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Speaker 1: just telling me that it's sixty degrees in New York
Speaker 1: right now. It's literally been like yesterday was high sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Today it's right like sixty two right now, and it's
Speaker 1: just not right. You know. It's like we're over here
Speaker 1: wearing our fall jackets and just sweating our faces off.
Speaker 1: So it's beautiful weird. It's super weird because I feel
Speaker 1: like any time in around you know, November, you're like
Speaker 1: almost getting your winter jackets out. Yeah, Like I already
Speaker 1: had my scarf out. Yeah. And I feel like anyone
Speaker 1: that lives in New York or is from there and
Speaker 1: it's sixty eight, they're like in T shirts. Oh yeah
Speaker 1: st in l A. And people have full blown, like
Speaker 1: no outfits on. Oh. I love it and I love
Speaker 1: My favorite thing about l A is when it rains
Speaker 1: and everybody just like gets just frozen. Nobody nut cars,
Speaker 1: can't drive and no one knows how to drive. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're not even from here, You're literally from a place
Speaker 1: where it rained all the time. Like no one is
Speaker 1: from l A, but no one can drive in the
Speaker 1: rains out people's sensibilities. It's fifty five here, and so
Speaker 1: you go outside in Scottsdale and it's so cold out too,
Speaker 1: you know, because you're so used to this heat here,
Speaker 1: and now I'm like going back, Like now I have
Speaker 1: my sweater and I'm sweating. Anyways, it's still beautiful. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's just figure out the temperature somewhere. I know.
Speaker 1: It's just a weird Yeah, something's going awry, well know
Speaker 1: it is, but you know, we just have to live something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something is for sure. We just have to do it.
Speaker 1: It's very freaky. It is kind of freaky. This is true. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so we are. We are in season three now, Season
Speaker 1: three episodes of Yes, Episode two The Freshman, which is
Speaker 1: this movie with Matthew Broderick. Is that what the title
Speaker 1: is based on. I think it is that one, right,
Speaker 1: And then it's like here it makes perfect sense too,
Speaker 1: because we have a group full of freshmen and it's
Speaker 1: funny because it's like, uh, you know, we're anticipating this
Speaker 1: move to college and then we get it here finally,
Speaker 1: so it's like I remember this episode. Remember, like, actually
Speaker 1: have some memories of filming this one, so it's good. Yes,
Speaker 1: things definitely pop back in my in my head and
Speaker 1: my mind in my heart. There was definitely moments where
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I remember that roof. There
Speaker 1: was definitely moments where I'm like, I don't remember the
Speaker 1: bookstore and Georgina, but all the shots in between of
Speaker 1: like New York City and the streets going up with
Speaker 1: all the cabs, and like, oh, I really like how
Speaker 1: this director did that. And I sometimes have to go
Speaker 1: back and be like, Okay, wait, this is whose episode again,
Speaker 1: and it was Norman's, So I'm like, I clearly love
Speaker 1: the way he shoots things, obviously. Yeah, his style and
Speaker 1: his his visual sensibility, his style is dope. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it. Um. I also think Good Girls Go Bad
Speaker 1: by COVID Starship featuring Layton was awesome and I forgot
Speaker 1: that it was in this episode. Oh it's so crazy
Speaker 1: that we got Like I remember when she when her
Speaker 1: music was popular and we were filming when it was
Speaker 1: I was hearing it everywhere, you know, I was hearing
Speaker 1: it in taxis and every store, and it was always
Speaker 1: got such a kick out of it because it's like
Speaker 1: so hard when you know her and how like mellow
Speaker 1: she is to like connect her with like pop star,
Speaker 1: rock star person, you know. But it was But it's
Speaker 1: so funny that we had that that song was featured here.
Speaker 1: It's so cool. Yeah. Also, when we get to that
Speaker 1: part in the episode, I'll tell you my thoughts on
Speaker 1: it because it's I think the irony of all of
Speaker 1: that was was quite interesting to me. But there was
Speaker 1: like a fan question that wanted to know about Layton
Speaker 1: doing music while shooting the show, how she was like
Speaker 1: juggling at all. I mean, that's a question for Layton,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to like words in anyone's mouth
Speaker 1: or speak for someone. I would say I don't really know.
Speaker 1: But she obviously handled it and juggled it well because
Speaker 1: she was shooting a show and had hit songs come out,
Speaker 1: and we didn't really know that anything was stressful or
Speaker 1: too much or anything at all, because she showed up
Speaker 1: to work as professional and fun and cool as Layton
Speaker 1: always was. And then you would like go anywhere in
Speaker 1: the city or anywhere all over the world and her
Speaker 1: song was playing. So the fact that all of that
Speaker 1: was going on and we you know, she never complained
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I would say she I would
Speaker 1: have to imagine that she was enjoying and it went well,
Speaker 1: because that's a lot, right, She definitely juggled it well.
Speaker 1: But also, I mean, the one thing I know, and
Speaker 1: I mean not to speak for Laton, but I remember,
Speaker 1: it's always so interesting because she has such a like
Speaker 1: a musical heart that that's like a passion of her.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it supersedes being an actor, but it's
Speaker 1: definitely up there. So I know that whether she was
Speaker 1: producing albums or doing shows or not, she was probably
Speaker 1: always making music. So I think it's like that was
Speaker 1: her outlet, you know. So it's interesting when somebody wears
Speaker 1: all the hats and she's so good at it, right,
Speaker 1: And there was times like I remember she went on
Speaker 1: a tour and I went to a couple of her
Speaker 1: shows where she was just like singing and playing guitar
Speaker 1: and yeah, and such a different side or vibe that
Speaker 1: I think most people, especially listening to this and watching
Speaker 1: the show, you get from her because it's so different
Speaker 1: from Blair. And I always really enjoyed that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're answering your question, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 1: I would guess that she just she she handled it
Speaker 1: great because we never really heard a complaint or new still,
Speaker 1: but a great actor. She is too, like Blair. Imagine
Speaker 1: it's incomprehensible to imagine Blair Waldorf playing a guitar and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that's lat exactly. Like she really has a lot
Speaker 1: of range, you know what I mean, because she's able
Speaker 1: to personify this human being who's so not that and
Speaker 1: in fact, in this epiod, so there are some moments
Speaker 1: where Blair is is kind of confronted with like pop
Speaker 1: music and she's like, turn off that noise. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like she's so it's like her in her world.
Speaker 1: It's a very different vibe. So I feel like that's
Speaker 1: interesting to imagine that. You know some of that music
Speaker 1: was actually made by Laton, Right, Well, that's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say when earlier, when the song is like
Speaker 1: a part of the roof top party, I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that she said that with that song. Well, the
Speaker 1: iron need to me was when the roof deck party
Speaker 1: is happening and all the stuff with Georgina is that
Speaker 1: when Blair is looking so alone and now this is
Speaker 1: the first time, she's feeling like an outsider in this world.
Speaker 1: And then this song hits and there's like such a
Speaker 1: vibe and it's on this roof deck in the city,
Speaker 1: and then the song comes and it's late in the song,
Speaker 1: so all of it right, so multi level? Yeah, so meta, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. So meta. Um. This was another question
Speaker 1: when we started season three, like we're all kind of
Speaker 1: dialed in out, like where we know all the crew members,
Speaker 1: it's you know, we're you know, are a lot of
Speaker 1: the same locations, you know, like that was very popular
Speaker 1: by that point, so it's like everything was established. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you feel like it was a different feeling going in?
