Gossip Girl follows the lives of privileged teenagers on the upper east side. Serena Van Der Woodsen is a blonde and beautiful socialite, Everyone knows Serena. Blair Waldorf is Serena's best friend but it's always about Serena not Blair. Nate Archibald i
And so it ends — not with a bang but with a whimper. Though I watched the “Gossip Girl“ finale while sleep deprived after an international flight, I’ve been ruminating on it for a day (which, let’s be honest, is far more examination than it deserves), just to make sure I couldn’t blame the episode’s awfulness on my delirium.
We all knew that the series finale wasn’t going to be good — it’s still the same writing team who led us down this merry, Sage-filled path all season, after all — but I guess I wanted to give it more credit than it actually merited, as if the producers were going to pull an eleventh hour 180 and address all the insanity, self-indulgence and mind-boggling characterization we’ve suffered through for the past few seasons.
Alas and alack, the writers knew that those who have remained loyal to the show for the past six years, masochists that they are, only wanted two things — their favorite couples together and an answer to the mystery that has plagued us for years: Who is Gossip Girl?
