Recap

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Upper East Side feels... fine. The Gossip Girl series-ending Season 6 finale shocked us, brought us to tears, vindicated our hours logged on Chair-shipping Tumblrs, and wrapped a big Tiffany-blue bow around a show we’ve worshipped for six tumultuous years. Now, we can rest easy knowing Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) and Blair Waldorf (...

Gossip Girl Season 6, Episode 9: "The Revengers" begins with Blair (Leighton Meester) in the midst of a bizarre dream, wherein a partially disguised Bart Bass tells her, “You could wake up dead, Mrs. Bass, like last week’s news.” It’s a jarring, jolting opening to an episode built on the show’s greatest strengths: quips, drama, feuds, and epic romance. While...

Just when we thought our favorite CW soap had lost its grip on dramatic tension, style, and all things Chair (read: the most important things in life), showrunners served up Gossip Girl Season 6, Episode 8, "It's Really Complicated.” Although the characters were meeting under the guise of a traditional holiday meal, it was essentially just a way to roundup up all of the UES’ most......

We know that when it comes to naming a Gossip Girl episode, films get the tongue-in-cheek nod of a twisted title. But this one might as well have been subtitled “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” And on the UES, “desperate times” mean family feuds, failing fashion lines, and murky financial secrets. In short: everyone has retreated inside their darkest...

Eleanor Waldorf returns from the vague European city in which she’s been holing up, and promptly accuses Blair (Leighton Meester) of ruining the Waldorf reputation. Usual mom stuff. Eleanor lectures Blair about her “two natures.” Eleanor has been briefed (presumably by the now-absent Jean-Pierre) about Blair’s recent runway bullying. “My Grace Kelly can defeat...