Gossip Girl
My favorite phrase—“Let’s talk about sex!”—has never been more annoying, after a week of discourse about why intimate scenes and nudity should be removed from TV shows and movies.
Savannah Lee Smith is Monet de Haan on the HBO Max reboot of the iconically catty drama. And thanks to her drama (and tears), Season 2 is a complete upgrade from the first season.
The “Gossip Girl” reboot is merely the latest HBO series to feature an incest plot this year. This was once the ultimate taboo. Now it’s so common it’s, horrifyingly, played out.
For Season 1, Hunter Harris wrote about the “Gossip Girl” cast for New York magazine. In Season 2, she not only writes for the show—she makes a cameo as herself.
A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.
The anonymous gossip queen entertained us all throughout the pandemic. But how will she dish on her “Euphoria” favorites (among others) now that she’s on HBO’s payroll?
The teen soap recently debuted on HBO Max. A rewatch of all seven seasons exposed all the ways it influenced how we look at men, think about dating, and the mistakes we’ve made.