This is true... "Cruel Intentions" or "90210"... pick a side and stick to it ...

Although it seems like they are trying to set everything up, especially with character establishments to get to the funness that the books have.

I like the show - love the catiness.

My wife is enjoying it, too.

Meh. This thing was dragging on endlessly, I kept checking the clock to see if it was going to be over soon.

I decided to start this thread a day early in light of the news that the CW has ordered the "back 9" giving GOSSIP GIRL a full-season order. While I think the show started out a little slow, each episode has continuously been better than the last.

That's good news.

<3 leighton meester

I totally agree. The only thing wrong with it now is the totally gay-acting-but-letcherous-girl-bedding Chuck. I'd not at all be surprised if he just pounced on Nate during their "weekend getaway".

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Gossip Girl

I haven't started watching this show yet(the episodes are sitting on my HD-DVR), but that's good news about the full season pickup.

So this show got better after the pilot? I only got about 20 minutes into the pilot before I couldn't take any more... it was too drab for me.

It's still about the same as the pilot IMO - not better, not much worse. This episode was alright, but it felt long too me and only the last 10 minutes were truly interesting - Dan just acts like a total douche all the time (until the end) and that bugs me, he's the biggest girl on the show!

I liked seeing B and S at the shoot having fun and at the end, but everything in between was just DULL and the poker game/ball stuff you could see from MILES away and just felt really stale. Meh.

I want to see more of the art buyer.

My only problem with the show is Dan and the way they portray him and his family living in squalor living in a high rise loft on the river in Williamsburg...

Seemed pretty obvious that the poker game was a set-up from the start.

I can't think of many more characters that I would love to punch in the face more than Dan, he's such an idiot.

He's a little self-righteous to be the "relatable" center to the show.

I like Dan, I think he is a cutie. It's odd he is so cute on this show because I did not find him attrractive at all on his previous shows Bedford Diaries and Do Over.

The WB/CW must love him, they are turning him into their new Oliver Hudson.

How about "The Mountain"?

Wow, was he in that show, too? I only watched a few episodes of The Mountain before I dropped it. In that case, he has had even more WB/CW shows than Oliver Hudson!

I like how the sister "disappears" from an episode and now it seems the next one will focus around her.

GOSSIP GIRL has a rather large cast for a freshman drama, so they're probably trying to establish which characters are worth hanging around and which they can drop. I wouldn't be surprised if the two side-kick's of Blair's get their own episodes rather soon to see what they are capable off.

And I totally agree with all the conversations about Dan, but I've liked him since "The Mountain".

no Jenny

a pretty good episode, i;m keeping watching cos it's the only teen drama on my current viewing roster until One tree returns

she looks like a cross between Rachel Bilson and Minka Kelly.

With a little Nora Zehetner thrown in, for good measure.

the way Leighton has her hair styled i think she is a dead ringer for Lyla from Friday Night lights