Speaker 1: That was someone's question. How was the how was it
Speaker 1: going into season three? I don't I was always learning
Speaker 1: as the show went on, like about everything when because
Speaker 1: the show kept getting bigger, so that changed the way
Speaker 1: we lived our lives. But I feel like as the
Speaker 1: show went on, I was always excited to get back
Speaker 1: to see everyone and to be back in the city
Speaker 1: because a lot of the times I would leave. But
Speaker 1: that's that's I can only speak for myself. I don't know, well,
Speaker 1: I was always still here, but I remember that like, yeah,
Speaker 1: by the time it was season three, I think I
Speaker 1: told you earlier. I had that sensation always that you know,
Speaker 1: I would never be in another episode, and I was
Speaker 1: always nervous I would I know, I know. So it's like,
Speaker 1: I think by season three, I started feeling a little
Speaker 1: bit more like, Okay, this I'm on this show. UM,
Speaker 1: so I think that um A lot of my best
Speaker 1: row to storylines come up in season three, So I
Speaker 1: think I'm really started feeling a little more comfortable and
Speaker 1: just kind of happier to go to work because it
Speaker 1: wasn't so it didn't seem so fleeting, like I was
Speaker 1: able to trust it a little bit. So I I
Speaker 1: know for me, you know, it's not that you relax,
Speaker 1: but you just enjoy maybe a little bit more and
Speaker 1: it's just like a little yes, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more of like a I don't know how to say comfort,
Speaker 1: but maybe I feel like I know what you mean. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's fun because like when you're
Speaker 1: working on a TV show, especially when with so many
Speaker 1: episodes and then you kind of get in the groove,
Speaker 1: you also get that kind of work routine. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that it's actually a job that you go to Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have you know, you know how long the van
Speaker 1: ride takes, and you know what the day looks like
Speaker 1: and and you know, so it's like it kind of
Speaker 1: becomes a part of your life in a different way
Speaker 1: because I feel like as actors, we always have such unstable,
Speaker 1: you know, like irregular schedules, and so it's nice to
Speaker 1: get the vibe to be like, well, this is where
Speaker 1: I work and I go to work. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think by season three we got that. Yeah, definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were in it to win it. Okay, So here
Speaker 1: is where we left off. Despite Rufus's best efforts, Serena
Speaker 1: continues her plan to use the paparazzi against her father. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Carter isn't taking Serena's rejection well and he continues pursuing
Speaker 1: her despite a restraining order. This isn't the only stormy relationship, however,
Speaker 1: as Vanessa butts heads with Dan while Chuck and Blair
Speaker 1: do their best to keep their relationship interesting. Right, that
Speaker 1: is where we left off, ladies, and a lot of
Speaker 1: groundwork was laid, and that will been that first episode
Speaker 1: of the season. So here we are in episode two
Speaker 1: and Blair, who is determined to maintain her queen be
Speaker 1: status in college, of course, embarks on her first day
Speaker 1: at n YU along with Dan and Vanessa. Georgina turns
Speaker 1: up and plots to make Blair a social outcast. As
Speaker 1: Serena prepares to depart for Brown, she and Chuck have
Speaker 1: a major falling out, so she recruits one of his
Speaker 1: old enemies to help her get even. Meanwhile, Nate and
Speaker 1: We decide to explore their relationship further, knowing full well
Speaker 1: it could cause tension between their families who are political rivals.
Speaker 1: So we got a little bit something with everybody as usual,
Speaker 1: a little a little bit of something with everyone. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all it opens up with you and Blair
Speaker 1: that we got the pearls going on, the red dress,
Speaker 1: very structure. I feel like the look, even it's obviously
Speaker 1: very Blair, but I feel like the look is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: she's like trying to grow up a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: like right, and she's well, you know, it's interesting because
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had this feeling in your
Speaker 1: life too, but you know that feeling when you're entering
Speaker 1: a new phase of life and you kind of can
Speaker 1: redefine yourself or be like who am I going to
Speaker 1: be in this iteration? And you always it's always that
Speaker 1: extra effort at the top to say, like what did
Speaker 1: you learn forward want to be better at? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: I feel like with her, she's definitely attempting a certain maturity,
Speaker 1: a certain like non high school vibe, even though she
Speaker 1: could still you know, still that she can't get away
Speaker 1: from it. And I mean, we have that fantastic moment
Speaker 1: later in the episod where um Dan says no headbands
Speaker 1: in college and he like rips her head band off.
Speaker 1: But she's trying, I think, to be a more grown
Speaker 1: up version of herself, which is funny because like all
Speaker 1: these characters are already so kind of grown up in
Speaker 1: a way in terms of their style. It's sweet to
Speaker 1: watch her get ready, and you know, I remember a
Speaker 1: little bit of these storm room scenes from filming. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember filming that stuff and then y U stuff,
Speaker 1: And I really liked the scene where Dorota sort of
Speaker 1: helping Blair get dressed and ready, And it was so
Speaker 1: funny to me because like my face, like as Deronda,
Speaker 1: like I was so like in love with Blair was insane,
Speaker 1: Like I'm like looking at her to my long lost
Speaker 1: puppy and like like that. It was like it made
Speaker 1: me laugh out loud because I was like, wow, Dorote
Speaker 1: is like really proud of miss Blair for this starting
Speaker 1: n y U. And so I really liked the start
Speaker 1: of this episode. I thought it was really kind of
Speaker 1: a lovely look into Blair's psyche. When you two are together,
Speaker 1: it just feels good because you know that you have
Speaker 1: that Corota has Blair's best interest and really says the
Speaker 1: best in her, which is great because not everyone does
Speaker 1: with Blair as you see in this episode, you know,
Speaker 1: and even when you try to, she still sometimes gets
Speaker 1: in her in her own way. Um. And then I
Speaker 1: just felt like the whole conversation with her and Chuck,
Speaker 1: he goes fluorescent lights, communal showers, public school girls, like
Speaker 1: that's what the dorms are gonna be like, and She's like, listen,
Speaker 1: I just need to live there to be queen. Like
Speaker 1: this bitch is still just trying to be queen be
Speaker 1: I'm like, get over it. Yeah, it's so amazing, but
Speaker 1: it's all such a part of Gossip Girl that we
Speaker 1: need to have that or like what are we doing
Speaker 1: right right? And I think it's an interesting question actually,
Speaker 1: because like, do people who are super popular and like
Speaker 1: kind of rule the roost in high school? It's got
Speaker 1: to be a nerve racking moment and they transition into
Speaker 1: a college world because that's how you identify yourself and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you have a new, bigger pond.
Speaker 1: So it kind of is relatable. I think to a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Are people that don't really care what
Speaker 1: you were in high school, and people really different sense
Speaker 1: of what's cool. Aren't going to be bossed around? Right
Speaker 1: when I went to college, because I went from I
Speaker 1: went high school Indiana in a public high school, and
Speaker 1: then I went to Barnard College here in the city
Speaker 1: um Columbia, and all of the girls I went to
Speaker 1: school with they were from the East coast. They had
Speaker 1: gone to private school. And I remember feeling really out
Speaker 1: of my element because not even in a cool girl
Speaker 1: Queen Bee way, but in terms of I just felt
Speaker 1: really really vulnerable in the beginning. I remember that feeling.
