Are you familiar with this line? "I know you love me... xoxo" No, it's not another line from Ate Luds (or a follow up to her popular "Kilala mo ba ako?" - in a very raspy voice). It's a line from CW's Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl is nothing earth-shattering. In fact, the story's quite gasgas already. But I am such a fan of catfights. Gossip Girl is a story about two best friends and their entangled love lives and society brouhahas. And all these are documented by a know-it-all blogger called (what else, but the title role) Gossip Girl. She's the society chronicler of anything dirty and scandalous. She's not necessarily the eye-witness, she's just the messenger to the world. I think here lies the charm, gossiping is such a favorite pasttime. But rumor-mongering and judging the lives of celebrities and pseudo-icons, it's fantastic! You see, if you're someone who loves to ready lifestyle and society pages more than the headline section, then you will love this series.
Gossip Girl features the lives of Blaire Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen. And Gossip Girl is very busy spreading the news: the return of S from a mysterious hiaitus to a boarding school off-manhattan. The return enrages B. She's quite confused with the return of her best friend especially since she's ruled her class in her absence. She's become the Queen Bee no less. But with her return, not only is her stature in limbo, but a lot of other things unravel too: discoveries about her boyfriend Nate's relationship with S, discoveries about her father and her constant disinterest with S.
Cruel Intentions / Dangerous Liaisons and this show have very similar plot. It's about high society schemes and how manipulative they can get. And this is where catfights come to play. They try to steal each other's thunder by playing dirty. While in the end they become BFFs again, the road to recovery is really interesting.
Maybe, just maybe (and I will never admit it), the thing that I loved too about this is that they live such grand lives. While they are school-aged children, all they do is party, drink, make out and have more parties. I've never seen social calendar this busy. Then again, if my surname was Waldorf, or Ayala or Ty, I would do the same too. Oh wait... I'm not admitting that for the risk of being called shallow. Hehehe.
Point being, the lives of the rich and famous are ever so entangled because they're desperate. They try their best to keep themselves interesting and everything just revolves around it. It's quite highschool, if you think about it. Of course, those people living in Manhattan and the landed rich, they never really care about anything else, all they care for is to keep the family jewels and then get some more.
I finished the DVD in 2 days (that's something for me especially since my attention span is only comparable to a fly's). On top of this, I switched in between episodes of the whole season 2 of Heroes.
Like I said, I broke family tradition this year. Instead of trooping to a movie house to watch an MMFF film, I instead fixed myself a very comfy spot at the sala and without taking a bath, nor standing up, unless uber necessary, I became a couch potato. The only thing missing? Flies.
It's all good. I get to rest (a much deserved one) and recreate! Nice!
I'd love to be Chuck Bass. Watch Gossip Girl now. Start Gossiping.
C'mon! Don't be self-righteous. I know you'd love this too. Admit it.
Wait, I think it would be lovely to....
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