Episode 1

S3E01 - The Reversals of Fortune

Hey there, Gossip Girl fans! Buckle up because this week on the Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve are back with a bang, and they’re diving headfirst into the juicy Season 3 premiere of Gossip Girl, Episode 1, "Reversals of Fortune." The summer sun has set, and our favorite Upper East Siders are back in the concrete jungle, but not without a heaping dose of surprises and secrets that could turn their glamorous lives upside down. Serena's just returned from her whirlwind European adventures, and guess what? The paparazzi are practically glued to her side, ready to catch every scandalous moment. You know how it goes—one wrong move and it’s front-page news! Meanwhile, Chuck and Blair are trying out this whole monogamous thing, which leads to some hilariously awkward role-playing. Oh, and let’s not forget Nate, who’s found himself tangled up with a mysterious grad student from a rival family. Talk about drama! As old flames flicker back to life and new alliances form like a game of chess, the stage is set for a season bursting with twists, deception, and maybe even a few heartfelt moments. So, grab your favorite breakfast treat, cozy up, and join Leif and Steve as they unpack all the wild turns of this episode. Get ready for laughs, insights, and their signature commentary on all things Gossip Girl. It’s time to relive the excitement of the Upper East Side like never before!

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Transcript
Leif:

That reminds me of a, Do you ever watch that show?

Leif:

Episodes?

Steve:

No, I've heard of it. That's, the Friends.

Steve:

Matt Blanc, right?

Leif:

Yeah. it's like a

Leif:

fictional version of himself.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I never actually watched it.

Leif:

But at one point in the show,

Leif:

he was feeling a bit depressed, so he slept with his

Leif:

stalker, who was

Leif:

a young, beautiful woman.

Steve:

That's hilarious

Steve:

in a comedic universe. That's

Steve:

hilarious

Steve:

in the realm of television. It's sort of

Steve:

like when I watch a horror movie with, Robin. She's like,

Steve:

people don't deserve to die. I'm like, no, there are rules to horror

Steve:

movies, and that person deserves to die

Steve:

by the law of horror movies, not real

Steve:

life.

Leif:

Hey, Upper Eastsiders and all you scandal loving listeners out

Leif:

there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast

Leif:

pod, where the coffee is strong, the

Leif:

waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter than

Leif:

ever. My name is Leif, and I'm your seasoned

Leif:

Gossip Girl veteran.

Steve:

And I'm Steve, your newbie, your greenhorn,

Steve:

your. I don't know, Leaf. It's season three. How new

Steve:

am I?

Leif:

if you don't mind, or even if you do, we have an

Leif:

episode to record here.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, after all, I drove across state

Steve:

lines to get here, so

Steve:

let's go ahead and get into it. So here's

Steve:

the deal, folks. Leaf has been a fan of Gossip Girl since

Steve:

it first aired, and I'm diving in for the

Steve:

very first time. And together, we're your dynamic duo, bringing

Steve:

you all the drama, romance, and sometimes

Steve:

questionable fashion choices of this comic

Steve:

2007 series.

Leif:

That's right. Each week we'll be taking a deep dive into the

Leif:

show one episode at a time. We analyze the

Leif:

hidden parallels and obscure references. Plus, we'll also

Leif:

be touching on all the behind the scenes gossip and some

Leif:

stories from fandom.

Steve:

And since we're all about inclusivity here at the non, judging

Steve:

breakfast pod, there's always room for you at the non judging

Steve:

breakfast table. So go ahead and grab a

Steve:

mimosa, some coffee, or maybe some of, Nate and

Steve:

Chuck's special medicine. And let's get into

Steve:

this.

Leif:

Let's do it. We are here at season

Leif:

three.

Steve:

Season three. Yeah. I just

Steve:

realized this morning how close we are to 50 episodes.

Leif:

Yes, we are. We're getting, pretty close here.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, just a few away, which is really

Steve:

a milestone for podcasts.

Leif:

So it's kind of a slow episode,

Leif:

but I think it set some stuff up.

Steve:

Yeah. And I know we said this in our Last episode. But once

Steve:

again, go birds. I was down at the parade.

Steve:

I just wanted to bring that up, that a, friend of ours

Steve:

lives right off of Broad street and got to sit there and watch the

Steve:

parade as it went by, and then saw the

Steve:

speeches censored on TV so we could hardly hear what

Steve:

they said.

Leif:

Yeah. The key was to find the YouTube live

Leif:

stream.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. And we were at a friend's house, and we didn't want

Steve:

to change the tv, but I've since been looking them

Steve:

up and finding a lot of them unedited,

Steve:

because the censorship was so bad on

Steve:

CBS that it would be right as

Steve:

they said something. Then you would lose, like, the rest of

Steve:

their speech. They would block it out for, like, 30

Steve:

seconds sometimes.

Leif:

That's because they can only dump so many times and, like,

Leif:

within a certain amount. Period. Yeah.

Steve:

and I'm like, I'm familiar with how it works. My big thing

Steve:

is how we just pay the fines, Howie.

Steve:

Just pay all the FCC fines. That won't go

Steve:

against salary cap. You know, we've

Steve:

got the money's there in the budget. Like,

Steve:

go ahead, just pay all their fines and let them stay.

Leif:

Yeah, I don't know if you want to get that

Leif:

kind of attention on you right now with the current administration.

Steve:

Yeah, that's true.

Leif:

And, like I said, if you found the YouTube link, you can watch it

Leif:

live, uncensored.

Steve:

Yeah. And I'll remember that for next time because that

Steve:

was. It was really annoying how

Steve:

much they dropped just to be safe.

Steve:

And then you had other networks that were, like,

Steve:

never on the ball. They'd be like, we're

Steve:

fucking, Jim. We're very sorry about what you just

Steve:

heard. And they'd cut out the wrong part.

Leif:

And then, I know the Fox one, they kept

Leif:

cutting in to apologize.

Steve:

Yeah, there was another. I think it

Steve:

was abc, also did that. There

Steve:

was, like, you know, you missed it. Just

Steve:

apologize once at the end.

Leif:

But we are here to talk about Gossip Girl.

Leif:

Season 3, Episode 1 Reversals

Leif:

of Fortune original air date

Leif:

was September 14, 2009.

Steve:

That's a late premiere for them, isn't it? Weren't the others

Steve:

closer to August?

Leif:

maybe. I'll have to go back and look. Let us

Leif:

know.

Steve:

I thought I remembered that

Steve:

little bit of a lore dump when we first started

Steve:

that. Because season two

Steve:

starts before they get back

Steve:

to New York. So

Steve:

I thought. I remember that. I could be completely off,

Steve:

too. So let us know. Folks.

Leif:

This is before college starts, which usually starts

Leif:

in August.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

the title is based off of the

Leif:

movie reversals of fortune as

Leif:

1990, starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn

Leif:

Close. Never seen it.

Steve:

Never saw it. I've heard the title. That's

Steve:

about it. But I think I've heard the title.

Leif:

As of short description on IMDb

Leif:

is wealthy Sonny Von

Leif:

Bulow, ty's brain dead husband

Leif:

Klaus guilty of attempted murder, but

Leif:

he says he's innocent and hires Alan

Leif:

Dershowitz for his appeal?

Steve:

Is it a true story?

Leif:

Possibly.

Steve:

I mean, isn't Alan Dershowitz a real attorney?

Leif:

I believe so.

Steve:

And like, who wasn't famous yet either,

Steve:

right? Like he got famous from the

Steve:

O.J. trial. Right? Sure, I

Steve:

think so. because I think he was on the OJ team.

Steve:

And that wasn't until 95.

Steve:

94. 95. Somewhere in there. Yeah,

Steve:

95. Because I was a freshman in college when he was on trial.

Leif:

This episode was written by new de facto

Leif:

showrunner Josh Safran.

Steve:

Yeah, decent job.

Leif:

and directed by Back again

Leif:

J. Miller Tobin. This is his fifth

Leif:

episode of the series. Previously did Poison

Leif:

Ivy, Blair, Bitch Project, Summer

Leif:

Kind of Wonderful, and the grandfather

Leif:

Funny.

Steve:

That's a roller coaster, you know, Poison

Steve:

Ivy, our favorite. And

Steve:

then I like the grandfather,

Steve:

the other two. Summer Kind of Wonderful is probably

Steve:

one of our lowest rated episodes.

Leif:

I think that was the Caesar

Leif:

premiere, so we liked that one better than the second

Leif:

one, which was never been marcused.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, it was never been Marcus that. It was probably our

Steve:

lowest rated so far. Although I did, I,

Steve:

I. There were. Yeah, this was a

Steve:

better premiere. I thought this was a better season

Steve:

premiere than the last one.

Leif:

Why don't you go ahead and read us the Vulture recap?

Steve:

All right, here we go. It's a heartbreaking

Steve:

thing. The end of summer. And yet fall

Steve:

comes almost as a relief. As the air

Steve:

turns crisper and invigorating, winds

Steve:

sweep across the land. We're happy to wave

Steve:

goodbye to our summer friends, the ones with

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whom we've engaged in superficial conversations for

Steve:

the past few months, and go back to our

Steve:

real friends, our city friends, to

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leave behind that slow minded pool

Steve:

gossip and partake once again

Steve:

in rapid reference rich conversation with

Steve:

smart people who know maybe

Steve:

who Anis Ninja and

Steve:

Truffon are. And with the new

Steve:

season, too, comes a fresh start.

