Gossip Girl Can Barely Handle The Show It Has Now

It's being reported this morning that the CW will move forward with a Gossip Girl spin-off show. From E!:

The new venture from GG creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage is not, however, going to be a by-the-book look at Taylor Momsen's character, Jenny Humphrey, but rather an original story about Lily van der Woodsen's surely scandalous teen years growing up in the 1980s.

Surely Lily Van Der Woodsen's teen years were scandalous. Surely. Surely scandalous. Writing!

I feel like Gossip Girl is at the precipice of an enormous crossroads right now, because its increasingly outlandish plotlines and always-tenuous grasp on reality is pushing it further and further into fourth season The O.C. "wait, is Ryan fucking CAGEFIGHTING?" territory. The last thing this show needs is a concurrent alternate set of subplots to get things twisted, not to mention the fact that a show set in 1980s LA is basically a period piece at this point. A period piece with a BAD track record:

Never forget.

Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Soap Operas
Tags: Gossip Girl | Lily Van Der Woodsen | Spinoff

11 Comments

Kelly Rutherford threw a laptop at her husband in real life. I want to watch the Kelly Rutherford Cage Fighting Divorce Comedy Hour.

Posted by: sarcasticmeow at 01/15/09 9:37 AM | Reply
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Seriously?

Posted by: Ballroom Pink  in reply to sarcasticmeow's comment at 01/16/09 5:05 PM | Reply
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the description on the OC video is "Ryan beats crap out of some guy for revenge" so that's always great. FOR REVENGE.

Posted by: kelly at 01/15/09 10:05 AM | Reply
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Gag me with a spoon

Posted by: sarcasticmeow  in reply to kelly's comment at 01/15/09 10:30 AM | Reply
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Fuck me gently with a chainsaw

Posted by: Sammy at 01/15/09 10:34 AM | Reply
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You'll need a lot of lube with that!

Posted by: sarcasticmeow  in reply to Sammy's comment at 01/15/09 10:54 AM | Reply
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Holy crap, that's Dennis.

Posted by: Lulubelle at 01/15/09 2:17 PM | Reply
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Damn it, it's set in LA? I was thinking if it was new york it would totally be JUST LIKE The Warriors. But now it seems its going to be just like Monkey Shines.

Posted by: Mandy at 01/16/09 2:08 AM | Reply
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OMG maybs they'll film it at pomo!

Posted by: natty  in reply to Mandy's comment at 01/16/09 5:02 AM | Reply
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Just because this show is going to be set in the 80's doesn't mean it will fail. The problem with that 80's show was that it was constantly hitting you over the head with 80's references, not to mention that the characters were stupid and unlikeable. That's 70's show had a good balance of being set in the 70's, yet not overpowering us with references from that time period. As long as they don't try to put too much emphasis on the actual time frame, this show should be okay.

Posted by: aaron at 01/17/09 1:03 PM | Reply
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Whatever happened to Eddie Shin? That Depressed Mode line was classic.

Posted by: Zzyzx at 04/21/09 2:40 AM | Reply
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