Speaker 1: So I think that you know that growing pains of
Speaker 1: transitioning in life, they're certainly relatable in this Blair storyline
Speaker 1: in this episode, you know for sure, and that goes
Speaker 1: again not to be redundant. But like what Norman said,
Speaker 1: just about the emotions, like what she's going through, whether
Speaker 1: it's this whole Queen Bee Blair, Upper east Side, Lower Manhattan, right,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people do what on neither end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like meeting new people, not having your Serena, They're not
Speaker 1: having your Chuck there with you, not having your Deroda
Speaker 1: there with you, even though Deroda is right there handing
Speaker 1: out these gift bags to make the girls it's okay. Um.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of funny moments in here. But
Speaker 1: even like at the ny U when Georgina moves in
Speaker 1: on Blair, was Garota in the dorm room when Georgina
Speaker 1: first comes in. I can't remember exactly what I think.
Speaker 1: There was definitely a moment when things start going down,
Speaker 1: and there's like a moment I really enjoyed where Garroda
Speaker 1: just like just backs out, just leaves, and like just
Speaker 1: but she leaves in this like really funny way. It
Speaker 1: was almost like she was moonwalking her way out because
Speaker 1: it was Georgina all of a sudden appears and she's
Speaker 1: like high roomy or high roommate, and it's like, thats
Speaker 1: just way too much and then Vanessa is there. So
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you have three people that
Speaker 1: don't really see eye to eye, don't really get along,
Speaker 1: that are all going to be living within not on
Speaker 1: the same floor together. Right, that is like Blair's worst nightmare,
Speaker 1: And to be honest, Vanessa's too, Yeah, no kidding, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's like Vanessa is I only in a place
Speaker 1: where like she's the like she's kind of the cool
Speaker 1: Queen Bee type vibe. Yeah, but then you're all of
Speaker 1: a sudden she's facing off with her biggest nightmares. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these two. And then and then of course Blairs like
Speaker 1: I need a party, We need a party, so right
Speaker 1: here goes to rote a planet a party. That was
Speaker 1: a funny thing because I threw it against Hales a
Speaker 1: taxi cab, which I know for a fact I must
Speaker 1: have been excited about because I loved shooting on the
Speaker 1: street because I didn't get to do it as much
Speaker 1: as everybody else, you know, because I was always inside, right,
Speaker 1: And so I'm sure I enjoyed that, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was fun and getting in the cab and everything,
Speaker 1: but I have no memory of that. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, when you watch yourself and you don't have
Speaker 1: any memory. Almost feels like out of body because quite awesome.
Speaker 1: That's definitely me. That was not a stunt double or
Speaker 1: a stand in. It was me. Yeah, it's very crazy.
Speaker 1: Do you remember apparently we did cross paths I guess
Speaker 1: in that dorm room interchange. Yeah, but I don't remember that,
Speaker 1: or I mean, I know we were in the n
Speaker 1: y U world. We were circling around the same Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't think. I don't think I saw you.
Speaker 1: We definitely didn't speak or like have coverage together up clearly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But that's probably as close as
Speaker 1: we got. Yeah, and I don't really remember. The dorm
Speaker 1: rooms were on stage correct. We weren't at m y U.
Speaker 1: Those were on silver at Silver Cup, right, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: built those. I remember they built them because they had
Speaker 1: because it was most of this season. Because I do remember,
Speaker 1: because I went in and there was like a couple
Speaker 1: like things where I'm like, oh, this is so cute.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to like take this from my
Speaker 1: own place, and so it was definitely decorated from Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well that's another thing that was cool in this episode,
Speaker 1: was like the decorating of the rooms, like the fact
Speaker 1: that Blair commissioned, you know, deroded to basically like recreate
Speaker 1: her home space in the dorm. There was you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked before about taking things from the set, and
Speaker 1: I always remember that the one thing that Layton got
Speaker 1: was that there was a little tiny china plate with
Speaker 1: a bee on it, and that plate was just on
Speaker 1: the wall of Blair's room, and then I happened to
Speaker 1: notice in this episode that it made it to the
Speaker 1: dorm room too, So it was like this little bee,
Speaker 1: like a little initial be like a decorative plate, and
Speaker 1: it's it's like those little things that I remember that
Speaker 1: just totally take me back. And she had the Mary
Speaker 1: Antoinette kind of painting in a room that also made
Speaker 1: it over remember that, But then I love that the
Speaker 1: fact that Georgina crashes in on her and brings this
Speaker 1: like not to be a judgmental, but this kind of
Speaker 1: ugly tapestry that she wants to hang on the wall,
Speaker 1: and you know it's like part of terrorizing Blair. I
Speaker 1: was going to ask you, did you find like, when
Speaker 1: you were watching this episode unfold, did you kind of
Speaker 1: immediately see where Georgina was going with this plan? Did
Speaker 1: you see that she was there to sort of dethrone
Speaker 1: Blair or to keep her from socially. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't to me. When Chuck went to see Georgina at
Speaker 1: the end of season two and she finds out that
Speaker 1: Blair was there, her reaction of like, oh Blair, and
Speaker 1: then like she changed everything, left the you know, Christian camp.
Speaker 1: She's had some like thing this whole time. Obviously, um,
Speaker 1: but I just don't know where she's going, Like does
Speaker 1: she really like Dan? Does she not? Why do you
Speaker 1: want to so much? Like you're you were away anyway,
Speaker 1: You're coming back to ask for trouble or give trouble,
Speaker 1: So why are you doing that? Just stay away then,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, especially because Georgina she
Speaker 1: pulls ship out of thin air, I'm like, you're this
Speaker 1: one day. I mean even in this episode. The next
Speaker 1: part of this episode almost Vanessa and Danna at this
Speaker 1: bookstore and Georgina's sees them. Did she run into them? No,
Speaker 1: you knew where they were? I mean, are you following them?
Speaker 1: I don't, I see, I don't know what Georgina there's
Speaker 1: just so sneaky. But then but then she also plays it,
Speaker 1: plays her heart strings a little bit like in this
Speaker 1: with Dan and Vanessa, I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: she actually it kind of made me feel sad for
Speaker 1: her when they were like unable to fully go there
Speaker 1: with her. When she's like, would you like to have
Speaker 1: a coffee, it's like you don't know, because you know,
Speaker 1: I'd bet money that she was manipulating them. But then
Speaker 1: there are these little slippers of like, oh, maybe she
Speaker 1: does feel lonely now and now she wants forgiveness, and
Speaker 1: then maybe she's starting or wants to start start fresh.