Steve:

A chance to do something, to be something

Steve:

different. This is what we felt last night during

Steve:

the season premiere of Gossip Girl. The greatest show

Steve:

of our time. Last night's episode

Steve:

was all about new beginnings, about taking on

Steve:

new roles or shaking off old ones.

Steve:

The Humphrey family now conjoined to the Bass

Steve:

Van Der Woodsens were adjusting to their new

Steve:

social and economic positions with

Steve:

varying degrees of success.

Steve:

Meanwhile, Rufus and Lily's son

Steve:

Scott had been playing the part of

Steve:

Vanessa's innocent love interest,

Steve:

though clearly his sights are set on

Steve:

something bigger. Nate Archibald was trying

Steve:

to resist playing the role his family wanted

Steve:

him to, though he will likely be foiled

Steve:

in this endeavor, for he is an

Steve:

imbecile and his grandfather

Steve:

has a Ferrari. Blair and Chuck

Steve:

were finding that a little role playing was

Steve:

helping them come to terms with their new monogamous

Steve:

selves. And even Carter Basin, appeared to be

Steve:

in the process of transforming

Steve:

himself from a cocky, arrogant

Steve:

asshole into a sensitive, thoughtful young

Steve:

man. Serena, however, was, ah,

Steve:

basically the same

Steve:

facts.

Leif:

Facts.

Steve:

Oh, my God. Like that,

Steve:

that, that. once again, it's a perfect

Steve:

recap. And if nothing else, for that last line,

Steve:

like, all of these people are just trying to be their

Steve:

new self and Serena is just

Steve:

Serena.

Leif:

Yeah, Serena was super cringy in the season finale, and

Leif:

she's super cringy in the season premiere.

Steve:

She's so cringy. I have stuff to

Steve:

say, but we'll get to that. And on

Steve:

that note, I will say now, whenever I talk

Steve:

to somebody about being on

Steve:

the non judging breakfast pod, the

Steve:

first thing I'm asked is if I'm up on the

Steve:

drama of the Blake Lively

Steve:

and Justin Baldoni.

Steve:

Baldoni. Which I

Steve:

mostly get my intel from Leif

Steve:

and I. I've read some of

Steve:

it, but yeah, just. I just keep seeing

Steve:

Baldoni coming up with receipts.

Leif:

Yeah, I mean, trial should be

Leif:

interesting.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm. I'll be

Steve:

following that along a lot closer. I

Steve:

hate following that stuff. Like, I hate

Steve:

celebrity bullshit like that.

Steve:

However, I feel like this is just part of the job of being on this

Steve:

podcast at that point, you know.

Leif:

Act one begins. Welcome

Leif:

back, Upper East Siders, after a

Leif:

long, hot summer. Way I see, it didn't take

Leif:

long for you to dirty up the clean slates I gave

Leif:

you. My inbox is overflowing,

Leif:

so let's get to the good stuff, shall we?

Leif:

Spotted Chuck Bass up to his old

Leif:

tricks. Poor B. I guess nothing

Leif:

good lasts forever.

Leif:

Hot time, summer in the city. Chuck

Leif:

is flirty with a Serena knockoff at a Manhattan

Leif:

bar.

Steve:

First of all, my first response is like, what the fuck,

Steve:

Chuck? Is this person a.

Steve:

Is she, is she a cameo? Is she

Steve:

a person?

Leif:

So, yes, she is at this time

Leif:

a cameo. playing herself. Model,

Leif:

Ashley Henshaw.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

But after this, she's made

Leif:

a decent, she's got a decent

Leif:

CV of acting. Now she's got like, maybe 10 or

Leif:

12 movies and about, you know, same TV show

Leif:

appearances.

Steve:

Okay, all right, so. But at this

Steve:

point, if I was. If I was a

Steve:

fashion person in

Steve:

2009, you might recognize

Steve:

2008, I might recognize her. Got it. Yeah, that makes sense.

Leif:

Jenny is sunbathing in the hapta at the

Leif:

Hamptons house, but Eric tells her the

Leif:

car is here. It looks like the summer is coming to an

Leif:

end. It is revealed they are hiding a secret

Leif:

for Serena. What.

Steve:

Ah. The fuck are they talking about? Like, it was.

Steve:

It was so weird. And when we get to

Steve:

the reveal, it's even dumber because it's all

Steve:

just. Oh, we're just covering for Serena being

Steve:

Serena. Like,

Steve:

what?

Leif:

Well, I mean, so that. That's considered

Leif:

bad. Serena, quote, unquote.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I know. It's

Steve:

just. Yeah, I.

Steve:

And the way they were talking, it

Steve:

sounded like she was robbing banks

Steve:

or, you know, just. But

Steve:

I do get it. And, I actually, I want to

Steve:

talk about it more as it unfolds anyway.

Steve:

Yeah. Because I have. There's a lot that happens along

Steve:

that line.

Leif:

Yes. Dan is teasing Rufus

Leif:

about going back to the real world after living at Cece's

Leif:

house all summer. However, Rufus points out that

Leif:

the real world now includes living at Lily's

Leif:

penthouse.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Like he.

Leif:

Rufus.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

He was so uptight about it last season.

Steve:

Yeah. And just the outfit

Steve:

alone that he's wearing. Like, what the fuck are you wearing? What is that

Steve:

shirt you're wearing, Rufus? That just

Steve:

looks like I have so much money and, no one can

Steve:

comment on what I wear anymore. Like, that's what that

Steve:

shirt says to me.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And Dan doesn't seem to be hating it

Steve:

either.

Leif:

No.

Steve:

Dan isn't as critical

Steve:

as maybe he once was. And

Steve:

that's really as far, like. Okay. I

Steve:

got so much to say about people.

Leif:

In this episode, Dan and

Leif:

Rufus find Jenny and Eric not ready to leave.

Leif:

Dan claims Serena is doing the Eat Pray

Leif:

Love thing, but something seems off.

Leif:

Dan is meeting up with Vanessa, who maybe didn't go to Europe

Leif:

with Nate after all.

Steve:

Yeah, that kind of came out of nowhere.

Steve:

That looked like they were going off together and then they're

Steve:

not.

Leif:

But they did, though.

Steve:

yeah, they went off together, but.

Leif:

They just came back early or something. I don't know.

Steve:

Or came back separately.

Leif:

Yeah. Speaking of Nate, he is

Leif:

making out with an unknown auburn beauty on a

Leif:

helicopter. The pair disembark and then

Leif:

recount their meet.

Steve:

Cute.

Leif:

When they part ways, they discover that not Only

Leif:

have they met before, but their families are bitter

Leif:

political rivals.

Steve:

Yeah, we got a little Romeo and Juliet thing coming

Steve:

on. My first reaction was, who is this

Steve:

older woman with Nate? Once

Steve:

again, Nate shows up in episode

Steve:

one with an older woman, not

Steve:

as a gentleman.

Leif:

She's a grad student, which.

Steve:

Yeah. And then we find out she is a grad student right away. She's

Steve:

older. Yeah. Yes, she's older, but she's

Steve:

not a stepmom.

Leif:

Did you recognize the actress at all?

Steve:

She seemed familiar. I didn't recognize who it

Steve:

was.

Leif:

So that's Joanna Garcia.

Leif:

and she was. When she was really young,

Leif:

she was in, like, 20 some episodes of are you

Leif:

afraid of the dark?

Steve:

You see, I never watched that. Was just too old for

Steve:

that.

Leif:

And then she was on Freaks and Geeks for four

Leif:

episodes. Oh, she was one of the

Leif:

cheerleaders. She, was Vicky's

Leif:

friend. The blonde one with

Leif:

pigtails.

Steve:

Yeah. All right.

Leif:

And so maiden name is Joanna

Leif:

Garcia, but she now goes by Joanna

Leif:

Garcia Swisher.

Steve:

Okay.

Leif:

Nick Swisher. She is, she's married to

Leif:

Nick Swisher, former Yankee.

Steve:

Oh, okay. Okay.

Steve:

I knew. I thought it sounded like sports. I don't know the

Steve:

Yankees that well, but, yeah,

Steve:

that. Now I write.

Leif:

He was on the team that beat the Phillies in the World Series.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Steve:

yeah. There's a reason I don't remember them.

Steve:

My God, that fucking World Series,

Steve:

man. Cliff Lee owned them in

Steve:

that first. Owned them. They had

Steve:

nothing. And it looked like it was just going to be a

Steve:

beautiful, dominant. Oh, Super Bowl. Super

Steve:

Bowl. Super bowl

Steve:

domination. Super Bowl.

Leif:

Chuck and Ashley Hinshaw are about to get hot

Leif:

and heavy in a quiet hallway when Blair interrupts

Leif:

and humiliates the blind. It turns out that this

Leif:

was all a kinky foreplay for

Leif:

Chuck and Blair.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I kind

Steve:

of dug that. That this was their kink

Steve:

and this is how they're keeping things fresh

Steve:

and. All right, kids, have fun.

