If We Jump in Again Gossip Girl

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Starring
  • Blake Lively
  • Leighton Meester
  • Penn Badgley
  • Chace Crawford
  • Taylor Momsen
  • Ed Westwick
  • Jessica Szohr
  • Kelly Rutherford
  • Matthew Settle
Land of origin United States
No. of episodes 18
Release
Original network The CW
Original release September 19, 2007 (2007-09-19) –
May xix, 2008 (2008-05-19)
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The start season of the American teen drama boob tube serial Gossip Girl premiered on The CW on September xix, 2007, and concluded on May nineteen, 2008, consisting of 18 episodes. Based on the novel serial of the aforementioned name by Cecily von Ziegesar, the serial was developed for goggle box past Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Brutal. Information technology tells the story of Serena van der Woodsen's return to Manhattan's Upper Due east Side in New York City post-obit her mysterious disappearance to boarding schoolhouse in Connecticut, while being watched past gossip website Gossip Daughter.

The first 13 episodes of Gossip Girl aired in the United States on Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. on The CW, a terrestrial television network. With the exception of the 12th episode "Schoolhouse Lies", the first 13 episodes aired on the CTV Television Network in Canada 1 solar day prior to their U.s.a. airdate. Post-obit the 100-day writers strike, the rest of the flavour aired on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. The flavor was released on DVD equally a 5-disc box set nether the title of Gossip Girl: The Consummate First Season on August 19, 2008, past Warner Home Video. The pilot episode was made available every bit a complimentary download to registered users of the US iTunes Store prior to its premiere on television. Subsequent episodes became bachelor to purchase following their original ambulation.

Plot [edit]

The return of "information technology girl" Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) to the Upper Eastward Side serves as the start flavour's focal bespeak. Shrouded in mystery and scandal, Serena'due south disappearance and sudden return are announced past the all-seeing blogger Gossip Girl. The news reaches Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) whose life is torn apart when the surreptitious behind Serena's leaving is revealed: Serena was seduced by Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), the Aureate Boy of the Upper East Side and Blair's boyfriend, the night she left town. Nate announces his feelings for Serena a number of times and a series of battles ensue betwixt the former Queen Bee Serena and her heir, Blair. Notwithstanding, the rift resolves in reconciliation betwixt the 2 and temporary peace follows. Meanwhile, siblings Dan (Penn Badgley) and Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen), Brooklyn residents, are attracted by the opulent wealth of their classmates. Young Jenny becomes a cunning protégée to Blair while Dan enters a relationship with Serena. It is revealed that their relationship resembles the ane between Dan's father Rufus (Matthew Settle) and Serena's mother Lily (Kelly Rutherford) in their youth.

Equally a subplot, Blair and Nate suffer problems in their relationship when the dangerously seductive Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) conquers Blair'southward fragile heart. The manipulative Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) arrives, creating a lot of trouble and revealing the real reason behind Serena'due south disappearance: a death Serena thought she was responsible for. When Georgina arrives on the Upper E Side she poses as a naive woman named Sarah in lodge to destroy Serena's newfound happiness. She succeeds in exposing Serena's deep-hidden secrets, taking Dan abroad from her and outing Serena'due south brother as gay. At the same time, Blair falls for Chuck, but equally a price they both lose Nate. Not able to withstand the vulnerability a love relationship demands, Chuck leaves Blair.

In the midst of all these events, Dan greets Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) dorsum to his life. Vanessa is a childhood friend of his and an outsider herself. She threatens his feelings for Serena, until he realizes the existent love he has for her. At the end of the season, the Upper East Siders team up to blackball Georgina from New York. Serena then leaves with Nate to the Hamptons, while Chuck abandons a heartbroken Blair. Dan reconciles with Vanessa and returns to his old life in Brooklyn. A disgraced Jenny departs Blair'due south clique and earns an internship as a style designer in a company endemic by Blair's female parent.

Bandage and characters [edit]

Episodes [edit]

Casting [edit]

The initial season had nine major roles receive star billing. Blake Lively portrayed initial protagonist Serena van der Woodsen, a erstwhile it girl of the Upper East Side, who returns from a mysterious stay at a boarding school in Connecticut,[nineteen] with Kelly Rutherford playing her mother Lily, a multiple-divorced socialite. Leighton Meester played Queen Bee, and the show's eventual protagonist, Blair Waldorf, who is less than happy to see her best friend return.[19] Penn Badgley acted as middle-class outsider Dan Humphrey,[19] with Matthew Settle playing his begetter Rufus, former stone star turned art dealer, and Taylor Momsen portraying his sister, Jenny, a freshman looking to fit in with the elite oversupply at Constance Billiard. Chace Crawford portrayed Blair'due south boyfriend Nate Archibald, who has a affair for Serena. Ed Westwick played a womanizing actor and 'bad boy' Chuck Bass.[xix] Originally only a guest star, Jessica Szohr starred as Dan'due south childhood all-time friend, Vanessa Abrams. Szohr gained a contract to the main cast list in the fourteenth episode.

Kristen Bell voiced "Gossip Girl", whose gossip commentary weblog is widely visited by the youths of the Upper East Side social scene.[19] Numerous supporting characters were given expansive and recurring appearances in the progressive storyline, including Connor Paolo who portrayed Serena's brother, Eric van der Woodsen, who had been placed into a rehab center following a suicide attempt. Margaret Colin acted as Blair's mother, Eleanor Waldorf, a mode designer. Colin took over from Florencia Lozano who played the role in the pilot episode. Michelle Trachtenberg acts as Georgina Sparks, a daughter from Serena's past who returns later on escaping rehab in Utah. Sam Robards and Francie Swift portrayed Nate's parents Howard and Anne Archibald. Nicole Fiscella and Nan Zhang acted as Blair'southward loyal sidekicks Isabel Coates and Kati Farkas. Zhang left the series to study neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University with Serena explaining that Kati and her family had moved to State of israel.[20] Kati was replaced with the grapheme of Nelly Yuki played by Yin Chang. Zhang would return to the show in flavor 4. Other members of Blair's clique include Amanda Setton as Penelope Shafai, Dreama Walker as Hazel Williams and Emma Demar as Elise Wells.