Speaker 1: It's convincing, it's it was interesting, and Vanessa even says
Speaker 1: that to Dan, like she wants to start start new
Speaker 1: and fresh and we want to fresh start Why why
Speaker 1: can't write? And I'm like, see that's Vanessa being real
Speaker 1: sweet again, giving people a chance again. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: then again, like then then this is a scene that
Speaker 1: comes up after she like walks into Blairs, you know,
Speaker 1: she goes into Blairs. Then she's trying to see if
Speaker 1: she can have coffee with Dan and Vanessa. And at
Speaker 1: this point I'm like, I don't know what this bitch
Speaker 1: is trying to do, but like I'm not mad at
Speaker 1: her right now, but I don't know what she's pulling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know you will be right. Well, it's interesting
Speaker 1: because it's like we have like basically Blair desperate to
Speaker 1: make her mark at n y U, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: faced with her biggest nightmare, Georgina as a roommate. We
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what Georgina has planned, and we see
Speaker 1: kind of Dan and Vanessa already thriving in the n
Speaker 1: y U scene. We see the sort of beginning of
Speaker 1: this new chapter, and then it's like, on the other
Speaker 1: side of town, you have Serena in this kind of
Speaker 1: complicated situation with Chuck where basically like she never got
Speaker 1: in the car or whatever, she never went off to school,
Speaker 1: she decided to bail on Brown, yeah, and she ends
Speaker 1: up staying with Chuck. Um. So you know, there's this
Speaker 1: kind of total opposite thing happening over there, which is
Speaker 1: like Serena's in trouble or is she or what's she doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I like I would have never imagined that when
Speaker 1: she was is not gonna go through with going to Brown,
Speaker 1: that She's going to Chuck, right, So that was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is nuts that Serena wants to go to Chuck
Speaker 1: for like, yeah, support kind of shelter basically shelter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then it seems like it's gonna be okay for
Speaker 1: a minute, and then we realized that Chuck has a
Speaker 1: business plan. He's in the works business meeting going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like high intensity where he has these plans. I love,
Speaker 1: like this is not even just a gossip rol but
Speaker 1: I love like television in general, where um, he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have this plan for this restaurant space, and then
Speaker 1: of course the plans are just all laid out right
Speaker 1: in front of them and then they look at the
Speaker 1: pictures and you know, I love that part but it's
Speaker 1: perfect yeah. Yeah, And he wants to do a speak
Speaker 1: easy right, so it's going to be like a respectable
Speaker 1: place up top, but then like a really down in
Speaker 1: dirty speak easy downstairs right with like debauchery. Right. Is
Speaker 1: that is that the idea? I guess? And he basically
Speaker 1: is he's he's like telling Serena that she actually genuinely like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is a great idea, Chuck. Then she accidentally messes
Speaker 1: up the deal. Is it an accident the first time
Speaker 1: that she does? I think that the first time was
Speaker 1: definitely not intentional, right, and then but throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the episode, she starts to sabotage him purposefully, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I was like, what was her intention there?
Speaker 1: So it's like she basically like accidentally slips up in
Speaker 1: front of the investor and says that, like Chuck is
Speaker 1: planning to speakeasy, and that's like not in his business
Speaker 1: plan that he's pitching. So he's like, already, she's already
Speaker 1: messing things up for him. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: but then it gets worse and worse and out of hand,
Speaker 1: and she starts kind of purposefully tanking this for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's she gets like dirty, she gets almost like
Speaker 1: grudge hearing at the point, like the scene with her
Speaker 1: and Carter and Chuck, I'm like, whoa Like even the
Speaker 1: look in Serena's eye and stuff, I'm like, what where
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like? And then it felt bad
Speaker 1: for Chuck when he gets up. This is later in
Speaker 1: the episode, but when he gets up and he's like,
Speaker 1: I genuinely like I was concerned for you're not going
Speaker 1: to school. That's why I went to rufus, Like he
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to be manipulative there is that why I
Speaker 1: guess that's why she gets mad at him. I see, yes,
Speaker 1: and and Serena is nervous, I think because she doesn't
Speaker 1: want Lily to know she's not going. She doesn't want
Speaker 1: to upset her mom, which I think a lot of kids, teenagers,
Speaker 1: young adults you know that are in these kids shoes,
Speaker 1: like leaving one chapter, leaving high school, and going to
Speaker 1: their next chapter, going to college. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times people are very concerned that they're making their
Speaker 1: parents proud and making sure they're making the next right
Speaker 1: choice in the next step. But the expectations, I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I feel like that's got to be a
Speaker 1: very tough, tough thing for someone that's also not really
Speaker 1: quite sure what you want to do with the rest
Speaker 1: of your life, especially if she had such a crazy
Speaker 1: summer and she's been disappointed by her dad. She can
Speaker 1: you get her dad to pay attention to her when
Speaker 1: she was seeking him out overseas. You know, she's growing up,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't know which direction to turn, and she
Speaker 1: doesn't have any kind of solid moorings, you know, because
Speaker 1: Kelly Rutherford is still on maternity leave in this episode,
Speaker 1: and so Lily's character is away still, so Rufus is
Speaker 1: the paternal figure, you know, that that she has to
Speaker 1: turn to. So it's like, in a way, she's a
Speaker 1: little bit unchecked and untethered. And now she's staying with
Speaker 1: Chuck and she doesn't know what she's doing next. And
Speaker 1: I think Blair, at least on the surface does. Everyone
Speaker 1: else kind of has their path, So she's you know,
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit direction lists maybe, so then she
Speaker 1: kind of gets a little like snippy or nasty, you know,
Speaker 1: with Chuck. And it's I mean, it makes sense because
Speaker 1: I feel like people get reactive, you know, when they're
Speaker 1: not sure, not failing, supportive. Yeah. Well, and she's in
Speaker 1: a situation where she's like trying, she's crying out for
Speaker 1: attention for her father. Then this other father figure that
Speaker 1: cares about her so much, is a wonderful dad to
Speaker 1: his kids. Rufus is trying to protect her without letting
Speaker 1: anyone really know or throwing Serena under the bus. And
Speaker 1: then her mom. We have Lily who's kind of having
Speaker 1: to play the mom and dad for her since her
Speaker 1: dad was absent all the years. So and I think
Speaker 1: sometimes even if it's not consciously maybe it's subconsciously that
Speaker 1: she feels this disconnect with her dad and then he,
Speaker 1: you know, didn't want her an even Carter, he throws
Speaker 1: some low blows like with that, like you know, like,
Speaker 1: are you crying out because your your daddy didn't want you?
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, whoa. That's like, oh, yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: between them and this. Yeah. And it's like when Rufus
Speaker 1: finds out about that she basically lied and didn't didn't
Speaker 1: go off to school, he's kind of forcing her hand
Speaker 1: and saying, I'm gonna get a car here, you're gonna go,
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna tell your mom, And there's a moment
Speaker 1: where she says, He's like, I mean, this isn't your
Speaker 1: best interest since she says this is how you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it by by threatening me or something like that,
Speaker 1: And she's like, I think you're more scared of my
Speaker 1: mom than I am. I'm like, yeah, which I don't
Speaker 1: think she's that wrong. This is a little terrified of Lily. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what I was like thinking when you
Speaker 1: were just talking about how Lily is still gone, even
Speaker 1: though obviously this wasn't planned because it was her pregnancy
Speaker 1: and we didn't know when she was going to have
Speaker 1: the baby, And ironically it works out because of the
Speaker 1: situation that Serena is has going on, and then it's
Speaker 1: kind of forced that she has to talk to Rufus
Speaker 1: because Lily's not there, and Dan's like, listen, he's the
Speaker 1: best guy out there, dad out there for dad advice
Speaker 1: or so it almost like ironically worked out because really,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't really be talking to Serena she's around, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, totally. It's like she
Speaker 1: almost needed the lack of the maternal figure here in
Speaker 1: order to like come to face this um instability or
Speaker 1: insecurity that she has going So, yeah, it makes total sense,
Speaker 1: and and it's nice because we also kind of see
Speaker 1: Rufus like it's almost like the most concentrated version of
Speaker 1: like what he's really facing, which is being with Lily
Speaker 1: means being a father figure to all these people, you know,
Speaker 1: even yeah, just wild and like he's got a uh
Speaker 1: you know, it's like they're they're really adjusting. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it was the last so where they were
Speaker 1: kind of adjusting to basically living a different, more lavish lifestyle,
Speaker 1: and it's like we're still seeing the sort of continuation
Speaker 1: of that with him and now he has to deal
Speaker 1: with like how does he put down his foot with Serena.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting to watch him navigating that certainly totally.
