, I wonder if this news is related to the first one somehow. Maybe Stan is one of the guys Vanessa has been seeing behind Chuck's back, maybe he's the guy Chuck's been seeing behind Vanessa's back. Maybe Blair spread the rumours about Jessica Szohr and gave this lame excuse for a breakup in order to have Chuck for herself. Ah, the possibilities!

Another rumour accounts that Meester had sex with Robert Pattinson. Yes, that crude. He was supposedly seen leaving her apartment in the morning some time in April. But this is the guy who dates that dead girl Kristen Whatevs and hates vaginas. This rumour is very unlikely, anyway.

Let's hope Penn Badgley and Blake Lively don't break up anytime soon. We all know Serena revert to her old ways any time she's single and we have already too many sleazy gossip to keep track of.

As for Chace Crawford, he prefers not to date actresses, so Westwick will have to do - for Leighton Meester, I mean.

Meanwhile, Taylor Momsen keeps acting like a brat with a career-death wish: she thinks she's bigger than Gossip Girl. 'Cause she, like, has a band and totally looks like Satan, babe - like rock'n'rolling in her diapers. The word on the street is that she has a slight antipathy for Leighton Meester. Alas, was it for Jessica Szohr it would be all explained.

Moral of the story is: a reality show with this bunch would reach much better ratings than Gossip Girl.

3.19 Dr Estrangeloved

2010-05-02T19:12:00.001+02:00

I can't believe we're already reaching the end of the third season. How many more are left, I ask myself.

None the matter, another average episode. I am happy to see Blair trying to get over Chuck rather than crawling back to him, as she usually does. And Chuck being insensitive towards other people's feelings, even giving Jenny free scheming advices.

Let's talk about Jenny Humphrey for a second. You know, trying to have a future in fashion (as absurd as they painted it) and subtly stealing her half-sibling's boyfriend are the only things a fun girl can do in the UES nowadays. It's so weird that Jenny is the only female character with an interesting, good girl gone bad plotline. Blair emulates Jackie Onassis too much and Serena is way too californian. Vanessa is a nerd with huge eyebrows. So Jenny is the only real girl with normal problems and normal character flaws. I don't know, I think it will be a shame for her to leave, but let's no go there right now.

It's so nice to see that Serena looks exactly like her mom and dad. And guess what? Her father is kind of a Baldwin. It's also comforting to watch them all sit down and talk like adults, not just utter meaningless break-up lines and slam doors. But his explanation for being MIA... which is the most unrealistic family in this series, really? The Bass or the van der Woodsen?

In a distant part of town... hey, how come Vanessa has writing skills? I don't buy it. Josh Schwartz is such a superficial schmuk. By creating Vanessa he thought they had in hands a character who could collect every single type of artistic/intelletual ability. This is so dumb.

Oh!, and "you are totally hot", Blair. Just not in that dress. At least she doesn't wear a hat... indoors. Her desperate rebound soirée was very entertaining. That's what Chuck is good at. Family drama? Not so much.

Nate's clothes have an Archibald label on it? I - wait, no. That's too much. Did Blair sew it, too?

Now the Brooklyn party. I love Blair's Brooklyn outfit, Chuck is overdressed as usual, and Nate looks like a farmer. Archibald, it's Brooklyn, not the Ozarks. I won't comment on Jenny's lack of clothes, because she did it right. Nate is totally into slutty dresses, or else he wouldn't be with Serena. Then again, as Chuck pointed out, all guys are.

In the end of the day, Serena is still a damaged kid, Chace Crawford surpassed Westwick's acting skills, Jenny is keeping things interesting in the show and Blair won. Somehow she always does.

Goodbye, Chuck.

P.S.: Blair would look better with more eyeliner.

In this opportunity, I wish the good people of New York a well deserved rest.

3.16 The Empire Strikes Jack

2010-05-02T04:05:00.002+02:00

The ESJ was a not-so-annoying episode. Even the Evil Troll looked too ridiculous for me to be seriously mad about her presence.