Leif:

so we do find out that Blair picks her.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Did she deliberately pick her because she looks like

Leif:

Serena?

Steve:

I could see that she's a lot shorter than Serena,

Steve:

obviously, but.

Leif:

Yeah, I wonder how many of the lot like her.

Steve:

Yeah, I wonder how many of the.

Steve:

Of the game that they've

Steve:

been playing. How many of the participants in this game they've been

Steve:

playing look like Serena. How many of

Steve:

them are tall blondes? And how does that get

Steve:

Blair going, too? Yeah.

Leif:

Of course, the later one definitely is a tall blonde.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. Yep. Is she also

Steve:

a cameo I thought so.

Steve:

They. They often treat cameos

Steve:

like cameos. The way they speak to them. I really

Steve:

loved Blair's, like, non

Steve:

takedown takedown of her when she's like, get your

Steve:

American Girl doll hair and poreless skin

Steve:

out of here. Like, she's throwing compliments at

Steve:

this person. She's berating.

Leif:

You might have an Abercrombie campaign and the key to George

Leif:

Clooney's castle in Lake Cuomo.

Steve:

Yeah, I really enjoyed

Steve:

that.

Leif:

Back at the penthouse, Rufus is discussing

Leif:

sleeping arrangements with Jenny, Eric, and Dan.

Leif:

Dan catches Eric and Jenny trying to hide the

Leif:

gossip magazines featuring Serena's summer of

Leif:

fun. Dan, is surprisingly nonplussed at

Leif:

seeing them. At that moment, Serena's town

Leif:

car arrives and she is greeted by a sea of

Leif:

paparazzi. Dan calls Vanessa and

Leif:

blows her off. We see Vanessa is hanging out with

Leif:

Scott Rosen.

Steve:

A couple of things here. Dan being

Steve:

nonplussed about Serena

Steve:

really feels like a continuation of

Steve:

the last episode. That at the end of the

Steve:

season, he's like, are we still really going to be friends after

Steve:

this? Like, what's really

Steve:

happening? Like, And so when he sees all these things,

Steve:

to him, it's like, yeah, Serena's doing Serena shit.

Steve:

You know, it doesn't seem like

Steve:

he's thrown by it. He's just kind

Steve:

of like, yep, that. That tracks. And that's what I was

Steve:

getting away from. You know, I kind of got that.

Leif:

Attitude from him now before when he said that. That was

Leif:

before Lily Rufus proposed and the

Leif:

families intermingled. So they are still

Leif:

going to be connected. And

Leif:

it was more that, I think, because from the earlier scene,

Leif:

Dan was doing bad acting, like,

Leif:

purposeful bad acting,

Leif:

pretending like he didn't know what was going on.

Steve:

Right, right. That is true.

Leif:

Because he is also, as we find out, covering

Leif:

for Serena.

Steve:

Yeah. Because Jenny said the things about

Steve:

blocking him so that he couldn't see stuff.

Steve:

But he does indicate later, like, yeah, I also saw,

Steve:

like, this shit is everywhere.

Leif:

Or he just noticed that she blocked his

Leif:

filter.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

As for Serena Van der Woodsen, you left America

Leif:

as star, but after your exploits in Europe, you've

Leif:

come back a supernova, and yet nothing

Leif:

explodes without a fuse. I wonder what

Leif:

lit yours.

Steve:

The other thing about that scene, when Rufus

Steve:

goes out to save her from the paparazzi, and I did not

Steve:

catch it the first time, the second time

Steve:

I watched, she gives that look

Steve:

that you can see indicates

Steve:

that she's not mad they're

Steve:

there. that she gives a little like, okay,

Steve:

they're still watching me look.

Steve:

Relief. Almost relief that they're

Steve:

still watching her.

Leif:

We get into Act 2. The Humphrey van

Leif:

der Woodsen's minus Lily are having a brunch at the

Leif:

penthouse. Rufus announces that Lily bought them

Leif:

a table at the Vanderbilt charity polo

Leif:

match.

Steve:

And here's Rufus being a better parent to someone

Steve:

who's not his kid than he is to his own kid

Steve:

with Serena, which he does more so

Steve:

later. And again, it isn't his kid, but

Steve:

he does, yeah, yeah.

Leif:

And I do like Dan's, facial reaction to the polo

Leif:

match.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Not

Steve:

enthused.

Leif:

No.

Steve:

And Rufus is being like, well, we're going to this

Steve:

thing. Yay. And it's

Steve:

Rufus. You hate that shit too.

Leif:

Serena leaves to go buy a hat for the polo match

Leif:

and Dan walks her out. Dan tries to figure out

Leif:

what's going on with Serena and why she is lying to

Leif:

everyone. Serena brushes it off,

Leif:

not a big deal. And everything is fine.

Steve:

Dan, listen,

Steve:

no one's going to confide in you.

Steve:

You tell everyone

Steve:

everything. You are not a

Steve:

secret keeper. You're not

Steve:

the comfort person that you may think you are because you

Steve:

also immediately judge and then tell.

Steve:

So you're not really a good person to

Steve:

confide in.

Leif:

Chuck and Nate are doing a classic walk and talk and

Leif:

catching each other up and the audience on their respective

Leif:

summers. Chuck is content to let Lily

Leif:

continue to run the bass board so he can branch out on his

Leif:

own. Nate hasn't talked to his family since

Leif:

he skipped out on the summer internship

Leif:

that the grandfather lined up for him. Chuck

Leif:

advises Nate to take the new girl Bri to the

Leif:

polo match to get back his family.

Steve:

Yeah, because dating the enemy

Steve:

is sleeping with the enemy is hot.

Leif:

Yeah. He implies that he had an affair with Ivanka

Leif:

Trump.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah. He says, why do you think I have the

Steve:

Ivanka thing? Yeah,

Steve:

I thought that whole thing was pretty funny.

Leif:

Serena and Blair are doing a similar walk and talk on a

Leif:

different Manhattan street. Serena is a bit leery

Leif:

about Blair's sex games with Chuck.

Steve:

This whole cut back and forth

Steve:

scene between Chuck and Nate

Steve:

and Serena and Blair. I really

Steve:

liked the best friends all being together again.

Steve:

You know, I liked seeing them

Steve:

talking and especially with

Steve:

all the tension that was there between Chuck and

Steve:

Nate before, how that's just kind of really

Steve:

blown over. And it was really nice to see them being the season

Steve:

one best friends again.

Leif:

Yeah, we switch back to Nate and

Leif:

Chuck and Nate seems to share Serena's vanilla outlook

Leif:

on the sex gains.

Steve:

And it was really, again Good

Steve:

best friend advice to best friends on both

Steve:

sides of it. Even though it seems like they're kind of

Steve:

shaking things up for them. It was really good best

Steve:

friend talk.

Leif:

We shift back to the girls we see. Serena

Leif:

is now telling Blair that the open relationships invite

Leif:

chaos. Serena acts like she is annoyed by

Leif:

the paparazzi, but Blair calls her out on

Leif:

her shit.

Steve:

Yeah. I love that Blair does that. I love

Steve:

that Serena's pretending like, oh, they

Steve:

just keep following me, and then flips her hair back and

Steve:

how come.

Leif:

You blew your got your hair blown out?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, I love it. I love that Blair

Steve:

knows her so well.

Leif:

And they do mention she, had something going on

Leif:

with Cristiano, Ronaldo, the

Leif:

Portuguese soccer player.

Steve:

Okay. Yeah, I did.

Leif:

Would have been 24 at this time.

Steve:

So kind of young for Serena.

Leif:

Or actually. Or is this. Are we finding out that's, like,

Leif:

her target age. That's how all

Leif:

old all our boyfriends are.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Except they're all 24. Except for Dan.

Steve:

Except for Dan.

Leif:

Dan and Vanessa are having coffee. It turns out Vanessa

Leif:

has been spending a lot of time with Scott since she got back.

Leif:

Vanessa, gets very condescending towards Dan

Leif:

when it's revealed that he has been enjoying Lily's

Leif:

wealth. Dan lies about taking the subway,

Leif:

but is immediately caught getting into a limo.

Steve:

I first have to address Vanessa's hair.

Steve:

That. What. What was going on with

Steve:

her head. And it was fixed when she went

Steve:

outside to give Dan his

Steve:

glasses. It looked fine.

Steve:

And then. And Robin was like, well, she didn't get

Steve:

the glasses to him in time because she sat for a blowout somewhere

Steve:

in between. But then back when they're.

Steve:

When we see her later on, her hair

Steve:

was kind of that again, those, like.

Leif:

They're extensions.

Steve:

Yeah, they're extensions, but they're, like. Tried to look

Steve:

like dreads, but not complete

Steve:

dreads. And it just

Steve:

kind of looked like a mess. Yeah.

Leif:

So it's an unfortunate thing in the TV

Leif:

industry, not a lot of the

Leif:

stylists know how to do other types.

Steve:

Of air, which I was

Steve:

wondering if that would be a big part of it, because it

Steve:

looked like.

Leif:

Yeah. Women of color. I have serious issues

Leif:

in TV shows.

