Blake Lively
Leighton Meester
Penn Badgley
Chace Crawford
Taylor Momsen
Ed Westwick
Kelly Rutherford
Matthew Settle
Jessica Szohr

Developed by:
Josh Schwartz
Stephanie Savage

2007-2012
Drama, Romance
The CW
TV-14

“Gossip Girl” is a primetime soap opera for a young audience. It has style, underdogs, villains you love to hate, beautiful people, moral ambiguity (it depicts some of the worst parts of teenagers), and the vicissitudes that come with every other soap.

Like “Revenge,” this show knows what it is and has no problem with that. It’s like “Clueless” with a more subdued satirical style.

If you want to see a twisted fairy tale about spoiled rich kids (for the most part) living on the Upper East side of Manhattan, then this is for you. It just might be your guilty pleasure. But it does lose steam during its final seasons.

Too bad.

Verdict: Pretty Good (for what it is)

About: (Source: gossipgirl)

Based on the best-selling series of young-adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and executive produced by Josh Schwartz (Chuck, The O.C.) and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), Gossip Girl is the one-hour drama based on the lives of privileged Manhattan prep school teens.

The students first learn that Serena van der Woodsen, once the Upper East Side’s most notorious party girl, is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives: from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl’s identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena’s closest friend, Blair Waldorf, is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. Keeping track of the shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this wealthy and complex world isn’t easy, but it’s what Gossip Girl does best.