Speaker 1: And there was something that like stood out to me
Speaker 1: in this episode with Serena. She's for some reason, just
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like she's in high school to me, and
Speaker 1: I when I was thinking back about other episodes, she
Speaker 1: just seems Serena just seems I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's because she's going off on private
Speaker 1: jets or dating. You know, there's a ton of people
Speaker 1: she's dated that are not in high school. The artists,
Speaker 1: the director of the play, Um Gabriel, like, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that she's dating that are nowhere near
Speaker 1: their age. She just like there was certain things and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, even at school and stuff, she really
Speaker 1: only has Blair as much as like she's in with
Speaker 1: the kids. She doesn't have any kind of cesn't really
Speaker 1: But there was just like a moment where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just like, you just feel older than all these kids, right, No,
Speaker 1: that's true, And I don't know, I mean, I do
Speaker 1: know why. I just told you, Yeah, she seems a
Speaker 1: little older, but she's also kind of lonelier, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's like, what I need to think of it
Speaker 1: because she's so because she's such a fabulous, glamorous character,
Speaker 1: but then you know, sometimes she's just like a little lamb,
Speaker 1: you know, and like this is an episode where that happens. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: back on the n y U campus, they're a similar
Speaker 1: kind of opposite thing is playing out, which is the
Speaker 1: Blair who really has a very clear idea of what
Speaker 1: she wants and how she wants it to be, is
Speaker 1: kind of it's like swipping through her fingers. To me,
Speaker 1: the storyline is, you know, kind of moving and exciting
Speaker 1: in terms of like the development of that character because
Speaker 1: it's like she does what she knows best, which is
Speaker 1: to throw kind of like money and fabulousness at things.
Speaker 1: So she is like gets Garroda to do the sushi party,
Speaker 1: and I love all the jokes about like the fancy
Speaker 1: toro and the you know, why did she say to
Speaker 1: the girl, She's like he's up on the toro? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then like later she kept saying but there was
Speaker 1: and I was like, also, I mean it makes me
Speaker 1: want some I was like, oh, I want to yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's like she kind of throws all the everything
Speaker 1: she knows how to do at this situation, and then
Speaker 1: you have Georgina, who is much better manipulator and the
Speaker 1: kind of in her own right and is able to
Speaker 1: get her where she's weak, which is like really kind
Speaker 1: of listening to people. So like the fact that Georgina
Speaker 1: sets up this watch party for Vanessa's documentary or you know,
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, and I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it just speaks the fact that it's like Blair's kryptonite
Speaker 1: or like Blair's weakness is that she doesn't she can't
Speaker 1: relate to everyone, and she's you know, she has that
Speaker 1: kind of wall in that distance. And so Georgina is
Speaker 1: able to manipulate that by like you know, role playing
Speaker 1: that she's like carrying open, cool person who can be
Speaker 1: the normal college chick. And then meanwhile, she's also like
Speaker 1: including Blair. She's like, oh God, join us, or I'll
Speaker 1: do this, like I like this. Yeah. The fact that
Speaker 1: she undercuts the sushi party by like everyone sitting around
Speaker 1: watching Vanessa's what what is what was the movie about?
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't remember either, because then she
Speaker 1: says they were doing another one about something about someone
Speaker 1: in jail who had was it a carrot for the
Speaker 1: first time? I think at for Halloween. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: There was something where she was like, then he came out,
Speaker 1: he got out of prison and he had this for
Speaker 1: the first I was like, what is she talking about?
Speaker 1: Remember anyways, but that was, Yeah, it's fun to see.
Speaker 1: And then she's like and then she said a total
Speaker 1: los She's like, how can these people think this is cool?
Speaker 1: And like how can she be cool? In n y U?
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows? Right, It's like and it's hard
Speaker 1: to watch her, you know, kind of flail around there.
Speaker 1: So of course that you know immediately sparks in her
Speaker 1: this some passion to like take action and turn the
Speaker 1: tables right. But there's something in that where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you you hope that's something that Blair or
Speaker 1: you know, that she starts to learn or understand that
Speaker 1: that it's not all about like money and people being
Speaker 1: enamored with you, because you can throw a sushi party
Speaker 1: and you have yours like lifeing about that anymore? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe eating a slice of greasy pizza and watching
Speaker 1: a cool movie by someone who has a big heart
Speaker 1: isn't so bad Blair, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: then you have in that puzzle, then you have Georgina,
Speaker 1: who You're like, You're not quite sure what's up for sleep?
Speaker 1: So yeah, but by the way, the party looked great, Road,
Speaker 1: I know, the party looks fantastic. I love throw it ahead.
Speaker 1: What was the restaurant Masa on speed dial? So that
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah. But so then Georgina throws a party,
Speaker 1: oh man, like a roof party kind of. And when
Speaker 1: this goes on, the good girls gone bad. This song
Speaker 1: is going you see in New York City, you see
Speaker 1: like the sunset setting kind of. You can tell the
Speaker 1: light on everyone's faces looks beautiful. That was one of
Speaker 1: those moments where I'm like, oh, the DP was loving it,
Speaker 1: like yes, everyone's just like low to them. It was
Speaker 1: like Vanessa skin looks good. Also. It is another example
Speaker 1: of how Norman is such a great director, because it
Speaker 1: was such subtle things that made that party feel entirely
Speaker 1: different from any constance party that they had had in
Speaker 1: high school. Like you just knew you were downtown n
Speaker 1: y U college, different style, different vibe. It just was
Speaker 1: shot that way. Subtle thing. Yeah, that worked. It was
Speaker 1: so cool and he were like and and and Blair
Speaker 1: looked like she came from Mars. I mean she was
Speaker 1: like a little alien walking around there. Yeah. And it
Speaker 1: was so well done because you just saw that she
Speaker 1: was totally incapable of being chill and just like being
Speaker 1: at this party. Yeah, she was uptight, not through what
Speaker 1: to do, not sure where to turn. And then there
Speaker 1: was so much going on at this party. We got
Speaker 1: you know, Georgina there. Then we have the girl Katie
Speaker 1: who goes up to Dan in the beginning of this episode.
Speaker 1: I think her character's name was Katie. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: remember her Elena in real life. It's a really real life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She was just sorry we had we those that those
Speaker 1: scenes were long days up on that roof deck because
Speaker 1: there was just a lot to get done. But Scott
Speaker 1: gets nervous for a minute because she says something about
Speaker 1: why did you tell Vanessa about this professor? So we
Speaker 1: like again, I'm like, oh my god, is this the
Speaker 1: time where we find out that he's lying about everything?
