S1E9
Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
Gossip Girl · 2007-11-28 · 41 min
FLICKFEEL
48
from 33 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Dan invites Serena and her family to spend the holiday with his family, creating an uncomfortable situation for Rufus and Lily. The children are unaware of their complicated romantic past. Meanwhile, Blair's freaks out when she learns that her father isn't coming home for Thanksgiving. Nate spends the holiday with his family, but their awkward dinner quickly goes from bad to worse.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
20
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
65
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 33 comments — 11 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 11 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
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
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.
“the look of heartbreak on max's face as 'traitor' started playing is easily the most powerful scene in this entire show so far imo.”
hyoies▲ 82about 75–100% inread it ↗
“pretty much all of julien and zoya’s writing in this episode regarding the davis storyline was so forced and heavy handed. it was *bad*.”
twinkyoda▲ 60about 0–100% inread it ↗
“i honestly dislike the entire davis storyline period. it’s such a touchy subject and i don’t think they’re handling it well. it also feels too dark and aimed at adults for the show and has consumed the entire past three episodes when the show is supposed to be gossip girl, not crime girl.”
twinkyoda▲ 60about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Julien's speech in the subway was not exactly nessecary. Felt kinda forced.”
blushdreams445▲ 56about 0–15% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Mark Piznarski
- written
- Jessica Queller, K.J. Steinberg
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Susan Misner as Alison Humphrey- LLuz Alexandra Ramos as Nurse
Francie Swift as Anne Archibald
John Shea as Harold Waldorf
Sam Robards as Howard Archibald
Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota Kishlovsky
Michelle Hurd as Laurel