Talking Gossip After Dark: A Gossip Girl Podcast

This week on Gossip Girl we learned it’s hard to know your true friends.  Serena is making a way for herself at  The Spectator until Nate makes a deal with Gossip Girl to find out the truth about Blair and Chuck’s accident.  We soon learn that Tripp did pay Max to drain the brake fluid, but Max left with the cash instead of completing his task.  So Tripp took matters in his own hands…and Serena’s not going to let Tripp get away with it this time.

Dan and Serena are still carrying on their fake romance and Serena is way into it, but Dan isn’t.  He’s too focused on the subject of his next book.  His fake romance with Serena is pretty much guaranteeing it’s going to be a sequel to Inside, which Dan doesn’t like.

Meanwhile, Blair is still battling with her feelings for Chuck on the day of her bachelorette party.  Blair wants to bring her own preist to be her spiritual leader to Monaco which would leave Father Cavalia. without a job.  Father Cavalia and Beatrice team up to take Blair down, but Beatrice has a change of heart and actually seems to start liking Blair.  But that’s only after Blair is arrested and all signs lead to Chuck, who everyone thinks is responsible for her arrest.  But Chuck is still trying to win Blair’s heart, but how can he do this if Blair thinks he was behind her arrest?

So Scandalous

• The Serena and Dan fauxmance continues. Serena’s totally in to it and Dan, not so much!
• Nate teaming up with Gossip Girl and “betraying” Serena along the way.
• Blair back in confessional. We haven’t seen this since the first season.
• Beatrice and Father Cavalia planning to sabotage Blair’s bachelorette party by getting her really drunk and alone with Chuck.
• Chuck spying on Blair at church…but not going in.  Chuck: “Of course not.  I didn’t want to risk blowing my cover or bursting into flames.”
• Nate and Serena setting Tripp up by using  Gossip Girl.
• Blair’s. Bachelorette.Party. Girl outside bar: “A priest in a bar? Kinky!”
• Chuck teaming up with the priest. Is he getting back into his old scheming ways?
• Max taking Tripp’s money without actually putting anyone in harm’s way.  Looks like he’s not really a bad guy.
• Carter Baizen wears women’s underwear. Blair: “I hope you have the urge to purge.  Those are secrets even Serena doesn’t know.”
• Tripp admitting he drained the break fluid. Tripp: “I wanted to ruin your weekend, not your life.”
• Blair getting completely wasted at her bachelorette party…and getting arrested for not smoking a doobie.
• Beatrice and Dan blaming Blair’s mishaps on Chuck.
• Nate finally standing up to Grandpapa by blaming him to what happened between Nate and Tripp.
• Serena lying to Dan about Blair wanting them to stay together until the wedding.

So Sweet

• Nate and Chuck still bond after all of these years.
• Blair and Beatrice bonding.  Will they finally be able to get along and become family?
• Serena’s finally making a name for herself at The Spectator and writing something people actually want to read.  Could there be a future for her in writing? Dan: “I never thought I would read something by Serena van der Woodsen that would make me laugh out loud…”
• Chuck helping an old man walk across the street while he was spying on Blair.
• Beatrice having a change of heart for Blair and not wanting to mess up her relationship with Louis.  Can you believe that Beatrice bought all those phones off those people?
• Chuck is not giving up on Blair, and just made Serena realize she does not want to give up on Dan. Chuck: “Tell her I stopped by and I’m not done.  The one thing I learned from Blair is you don’t give up on the people you love.”
• BFF bonding time, it’s so good to see Blair and Serena bonding.
• Beatrice finally realizing that Father Cavalia won’t leave the church for her, so she breaks up with him. Girl power!

So Not Real

• Blair revealing names in confessional. Someone else could always be listening.
• Blair really letting Beatrice plan her party. Blair is a control freak and would never let that happen. Plus, Blair would not want to put herself in a bad light since she will be a princess next week.
• Blair keeps a dairy. She would never write all of her scandalous secrets down.
• Blair: “I’ve never been so happy to be surrounded by so many bridge and tunnel type.” Blair would never be caught dead with these people.
• Dan thinking someone would actually be interested in a modern western after he wrote Inside.  What was he thinking? Understand he wants to expand his horizons but they were right. Publishers: “Then go take a yoga class.”
• Blair really having her party without Serena, especially since Serena planned that awesome bridal shower for Blair.  She wouldn’t pass up a great bachelorette party.
• Blair bearing her soul to Beatrice about loving Chuck and Louis.  Blair: “There are some people you can love only by not being with them.”
• Blair would never allow herself to get that trashed in public. Blair: “Sorry to disappoint, this won’t be it-girls gone wild.”
• Serena sending Trip to jail but did not want to send Juliet to jail.
• Beatrice actually thinking that Father Cavalia would leave the church for her…after they have gone through all of this scheming and uber nonreligious activities.  Should Father Cavalia even be a priest?
• Louis leaving his wedding vows in Blair’s room for her to find. Blair: “It’s like he peered into my soul.” And the fact that Dan even wrote them.  Dan would have found that to be something completely personal and wouldn’t have wanted to write them.
  

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