Gossip Girl season 1

18 episodes · 2007

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what happens

The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side first learn that notorious party girl Serena Van Der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives–from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. Serena’s closest friend, Blair, is just as surprised as everyone else to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. The tension between Blair and Serena isn’t lost on Gossip Girl, who is determined to uncover and fuel any and all scandals. Does it involve Serena’s younger brother Eric, Blair’s boyfriend Nate or Nate’s buddy Chuck? Maybe it has something to do with Dan and his sister Jenny, whose middle-class background keeps them on the fringes of this exclusive clique who live for fashion, shopping and partying–along with gossip.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 386 comments — 105 said when · across 12 episodes.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the first half it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. It tightens hardest in the first half.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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➖ steady — holds one level all the way

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“Audrey accidentally outing Aki, Aki's dad publicly outing him and Max sending the video to GG made it happen”
WhoWantsWaffles▲ 298about 80–90% inread it ↗
“Dan/Serena, Blair/Churck made me laugh”
▲ 267about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Did anyone else cringe sooo bad at the Zoya’s video scene?? Like I literally closed my eyes for a lot of it and had to pause and take a break”
Kcatlol▲ 262about 33–66% inread it ↗
“only 4 minutes in but how the fuck would gossip girl calling out their petty drama motivate students to participate in class lmao”
ezdoesit1111▲ 239about 0–5% inread it ↗

episodes

10 of 18 with a score

Every episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.

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