Steve:

Especially that scans and

Steve:

that makes a lot of sense. And.

Steve:

Yeah, I. I could see that being.

Steve:

Being a commonality. And very

Steve:

much because it is. Because it is just in the world,

Steve:

you know, that's just.

Leif:

Yeah, you have to know what you're doing. It's. It's different.

Steve:

Yeah, you have to know what you're doing.

Leif:

Rufus Gets a call from Vanya letting him know that the

Leif:

paparazzi are going through their trash. Eric

Leif:

and Jenny simultaneously give different explanations of

Leif:

why the paparazzi are so interested in

Leif:

Serena. Even Rufus is smart enough to realize they're

Leif:

hiding something.

Steve:

Yeah, and, like, every one of their answers is

Steve:

legit, too. So

Steve:

just. Just sell it better, you

Steve:

know? But of course, again,

Steve:

nobody. Everyone's a fucking narc

Steve:

when it comes to this shit.

Leif:

Chuck arrives to pick up Blair and to

Leif:

engage in some more games. It appears

Leif:

Serena got into Blair's head because he hesitates,

Leif:

but then reluctantly agrees to go along.

Steve:

And Chuck feels genuine here when

Steve:

he's like, if you don't want to, we don't have to.

Steve:

And so, yeah, I really liked the

Steve:

dynamic. I liked how Chuck responded to

Steve:

her.

Leif:

Yeah. Rufus is going through the gossip

Leif:

mags featuring Serena. Rufus notices that the

Leif:

same guy appears in several of the pictures. By the knowing

Leif:

facial expressions of the three teens, I think

Leif:

we can probably surmise that the guy is

Leif:

Carter.

Steve:

Yeah, I didn't completely get that it was going to be

Steve:

Carter at first, because I just wasn't thinking back

Steve:

like that. And then when he showed up in the very next

Steve:

scene, it was like, oh, obviously.

Leif:

And the different things. So she was,

Leif:

topless on Valentino's.

Steve:

Yacht, which is what you do when you're on

Steve:

Valentino's yacht and she's dancing.

Leif:

On tables in Barcelona, which is what.

Steve:

You do when you're in Barcelona.

Leif:

And then Prince Harry was doing

Leif:

body shots off her in Santa Fe.

Steve:

You do off of, when you're in Central

Steve:

Bay.

Leif:

So Harry was also 24 at the time of

Leif:

this.

Steve:

That's really funny.

Leif:

Yeah. Plot twist. She was going the other way. It was actually Carson

Leif:

wentz,

Leif:

who was 17 at the time.

Leif:

For those of you who don't know Carson Wets, look up a photo of him.

Leif:

He's an NFL player.

Steve:

Yeah. And looks very

Steve:

much like, Prince Harry.

Leif:

Speak of the devil, and the devil doth

Leif:

appear. Serena is once again being

Leif:

followed by the paparazzi when Carter shows up.

Leif:

Serena gives Carter the slip by while slipping off

Leif:

the straps of her dress and disappearing into the

Leif:

crowd of photographers.

Steve:

Oh, no. What's happened to my dress?

Steve:

Jesus Christ, Serena. You don't know how to get

Steve:

attention.

Leif:

And we end the act with a Gossip Girl

Leif:

narration.

Leif:

Spotted Serena Vanderwoodsen giving Carter

Leif:

Basin the slip. We've seen all the

Leif:

selects, but what happened to them when

Leif:

TMZ was mia? Something tells

Leif:

me the truth is out of focus.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Act three begins Nate is calling Chuck

Leif:

because he is upset that his family bought him a

Leif:

car in yet another attempt to control

Leif:

his life.

Steve:

Just another Nate wanting to throw his

Steve:

family's money back at them

Steve:

when they're just giving him nice things.

Leif:

Vanessa is talking to Scott about Dan lying to

Leif:

her. Aside from the fact that we know Scott is a creepy

Leif:

stalker, I really don't like how he is trying to

Leif:

invalidate Vanessa's feelings, even if she is being

Leif:

judgmental. Scott then convinces Vanessa to get

Leif:

them both invited to the polo match so she can

Leif:

confront Dan.

Steve:

So, first of all, V. Tone it down a bit. Tone it

Steve:

down a bit. We know you hate anybody

Steve:

who's richer than you are

Steve:

because, again, everyone. Which is

Steve:

everyone on the show.

Steve:

She is going to nyu. She does live

Steve:

in an apartment that her parents pay for in

Steve:

Brooklyn. She's not

Steve:

poor. She's just not. She's the

Steve:

most poor person on the.

Leif:

Show if we're going based on reality.

Leif:

But I, feel like these show writers just don't

Leif:

understand how money works. They think

Leif:

she's getting by on a barista's salary.

Steve:

Right? Fair.

Leif:

Part time. Yeah.

Steve:

There is some detached writing in here.

Steve:

Yes. She can't take private cars. She takes

Steve:

the subway.

Leif:

Outside a modeling agency, Chuck and Blair are

Leif:

screening applicants for their sex entrapment game.

Leif:

Blair is rejecting every one of the models for

Leif:

farcical reasons. Chuck actually steps up

Leif:

and sees Blair is feeling insecure about the game and

Leif:

tells her that he just wants her to be happy and they don't

Leif:

have to do the game if she doesn't want to. Good on Chuck.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah. Good job, Chuck. I really

Steve:

liked. I really liked Chuck this whole

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

Way to take care.

Steve:

Way to take care of Blair.

Leif:

Definitely a changed man.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Jenny and Eric go to the loft to pick up some

Leif:

things. They discuss that Lily is with Cece, who is

Leif:

once again under treatment. They feel sorry for

Leif:

Rufus, having been suddenly put in charge of two

Leif:

kids he didn't raise in a house that he doesn't

Leif:

own. They also hope that Rufus knowing about

Leif:

Serena's summer will lead to the reveal of why she

Leif:

did it.

Steve:

Of course, Eric, the pragmatic

Steve:

sage of the show,

Steve:

laying out this nice piece of

Steve:

exposition where we see

Steve:

Rufus being in charge and we see Rufus with the

Steve:

kids. We don't necessarily have

Steve:

all of the backstory here. So for Eric

Steve:

to really lay out, hey, take it easy on your

Steve:

dad, because these are the things that are happening. That

Steve:

was a really nice little piece of exposition to

Steve:

help build that

Steve:

layer of, relationship that they're now

Steve:

establishing in those two households.

Leif:

Serena rise back of the penthouse, and Rufus is

Leif:

waiting with. With gusts of magazines carefully laid out on

Leif:

the table, Rufus goes into judgmental dad

Leif:

boat with an assist from Dan.

Steve:

I will say I felt once again, Rufus was

Steve:

a better parent to

Steve:

Serena than he ever was to

Steve:

Jenny. And I say that because

Steve:

he does come in ready to be

Steve:

judgmental, but is instantly like,

Steve:

before I get mad, talk

Steve:

to me. Which is a privilege he

Steve:

never afforded Jenny,

Steve:

ever. And when Serena laid it out and was like, hey, I'm

Steve:

sorry I did these things, and I know what it looks like, and

Steve:

this is what's going on. I'm sorry. And Rufus

Steve:

is like, okay, let's put us. Put this behind us.

Steve:

Which, again, is something he. And now it's not his

Steve:

kid. He can't really do

Steve:

much, and I think he recognizes that.

Steve:

What happens when you punish Serena? She goes

Steve:

to Spain.

Leif:

She's got again.

Steve:

Yeah, she just leaves. So I think he

Steve:

handled it very well. And the only way you can

Steve:

really handle it with is, you're disciplining your step

Steve:

kid. But he's still a better parent to Serena than

Steve:

he ever was to Jenny.

Leif:

So Dan mentions that if you look close

Leif:

enough at some of the pictures, nothing is left to the

Leif:

imagination.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Being that Dan is a horny teenage boy, what was he doing

Leif:

all summer with those pictures?

Steve:

Oh, yeah. I mean, we

Steve:

didn't hear about Dan dating, did he? Did

Steve:

we?

Leif:

After Rufus leaves, Dan confronts Serena about

Leif:

Carter. Serena panics and tells Dan that Carter is

Leif:

stalking her. When Serena goes to her room, Dan

Leif:

immediately calls Blair for help.

Steve:

Yeah, Serena,

Steve:

this is a bad look. This is a bad look. Saying

Steve:

that somebody is stalking you. That is

Steve:

not stalking you. Yeah,

Steve:

accusing people of things that you

Steve:

know they're not doing. That good is

Steve:

really bad. Now, if they're doing the

Steve:

thing, by all means, use your voice.

Steve:

Speak up. Let people know that things

Steve:

aren't right. But if they're not doing

Steve:

the thing that you're accusing them of, it

Steve:

is highly ethically

Steve:

inappropriate to make

Steve:

accusations that could get somebody into a

Steve:

lot of trouble, legally and

Steve:

financially. Because you're upset

Steve:

or because you're trying to hide something of your

Steve:

own.

Leif:

Serena Scott is

Leif:

seen calling his mom while holding his birth

Leif:

certificate and telling her that he's

Leif:

finally ready to do what he came here to do.

