Gossip Girl Play Analysis

Gossip Girl (CW, 2007-2012) is a drama television series about a group of fictional wealthy teenagers living on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is based off of a book series by Cecily Von Ziegesar. Though the characters all attend the same prep school, the show mostly focuses on what they do in their non-academic lives. The drama portrayed in this series is more extreme than other comparable teen drama shows, such as The O.C or 90210. This is due to the controversial topics that are included in each episode, such as pregnancy scares, suicide attempts, drug addictions, and affairs. Every scandal that the characters become embroiled in ends up on a notorious blog run by “Gossip Girl,” a mysterious character who is only revealed in the …show more content…
It talks about how the ending of the show made no sense and that it was frustrating for the fans who have watched throughout its entirety. It discusses how the characters had become so dull that the audience didn’t care about them anymore, and how disappointing the ending was because it was unfathomable. As Saraiya addresses in this article, viewers barely even cared who Gossip Girl was anymore, because they were not invested in any of the lives of the characters. She states “In the alternate universe where these characters each have personalities that didn’t perilously bleed into their peers’...where privilege is not mysteriously masked as a burden...there, perhaps, someone cares about the true identity of [Gossip Girl].” When Dan Humphrey, the main male protagonist who was initially an outsider, was revealed to be “Gossip Girl,” audiences were astonished because it didn’t fit in with the plot at all. For him to be behind the gossip blog means that he would have almost succeeded in ruining his own life and the lives of people he loved on numerous occasions. Viewers felt like the ending was a cop-out, and that they deserved more from the show after sticking with it through all of its