Other guest stars in recurring roles include Zuzanna Szadkowski as Blair's maid Dorota Kishlovsky, Robert John Burke as Chuck's father and billionaire Bart Bass, Susie Misner as Rufus' estranged wife Alison Humphrey and John Shea every bit Blair's begetter Harold Waldorf, with William Abadie as his partner Roman.

Crew [edit]

The season was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Alloy Amusement and Higher Hill Pictures. The executive producers were creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage with Bob Levy and Leslie Morgenstein. K.J. Steinberg and Felicia D. Henderson served every bit co-executive producers. Producers include Joe Lazarov and Jessica Queller. The flavour was produced by Amy Kaufman. Jonathan C. Brody served as co-producer with Joshua Safran as consulting producer.

The staff writers were Schwartz, Savage, Henderson, Safran, Lenn K. Rosenfeld, Queller, Steinberg and Paul Sciarrotta. The regular directors throughout the season were Mark Piznarski, J. Miller Tobin, Patrick Norris, Norman Buckley, Tony Wharmby and Michael Fields.

Reception [edit]

Due to the show's pedigree as an adaptation of The New York Times bestselling novel series, the show was considered to exist one of the more anticipated new shows of the 2007-2008 tv set season. An Baronial 2007 survey by OTX, a global media research and consulting firm, placed the show on the listing of height 10 new shows that viewers were enlightened of.[21] The pilot episode of the season gained 3.50 million viewers on its original airing,[22] having previously been available as a free download on the American iTunes store. Equally the flavour progressed, ratings dropped with ii.48 meg viewers tuning into the 2nd episode.[2] The eleventh episode marked a season low with only 1.81 million viewers tuning into watch the episode.[11] The show was moved from Wednesdays at nine:00 p.m. to its new timeslot Mondays at eight:00 p.m post-obit the end on the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike where the final five episodes of the season were aired. Ratings increased for the season finale, with 3.00 one thousand thousand viewers tuning into the episode.[eighteen] Gossip Girl'due south digital video recorder ratings were high, increasing the testify's profitability and the evidence had also been in the top five of iTunes sales.[23]

Author Cecily von Ziegesar has expressed support for the evidence, noting that all of her major plot points were present in the airplane pilot.[24] The second episode in which the characters are shown to be attending a brunch gained some approving from New York magazine, stating that "at that place'southward no such matter as 'lunch' on the weekends", "that kids actually do venture outside of their neighborhoods" (since The New York Palace Hotel is in Midtown Manhattan), and "proverb yous live in Williamsburg makes much more sense... for existent-estate emotional conflict", also as the fact Rihanna is played "in every situation."[25] Gossip Girl was designated the "Best. Evidence. Ever." in April 2008 past New York magazine.[26] Other positive reviews came from publications Variety and the Boston Globe.[27] [28] John Maynard of The Washington Mail felt that creator Josh Schwartz "turns information technology up a notch" from his former series The O.C., and cited Dan (Penn Badgley) as a standout character.[xix] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Relate praised the testify for its use of "Gossip Girl"'s blog every bit a new media element noting "there'due south a adventure to tell a story where the Greek chorus substantially has a blog."[29]

The show has come nether criticism for containing scenes too risqué for its teen audience. The Parents Television Quango (PTC) has shown detail criticism of the series, especially with its "OMFG" ad campaign used towards the end of the season in April 2008.[30] It as well named the episode "Victor, Victrola" the worst television program of the calendar week in which the episode originally was circulate.[31] The Parents Council'due south negative comments include information technology existence "the most-watched bear witness amidst girls 12-17 and glamorizes casual sex activity and drug use among teens. [And that] storylines have featured a would-be teen rapist, threesome among teens, and teenage girls having sexual practice with adults." Scott D. Pierce of the Deseret Forenoon News noted that the bear witness is milder than a lot of what's shown on MTV, but withal warned parents of several scenes in the airplane pilot. He said it includes "among other things, a teenage girl climbing on top of a boy and removing his wearing apparel; drunken teens having sex; teens smoking pot; teens drinking in bars, in a limo and at a political party; a teen boy getting amorous with a girl who fights him off; and that same teen boy essentially attempting to rape a freshman daughter who is supposed to be, what, 14?".[32]

The series has also been criticized for having less-than believable storylines,[33] and has been described equally a guilty pleasure rather than an hour's worth of must-watch television.[34]

DVD release [edit]

The DVD release of flavour one was released by Warner Domicile Video in the U.s. on August nineteen, 2008, later on it had completed broadcast on television set. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including a downloadable audiobook, deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes featurettes.

Gossip Girl: The Consummate Start Season
Fix details [35] [36] Special features [35] [36]
  • 18 episodes
  • v-disc set up
  • 1.78:one attribute ratio
  • English (Dolby Environs 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Thai
  • Additional Scenes
  • Gag reel
  • The Pierces Music Videos
  • Downloadable audiobook of the original best-selling novel read past Christina Ricci
  • Featurettes
    • The Beginning, XOXO: Conception to Execution
    • Gossip Girl Couture
    • A Gossip Girl Wedding
Release dates [37] [38] [39]
Us Canada United Kingdom Australia
August 19, 2008 August xviii, 2008 April 15, 2009

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External links [edit]

  • Listing of Gossip Girl season 1 episodes on IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_Girl_%28season_1%29

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