Steve:

Yeah, he forced his way

Steve:

in with the person who forces her

Steve:

way into everything.

Leif:

They are perfect for each other.

Steve:

Like it's a pilot fish following a pilot

Steve:

fish.

Leif:

Vidette used to bag herself a Humphrey.

Steve:

Yeah.

Steve:

Oh, Vanessa.

Leif:

the act closing Gossip Girl narration was

Leif:

inter dispersed with both this scene and the previous

Leif:

one with Dan leaving a message for Blair. And it

Leif:

goes this just in.

Leif:

An unlikely alliance is forming on the Upper east

Leif:

side. Too bad. It may be too late to do

Leif:

any good.

Steve:

Yeah. M. I also was very excited

Steve:

when Dan called Blair because I

Steve:

always love a Blair. Dan team up at this

Steve:

point. Yes.

Leif:

We get into Act 4. Let the

Leif:

festivities begin. The party of the week has

Leif:

arrived. Jenny is excited about having

Leif:

an engraved place card with her name on it.

Leif:

Rufus offers to bully a photographer, but

Leif:

Serena declines and says she has to go find

Leif:

Blair.

Steve:

Mrs. Jenny Humphrey.

Leif:

They made her married.

Steve:

Yeah. When did you get married? I don't know, but it's

Steve:

engraved.

Leif:

Yeah. And we get the callback to the white party from last season

Leif:

premiere.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

Nate is also on site with his new gal pal,

Leif:

Bri. Nate surprises Bri by introducing

Leif:

her to the grandfather. Nate gets pulled away to talk

Leif:

to someone else before he can explain himself to

Leif:

Brie.

Steve:

Yeah, that was shitty. Nate,

Steve:

if you would have said ahead of time, hey, I want you to

Steve:

go on a date with me to this family event where my

Steve:

grandfather's gonna be. But you don't

Steve:

just put someone in that fucking

Steve:

awkward ass situation and then immediately ditch them.

Steve:

And then ditch them and then be like, oh, someone

Steve:

who has money wants to talk to me. Excuse me, lady.

Leif:

Chuck and Blair are, at a table dissing the food

Leif:

and drink. They spot a model,

Leif:

Alexandra Richards. And even Blair is impressed

Leif:

this time. Chuck is ogling the model,

Leif:

but Blair makes it clear that they are done with the

Leif:

game.

Steve:

Yeah, you can see that Blair

Steve:

both liked and disliked the game, that

Steve:

she liked it, but she's in her head about it from the

Steve:

talk with Serena. And

Steve:

Serena's not wrong. This kind of thing.

Steve:

I, could see Serena's point of it being a slippery slope

Steve:

and Blair liking it. Until she doesn't

Steve:

anymore, so.

Leif:

Or what time she shows up too late.

Steve:

Or the one time she shows up too late. Exactly.

Leif:

Scott and Vanessa are also, here.

Leif:

Yay. Creepy. Scott spots

Leif:

Dan across the room or, across from the party

Leif:

and suggests that Vanessa should talk to him.

Steve:

Fuck all the way off. Vanessa. Vanessa, you're not

Steve:

even supposed to be here.

Steve:

And she all throughout this, she pops

Steve:

into this thing where she's not supposed to be and then is like,

Steve:

why aren't you spending time with me? It's like, because I didn't

Steve:

think you'd fucking be here.

Leif:

Vanessa approaches Dan Things are still prickly

Leif:

between them. It seems like Vanessa is about to

Leif:

apologize, but is interrupted by Blair. Dan

Leif:

apologizes to V but goes off with Blair.

Steve:

Yeah. And Dan

Steve:

hasn't done. Dan lied about taking the

Steve:

subway. Dan isn't

Steve:

being shitty to Vanessa outside of

Steve:

that lie. And she's just being such an

Steve:

asshole.

Leif:

Yeah.

Steve:

And when it's like, hey, I need to go do this

Steve:

thing because I didn't fucking know you'd be here.

Steve:

And I knew this was happening, I.

Steve:

Have to do the thing I was already.

Steve:

I have to do the scheme I set up with Blair.

Leif:

My new best friend.

Steve:

Yeah, my new best friend.

Leif:

Suck it, Vanessa.

Steve:

Fucking asshole.

Leif:

Scott introduces himself to Rufus as Scott

Leif:

Adler, a friend of Vanessa. When Rufus

Leif:

offers a handshake, Scott is dumbfounded.

Leif:

Scott pushes Rufus buttons by finally

Leif:

sputtering out that he is a big fan of Rufus

Leif:

music.

Steve:

Which, that was a great cover

Steve:

and a great way to talk to this person. Because of

Steve:

course he is. Because he's been stalking them. So of course

Steve:

he learned his dad's music.

Steve:

Yeah. I really liked that

Steve:

moment. And that they really carried that on. That

Steve:

it's. Oh, no, I'm just a big fan. I thought it was

Steve:

clever. I was not mad at

Steve:

Scott. well, Scott's a

Steve:

stalker and he's creepy. I liked

Steve:

that moment.

Leif:

Blair and Dan find Carter, and it looks like this

Leif:

dynamic duo got a restraining order against

Leif:

Carter, and from now on, Blair will be by

Leif:

Serena's side. Serena then shows up, and Carter

Leif:

denies the stalking, but won't reveal the truth to Dan and

Leif:

Blair. Serena then gets called off to throw out the first

Leif:

ball, and Dan and Blair are left alone. Blair

Leif:

sees Chuck talking with the model from earlier.

Steve:

Yeah, it's a decent scheme.

Steve:

It is tv. So they do just hand out restraining

Steve:

orders. Forward.

Leif:

You're rich.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Leif:

And yet another cameo here. the

Leif:

polo player is, Nacho Figueraz,

Leif:

who, according to his Wikipedia, is the David

Leif:

Beckham of polo.

Steve:

Oh, that's awesome. Was he

Steve:

24 at the time?

Leif:

Possibly.

Steve:

I also like that Serena got caught in her

Steve:

shit. That when, they're

Steve:

all face to face and they're like, you're stalking her? And he's like, I'm

Steve:

stalking her.

Leif:

Really?

Steve:

Is that what's happening?

Leif:

Really? Really?

Leif:

Serena? Scott is telling

Leif:

Rufus about his collection of Lincolnhaw concert

Leif:

bootlegs. Rufus Lee Scott holding the

Leif:

drinks. The festivities are interrupted

Leif:

by first Serena and then Carter riding off the

Leif:

out of the party on horses for

Leif:

Scott.

Steve:

Yeah, but I did love the

Steve:

whole, like, oh, you know, I might have that

Steve:

recorded straight off the board if you want to have it.

Steve:

And I loved how Rufus just

Steve:

got so played by. By

Steve:

the music thing. Because of course he would.

Steve:

Because. Because, man, I would be like that

Steve:

if. So I. Of course he's doing that,

Steve:

you know? Yeah.

Leif:

Forget about a grand entrance.

Leif:

Everybody knows it's the exit, though,

Leif:

remember, Gossip Girl

Leif:

narrates as we go into Act 5.

Leif:

Nate finds Brie alone outside the event. It

Leif:

turns out she is trying to get back in with her family

Leif:

and doesn't want to be photographed in the enemy

Leif:

camp. Nate apologized and lets her know

Leif:

that he's always down for a secret romance.

Steve:

But you are going to have to pay me,

Steve:

but I do have a fee for secret

Steve:

romances. And, it's funny how she

Steve:

wants to be back with her family, and he's trying to cut himself

Steve:

off. So obviously,

Steve:

this is going to play into

Steve:

more of that family dynamic as they go

Steve:

through. I'm really interested. I

Steve:

don't know if she's going to be a cast member or

Steve:

if she's going to be an arc.

Steve:

they are going to be at the same school, so I could see

Steve:

her at least being a recurring character. So I'm kind

Steve:

of interesting to see how this arc plays out.

Leif:

Any thoughts on her little backstory that.

Steve:

She gave the

Steve:

cousin getting stood up?

Steve:

I really didn't pay much mind to

Steve:

it other than, wow, I wasn't there

Steve:

for my cousin, and now I want to go back and be there for

Steve:

her. Was there something else?

Leif:

No. I'll just say, remember that

Leif:

story?

Steve:

Okay. Okay.

Leif:

Carter tracks Serena down. It turns out the big

Leif:

secret that they

Leif:

tracked down big Daddy V, and he

Leif:

has no interest in seeing his little girl.

Leif:

Carter would have stayed with Serena all summer, but

Leif:

she ditched him when her father rejected her.

Leif:

The confession is exactly what Serena wanted to hear.

Leif:

So she pulls Carter in for the kiss.

Steve:

Yeah. So

Steve:

the part earlier where Carter

Steve:

said it got weird and

Steve:

Serena said it got weird there

Steve:

was indication. I forget Carter. Carter didn't

Steve:

say it got weird, but Carter made a reference

Steve:

that made it sound like something happened

Steve:

between them. And

Steve:

by the time we got to this reveal,

Steve:

I forgot about the dad stuff. In the beginning of the

Steve:

episode, I remembered, oh, yeah, she went to Europe to find her dad, but

Steve:

now she's doing all this other stuff. And so

Steve:

when Carter says to her about, like,

Steve:

he. You tried. He didn't

Steve:

want to see you. He

Steve:

didn't want that. It was really.