Speaker 1: Out of it? Kind of a clever wife, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: And Blair, there's just a lot going on. But um,
Speaker 1: there was a moment where Dan goes up to Georgina
Speaker 1: and says something like, I've been the I've been in
Speaker 1: her shoes kind of like I've been on the other
Speaker 1: side where I wasn't invited to parties. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do that. And that's what I like about Dan
Speaker 1: and Vanessa like comes up a couple of times in
Speaker 1: this episode where it's like she's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we want to start fresh, and so does Georgina. Let's
Speaker 1: give her a shot. And here Dan sticking up for Blair.
Speaker 1: A season ago. You would have never thought that would
Speaker 1: come out of Dan's mouth. I like that they're both
Speaker 1: willing and open to do that for people that were
Speaker 1: both really shitty to them. So for them to like
Speaker 1: swallow their pride be open to like being nice and
Speaker 1: and moving forward and starting fresh, I think that's rad.
Speaker 1: I think that's like the maturity that's dope. I like that. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: I love that too. Yeah. And it's also like their
Speaker 1: friends what connects them to as friends. It's like you
Speaker 1: get to see what you know, why they're friends, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but lo and behold, all of a sudden, then we're
Speaker 1: you know, he's sticking up for Blair. And then Blair
Speaker 1: invites the Christian camp back Christian camp that Georgina was
Speaker 1: at to the roof and says that she's trying to
Speaker 1: convert the freshman. She's like, this is a conversion party.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and when they come in and singing the
Speaker 1: songs and so it was this was the last thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was it the asked thing you expected? Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: didn't see it coming. I mean, the only thing about
Speaker 1: that that makes sense is Blair planning it right, and
Speaker 1: its Yeah, it shows what strong adversaries they are because
Speaker 1: they're like really on the level with each other. Because
Speaker 1: like Georgina was besting her, but then she came out
Speaker 1: with something surprising and was like watch this Georgina and
Speaker 1: like smacked her with the cringe, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: like so um smacked her with the like laughing about it,
Speaker 1: because I mean it was funny and and awful at
Speaker 1: the same time. And you know, and it's also it's
Speaker 1: like both of them using the other ones weaknesses to
Speaker 1: kind of bite them. But so it's like the fact
Speaker 1: that Georgina went off into that world and used it
Speaker 1: or didn't or was honest about it, who knows. And
Speaker 1: then the kind of dropped those you know, her Christian
Speaker 1: camp high and dry and came back to the city.
Speaker 1: And it's like, now she has to kind of face
Speaker 1: that consequence because now here they come back and they're like,
Speaker 1: we missed you, we love you, come back right. It
Speaker 1: was such a crazy scene, but it funny and also
Speaker 1: really got right to the point. And then you see
Speaker 1: Dan all of a sudden having this fantastic hero moment
Speaker 1: where he gets to save the day get on stage. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Vanessa says to him, just because someone has
Speaker 1: to be on top doesn't mean it has to be Blair,
Speaker 1: and he's right, ding ing ing ing ding. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that goes and takes the mic and he gets up there.
Speaker 1: He's basically just calls Blair out. I can't remember exactly what.
Speaker 1: He basically explains that she she went ahead and called
Speaker 1: out these people from from Georgina's past to embarrass her
Speaker 1: and and you know, would you rather go and party
Speaker 1: with that person or eat pizza and drink beer with us?
Speaker 1: And it's like such a great moment. And then poor Blair,
Speaker 1: but at the same time she kind of gets her
Speaker 1: medy and has to take her medici. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: and if Dan says something up there, he says something
Speaker 1: like we all have a past. This is from the past,
Speaker 1: which I there's something in this episode where they keep
Speaker 1: bringing that up, like start fresh in the past. And
Speaker 1: I like that because I really do think when you
Speaker 1: start a new chapter in your life, whatever that thing
Speaker 1: is is, it is a new start. It's something knew.
Speaker 1: It's going to be new people in your life that
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet. There's gonna be certain things that you
Speaker 1: took from your last chapter that, Hey, I didn't really
Speaker 1: like when people made me feel like this, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay away from those types of people. Or I didn't
Speaker 1: like how I felt when I was like this, so
Speaker 1: I want to change that about me. So I like
Speaker 1: that they were dropping little things like that. It's like
Speaker 1: everyone has a past and it's true, and to hold
Speaker 1: that against someone for their past, especially if they're trying
Speaker 1: to change, Not that I think Georgina is trying to change, right,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what who knows, I don't know
Speaker 1: where it's going, but right, And your point is so
Speaker 1: well taken, because like there are other shows that kind
Speaker 1: of were teene shows or whatever, and I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: like Stay By the bell or something you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day. But you know, there there was always
Speaker 1: a tendency for any show that was kind of secured
Speaker 1: at younger people to teach a lesson you know, her episode.
Speaker 1: And in this show, there are themes that kind of
Speaker 1: recur because they're sort of organic to the characters and
Speaker 1: kind of truthful, and we can get that feeling after
Speaker 1: watching this that we kind of take something away, but
Speaker 1: it's never like wrapped up with a tidy bow. So
Speaker 1: it's like kind of what I think the Gossip Girl
Speaker 1: writers did well, which was they talked about real issues
Speaker 1: and it was relatable. But they didn't you know, lecture
Speaker 1: us or or or make a thesis every episode and
Speaker 1: be like, well, and that's why friendship is important. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's not it was never quite resolved, which
Speaker 1: was fun. I like that. One thing I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about is we've we got to remember the
Speaker 1: Bree character coming in. They were kind of light in
Speaker 1: this episode because I do think there's so much that's
Speaker 1: probably about to go down with them. But Bree and
Speaker 1: Nate decided to go to her family's apartment and she
Speaker 1: said something, you and me this apartment let's get sick
Speaker 1: of each other. Oh that's really cute. I know. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's cute. She's like, hand me your pants.
Speaker 1: I want to go through your wallet. Okay, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's the gangs her move. Yeah, let's just say, like
Speaker 1: I don't know, like there could be things that like
Speaker 1: would could turn someone off like totally. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's like a list of things I could say
Speaker 1: bold with him, right, No, I know she is. And
Speaker 1: even like even Nate's reaction was a little bit like,
Speaker 1: oh well, it's just like normal stuff. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh God, like Blair, like, is there a note from
Speaker 1: like Jenny, like what's going on? Is there still money
Speaker 1: from the cougar that you had the affair with? It's
Speaker 1: and then it's the it's his boarding pass that he
Speaker 1: met her on, which is so cute Nate. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because she says, are you still wearing the same
Speaker 1: pants or whatever is you were that day? And I
Speaker 1: was like, if it was in my life, it would
Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, last time my head. But I
Speaker 1: was like, oh no, of course, because I thought, oh
Speaker 1: she caught him. He did he double He wore his
Speaker 1: pants more than once. But no, it was truly a
Speaker 1: sweet moment and I saved that boarding. It was cute.
