When fans heard of a Gossip Girl reboot, expectations were mixed, and the post the release of its first part, the reviews have been so-so too. Most fans of the original GG are of the opinion that the show belonged to the era it was made in earlier, and a 2021 version of the notorious drama wouldn't really make sense, and audience consensus does add up.
While the reboot is visually slick, the premise of Gossip Girl is a fond relic of the past, and many aspects of the new show just don't make sense, including smaller details and overarching narratives.
9 The Teachers Being Gossip Girl
The reboot dove headfirst into boring territory when it revealed who the salacious gossip blogger was, and then charted into creepy territory when the teachers of the school were it. The entire premise of the teacher's controlling unruly rich kids through spying and sneaking on them makes zero sense, and nobody has been able to figure out how that works.
The reason why the OG Gossip Girl reigned supreme was mainly because of the mystery of Gossip Girl and who he was. The disembodied voice making a commentary on the Upper East Siders' lives made a lot more sense than this twisted one.
8 The Post-Pandemic World It's Set In
The new Gossip Girl speaks about the pandemic and lockdowns, but exists in a world where the pandemic is over and masks and face coverings are a thing of the past. While there is no problem with the mention of coronavirus, it serves no purpose to bring up the pandemic at all if the show exists after it.
Viewers would have been satisfied if the show existed in vacuum or pretended it didn't exist at all like other shows, since the detail adds nothing to the plot nor does it carry it forward.
7 The Relevance Of Gossip Girl When Social Media Already Exists
When Gossip Girl came into our lives, social media did not exist at all. It was in the age of SMS texts, Blackberrys, email, and the like. Therefore, it excited audiences that someone out there was watching and reporting on the activities of the kids of Constance and St. Jude's with the efficacy of a journalist, tempered with sass.
In today's world of Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook, putting out your whole life on social media is the norm. Everybody already knows what everyone is up to since they broadcast it themselves, so the existence of another Instagram account that does just the same seems irrelevant.
6 Sugarcoating The Privilege With Wokeness
Jordan, Audrey, Obie, Aki, Monet, Luna, and Max are privileged. In fact, they're the most privileged people in the world, and Gossip Girl is full of the best designer outfits, private jets, drinks at the exclusive Dumbo Hall, and drugs worth a small fortune every night.
These elements allow viewers to live vicariously through these characters, but the joy of those guilty pleasures is taken away when the show includes Obie, the wealthiest of them all, protesting for fair housing but living in his own luxury duplex in Brooklyn. Even JC joining him in the protest against his own mother seemed performative since she came in top to toe branded clothing. The show could have just shown the luxuries of the kids without the activism.
5 Zoya Being Fourteen
Julien's half-sister Zoya is supposed to be fourteen years old, which is too hard to believe. Teen dramas do make it a habit to use older actors for very young characters, but Zoya Lott's looks aren't the problem: her behavior is.
She rarely acts like a fourteen-year-old and sounds and dresses more like a twenty-something year old. She is hugely aware of social issues like ethical journalism while talking to Aki's father, and the homeless shelters being razed down to accommodate new high rises. It's not realistic for someone that young to behave that maturely, and her character can pass off as eighteen easily.
4 Julien Not Monetizing Her Instagram Earlier
One of the best characters of the Gossip Girl reboot, Julien is the only one out of the gang who seems to have an ounce of ambition in her bones. From the very start, she had been a popular influencer with her own stylist and social media manager, so when she took the decision to "finally" monetize her account to show Nick just how serious her position as an influencer now, fans were shocked.
It just didn't add up that she had been rejecting sponsor deals this whole time and been Instagramming for the love of it to her many thousands of followers. When Sephora, Revlon, and other brands met her only towards the midseason finale, one couldn't help but wonder why JC hadn't taken up these lucrative deals earlier.
3 The New Gang Not Knowing The OG Gang
The new Gossip Girl can't seem to decide whether to acknowledge their predecessors or not. In the first episode, when the teachers find the old GG website, they talk about Chuck, Blair, Serena, Nate, and Dan as if they had never heard of them before, but then the old students get call backs throughout the rest of the season.
Pippa and Bianca even dress like Blair and Serena, which leads to Zoya and Julien dressing like Chuck and Dan for the Halloween party. Nelly Yuki makes an appearance and Georgina Sparks' son Milo makes his way on the screen. This begs the question: why can't the reboot acknowledge where the rest of the old students are and what they're up to?
2 The Amount Of Nudity
Gossip Girl was always a show meant for teenagers, and if the new one has the same target audience then it has way too much nudity involved in it for a younger audience of thirteen to fifteen year olds.
The reboot is extremely sex positive and LGBTQ+ friendly, but bath houses full of naked school-going teens is just a bit much even for the Upper East Side. The original show also had a lot of sex but this one has a lot of nudity and very little plot.
1 How Everybody Is So Forgiving
When Joshua Safran announced the reboot, he promised there will be no slut-shaming the way Serena and Blair had been earlier, nor would there be any catfights. The policy is honorable, but some of the betrayals in the reboot definitely call for anger and embarrassment at the very least, but everyone gets over it too quickly.
Julien broadcasting a video of Zoya's meltdown in her previous school is forgiven immediately, Nick and Davis were mortal enemies who became friends, Julien rats out Zoya and Obie to her dad, which is also taken lightly without any revenge plots or emotion. A woke show can display emotion, which Safran has confused with catfights hence there is just boredom and too much making up happening in the reboot.
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