Steve:

It's, a pretty powerful thing. Right? Like, her

Steve:

dad doesn't want to see her. And here's

Steve:

this guy that's like, but I would have been there for you this whole

Steve:

time anyway.

Steve:

And then she kisses the guy she accuses of

Steve:

stalking her.

Leif:

That reminds me of a, Do you ever watch that

Leif:

show Episodes?

Steve:

No. I've heard of it. That's the Friends.

Steve:

Matt Blanc, right?

Leif:

Yeah, it's like a, It's like a

Leif:

fictional version of himself.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I never actually watched it, but

Steve:

at.

Leif:

One point in the show, he was feeling a bit

Leif:

depressed, so he slept with his stalker.

Leif:

It was a young, beautiful woman.

Steve:

That's hilarious.

Steve:

In a. In a comedic universe. Yes,

Steve:

hilarious. Like. Like in. In the. In.

Steve:

In the realm of television, you know, it's sort of like

Steve:

when I watch a horror movie and, with Robin, she's like,

Steve:

people don't deserve to die. I'm like, no, there are rules to horror

Steve:

movies, and that person deserves to die

Steve:

by the. By the law of horror movies,

Steve:

not real life.

Leif:

The grandfather approaches Nate and Brie. Nate

Leif:

declares that he is not taking the new internship and that he

Leif:

will find his own way back to the city. The grandfather

Leif:

tells him, nate, my boy, work where

Leif:

you want, fuck who you want.

Steve:

I'll always love you.

Leif:

Now take this car and get back.

Steve:

To the city safe.

Leif:

As soon as Nate and Veree walk away, the grandfather

Leif:

calls Trip and tells him they now have a

Leif:

way to take down the Buckleys.

Steve:

It's so funny how he is

Steve:

always so deviously

Steve:

supportive of Nate that he's

Steve:

always, of course, Nate, you can

Steve:

just take this car and there's absolutely no strings attached.

Steve:

You don't have to take the internship.

Leif:

Blair is back at the match and learns that Chuck left a few

Leif:

minutes ago, along with a woman fitting

Leif:

Alexander Richards description.

Steve:

Yes. Is he back playing the game

Steve:

again? And kind of.

Steve:

Kind of. I'd say kind of

Steve:

a little bit. I wouldn't think that the leaving at

Steve:

the same time was an

Steve:

accident for.

Leif:

Chuck, but,

Leif:

spotted Malaire Waldorf learning, just because you get

Leif:

out of the game doesn't mean someone isn't

Leif:

warming the bench to take your plates.

Leif:

And we go into the epilogue.

Leif:

The match is wrapping up, and Vanessa is going home. But

Leif:

first, she drops a big heaping pile of judgment on

Leif:

Dan.

Steve:

Yeah, you're mad at Dan

Steve:

because you're at a place where he didn't expect to

Steve:

see you and he doesn't have time for you. And

Steve:

he's wearing nice clothes that someone else bought for

Steve:

him for this occasion. When

Steve:

at any point has Dan not

Steve:

been Himself at ah, no

Steve:

point was Dan not doing Dan

Steve:

shit. He's been judging Serena.

Steve:

Like that's a Dan thing. He's been putting

Steve:

up with Vanessa's bullshit. That's a Dan

Steve:

thing. He's been very

Steve:

uncomfortable, surrounded by

Steve:

money. He doesn't like. He, he likes what

Steve:

he's getting. But there is that level of discomfort

Steve:

that you see, you know, and he's.

Leif:

Helping his family and he's helping his family

Leif:

transition, as he says.

Steve:

Yes. As he always does, because his

Steve:

family always has been his priority.

Steve:

Especially because his family is just his dad and sister.

Steve:

Like his mom's like fucking gone at

Steve:

this point.

Leif:

She's fucking all right.

Steve:

She's fucking all right.

Leif:

Oh. Hudson

Leif:

Carter noticeably. San Serena is

Leif:

gathering his clothes as two angry looking men are

Leif:

holding the horses.

Steve:

I love that she ditched him. I love that she

Steve:

ditched him again. Like again. Vulture

Steve:

report. Serena just being fucking Serena

Steve:

this whole episode.

Leif:

Did he like pass out for a minute or something?

Leif:

How'd she pull that off?

Steve:

I mean, I could see her immediately after, just be like,

Steve:

I'll be right back. And then vanishing, you

Steve:

know.

Leif:

Blair arrives home and starts looking for Alexandra

Leif:

Richards. It turns out Chuck just had a headache

Leif:

and Blair didn't get the text because she left her phone on the

Leif:

table. Blair admits the rush home from

Leif:

Connecticut was exciting, but Chuck suggests just staying

Leif:

in.

Steve:

Yeah, it was really cute. And once again,

Steve:

Chuck really, really driving

Steve:

home. The point. I want you to

Steve:

be happy.

Steve:

That is what I want. This is super sweet. I loved

Steve:

it.

Leif:

Vanessa and Scott are, back in the city. Vanessa

Leif:

apologizes for talking or taking Scott to the

Leif:

polo match. Scott tries to take an

Leif:

optimistic look on the situation. Vanessa

Leif:

goes in for the kiss. The two of them make out in the middle of

Leif:

the street. As the episoding heading montage

Leif:

begins, Gossip Girl narrates.

Leif:

Growing up means one thing. Independence.

Steve:

The maybe we're not friends

Steve:

thing you had an argument over.

Leif:

Traumatic much? Vanessa?

Steve:

Yeah. You guys just had an argument over shit that was

Steve:

entirely your fault. So if

Steve:

anyone gets to make that call at this point, it's

Steve:

Dan. Like, you are. You are

Steve:

the asshole. Go on

Steve:

Reddit, list out this whole story under the I am

Steve:

I the asshole line. Guess what they're

Steve:

gonna say. You're the asshole.

Leif:

Yes. And then we get Rufus. Jenny and

Leif:

Eric arrive back at the penthouse with a

Leif:

photographer and Gossip Girl

Leif:

continues. We all want it.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

Nate and Brie are driving back to the city. They rudely

Leif:

stop in the middle of traffic to make out and Gossip Girl

Leif:

narrates sometimes we use other people to try to get

Leif:

it for ourselves.

Steve:

I was actually expecting a

Steve:

paparazzi click at the.

Leif:

At.

Steve:

Ah, the light of them kissing. Because

Steve:

grandfather, whatever grandfather's scheme is,

Steve:

obviously it has to do with Nate

Steve:

and Brie. I thought

Steve:

that it was going to start there, but no, they just made out

Steve:

at a green light. I'd be so

Steve:

pissed if I was sitting behind them.

Leif:

There are definitely people hawking.

Steve:

Yeah, I would have been laying on that

Steve:

horn.

Leif:

Rich people with their Ferrari.

Steve:

Fucking Ferrari. Get. Stop. making out in your Ferrari

Steve:

with your hot girlfriend, kid.

Steve:

Go drive it to whatever hotel you can

Steve:

find.

Leif:

Blair and Chuck have found a new way to play games with

Leif:

just the two of them. Gossip.

Leif:

Girl narrates. Sometimes we find it

Leif:

in each other. that was cute little role

Leif:

playing. Yeah, Chuck is role playing

Leif:

as a waiter. That's definitely a missed opportunity to let him do a

Leif:

British accent.

Steve:

You know, you're right.

Steve:

It's almost as if there's canon

Steve:

that Chuck can't do a British

Steve:

accent, even though he can barely speak in an

Steve:

American one.

Leif:

he really whispered his lie in that scene, too.

Steve:

Yeah, yeah.

Leif:

Serena leaves a voicemail for presumably her father,

Leif:

begging his attention.

Steve:

Serena, let it

Steve:

go.

Leif:

He doesn't want you.

Steve:

Yeah, I know that's tough to hear, kid. And

Steve:

I'd recommend, instead of this

Steve:

therapy. Therapy, Serena.

Steve:

Like, it will do you so much

Steve:

good, but trust me, this is

Steve:

not going to be good.

Steve:

you have his attention.

Steve:

What do you think doing all of this does

Steve:

to his desire to give it to

Steve:

you?

Leif:

Dan is sitting alone in the loft, and Gossip Girl

Leif:

continues. Sometimes our independence

Leif:

comes at a cost of something else, and that cost

Leif:

can be high.

Steve:

Yeah. Rufus has gone full Lily,

Steve:

and instead of parenting at this point,

Steve:

it's just buying the photos to make sure no one

Steve:

gets the photos of Serena's stunt

Steve:

double on a horse.

Leif:

Which is the next little clip here.

Leif:

Rufus is using, Lily's emergency money to buy

Leif:

the photographs of Serena from the polo

Leif:

match. However, the man says there's one

Leif:

photographer that couldn't reach. They couldn't

Leif:

reach Rufus. He just got swindled. What's

Leif:

the point of buying these photos if there's more

Leif:

photos of the same event out there?

Steve:

Yeah, yeah, more photos of Serena's

Steve:

stunt double on that horse, because

Steve:

there's no way Blake Lively was riding that horse across

Steve:

that scene.

