![]() Obie’s got an equally snoozy new girlfriend, Grace (Anna Van Patten) Monet’s mom Camille (Amanda Warren) is bringing stone-faced theater monologues and Zoya’s truant bestie, Shan (Grace Duah), has been bumped up to a series regular as well. With the rest of the crew returning to the city from a lackluster trip to Hudson, things are in motion to begin ramping up once more. Judes, making the lives of her and all of the other teachers a living hell. This year, Kate isn’t just after the students she also has it out for their one-percenter parents, who have corrupted the entire system at Constance-St. Like most of the plots in the first season, this story is quickly dashed away in favor of something newer and shinier. It has been a whole year since the first season of Gossip Girl ended on a glimmer of promise: Julien finally relinquished her need to be loved, teaming up with Gossip Girl to send a slew of tips-some real, some fake-to help take down her fellow classmates. If you’ve forgotten where everyone’s story left off, that sense of déjà vu certainly won’t help. And then there is Luna La (Zión Moreno), whose wavering alliances and cutting remarks make her more of a power player than anyone in the main cast. There are a handful of welcome changes: Monet de Haan (Savannah Lee Smith) has moved up in the social strata, going from Julien’s minion to a contender for queendom-one who is actually armed with enough bite to pull it off. In the show’s world, this sad lot is the most fascinating clique to hit the New York social scene since Blair, Serena, and the rest of the self-appointed Non-Judging Breakfast Club wreaked mayhem across the Upper East Side. ![]() Julien Calloway (Jordan Alexander) remains an influencer with no influence Obie Bergmann (Eli Brown) is still a vanilla nepo baby Zoya Lott (Whitney Peak) stays weirdly obsessed with her boring lawyer father’s every move Max (Thomas Doherty), Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind), and Aki (Evan Mock) are settling into their snoozy throuple and Kate Keller ( Tavi Gevinson) persists in her grand machination as Gossip Girl to take rich private school children down several pegs. And that means that we’re still being forced to question our sanity as the show struggles to convince us that its characters not only fit the successful archetypes set into place by the original series, but are remotely interesting on their own accord. ![]() During the two-episode premiere, dropping Thursday, we don’t miss a beat with the new crew haunting the halls of the world-famous Constance Billard-St. It's a great balance that continues through into the second season.Any of us praying for a shake-up after a convoluted and insipid first season are out of luck like its titular anonymous blogger, Gossip Girl will not admit defeat that easily. Generally speaking, though, the adult characters in this show are really well-rounded, and I enjoy watching their antics and emotional breakdowns as much as the kids. His role in things is interesting-again, how these people are brought into the narrative is pretty well done this year-but as a character, he doesn't give us much else. But there's nothing to endear us to him as a person to be invested in. ![]() In an opportunity to switch things up for Kate, it would make sense to give her someone less nice and harder to get, things that Donovan's character certainly is. Lott is not a bad character by any means, he's just a very subdued guy, and Johnathan Fernandez plays him perfectly for that archetype. Not that Nick Lott was exciting as her original love interest, but still. On the flip side, Kate's new love interest - a teacher who returned to Constance Billard after a sabbatical named Scott (Edmund Donovan) - isn't exciting at all. ![]()
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