Hi  !  Sign Out
Thanks for signing in! Soon you'll be able to see what your friends are reading and manage your activity!

Invite friends and see what they're reading on Wetpaint Entertainment!

Recap of Gossip Girl, Episode 4.1: "Belles du Jour"

Photo:

We want to be besties with you too!

Gossip Girl goes internationale for the Season 4 premiere, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. We’ve got new babies, new love affairs, and psychopaths both old and new. Let’s track our favorite bored rich kids across the time zones.
Paris

Who cares what anyone else is up to? Blair and Serena are in Paris. And they’re not grubbing around in hostels and sticking to the cheap cafes either — they’re living la vie Parisienne as few can dream of, hitting all the best restaurants and shops in town. But while Paris may be heavenly, this wouldn’t be Gossip Girl if there wasn’t trouble brewing in paradise.

Blair is trying desperately to forget Chuck, but not one cute Frenchman has tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she’d like to partake of a sex game based on Russian literature. When she meets what seems to be a real prince, Blair thinks things are looking up, till it turns out it’s his driver who asked her out. The prince is his buddy. Serena’s date.

S makes things worse by neglecting to inform B of an important little fact: She’ll be joining her at Columbia in the fall. Blair swallows her own insecurity to maturely support her friend. No, but seriously, she totally shoves Serena in a fountain.

Serena decides to leave Paris for less damp climes, but Blair, finally admitting her Chuck-induced heartbreak, begs her to stay. They have one of those huggy, smiley reconciliations. They’ll be at each other’s throats by October.
New York

Guess who’s not having a good summer? Dan! He’s shacked up with Georgina in the now-filthy loft; he hasn’t talked to his family, friends, or Vanessa all summer; and — oh yeah — he has a freaking kid with Georgina. Of course, this is G, so even trusting Dan isn’t quite sure he’s the daddy. Georgina isn’t inspiring our trust by babbling away secretively in Russian and going behind Dan’s back to introduce baby Milo to Rufus and Lily. Lily, who is used to a new quasi-stepchild wandering into her brood every few months, takes it in stride. Rufus, not so much, even though G has an apparently legit paternity test. Despite papa’s preaching, though, Dan signs the birth certificate. Mazel tov!

Also not at his best is Nate, who is tiring of Chuck’s loaned skanks, especially since he’s too nice to keep him in check. Luckily he meets Juliet, a nice, sensible girl who calls him on his crap and offers to lend him an ear about Serena. How nice that Nate can finally date a girl who’s a good influence. No, wait. OH MY GOD SHE HAS A TERRIFYING STALKER MAP OF ALL THE UPPER EAST SIDERS. RUN NATE, RUN.

And where is Lily’s favorite stepchild, you may ask? Well, she’d like to know where Chuck is too, since no one’s heard from him in months. And then a body washes up in Paris with Chuck’s ID on it...
Prague

But it’s not him! Chuck is alive! Apparently he spent the summer with the blonde French girl from Harry Potter (Clemence Poesy), having flashbacks to all the bad stuff he’s done (various attempted rapes, girl-for-hotel swaps, Jenny Humphrey), which might sound awful, but at least it distracted him from the fact that she was treating his gunshot wound in her bed. Don’t they have hospitals in Prague?

Chuck and his new girlfriend head to Paris, where he’ll apparently start a new life — because he’s now calling himself Henry Prince. Who wants to bet “Henry’s” new girlfriend is in for a rude Blair-borne awakening?
  • 1

Comments

  • Most Recent
  • Across Wetpaint
article
Gossip Girl Season 6 Spoilers: Are Blair and Dan Over for Good?
video
Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford on Teaching Ed Westwick Basic Life Skills (VIDEO)

article
Blake Lively Lands on Maxim’s Hot 100 List: But What About Her Gossip Girl Co-stars?
article
Which Sexy Celeb Topped 2012’s Maxim Hot 100?

article
Will There Be a Gossip Girl Movie? Chace Crawford Weighs In on "Long Shot" Possibility
article
Which TV Shows Have Been Renewed and Cancelled So Far?

article
Gossip Girl Season 6 Synopsis: Our In-Depth Analysis — New Clues Revealed!

article
Chuck and Blair’s Epic Love Story: The Complex History of Gossip Girl’s “Chair”
video
Ed Westwick Shares His Favorite Chuck Bass Quote of All Time (VIDEO)

article
Which Former Gossip Girl Star Would Consider Returning for Season 6?
article
Gossip Girl’s Finale Shockers: Five Seasons of Crazy Cliffhangers

article
Report: Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford Now Dating DWTS Alum Erin Andrews
article
Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley Nominated For 2012 Teen Choice Awards

article
Gossip Girl Season 6 Will Be Shorter — but HOW Short?
article
2012 Teen Choice Awards Nominations: The First Wave!

article
Gossip Girl Quotes: Top 10 Chuck Bass Lines of All Time
article
Gossip Girl’s Final Season: When Will Season 6 Start — and How Will It End?

video
Chace Crawford on What He Cooks to Woo the Ladies: "Easy Mac"?

1 of 10