Leif:

And Gossip Girl continues, because

Leif:

more often than not, in order to gain our

Leif:

independence, we have to fight. And then

Leif:

Serena is the final scene.

Leif:

She's with the photographer and she's making sure

Leif:

the photos hit the net. And Gossip Girl

Leif:

says, never give up. Never

Leif:

surrender.

Steve:

Yeah, she makes sure that those will be anywhere in Europe

Steve:

and Asia where her dad

Steve:

can see them.

Leif:

And so, yeah, the fourth ending

Leif:

lines from Gospel Girl is growing up

Leif:

means one thing. Independence. We all

Leif:

want it. Sometimes. Sometimes we use other people to try to get it

Leif:

for ourselves. Sometimes we find it in

Leif:

each other. Sometimes our independence comes at the cost

Leif:

of something else. And that cost can be high

Leif:

because more often than not, in order to gain our

Leif:

independence, we have to fight.

Leif:

Never give up. Never surrender.

Leif:

Exo xo Gossip

Leif:

Girl. So that

Leif:

is our season premiere.

Steve:

Last thing I want to say to Serena is that this really is not the

Steve:

power play you think it is.

Steve:

You're.

Leif:

Yet he doesn't care.

Steve:

He doesn't care. And that, like, I feel for.

Steve:

Like, that sucks,

Steve:

but, like, he doesn't care.

Leif:

So predictions. Let's do. First do predictions.

Leif:

Like, what's coming up right away, what's coming in the next few

Leif:

episodes?

Steve:

Okay. Grandfather scheme is going to

Steve:

take place and unfold that is going to,

Steve:

you know, get in between Nate and

Steve:

Bri or bring them closer together. Like I said, I don't know if

Steve:

she's going to be a cast member or

Steve:

an in and out member. Another big

Steve:

prediction. I know I never

Steve:

intentionally look ahead. I never intentionally

Steve:

see stuff. The

Steve:

next episode in Max, the

Steve:

thumbnail shows a picture of

Steve:

Blair's face, and that face

Steve:

tells me that she just discovered who her new roommate is.

Steve:

So I believe that that's coming up in the next episode,

Steve:

that Blair is going to have a roommate in a

Steve:

dorm, which I'm surprised Blair is living

Steve:

in a dorm at a state school. another

Steve:

prediction is that, Serena is going to continue

Steve:

to make a fool out of herself for the attention of somebody who doesn't give

Steve:

a shit. But eventually it's probably going to

Steve:

work because that's how TV works. So

Steve:

I think that in the near future, we'll meet Mr.

Steve:

Van der Woodsen. I kind of

Steve:

hope Cece gets better because she's been

Steve:

better on the show. So I hope that

Steve:

there's not a CC funeral coming up. That would make me a

Steve:

little sad at this point. Also

Steve:

feel like Blair and Chuck have this rhythm

Steve:

now. It can only last for so long before something

Steve:

interrupts it. I give that

Steve:

maybe three episodes,

Steve:

but I don't think it's going to be too long before there's a

Steve:

shake up there.

Leif:

Okay, so that's the

Leif:

micro looking more at the macro

Leif:

side. We kind of

Leif:

noticed that the season premieres set

Leif:

up things that kind of close

Leif:

out at the end of the season or

Leif:

near the end of the season. What kind of big

Leif:

parallels do you think they kind of set up for

Leif:

beginning this time?

Steve:

M. first of all, the

Steve:

secret scandals are there.

Steve:

Again, the grandfather Nate thing kind of

Steve:

parallels the

Steve:

Catherine Nate thing in the sense of here's this

Steve:

secret relationship that other people

Steve:

are going to be able to exploit.

Leif:

But that was resolved pretty quick.

Steve:

That was. What kind of things were you're talking about, like, throughout.

Leif:

What do you think was set up in this episode that'll pay off

Leif:

at the end of the season?

Steve:

I think that we'll see some payoff with

Steve:

the Rufus

Steve:

Van Der Woodsen children, the

Steve:

relationship there, because however Lily

Steve:

decides that Rufus handled that, we're going to

Steve:

see. So I think that we're going to see their

Steve:

relationship really develop throughout this season

Steve:

with Rufus really being

Steve:

dad while Serena

Steve:

is looking for dad.

Steve:

So there's definitely this big dad

Steve:

thing going on here.

Steve:

So I'm wondering how that's going to play out.

Steve:

I, think that Blair again.

Steve:

Blair and Chuck coming in so happy at the

Steve:

beginning. I feel like that sets

Steve:

up for again just. There

Steve:

hasn't been a happy couple throughout a whole season yet,

Steve:

I guess is what I. What I'm thinking with them.

Steve:

I. Let me think.

Leif:

So do you think they're going to break up a couple episodes and get.

Leif:

Be happy again at the end?

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, honestly, yes. I think that I see

Steve:

them.

Steve:

I see them doing sort of the Dan Serena

Steve:

thing and getting back together

Steve:

and apart a couple times or at least

Steve:

almost breaking up. They're gonna have to have

Steve:

tension there. So I really

Steve:

see that. But I think that again, it'll tie up with

Steve:

them together in the end again. Kind of like

Steve:

how it started with them apart

Steve:

together. apart together now. Well, I guess

Steve:

together apart would make more sense.

Steve:

So they could end up breaking up in the

Steve:

end because the other ones, they look like they were getting together

Steve:

in the end and then didn't. There's a lot of ways this can go.

Leif:

Any. Any other predictors.

Steve:

I also predict we're going to

Steve:

see some kind of

Steve:

triangle between Dan, Serena

Steve:

and Carter play out. Carter

Steve:

really is sort of an in and out character, and I

Steve:

feel like this episode didn't

Steve:

resolve his current

Steve:

stay on the show. So

Steve:

I feel like that's going to play out a little more until he gets

Steve:

fired at some point, because I'm pretty sure this

Steve:

is the season where he gets fired. I Don't remember for sure

Steve:

though.

Leif:

All. Ah, right, let's go ahead and get into some segments

Leif:

this week in fandom. we hopped into the Wayback

Leif:

Machine to travel to the Television without pity

Leif:

forums of 2009.

Leif:

Hello there, Peabody. Here. And this is

Leif:

the Wayback Machine for traveling through time.

Steve:

And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak,

Steve:

Sherman.

Steve:

Hello.

Leif:

Good boy. There's a

Leif:

mixed opinions on the episode.

Steve:

Overall that I,

Steve:

I can gather. I, I have mixed opinions on the

Steve:

episode.

Leif:

Some people liked it, some didn't. Yeah,

Leif:

Dan might become a fan favorite. He keeps

Leif:

smacking down Vanessa.

Steve:

That also is very

Steve:

fair. She needed to be smacked down

Steve:

a.

Leif:

Lot of hair watching this episode.

Steve:

yes. In fact, when I brought up

Steve:

Vanessa's hair, I also meant to bring up the fact that, like, a lot of

Steve:

the other hair looked great. The

Steve:

Chuck and Nate both had, Dan, Chuck and Nate

Steve:

all had new hairstyles

Steve:

and I thought they all looked good.

Leif:

So the forums.

Leif:

Vanessa's extensions were horrible.

Steve:

They were horrible.

Leif:

They were not a fan of Jenny's hair either.

Steve:

No, no. Jenny's hair also looks like a rat's

Steve:

nest.

Leif:

And there was mixed reactions to both Nate and Dan's

Leif:

new hair.

Steve:

Yeah, I like both of their hair.

Leif:

They are very intrigued by Serena and

Leif:

Carter.

Steve:

They're an intriguing couple. They're kind of a power

Steve:

couple in a way. So

Steve:

I'm not mad at them hooking up.

Leif:

So they kept calling Scott pilot

Leif:

inspector, Inspector with a K, not a

Leif:

C, because KS are cooler.

Leif:

but I don't get the reference.

Steve:

Me neither.

Leif:

If anyone gets it, please let us know.

Leif:

Blair and Chuck were sweet, but something

Leif:

seemed a bit off.

Steve:

Yeah, I mean, they need more excitement in their

Steve:

relationship instead of getting it from

Steve:

within. That's a

Steve:

red flag, I think.

Leif:

Desperate for an Eric storyline.

Steve:

Yeah. Stop just putting him in.

Steve:

Stop just making him filler.

Leif:

One fan commented that the actor turned out an offer

Leif:

to become a regular cast member.

Steve:

Oh, interesting.

Leif:

He wanted the flexibility to get other jobs.

Steve:

It's a shame because I would have liked him to

Steve:

have a bigger presence on Gossip Girl.

Leif:

And just like you, I've

Leif:

noticed a growing number of people are starting to

Leif:

enjoy and look forward to the Dan and Blair team

Leif:

ups.

Steve:

Yeah. Yep.

Steve:

They're. First of all, I love when they do

Steve:

it.

Leif:

They're going to be at college together.

Steve:

Yes, they are. And it's only a matter.

Steve:

Like it's only a matter of time.

Steve:

I've always.

Steve:

Yeah, they're going to bang.

Leif:

It should be interesting quartet at NYU with,

Leif:

Dan, Georgina, Vanessa and Blair.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Steve:

Wow.

