Gossip Girl returns to the airwave with an episode that is juicy, sexy, full of twists, but misses the pace that made last season so good. It's a new beginning, unfortunately, it resolves around shaky marriages, old flames and one mother of a secret.
It's clear that the core of the show lies within Chuck and Blair. The coupling who's tension made up the second season, proves to be just as golden together as they were when aching for each other. While other story lines involved "texting your number" and 70 euro bills, Chuck and Blair were on the right path, proving to each other that they are each other's number one, no matter what, while trying to find out if the woman at Bart's grave really is Chuck's long presumed dead mother. Something other couples have a hard time proving. Not that we care, because everything seems variable on a hook-up show like this, making it of up most importance that at least one thing, the constant, remains, and for Gossip Girl that certainly seems to be Chair. Or Bluck.
In other news right from (one of) our favorite blogster, Serena and Nate are giving it a shot. But really how steady can these old flames be? Waiting two years after the masked ball, Nate wants to go slow. Rushing into everything, from boyfriends to politics, Serena wants to go slow. But thanks to some much needed scenes to keep the reputation up, there's just too much steamy chemistry between them and so going slow is old before it even begins. And as much as I'm in love with Chair (or Bluck), Serena and Nate could be the show's second couple. They certainly seem to fit perfectly. But let's face it, these two won't make it through March.
In a way less interesting case, Rufus comes back, flirts with the same woman at the bar, asks if Lily slept with her ex-husband a billion months ago and the story wraps up, nothing new there. Dan is still pining over Vanessa and little (boring) Jenny is still involved with Kevin "too old" Zegers.
It's almost disappointing that it takes so long before these stories go somewhere. Certainly, they are enjoyable, but a reason to stick with this show (besides Serena and Nate hooking up in several places) is because affairs move faster than time, and nobody really cares if Rufus and Lily make it. Really.
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