During the years of 2007 to 2012, Gossip Girl reigned the teen tv genre. Gossip Girl was the show and we all either loved it or hated it, or loved to hate it.
It’s one of those shows that could only really exist in that time, because I think most of us like to think that the screen industry has progressed further than serving up the same old white twenty-something-year-old “teens” and their privileged storylines.
While there was (and still is) a lot of love for Gossip Girl, if you were to describe it, it would sound something like this:
“Rich, unreasonably attractive private school students do horrible, scandalous things to each other. Repeatedly.”
Netflix: “let’s get someone who fuckin hates Gossip Girl to write the description of Gossip Girl” pic.twitter.com/BewiyilXmK
— How To Be Alone (by me Lane Moore) is out now (@hellolanemoore) December 11, 2018
Comedian Lane Moore highlighted the Netflix description for GG, commenting that it sounds like they ordered someone who hates the show to write the description.
While she’s not wrong, people have responded with the counter-take, that it also sounds like it could have been written by someone who LOVES the show.
Hilarious that the write-up sounds like it could have been written by its biggest hater OR its most diehard fan
— Sam Machkovech ? E3 (@samred) December 11, 2018
However the writer felt about the show, they really nailed the bio. This is the most concisely accurate way to describe Gossip Girl that it’s actually touching my heart.
omg. They also understand the show in such a profound way it's almost poetry.
— Ben Philippe (@gohomeben) December 11, 2018
RIP Gossip Girl. You were a wild ride and believe me when I say, we truly hope you never have a revival.