2009年3月24日星期二

Gossip Girl: The Vanderbilts: less Gatsby, more Fight Club

There's nothing like a good game of touch football and drunken spoiled teenagers hell-bent on self-destructing to provide some serious entertainment. This week on "Gossip Girl," Nate hears a family legacy calling to him, and Blair, disappointed, scared, and lost, is looking to burn down the house. No, she's not an arsonist -- she's just looking to bust out. In her heart, Blair's a good girl, but she wants to be bad. So she thinks.

If you show me your full list, I'll show you my uncondensed spoilers...

This episode was particularly exciting because I finally got a chance to see Nate and Vanessa do something. Nate's cousin, Tripp (of course that's his name), comes to see him to invite him to the family reunion -- a celebration of the Vanderbilts' history. Nate doesn't want to go, given how the family shunned him and his mother when things went down with his dad, but with Vanessa's encouragement he goes to the enormous family compound with Vanessa and Dan in tow. Dreading the reaction of his grandfather, who it turns out knew nothing about this, Nate's relieved to be embraced. Then everyone engages in some

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