Speaker 1: I was really cute. Yeah, I like them together. And
Speaker 1: how like effortless and cute is she she? First, she's stunning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's lovely, and she has like I mean, they have
Speaker 1: like a good chemistry and you know, but she's also
Speaker 1: like she's playing one of these characters that could be
Speaker 1: kind of two dimensional, but she's already really lovable and
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you're a rich kid of
Speaker 1: this Buckley family or whatever, but in fact, she's totally
Speaker 1: an interesting, um fleshed out human beings. She's like already
Speaker 1: one of the characters you want to know more about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you just even like their chemistry and vibe on it.
Speaker 1: And that's how it has to be. You have to
Speaker 1: cast someone who's going to come in, bring their a game,
Speaker 1: do it make it feel you know, right, And but yeah,
Speaker 1: their whole thing is just like cute. Yeah, they're very
Speaker 1: Chasa got to work with really beautiful women, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of fantastic stars, sexy, hot, all different ages, like,
Speaker 1: all different looks, right, because Nate is one of the
Speaker 1: characters that never gets like tied down for a really
Speaker 1: long the long run. He yeah, he goes on a
Speaker 1: lot of adventures, if you will. It like like Chuck
Speaker 1: hooks up with a lot of ladies, but they're like
Speaker 1: kind of like they come and go other than Blair really,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's never really yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're all beautiful and stunning and hot, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: But Nate really has like these like little like moments
Speaker 1: with a lot of women. Think you know, they're all
Speaker 1: these like meeting people on planes and having affairs in
Speaker 1: the Hampton's. It's like, Okay, Nate, that's the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's going on. And she's on a phone call
Speaker 1: with her mom and here's like again, how they set
Speaker 1: this up. I'm like, oh god, she's gonna say something
Speaker 1: where where Nate's gonna hear it and be turned away
Speaker 1: or turned off. And really they threw me. It was yeah,
Speaker 1: but mom, I really like him, oh you know. And
Speaker 1: then her mom hangs up on her and it comes
Speaker 1: there to comfort her and there's just something I'm really
Speaker 1: liking them right now together and they're really going after
Speaker 1: their feelings because being in their shoes, I could imagine
Speaker 1: would be very difficult when it's politics and different families
Speaker 1: and different sides. Imagine how it is when it's politics
Speaker 1: and different sides in your own family when you have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with politics, right right, and when your
Speaker 1: family is then your family and is I mean that's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a difficult thing of you know
Speaker 1: how to handle it. It sort of relates to what
Speaker 1: you were saying earlier, Serena, kind of when not wanting
Speaker 1: to disappoint Lily. And there's another layer here too, which
Speaker 1: is that do you want to disappoint your own family
Speaker 1: because you're into somebody and you want to like, where
Speaker 1: do you follow your heart versus where are you a
Speaker 1: loyal family member? Kid comes to play in different ways
Speaker 1: here because for them, what they're doing has has consequences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally little Romeo and Juliet situation, less dramatic ending, but
Speaker 1: although I don't remember exactly what happens, so we'll find out.
Speaker 1: I know, I gotta watch that movie again. So that's happening.
Speaker 1: And then Rufus and Serena do they figure it out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have an apology. She goes to the loft and
Speaker 1: he finds her there, and so I think it's touching
Speaker 1: to him that she finds it, that it's a safe
Speaker 1: space for her, or that she feels a part of
Speaker 1: the family to go to the loft. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the start of the sort of apology, mutual apology.
Speaker 1: And it seems like, you know, he wants to sort
Speaker 1: of help her, you know, figure things out. So it's
Speaker 1: like she has allies, she has people who want to
Speaker 1: help her to sort of chart her path, but she
Speaker 1: has to let him in, right. I wonder if what's
Speaker 1: going to happen is she's gonna get close with Rufus,
Speaker 1: rely on him for you know, some father figure tips
Speaker 1: and comfort, and then her father is going to come
Speaker 1: in and probably pull some ship that's probably not great
Speaker 1: for Serena. Something's gonna go down, and she's going to
Speaker 1: choose her dad, who had nothing to do with her.
Speaker 1: We're getting a stable father figure, right, because since Rufus
Speaker 1: is being established, that makes sense. It's setting us up
Speaker 1: for some kind of complications. Again, how the irony of
Speaker 1: Kelly having her baby. It doesn't feel like sometimes I
Speaker 1: think when someone's out for pregnancy, you can kind of
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, they had to shift this, or do this,
Speaker 1: or do that, like for a reason, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like that, Like I forgot. I had to look it up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why isn't really in this episode? Oh? Because
Speaker 1: she had a baby. But it just feels like organic, right,
Speaker 1: you know, the storyline is so deeply embracing it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how what their timeline was like when
Speaker 1: they were writing, you know, how far ahead they were
Speaker 1: conceiving of plotlines, but certainly having her absence here is
Speaker 1: allowing for a lot of character development with Serena and
Speaker 1: Rufus and everyone. So it's like, you're right, it's like really, um,
Speaker 1: it feels organic and truthful and just a bit yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it fits. But she's supposed to be with CC,
Speaker 1: right right? And I kind of like that because because
Speaker 1: like when we last saw them together, they were so
Speaker 1: troubled and then they kind of had that lovely moment.
Speaker 1: So then the idea that CC is sick and Lily
Speaker 1: kind of gave up everything to be with her is
Speaker 1: actually sweet too, Like I feel like that's works too, right, No,
Speaker 1: it does? It all works? Yeah, And then in this
Speaker 1: episode we have this um idea that Carter is still around,
Speaker 1: and Serena kind of uses him to just thinking about Carter.
Speaker 1: Serena kind of employs Carter to help embarrass Chuck in
Speaker 1: this with his business partners, and then Carter, I guess,
Speaker 1: realizes that he's been used and they have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a blow up and then they resolve it.
Speaker 1: She says something interesting to me. She's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're there with me all summer. You are the only
Speaker 1: one that knows really what I was going through with
Speaker 1: the whole situation with her father, and she can trust him.
Speaker 1: I feel like, she says trust, which I'm like, the
Speaker 1: whole thing that you're telling your friends is that he's
Speaker 1: like this psycho right right right? So yeah, but do
Speaker 1: you kind of feel like that they're going to still
Speaker 1: stay together? And he kind of says, you have to
Speaker 1: find someone else. Basically they had a kiss and that
Speaker 1: sort of makeup scene where they kind of come clean.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know where that's going.
Speaker 1: It's like it keeps some sort of creeping out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, and you don't know with them too.