For many people, his episode was all about Jenny and Nate. Jenny is always turning to Nate for recue in social situations, and Nate is always saving her from dangerous ones. To be truthful, Nate keeps saving everyone in the show, but this heroic relationship he developed with Jenny is different. It originates from season 1, a long time ago, when both of them were different people from who they are now. I like Nate with Serena, but I decided I enjoy the build up of a more mature affair with Jenny.

In this episode, Chuck's drama came to its final act. His storyline is the only one, the ONLY ONE, which resembles a daytime soap opera without being in the least clever or cult at all. Enough, Chuck, enough. Though I think it was a good move that his mother betrayed him for the love of a man. There is a type of woman that would sell their kids to a catholic priest in order to keep their 'man' pleased. So, GG is keepin' it real, well done. On the other hand, Chuck could just sue everyone and have his hotel back. Gossip Girl, please, get smart.

Our good old Blair had her own age-appropriated issues to handle in the eppy, so she didn't really keep track of Chuck's problems. Collegian hookers, that was such and absurd and fun idea. On the other hand, I don't think it is right that the fact that Blair hates NYU (we've grown to hate it too) earns only a passing mention. Now, Columbia sounds like a fine place to attend, even though the girls there look like prostitutes. But, B, please, LOOSE THE HAT. No wonder Serena is more popular than you: you look stupid.

Blondie and Vanessa have one thing in common, besides their romantic curriculum, they're both very intrusive people. Besides that, Vanessa is not fun, nor rich and definitely not a bubble about town, so I don't see how could she expect to get what Serena gets from a relationship. Anyway, I think her doubts about the thing with Dan were very pertinent ones and overall a nice filler. The only thing wrong with it is, well, Vanessa herself.

Ah, Gossip Girl, the college years... I can only hope you'll drop your sillyness and grow up.

Los Caballeros las Prefieren Brutas

2010-05-01T15:07:00.006+02:00

I'm downloading a few Gossip Girl episodes, but, meanwhile, I have to state... I'm in love with this new latin series, Los Caballeros las Prefieren Brutas.

It's nowhere near a mexican soap opera for those wondering. A Sony original production, it's all about a successful interior designer named Cristina Oviedo and her relationship adventures. She was dumped by her fiancé, who left her for her then BFF. Now she's single, torn and working hard to get over the treachery, always helped by her loyal friends and co-workers - the sort of nymphomaniac Hannah and the horny gay guy. Obviously that's no easy a task, since Gentlemen Prefer Dumbs. In need of a new roomate, Cristina starts to live with Alejandro, a journalist for a woman's magazine who has a crush on her - and pretends to be gay. From then on, the show follows Cristina's ins and outs, from her love life to her mending friendships and sisterhood. It's a very urban, ironic and stylish series, I couldn't help getting addicted, though I'm struggling to spell ~~preferem prieferem~~ prefieren!.
Check out the opening credits:

IsGossipGirlNewTonite?

2010-04-30T19:07:00.000+02:00

http://isgossipgirlnewtonight.com/

Now you know.

P.S.: Does it still work? It's reaaally been a while for me.

It's not entertaining in real life

2010-03-30T20:19:00.007+02:00

Remember when students at Constance Billard found out about Blair sleeping with Chuck and, soon after, Nate? The voices whispering everywhere, the little merciless adolescent eyes accusing her. Some reviewer or other said it was terrifying.
It really was.
Remember when, in Veronica Mars, the protagonist's best friend was murdered, her boyfriend dumped her and her ex-friend Logan decided to make her life hell? Also terrifying.
When has cruelty in schools' hallways become a tradition?
It's not that television teachs kids to be brutal. The parents do. Television just portrays it and actually tries to open people's eyes to the consequences of it. On TV, the characters usually get stronger. In real life, though, we are not that fantastic, we're only human.
I'm shocked and tremendously sad after hearing of the fate of 15 year-old Phoebe Prince, who committed suicide after been incessantly bullied for three months at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts. I won't put a picture of her here because I don't want to, somehow, maculate her image. But she was so pretty. Not like condescending-pretty, but really pretty, and it's awful to say that now, to make a compliment she can't receive, to talk about something she used to be, like she... is no more.