Leif:

Dan's going to be like John, Ritter and Three's

Leif:

Company.

Leif:

But that is it for this week in fandom. Let's go.

Leif:

Head over to episode grades.

Leif:

What do you got, Steve?

Steve:

first, I want to say I don't think I could see Penn Badgley taking

Steve:

a pratfall like. Like John Ritter,

Steve:

but other than that, I have

Steve:

a B. A solid B for this episode.

Steve:

There were a few minor

Steve:

writing points that I thought this could have been

Steve:

hunched up. I

Steve:

overall liked the episode. It

Steve:

wasn't in one of my top tier episodes.

Steve:

Those top tier episodes really have to

Steve:

have a big scheme

Steve:

kind of unfold or a

Steve:

big plot reveal or a big

Steve:

twist. And this had the Serena's dad

Steve:

thing, but it wasn't quite

Steve:

the big

Steve:

episode that I want for an A. But it's a

Steve:

solid B.

Leif:

Well, we are in the hand holding club because I also have

Leif:

a B. Like you said, it was a bit

Leif:

slow, but it had a lot of setup. I

Leif:

think it set up a lot of things right.

Steve:

It was a good season premiere, and

Steve:

it set up a season. I felt it actually

Steve:

set up a season better than the last

Steve:

season premiere. Did the last season premiere set up

Steve:

arcs, but it didn't set up the

Steve:

season. Whereas this has. It once

Steve:

again, takes them out of the city for most of.

Steve:

Puts them in Connecticut for part of it.

Steve:

So. Yeah, I really like that.

Leif:

Let's head on over to Stockwatch Video. You got going

Leif:

up.

Steve:

I have Nate.

Steve:

I have Nate going up because he

Steve:

doesn't know that he's getting played yet, and he got a girl

Steve:

and he thinks everything's going his way right now. I

Steve:

had, I had

Steve:

Chuck and Blair both going up as

Steve:

well. They.

Steve:

They're. They seem like they're in a good place right

Steve:

now. So I had them going up because

Steve:

they're working things out as a couple.

Steve:

I had Carter going up because,

Steve:

I mean, Carter got Serena for a

Steve:

bit. I had Jenny going up

Steve:

because she had her nameplate engraved.

Steve:

I had Scott going up because his

Steve:

scheme worked out for him. I had

Steve:

Rufus going up because he's going through a tough. Like, he

Steve:

does have a tough situation, and I think he's handling

Steve:

it better than I would have

Steve:

expected anyone else. That is all for

Steve:

going up.

Leif:

All. Ah, right. For me, I have Dan going up

Leif:

because he's got that nice suit. He's got a

Leif:

wallet full of $100 bills, and he

Leif:

Smackdown. Vanessa.

Steve:

I was just going to say I actually left him neutral

Steve:

because I liked those things.

Steve:

I didn't think he really went anywhere

Steve:

himself in the episode. But I do see what you're saying.

Leif:

He's also got a great tan for once. He's not looking

Leif:

all pasty.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif:

I also had Jetty and Eric go up because they had the

Leif:

cute best friends, brother, sister thing going

Leif:

on. I had Blair and Chuck going up because

Leif:

they were cute and healthy for

Leif:

once.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

I had the grandfather going up. Cause he sort of

Leif:

got Nate wrapped around his finger.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

And I also had Scott go it up cause he was, Yeah, like you

Leif:

said, his scheme seems to be working.

Steve:

Yeah.

Leif:

who do you got going down?

Steve:

So going down. I have Serena is my first one going

Steve:

down because. Oh, honey. Oh, honey.

Steve:

I have Vanessa going down because she's an

Steve:

asshole. I actually had grandfather

Steve:

going down, but it's because

Steve:

he's creepy, devious,

Steve:

and because he's. He

Steve:

doesn't quite have the control over Nate that

Steve:

I think he wants to have yet.

Steve:

I think grandfather stock is about to go up,

Steve:

But I have him going down for this episode.

Steve:

And finally, I had Brie getting played

Steve:

by the. Getting played by the

Steve:

Vanderbilts. I had her start going

Steve:

down. I left Eric neutral because I

Steve:

felt like he was a, really great

Steve:

exposition piece in this episode, But I didn't really see

Steve:

him projecting one way or another.

Steve:

Whereas I saw Jenny actually, like, moving up.

Leif:

I just. I mainly gave it to him because he seemed happy.

Steve:

Yeah. Which is always good. Halfway through the episode,

Steve:

Robin said, has anyone checked in with Eric lately?

Steve:

Which I was like, we talk about that a lot on the

Steve:

podcast.

Leif:

For me, going down Serena,

Leif:

because, yeah, obviously

Leif:

I got Daddy Vanderwinsen going down

Leif:

because he's really horrible parent.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. I would like to add

Steve:

Papa Vander Woodson to my list too. I didn't

Steve:

really think about him, but, yeah, he's an

Steve:

asshole.

Steve:

I can't imagine, honestly,

Steve:

Rufus, because he's just

Steve:

oblivious. That's fair.

Leif:

Total hypocrite reversion last

Leif:

season.

Steve:

Oh, yeah. I think.

Leif:

I think the title is really, like, about him. The reversals of

Leif:

fortune.

Steve:

Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're

Steve:

right.

Leif:

Vanessa, because she was horrible.

Leif:

And I also had Ashley Henshaw going

Leif:

down because she got played.

Steve:

She got played.

Leif:

I had Cece going down, because she might be dying.

Steve:

Oh, yeah.

Leif:

Sorry, Cece.

Steve:

Sorry, Cece. But here's the best

Steve:

outfits from the last episode

Steve:

we've seen.

Leif:

Who m Do you have for best outfit?

Steve:

I had Serena's dress at

Steve:

the polo.

Leif:

The orange one.

Steve:

The orange one. I Don't typically like orange very

Steve:

much, but I thought that she really carried it. It's

Steve:

also probably the dress that showed the least amount of

Steve:

boob on Serena, and I kind of

Steve:

appreciated that it wasn't

Steve:

so much. So much boob on a dress of

Steve:

hers, so I gave it to that

Steve:

one.

Leif:

I went with Chuck's lavender pinstripe, suit

Leif:

at the polo match.

Steve:

I have a shout out to that, too. Chuck. Chuck.

Steve:

This whole episode had outfit

Steve:

after outfit that was just slick. I really like

Steve:

Chuck's outfits in this. Dan,

Steve:

too. Dan's suit at the polo match was also,

Steve:

I, liked that the no tie. It was very

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similar to the grandfather's suit that he wore to the season

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premiere last year, too. The

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tan with no collar. The

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one Cece's husband's, suit.

Leif:

Yeah. Well, that is it

Leif:

for segments. you plug in anything this week.

Steve:

I am going to be

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at Dawson street pub on March

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15, and I will be playing some

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Black Sabbath covers on the ukulele during the

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intermission of an entire Black Sabbath

Steve:

tribute. So come on out to that. It'll be a

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fun night. And you can also

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go ahead and follow me on Instagram or TikTok

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at Steve Marshawn. M A R

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C H I O N. You can also

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find me on bluesky at

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the Weed Wizard. Go ahead and follow me there

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because I feel like not a lot of people follow me there. Or

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Threadsteve Marshawn. And

Steve:

I think that's all my stuff.

Leif:

All right. For me. Nothing really to plug,

Leif:

but let me know if you watch the first

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couple episodes of Good Cop, Bad Cop. Let me know what you

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thought. Yeah, so you should have seen

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a couple episodes by now. And if you want to follow

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me on Instagram or TikTok or

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Bluesky. I'm hotcappicola. H O

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T C A P I C O

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L A and you can follow the podcast

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Facebook, and if you're interested in our

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can find the information on our website

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To send us an email, we'd love to hear your thoughts and maybe

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and we will.

Leif:

Be back next week to Talk about Season 3

Leif:

Episode 2 the

Leif:

Freshman the

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Max episode description reads

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Georgina has plans for Blair at

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nyu.

Steve:

Yes. Wow. I'm so

Steve:

excited for Georgina after hating her so much in

Steve:

season one. She just did a 180 in

Steve:

my fucking heart for this show last

Steve:

season and I'm I'm ready for it.

Leif:

Well, until next time. You know you love us.

Steve:

XOXO Every time you walk

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away run.

Steve:

Away you take a piece of me m you with you

Steve:

there Every time you walk

Steve:

away or run away you take a piece of me

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with you there Every

Steve:

time you walk away or run away m you take a piece of

Steve:

m me with you there

Steve:

oh it seems I'm walking right to

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your.

Steve:

Door.

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My heart's still resting looking for

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something more

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Are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me you with you there

Steve:

Never feels right when I'm out here on

Steve:

my own

Steve:

I left last night and it feels like

Steve:

way too long

Steve:

are you ever gonna see everything you mean

Steve:

to me I'm trying really hard to believe

Steve:

every time you walk away run away you take a

Steve:

piece of meat with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

come back to me

Steve:

smile and you'll make my life.

Steve:

Complete.

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me with you there

Steve:

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Steve:

piece of me you with you there

Steve:

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piece of me with you there

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there Hm

Steve:

Every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve:

piece of me with you there?

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