Speaker 1: It's also like that conundrum in life where sometimes someone's
Speaker 1: there in the right time and place and you kind
Speaker 1: of need that relationship to help you through something, but
Speaker 1: then would it stand on its own merits? I kind
Speaker 1: of fill certain voids, So that's kind of a curiosity
Speaker 1: of that. But then we have m Blair arrives to
Speaker 1: Chucks and have him and you're just like, oh, she
Speaker 1: like climbs in the little ben. She's like, maybe you
Speaker 1: were right about the dorms. It was like Blair, He's like,
Speaker 1: sound asleep. How cute was it when she got in
Speaker 1: bed with him? Not it was very sweet. I'm like,
Speaker 1: Shock and Blair, you're so cute. They're so cute. And
Speaker 1: also it's that in terms of people waking up in
Speaker 1: the morning the best reveals at the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: which I just like got such a kick out of,
Speaker 1: and it's like I saw it coming a bit, but
Speaker 1: oh you did a little once it was once the
Speaker 1: shot was established I saw. I was like, oh see,
Speaker 1: I didn't and I didn't feel like there was any
Speaker 1: kind of like I think when Dan got up and
Speaker 1: kind of stuck up for Georgina, when Blair pulled the
Speaker 1: whole thing on the roof deck party, I kind of
Speaker 1: didn't see, like, oh, I thought it was kind of
Speaker 1: like Vanessa kind of made something trigger in his head right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be that. It doesn't I just
Speaker 1: figured he was like, okay, it doesn't have to be nasty,
Speaker 1: Like Georgina really was trying here. And then Scott shows
Speaker 1: up at the bookstore telling Vanessa here's like a list
Speaker 1: of you know, the professors, again proving himself. Now I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: he's really going for it. Here's a list of professors,
Speaker 1: was full on details grades, and like I was like, okay, Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little scared. And she's like, should I call
Speaker 1: Dan to see if he wants to? I don't know
Speaker 1: what they were gonna do, talk about all the epic nous,
Speaker 1: she says, because I'm like an epic nous, Vanessa, that
Speaker 1: doesn't okay, all the epicness from last night. And he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm hungover whatever he's doing. And then it cuts to him,
Speaker 1: and he well because the fact that it cuts to
Speaker 1: him and he's like still on the roof deck in
Speaker 1: this morning, and he's like and then the but then
Speaker 1: when the way he sits up, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's got he's got somebody in his lap. I just
Speaker 1: like and then I was like, it's gotta be Georgina.
Speaker 1: So that's like, that's what I meant when I said
Speaker 1: I stopped coming, but only right then in that second,
Speaker 1: right before they panned down reveal her. Um, I still
Speaker 1: was like what it was wild? And then she's just
Speaker 1: like laying on his chest and it's and then they yeah,
Speaker 1: they kissed. But it was a very fun kind of
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl ending to a very um gossip Girl episode.
Speaker 1: You know, it was like this episode had all the
Speaker 1: good you know, yeah, Um, I just had a question.
Speaker 1: So Chuck Steel is like dead, like it can't happen,
Speaker 1: Like I think Serena ruined it, right, I believe. So
Speaker 1: I'm kind of irritated about that. You know, me too,
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, I forgot to mention this
Speaker 1: when we were talking about that. There was one small
Speaker 1: thing that reminded me about how this show is now
Speaker 1: kind of a piece of history because when they're talking
Speaker 1: about the speakeasy and he's showing Serena the plans she
Speaker 1: they talked about how the last time there was a
Speaker 1: market crash was like back in the days of prohibition. Basically,
Speaker 1: they say that back in the day when there was
Speaker 1: a market crash, it was you know, prohibition was a
Speaker 1: different time and the speakeasies reminiscent of that era. And
Speaker 1: then because this was like around two thousand eight, that
Speaker 1: when this episode was shot, and that's when we had
Speaker 1: the huge market crash and the whole mortgage bubble and
Speaker 1: everything burst and it was like tremendous downfall. Find all
Speaker 1: the financial institutions were crumbling. So this like Glamor and
Speaker 1: Wealth of the Upper east Side and Gossip Girl, like
Speaker 1: they had to address that as in the writer's room
Speaker 1: because it was like, so, uh, that was the world
Speaker 1: we lived in at the time. So it was funny
Speaker 1: because I forgot about that context and so seeing that
Speaker 1: little moment where you remember like, oh, this is a
Speaker 1: show that happened in its time, as we know, with
Speaker 1: the self owns in the technology, but also with what
Speaker 1: was happening in the world. So that was one little
Speaker 1: funny moment for me. Yeah I noticed, Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: It was by very quickly, but I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was when the world, you know, it was exploding. Um,
Speaker 1: absolutely wild. There was another thing that I liked, and
Speaker 1: I can't remember where where the line was. Somebody said, oh,
Speaker 1: it was Georgina. I guess she said I got my
Speaker 1: meds right. Finally was Georgina, and it was potentially the
Speaker 1: best Vanessa face I've ever seen, Like it has to
Speaker 1: be like a GIF out there somewhere, because like Vanessa's face.
Speaker 1: It was just like the reaction of just like that
Speaker 1: side I like this girl, this world. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was so good. You know where that was? That was
Speaker 1: in the bookstore because it was something she kind of
Speaker 1: said because she kind of keeps walking away and then
Speaker 1: she comes back Georgina and she's like, I mean I
Speaker 1: did this, this and this, but I don't remember what
Speaker 1: Vanessa did. But you know else I realized in this episode,
Speaker 1: just the total change of style of Carter basin car
Speaker 1: squeezing and season in the beginning of season two or
Speaker 1: season one, maybe is wearing like huge, really cute looking
Speaker 1: like sweaters. I remember when Sebastian was on. I think
Speaker 1: he was like maybe like a rug looking thing. I'm like, god,
Speaker 1: I thought it was cute. But now he's in full
Speaker 1: blown suits looking very DApp like great, but he is
Speaker 1: not wearing a rug or No, he's he's not like
Speaker 1: chic fluffy sweater. No, that's true, that's really true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that it was fun to see, um where
Speaker 1: these characters begin this episode and then end this episode,
Speaker 1: so you have like all the hope, all the hope
Speaker 1: for poor Blair and then it's crushed and then you
Speaker 1: have all of this uh you know, you don't even
Speaker 1: know Georgina is around, and by the end she's cuddling
Speaker 1: up on Dance. So this episode really takes us a
Speaker 1: good long distance. And I noticed Michelle Michelle Trachtonburg is
Speaker 1: going to be the new season of two of the
Speaker 1: New Gossip Girl. So I saw some pictures on social
Speaker 1: media and she looks fantastic and like so conniving. So
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't wait to see the return,
Speaker 1: the return of the return of Georgina. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see that. Well, that wraps up the freshman
Speaker 1: the freshman. Can you imagine what what were the sophomores,
Speaker 1: juniors and seniors of Gossip Girl doing? If this is
Speaker 1: what the fresh memory do? I know, no, imagine Poppy
Speaker 1: pops up Poppies not in college either though, right I
Speaker 1: don't know where's Poppy Ariel. It would fun be fun
Speaker 1: to have like one little capsule episode or spinoff episode
Speaker 1: that just tracked all of the characters who have like
Speaker 1: sort of disappeared from Gossip Girl, you know, and see
Speaker 1: what they're up to now, and they're totally you know.
Speaker 1: But also question where when is Nate not starting school?
Speaker 1: He referenced it in the beginning that I can't remember
Speaker 1: he said he said something about his internship, but that
Speaker 1: he gave up and that he was doing a business
Speaker 1: thing instead. I think we'll find out which direction here
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yes, um, I love this Gossip Girl quote.
Speaker 1: You want to do it? Um, sure, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Yeah, I think it's a good one.
Speaker 1: Apparently higher education doesn't make for smarter decisions, So take
Speaker 1: out your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. Kids, Gossip Girls
Speaker 1: going to college and this class has a lot to learn. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see just all the things, all
Speaker 1: the things. Um yeah, well this was super fun. This great.
Speaker 1: We have season three, Season three, episode three next week,
Speaker 1: the Lost Boy. Um, we have someone fun coming on
Speaker 1: to do that. And just want to say thank you
Speaker 1: listeners for tuning in. We have so much fun and
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Until next time. X O x
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