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Just, you know, some 16-year-olds hanging out. Onetime blogging prodigy Tavi Gevinson - who started her fashion blog Style Rookie when she was 11, the year after Original Gossip Girl ( OGG?) premiered - plays the teacher the helm of this pack, and she's terrific.

Only one element plays like comedy: a knot of miserable teachers tired of being tormented by, and at the mercy of, their spoiled students (still at the same school, Constance Billard-St. Showrunner Joshua Safran, who also worked on the original GG, told Variety that he wanted to the new show to be more diverse, but also more straightforwardly and intentionally funny. It's a well-worn criticism to say a show doesn't know what kind of show it's trying to be, but in this case, it's a pronounced problem.

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When people wonder why reboots keep happening, it's this kind of project they have in mind: an update for an update's sake, an intellectual-property extension that lacks a clear creative impulse. And what's lacking here is any coherent and compelling story for these kids to cover on the group text. The presence of smartphones, Black students and bisexuality doesn't solve story problems it creates broader and better paths to follow, which don't matter if you don't travel them. The presence of smartphones, Black students and bisexuality doesn't solve story problems it creates broader and better paths to follow, which don't matter if you don't travel them.īut the impulse to do these generational updates is not enough. The impulse to do these generational updates is not enough. The new Saved by the Bell was pretty good, too - certainly better than a lot of critics expected it to be. But the rebooted One Day at a Time was great, and it met that desire to broaden the world you saw in the original, incorporating not only a Latinx family, but a queer teenager and her nonbinary significant other. Around the same time as Gossip Girl, there was even a reboot of Beverly Hills, 90210, one of GG's spiritual ancestors, which lasted for several seasons, but lacked GG's impact. This is certainly not the first effort, nor will it be the last, to port an old property into a generationally different setting, and the record of success and failure is spotty and unpredictable. The original Gossip Girl had a lot going for it for the audience it reached, but it was very white and very straight, which is blessedly not what television aimed at younger viewers looks like anymore. It was quintessentially millennial good trash.Īnd now, HBO Max - which also has all six seasons of the original GG - has undertaken a sequel, a Gen-Z sequel, defined in part by some laudable intentions. It made stars out of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley, among others. Gossip Girl was of its time: a plunge into a world of rich New York high school students in the early days of social media - it debuted the same year as the iPhone, and its hook was a blog (a blog!) written by the titular and anonymous 'Gossip Girl' that tracked and reported on the goings-on among the high-status Blair, Serena, Dan, Nate, Chuck, and their aspirational hangers-on and detractors. It was saying: Join us, won't you? For we are the good trash.

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When the CW released a series of ads before Gossip Girl's second season in 2008 that showed people in various passionate embraces and gleefully highlighted press blurbs of the show as 'a nasty piece of work,' 'every parent's nightmare,' and 'mind-blowingly inappropriate,' the network was saying one very simple thing. The good trash is not mean, it is not pretentious, and it does not put on airs. It has an internal logic: wrongs are avenged, parties are disrupted, beautiful consenting adults rarely close the door on the possibility of having sex with each other, meanies can have a change of heart if they're really loved, and it only rains when people need to get stuck indoors to dry off naked. It is untethered from boring realities about Carrie Bradshaw's rent, but recognizably based in human frailties like Carrie Bradshaw's inability to pick a good boyfriend over a bad one.

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The good trash is scandalous, full of panache, eminently watchable, and light as a feather. It's harder to make than it looks, the good trash.

Jordan Alexander, Thomas Doherty, Evan Mock and Emily Alyn Lind in HBO Max's Gossip Girl.

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