S2E1
Summer Kind of Wonderful
Gossip Girl · 2008-09-01 · 41 min
FLICKFEEL
67
from 31 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
As the summer draws to a close in the Hamptons, Serena and Nate have everyone fooled into thinking they are a couple to cover up the fact that Nate has been hooking up with a married, older woman. Blair returns from abroad with a hot guy on her arm, making a very jealous Chuck question his decision to leave Blair stranded at the heliport. Dan has spent the summer assisting a famous author. While interning for Eleanor Waldorf's company, Jenny sneaks an invite to a much-coveted Hamptons' White Party at which Eric introduces her to socialite Tinsley Mortimer.
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
73
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
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 31 comments — 10 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 10 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 Monet and Camille fight was the best scene in the show.”
tdalindsay▲ 239about 33–66% inread it ↗
“The Dinner scene in episode 2 was also really fun.”
tdalindsay▲ 239about 10–20% inread it ↗
“AkiAudrey avoiding Max had me cackling the whole episode.”
tdalindsay▲ 239about 0–100% inread it ↗
“E1 was the debutante staircase moment while E2 was the dinner table. It was hilarious, camp, and very classic GG. Both climax made sense and got solved right after that, which is a relief.”
Luckyprincess99▲ 128about 80–90% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- J. Miller Tobin
- written
- Joshua Safran
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Paloma Guzmán as Girl with Dan #1
Patrick Heusinger as Marcus Beaton
Mädchen Amick as Catherine Beaton
Tinsley Mortimer as Tinsley Mortimer- AAlexandra Carl as Laurel's Assistant
Jay McInerney as Jeremiah Harris
Caroline Lagerfelt as CeCe Rhodes
Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen