Episode 1
S4E01 - "Belles de Jour"
The Non-Judging Breakfast Club is back for Season 4! 🥞☕ Leif (the seasoned Gossip Girl veteran) and Steve (the rookie, diving in for the first time) kick things off with the Parisian glamour of the Gossip Girl premiere.
In this episode, they break down:
- Blair and Serena’s Paris adventures and the fallout of past scandals
- Chuck Bass’s dramatic return and reinvention
- Nate’s questionable choices and new entanglements
- Why this season feels like a rebirth of Upper East Side chaos
It’s a fresh start, new lies, and plenty of scheming. Whether you’re rewatching or experiencing it all for the first time, join us for laughs, insights, and all the gossip hotter than ever.
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Produced by Leif Capicola and Steve Marchion.
Edited and mixed by Leif Capicola.
The Gossip Girl Theme Performed By Steve Marchion.
Transcript
You know, her highly reputable dad went to med school there.
Steve:He was recently honored, and I'm sure that they
Steve:would be really proud of him.
Steve:Oh, boy. but it's not like anyone's ever gonna
Steve:know because no one wants a scandal, on the Upper east side.
Leif:Hey up re Ciders and all you SK Scandal loving listeners out
Leif:there, you just tuned into the non judging breakfast
Leif:PD where the coffee is strong, the
Leif:waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter
Leif:than ever.
Leif:My name is Leif and I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.
Steve:And I'm Steve. I'm the rookie,
Steve:the newbie the first time through. What
Steve:am I now that we've hit season four?
Leif:I know you think I'm crazy, that I'm a
Leif:schemer and a liar and pathologically
Leif:selfish. And that's true. Or it was.
Leif:At least until season four.
Steve:Hey, there's nothing like birthing a new season
Steve:to get you back into
Steve:full, form here.
Leif:Fair enough.
Steve:Just as long as we don't talk about your georggina.
Leif:That's all we're talking about this episode.
Steve:So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has
Steve:been watching Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm
Steve:diving in for the first time. And together, we're
Steve:your dynamic duo, bringing you all the drama,
Steve:romance, and sometimes questionable fashion
Steve:choices of this iconic
Steve:2007 series.
Leif:Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week we're
Leif:dissecting every juicy detail of the show
Leif:one episode at a time. We'll connect the
Leif:dots, unco, cover those sneaky little Easter eggs,
Leif:and of course, serve up some piping out behind the
Leif:scenes tea. And expects some iconic moments from
Leif:Phantom too. Because what's a deep dive without a little
Leif:drama?
Steve:And since we are all about inclusivity
Steve:here at the non judging breakfast pod, there
Steve:is always a seat for you at the non judging breakfast
Steve:table. So go ahead and grab a
Steve:mimosa, a cup of coffee, or
Steve:maybe call up. Well, I don't know
Steve:where to get anything from now. And now that Chuck'has gone.
Steve:So guess. Grab that little black book and hope there's a
Steve:secret back page to it. Yeah. And
Steve:let's go ahead and get into this.
Leif:Yep.
Leif:Season 4, Episode 1 Belle D?
Leif:Joour Original Air Date was September
Leif:13, 2010 But
Leif:a little over a month before that, on June
Leif:4th, our friend Chase Crawford
Leif:was arrested in Plano, Texas for a
Leif:joint. Hey, Joy.
Steve:Oh, man. And it's
Steve:funny. So I saw the mugshot. You just showed me the
Steve:mugshot. And how do you look that
Steve:good In a mugshot
Steve:like, you look like he got his stylist in
Steve:there. It looks like Nate Archibald got his
Steve:stylist in there before getting his mug shot taken.
Leif:Well, you gotta rest it, like in a strip ball.
Steve:And for a joint, like it
Steve:was Texas. It was Texas. You could still
Steve:get arrested in Texas for a joint. Yeah.
Leif:He is from Texas.
Steve:Oh, I think I did know that.
Leif:And his sister is married to Tony Roma.
Steve:Yes, I did remember. I do remember. We talked
Steve:about that. The, Wait,
Steve:how many? Super bowl ring champion Tony
Steve:Romo. I'm trying to remember.
Steve:I believe that was zero. Right.
Leif:Judges, judges, can we get a rulling?
Steve:We get a rul.
Leif:Yes, it was. It was a fact.
Steve:0'Okay okay. Good, good.
Steve:But then they got Dak Prescott, who now, of course,
Steve:has. Wait, wait.
Steve:that's also zero, isn't it? Yes, yes.
Steve:Okay.
Leif:Also zero. Abby'for Mr. Roo.
Steve:Yes. Zero. Yes. Well,
Steve:if you can't get through a broadcast without needing a
Steve:loenge, I don't think you get an Emmy.
Leif:This episode aired, on September 13th, and. But it was
Leif:based on the movie Belle de Joour, which came out in
Leif:1967, in which a frigid young
Leif:house voice decides to spend her midweek
Leif:afternoons as a prostitute.
Steve:Interesting.
Leif:Very French thing to death.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Definitely not an American movie.
Steve:No. And it's. The
Steve:description of Frigid is
Steve:interesting because there's a lot of
Steve:context that that just means not interested in
Steve:sex. And so
Steve:to then professionally be like, well, you know, I'm not
Steve:really into this with my husband, but
Steve:professionally, I
Steve:think I'd make a killing. You?
Steve:I'm good at it. I don't like it. It does feel
Steve:like work. So why not just make money doing
Steve:it?
Leif:Makes sense to me.
Steve:Like George Carlin always said, fucking is
Steve:legal. Selling is legal. Why isn't selling
Steve:fucking legal?
Leif:So, this episode is written by, once again, the combination
Leif:of Josh Avfron and Stephanie Savage.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah. It
Steve:feels it. It's funny how
Steve:Stephanie Savage can't really do one on her own, but when
Steve:she's paired with Saffron like this, there
Steve:tends to be a lot. A lot more
Steve:continuity. It's almost like Stephanie Savage
Steve:throws ideas on a page. Whereas
Steve:where she becomes sort of this Lennon McCartney, when
Steve:she's working with Josh Saffron, we.
Leif:Josh Schwart or Josh Schwartz.
Steve:Right. When she has that other
Steve:writer with her.
Leif:Well, she doesn't have a writer's background. She was a producer
Leif:who got the opportunity to write.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:And Back again in the director's chair is
Leif:Mark Paznarsski, who did the
Leif:pilot, the Wild Brunch, Blair
Leif:Waldorf, Mus'pie Valley
Leif:Girls, Dan Def Floret, The
Leif:Grandfather Part I 2, and the Treasure of
Leif:Serena Madre.
Steve:Pretty solid.
Leif:Very.
Steve:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wild Brunch
Steve:was episode two, I will eat. Yes, right. So he did the
Steve:first two episodes.
Leif:Correct.
Steve:Okay. I don't know why I thought Buckley did. Oh,
Steve:I think Buckley did the third, right?
Leif:No, that was the guy who did the season finale. Jay Miller
Leif:Tobin.
Steve:Oh, okay. Cause the third one was Poison Ivy.
Steve:Right?
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Which was been one of our favorites
Steve:all along.
Leif:And then so the last one he did was the Treasure of Serena Madre, which
Leif:is the last season's Thanksgiving episode.
Steve:Yes. And Blair Waldo from West Pie was
Steve:Thanksgivingod 2. Right.
Leif:Season one Thanksgiving.
Steve:Yeah. So he's done two Thanksgiving episodes.
Steve:So. Yeah, very solid. Very solid
Steve:credits.
Leif:And I don't know if you notice, but, Taylor Bumpsson is still
Leif:credited as main cast.
Steve:I did not. Well, I didn't realize see
Steve:her name in the credits.
Leif:O.
Steve:You know, maybe I didn't just
Steve:wrote it off. But that's
Steve:interesting that she would still have a, credit. Unless
Steve:she's still on the show and just
Steve:has a lesser.
Leif:I mean, she's still under contract. She's still listed as main
Leif:cast.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:So she's still getting paid for every episode, supposedly.
Steve:That's the job I want. I justnna be
Steve:main cast on a show, Steve.
Leif:Isn't that another job you have had for the last like five
Leif:years?
Steve:Okay, Duce.
Leif:What a us that vulture recap, Al.
Steve:right, here we go.
Steve:Even by Upper east side standards, the characters
Steve:that populate the world of Gossip Girl are
Steve:privileged. Many of the things that
Steve:preoccupy huge swaths of the
Steve:minds and time of even New
Steve:Yorkers of serious means comes to
Steve:them effortlessly. Their hair is always
Steve:perfectly groomed, even Vanessa. They
Steve:have the ability to stay fit and thin
Steve:without ever going to the gym. They can
Steve:flit seamlessly through time and
Steve:space from burrow to burroug in the blink
Steve:of an eye. They can be accepted into Ivy
Steve:League colleges without having to write an essay or
Steve:even fool around with someones dad, we
Steve:think. And they never even step into bad
Steve:lighting. But as fortunate as they are, life
Steve:still occasionally hands them a big bag of shit.
Steve:In dans case this happened quite literally,
Steve:we saw in last nights Vermeer in the form of
Steve:Milo, his supposed baby son
Steve:with Georgina Sparks. By the time we
Steve:catch up with him, Dan seems to have come quite a
Steve:way toward accepting this change of course in the
Steve:life hed planned for himself, other than telling his
Steve:parents, of course. But Ive sealed
Steve:my fate, he says to Lily when he does. And he
Steve:doesn't sound too sad about it, perhaps
Steve:because he can put off the
Steve:dispiriting reality of being a professional
Steve:writer a bit longer.
Steve:Elsewhere, other cast members were grappling with
Steve:their sudden storyline changes.
Steve:Serial monogamous Nate, having dated pretty
Steve:much every other primary female cast
Steve:member, loses himself in Chuck's little black
Steve:book. Serial philanderer Chuck,
Steve:after being shot and left four dead in Prague, adopts
Steve:a new personality, complete with Eastern
Steve:European time warp wardrobe. And
Steve:Blair and Serena come close to realizing
Steve:that their true loves may be each
Steve:other. I don't think they'll ever
Steve:realize that.
Leif:Let's get into the episode. Act one begins with
Leif:a Gossip Girl monologue.
Leif:Nothing beats a summer abroad. But when
Leif:traveling far from home, it's always nice to bring along
Leif:an old friend from the neighborhood cobblestones
Leif:and Cafe de flur. Serena'locked down
Leif:the Left bank and becomeused to us all.
Leif:Meanwhile, Blair rules the Right bank,
Leif:storming the shops and consuming the classics and
Leif:sampling sugary snacks like a modern
Leif:Marie Antoinette. But we hear
Leif:Serena's stories sizzle while Blairs are
Leif:more fizzle. She's shopped at Sa
Leif:Laurent and died at Durn,
Leif:but the only beau he's had in summer is on
Leif:her headband. We get a montage of
Leif:Blair and Serena andjining Paris before we focus on
Leif:them at an outdoor cafe, talking
Leif:all about all of Serena's boys and Blair's lack
Leif:of them. Blair is looking for a real
Leif:connection and it's. And not just a
Leif:fling.
Steve:Yeah, or she's going to come home with a
Steve:Chuck bast sized cloud over her head
Steve:and you. You go to Paris to find
Steve:romance. And
Steve:Blair is doing it Blair way.
Leif:Rufus and Lily apparently also took evigation,
Leif:but are back at the penthouse and listening to their answering
Leif:machines. There are messages from both
Leif:Eleanor and the Bass business manager, Bruce
Leif:Kaplan. Rufus is still rightfully
Leif:salty about Chuck and Mrs. Dan since he hasn't
Leif:spoken to his son all summer.
Steve:Remember answering machines? Yeah, that were
Steve:already outdated by this point.
Steve:Or later in the episode. Vaness is
Steve:like, I left that in Dan's voicemail.
Leif:They all have cell phones.
Steve:They all have cell phones. But Lily now
Steve:has a. Well, I guess Lily has canonically had a
Steve:landline that they have called both
Steve:places on a landline. So it makes sense for there to
Steve:be and well, no, because even by
Steve:then it was voicemail.
Steve:M Even when I had a landline,
Steve:there came a point that it was just voicemail.
Leif:Lysen to that classic retro look.
Steve:Yeah. Still, do you know what the nostalgia does
Steve:for her?
Leif:Dan and Nate have a phone cover station. Dan is
Leif:living vicariously through Nate's little black book exploits
Leif:and living in denial about being a father.
Leif:Dan promises that he will tell his parents today, but just
Leif:then Vanessa is at the door.
Steve:I love that
Steve:Nate and Dan how Dan's going to Nate for
Steve:these stories to fill him
Steve:in that Nate seems to be having a
Steve:really fun summer
Steve:where with you see all the women
Steve:in the law in the
Steve:penthouse with him and so
Steve:nice little bit of banner. And also I love that Nate
Steve:knows. I love that Dan confided in Nate
Steve:about this whole thing. So I love that
Steve:friendship, especially after how
Steve:last season ended with them kind of fighting
Steve:with each other and, But having that great apology and
Steve:making up.
Leif:Welle, they made up the fast forward
Leif:there at the end, the very end of the episode.
Steve:Right. That's what I'm saying is that, like, the way that it
Steve:transitioned to them making up
Steve:and now for them to actually have this summer
Steve:of real friendship, like, real
Steve:friend stuff of like being
Steve:there for each other and talking to each other. So.
Leif:And they had a very similar summer to
Leif:Serenas IND was like, yeah, yeah, I had
Leif:that.
Steve:I had that thought too. That there is a parallel between,
Steve:I had that thought of how
Steve:they.
Leif:Both had some fun.
Steve:They both had some fun. There's at one point Serena says,
Steve:nate broke up with me. And it's like, no, you told Nate you
Steve:wanted to be alone. And then he said, okay, then we're broke.
Steve:Broken up. Like, it was a very
Steve:mutual thing. And you both went off and
Steve:did your own thing. So.
Leif:Back in Paris, Blair and Serena are
Leif:discussing Serena's choice of Nate or Dan.
Leif:Serena gets a large envelope delivered, but is hesed
Leif:to open in front of Blair, who seems to think it's a
Leif:catalog for Brown. Yeah,
Leif:Serriena's lying again. Alri rightty.
Steve:Yep. we're kicking off a new season,
Steve:some with some vand der lies.
Leif:Lily is meeting with Bruce Kaplan, who is looking
Leif:for Chuck, who hasn't been making his mortgage payments.
Leif:He is hoping Lily can help track him down.
Steve:This is. Where was Rupa standing
Steve:there?
Leif:Nah, that was earlier. That was at like, when they
Leif:were playing the party or maybe later.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Leif:yeah, this is just where, yeah, Lily'meeting with them.
Leif:And. Or on the phone with them, rather.
Steve:Oh, okay. Yeah.
Leif:And then lily, calls serena, trying to find
Leif:chuck and serena. Thankfully,
Leif:chuck has, Serena says, thankfully, chuck has stayed away all
Leif:summer. She also tells lily that she got into columbia
Leif:and is worried about blair, how blair is going to
Leif:react.
Steve:And there is also that setup that
Steve:right before Serena lied where blair was
Steve:like, I'm so glad you're nowhere near me.
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:So serena has reason to be worried
Steve:about what blair's gonna think.
Steve:But also, don't lie about it, Serena.
Leif:Vanessa is upset. Dan is called,
Leif:hasn't called or emailed all summer. Vanessa
Leif:becomes a little worried when she sees the state of theoft, but then gets
Leif:upset again when she spives drorgina's panties.
Leif:Perfect timing, because drorgina comes out carrying dan's
Leif:son milo.
Steve:Yeah, I did like this. I liked
Steve:vanessa looking around the room,
Steve:and she had some
Steve:great just shots
Steve:at this situation, like, oh, I guess you're not alone.
Steve:And dan just being like, u. so when she
Steve:finally goes, I guess I should leave. And dan's like,
Steve:yeah, yeah, you should.
Leif:And then we move into act two.
Leif:Nate sits down at a crowded restaurant with a
Leif:blonde who is having a very animated phone
Leif:conversation. The woman at the next table is
Leif:trying to read a book and is annoyed at the situation.
Leif:Sorry. Annoyed at the distraction. When nate's
Leif:d gets up to continue her conversation somewhere a little more
Leif:private, he tries to banter with the book reader.
Steve:Yeah, and failseah,
Steve:the partd I loved was he's like, I'm nate
Steve:archibald. And she ignores him, and he's like, well,
Steve:can I at least get your number, Bro, she's not
Steve:giving you her name. You
Steve:expect her number. Well, can I just get
Steve:your social couple
Steve:things?
Leif:So she was reading wharton's house of the mirth.
Steve:Okay.
Leif:did you ever teach that?
Steve:No.
Leif:You have you read it?
Steve:No, I'm not familiar.
Leif:So it is a satire on, new york high society.
Steve:Oh, okay. Interesting.
Leif:And a little small continuity era. like, the camera kept
Leif:switching back and forth between behind nate's
Leif:shoulder, behind juliet's shoulder.
Steve:Hu.
Leif:When it was behind nate's shoulder, she had the book
Leif:open completely.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:When she was behind her shoulder, it was, like, folded over.
Steve:Yeah, she just kept opening and closing
Steve:it and. Yeah. No. Yes. It's
Steve:funny. I didn't catch it, but I'm seeing it.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Blair is approached by a frenchmanile admiring an
Leif:edward manet painting. He politely introduces
Leif:himself as louis and compliments her beauty.
Leif:Also, for some reason, he Was reading her watch from
Leif:across the room and figured out she was from New York
Leif:and not from her divine French accent.
Leif:They make plans for a late dinner tonight.
Leif:While putting her info into Louis'phone
Leif:she overhears him speaking rapid French to his
Leif:driver. And here's the Grimaldi name.
Steve:Yes, I was unfamiliar with the
Steve:Grimaldis of. I didn't know their name,
Steve:but I obviously Monaco
Steve:royalty and princess Grace and
Steve:all that. I'm peripherally familiar.
Leif:Prince Albert.
Steve:Prince Albert. Oh, yeah. Really?
Steve:I didn't know that they invented that.
Leif:Yep, they invented
Leif:that. At least they popularized it.
Leif:Did. See? So the painting they were looking at was,
Leif:le dejun sur le. Which
Leif:translates to luncheon on the grass.
Steve:Okay.
Leif:Did you get a look at it at all?
Steve:Not particularly. I was paying more attention
Steve:to.
Leif:So it's a picture
Leif:of two men and
Leif:a naked woman having a picnic,
Leif:and then there's a second woman kind of in the background in the
Leif:water.
Steve:Interesting. I did not notice
Steve:that. And that is so
Steve:telling. Y. Like, that is really
Steve:funny. That's really funny.
Leif:Are, you kicking yourself with that? Thinking of Monaco last
Leif:week?
Steve:Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Once he
Steve:said it, I was like, prince of
Steve:Monaca, near France. Yeah.
Leif:Blair immediately calls Serena to tell her she may
Leif:have bagged a prince and is on her way to being the
Leif:next Grace Kelly. Blair needs
Leif:Serena to help her do some emergency shopping
Leif:before her date tonight.
Steve:I love this, and I love it's
Steve:the Serena knows that she can always get
Steve:what she wants. I think that that is part
Steve:of why Serena is such a narcissist and
Steve:why she is so entitled is. Cause she really
Steve:does just get what she wants. Like, oh, here's a cute
Steve:bartender I'm gonna slay like
Steve:I've got it right's.
Leif:yeah. In the elevator, in the dark. D. Yeah. Did you
Leif:mention my name?
Steve:Yes. Yes, exactly.
Steve:So when she's out with this
Steve:guy, and she gets the call that Blair needs
Steve:her, I love that she drops everything for
Steve:Blair in these moments. And she always
Steve:drops everything for Blair when Blair says, I need you.
Steve:But this one is a little different. Cause Blair isn't
Steve:having a relapse with
Steve:her eating disorder or she's not
Steve:facing with something horrible that Chuck did.
Steve:It's I need to go shopping. But it's
Steve:still Serena always dropping everything
Steve:when she says those words, I need you.
Steve:And you just know that Serena's like, I could get this
Steve:anytime. I could have this anytime.
Steve:There are millions of you in France.
Leif:Yeah. It was completely being this sex for Serena.
Steve:Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Leif:For hereah. for her. Yeah. And she's a ride or
Leif:die.
Steve:Yeah. And I do love that. Like
Steve:she always a ride or die at the end of the day.
Steve:So.
Leif:So we get the obvious Grace Kelly reference here, but
Leif:also topical to this time period
Leif:in the real world, 2m months
Leif:after this episode aired was when
Leif:Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton.
Leif:so we're right in the heart of that whole thing.
Steve:Okay. Oh, so right, there
Steve:was American royalty or there
Steve:was British royalty dating an
Steve:American.
Leif:And while Blair and Kate Middleton don't look exactly the
Leif:same and they're both small brunette
Leif:women, they have the same body type and
Leif:coloring.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Katy Perry's teenage dream greets our
Leif:eardrums as we get a montage of high end
Leif:power shops and a Gossip Girl blast.
Leif:Spotted bns cheek and
Leif:cheerful up on the boulevard O
Leif:small. They dollied at department stores
Leif:and stayed a while at Ali Vile
Leif:down on Rue St. Herie. They courted
Leif:couture at Palais Royal and
Leif:found the perfect outfits to bash the competition.
Leif:Then they headed to the Golden Triangle where
Leif:Montaign meets Georges. So. And
Leif:luxury goods are the opiate of choice.
Steve:All right.
Leif:And then, little mid act montage
Leif:with a, Gossip Girl blast in there.
Steve:Yeah. But of course, this one
Steve:is' this was an actual blast though,
Steve:right?
Leif:I believe so.
Steve:yes, yes, yes. Which that
Steve:was also interesting in this episode that a lot of Gossip
Steve:Girl was blasts and
Steve:less narration. More blasts. Yeah, that. It's
Steve:almost like Gossip Girl is featured
Steve:a little more in this
Steve:episode than
Steve:others as an active
Steve:participant in these people.
Leif:Indeed. Lives could be hit to
Leif:get something.
Steve:Could be. Which I doubt it is, which makes me
Steve:even more mad. But we'll get
Steve:there.
Leif:Blair is excited to find out more
Leif:about Louis, but Serena advises against
Leif:googling him. I guess they stopped getting those Microsoft
Leif:dollars this season. Blair gets a text from
Leif:Louis and has a friend, so
Leif:she enlists Serena to double with them. Serena
Leif:uses this as an excuse to further delay telling
Leif:Blair about Columbia.
Steve:Yeah, she's about to tell her.
Leif:And then Blair ask a favor.
Steve:Yeah, as. As a weor asked her to go on
Steve:this date, but also shoots her down
Steve:at first.
Steve:As much as I'd like to hear about how they offer a course in raw
Steve:foods,
Steve:we have more important things to talk
Steve:about.
Leif:Georgina is being pressured by a mysterious
Leif:Russian car and is stressed due to the demands of
Leif:parenthood. She answers a call from a
Leif:confused Rufus. Georgina is holding Milo's
Leif:birth certificate. The list stand'name but not
Leif:yet signed. Yeah, Is that how
Leif:that works?
Steve:Nope.
Steve:I mean, legally.
Leif:Nope.
Steve:I don't think that there's,
Leif:I guess what if the dad's not there?
Steve:Right. Well, and that's kind of the thing
Steve:is, I think maybe what it
Steve:does is that it says, yes, this is
Steve:my kid. But even then, a paternity
Steve:test still negates that
Steve:signature. So it doesn't matter, you know,
Steve:if a kid's born and I sign yes,
Steve:this, I'm the father on this birth certificate
Steve:and then I find out six years later that
Steve:the mom cheated on me and that that's not actually
Steve:my kid. I'm not on, you
Steve:know.
Leif:Ah, that's not necessarily true.
Steve:No.
Leif:If you've been raising that kid, I believe they
Leif:have often still been.
Steve:If you've been raising that kid and you're like, well, fuck you, you're not
Steve:mine. You're a piece of shit. Like, there is that. There is
Steve:that. But I feel like, well, let's be more like
Steve:six months later. I'm very sure you
Steve:can be like, I'm not sure.
Leif:Ex. The exact timeline.
Steve:Yeah, yeah. But there is a point where you
Steve:are no longer going to be
Steve:obligated even if you sign this thing. But,
Steve:well, Dan
Steve:Youuck ID is dumb
Steve:ass.
Leif:but he is cute as a dad.
Steve:Yeah, yeah.
Leif:Dan and we are. Are walking and talking. Dan is
Leif:freaking out about being a dad and isn't telling anyone. As
Leif:a form of denial, Vanessa points out that he is an
Leif:idiot for not having a paternity test done.
Steve:I liked this scene. Yeah, I really liked.
Leif:That's what was really good in this episod. She was a great friend.
Steve:She was fantastic. Like you said, she was a great
Steve:friend. And this scene, especially
Steve:where she has reason to be
Steve:upset and hurt, and
Steve:yet she's just being there and being a good friend to
Steve:Dan and listening and giving him hard advice and telling
Steve:him things that he needs to hear.
Steve:I thought it was a little weird that it's like
Steve:you need a paternity test. And Dan pushed back before
Steve:being like, well, yeah, won't. But I won't sign the thing unless
Steve:I get one. I thought there was a little
Steve:fumbling of the dialogue.
Leif:But all in all, I think that's the conflicted nature. I think
Leif:Dan kind of likes being a dad.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Even though he knows he's not really ready. But he does
Leif:like it.
Steve:Yes. And here's the thing.
Steve:It's very easy
Steve:to like at that
Steve:point because,
Steve:you are up a lot and you are exhausted
Steve:and I mean Bailey was awful at
Steve:night. We couldn't get them to sleep at night.
Steve:So it is. You're kind of too
Steve:exhausted to reflect on much else other
Steve:than I don't want to break this thing.
Steve:And which Dan mentions where Dan is like, you
Steve:know, you have to, like, feed them and you
Steve:can't drop them. And that's really. You
Steve:go through, like this nine month
Steve:period where that's all you are
Steve:focused on unless you. I was
Steve:working at the time when my kids were born. So when I
Steve:went to work, it was okay. I'm working and
Steve:doing work stuff. But as soon as I get home, everything
Steve:going through your head is, don't kill the baby. And
Steve:so I really, And it's
Steve:also. It's exciting and it's sort of a game
Steve:almost. So, like, the
Steve:real difficult parts of
Steve:parenting haven't
Steve:started yet. And I love being a
Steve:dad. I think, you know how, you know, I feel about my
Steve:kids and how close I am with my kids. I
Steve:love being a dad. It takes time
Steve:to really understand the
Steve:entire scope of what you have done when you've
Steve:created a child. And I feel like Dan hasn't
Steve:gotten there yet.
Leif:And Vanessa had a couple good lines in the scene. He had the
Leif:donpe t mention of her Geordian and
Leif:also her hair. Lies. You can't trust one thing that
Leif:comes out of her mouth, let alone anywhere else.
Steve:Robin also cracked up with that.
Leif:They missed a chance to call the baby Damien.
Steve:They did. They did.
Steve:Although I feel like Milo might be
Steve:something there might be.
Steve:That might be a reference. Now that you say Damian,
Steve:I could be off.
Leif:Blair is shocked to see Louis driving the car
Leif:and not in the backseat. It looks like things got
Leif:mixed up. And now Sarita is dating the prince.
Steve:To which I said, wow, it's the prince and the
Steve:pauper, which, you know,
Steve:the. I don't know. I called
Steve:this immediately when they. When they got out
Steve:of the car. O. Yeah.
Leif:And plus, we already did this in season two.
Steve:Yeah. Yes.
Leif:And like, season two, Blair fails and the guy still comes
Leif:back.
Steve:Does he? Yes.
Steve:I was wondering. I kind of had a feeling
Steve:that he would, but likeuse. he doesn't in this
Steve:episode, but.
Leif:It'S in the episode description, so. Oh, it is for next
Leif:week.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Leif:And Gossip Girl takes us to the next break
Leif:with
Leif:spotted be riding shotgun.
Leif:Let's see if our royal wannabe has a grace to
Leif:make it through the night.
Leif:Act three begins. Paying
Leif:off from her earlier voice message. Eleanor and her
Leif:people have invaded Lily's penthouse for the fashion Night
Leif:out party. Rufus is annoyed that Lily is
Leif:tracking Chuck. Eleanor hears Chuck's name and
Leif:mentions that Blair still hasn't told her why they broke
Leif:up. We see the woman that Nate failed to chat
Leif:up at the restaurant, working at the party and
Leif:learn her name is Juliet.
Steve:The Rufus reaction I
Steve:thought was interesting
Steve:because I understand his
Steve:fury with Chuck,
Steve:but he's like I hope this kid's dead almost.
Steve:And that's what bothers me. That like I
Steve:get that your. Your daughter was. Has been through
Steve:some serious shit because of this guy and that you're
Steve:really mad at him, but to just be
Steve:like, oh, he might be in trouble. Fucking
Steve:good. Good. I hope his body washed up on
Steve:a shore somewhere. Which I know that's later, but
Steve:like bruh, he's still
Steve:an 18 year old kid and
Steve:he is your
Steve:stepson weirdly in a kind
Steve:of roundabout way. So like
Steve:maybe tone it down a bit. Although I also don't know how
Steve:I would feel, you know, but like I don't wish
Steve:people de. So I. Yeah, he just was a
Steve:little callous, I thought.
Leif:On the double date, everyone except Blair seems to be
Leif:having a great time. Blair is going right while
Leif:everyone else goes left. Blair excuses
Leif:herself to take a call from Eleanor.
Steve:Wonder what Eleanor has to say
Steve:now that Lily slipped the
Steve:info to Eleanor.
Leif:About Brown
Leif:on the phone with her mother and irritated
Leif:Blair insist that she has matured beyond petty jealousy
Leif:of Serena. Elor says that's great since they are going
Leif:to clubump you together, huh?
Steve:Yes. How much have you outgrown that, Blair?
Steve:Let's find out right now.
Leif:Just not near any fountains.
Steve:Yeah. Or cake.
Leif:Nate shows up at the party and learns Juliet's name
Leif:from her name tag. Before he can try
Leif:flirting some more, Lily pulls him away to see if he
Leif:can help her find Chuck.
Steve:I like that. And list Nateah.
Steve:He's a good. The thing
Steve:you're forgetting is that Nate really isn't so much in the
Steve:putting together stuff and thinking things.
Steve:He's not really Detective Nate, but he
Steve:knows people that do. And also it makes sense,
Steve:you know, he's probably gone to Prague with Chuck.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Blair returns to the table to find French
Leif:British singer and actress Lou Dean
Leif:in her seat chatting it up with Serena.
Leif:Blair tells Serena that Lou Dolan can be her new
Leif:best friend and enjoy her date before storming
Leif:off.
Steve:So that's a cameo? Yes. Oh, okay. I
Steve:didn't.
Leif:Well, she has an actress.
Steve:Ye.
Leif:But she's. She's camez herself.
Steve:Right, Right. That's what I mean.
Leif:But she blends in a little bit more than a normal like
Leif:fashion person.
Steve:Yes.
Leif:Kind. She does know how to act.
Steve:Was. I was very much like why is.
Steve:Why are we just introducing this person, this new friend
Steve:here? That makes a lot of sense.
Steve:And for them to kind of put a
Steve:cameo little shoeorned. But
Steve:it made sense. It makes more sense that
Steve:Serena met a famous person. Yeah, that makes a
Steve:lot more sense. And feels less
Steve:shoehorned. This scene felt shoehorned to me. Like
Steve:why is this woman sitting at their table? Why
Steve:is she meeting new friends in the middle of their double
Steve:date? Double date. So that makes a lot more sense.
Leif:But yeah. And ah, that's what Serenia would
Leif:do.
Steve:M H yeah. Oh, I could totally see her being a
Steve:star fucker like her mom. Ye.
Steve:Or Rem.
Leif:Her friendship with Poppy.
Steve:Yeah, yeah.
Leif:Neither Nate nor Lily are happy to see Georgina
Leif:at the party gulping a mimos as she snatched from the nearest
Leif:cater waiter. Nate tries to pull her out of the party,
Leif:but she shrugs his vanilla ass off.
Leif:Georgina calls Dan and then hands the phone to
Leif:Rufus before revealing baby
Leif:Milo.
Steve:Fucking Georgina was
Steve:spectacular in this
Steve:scene. Walks in, you got 15
Steve:seconds to refill this or you're fired. Some
Steve:random cater waiter then
Steve:tells Naties to vanilla and just tears
Steve:through this whole fucking scene. Did she pull the
Steve:baby out yet? Yeah, yeah. And she p.
Steve:She's like, here you go, grandpa. Just
Steve:this fucking Tasmanian
Steve:devil ripping through the
Steve:scene and she crushed it.
Steve:Every time in season two and three that we get
Steve:Georgina, it is just
Steve:so far removed from who she was
Steve:in season one that it felt so clunky
Steve:and so, so
Steve:forced. And now she just seems so
Steve:effort. Effortlessly
Steve:crazy. You know. And just
Steve:owns her scenes now. I just really
Steve:love what Michelle Trachtenberg has
Steve:done with the character now.
Leif:And Gossip Girl takes us to the break with
Leif:spotted Georgina sparks a straw
Leif:and Dan's dad with a scowl. Looks like
Leif:lonely boy has a baby boy.
Steve:I like that one. Yeah.
Leif:We go into Act 4. Lily
Leif:quickly breaks up the party to deal with this new family
Leif:drama. Dan finds Nameate first and then
Leif:Rufus and Lily suggests that they talk in
Leif:Serena's room.
Steve:Why would you empty out your party though?
Steve:Like why not just send them into another?
Leif:She doesn't want the scandal.
Steve:Oh no, it's Lily. Yeah, yeah.
Leif:She's trying to avoid scandal.
Steve:Yeah, I just kind of was thinking you just. I feel
Steve:like it makes it a bigger deal to send everybody
Steve:out instead of being like, oh, here's some random people. Go sit in another
Steve:room 't even talk about this where no one can hear you
Steve:talking about it.
Leif:Nate tracks down Juliet and does some more
Leif:flirting. However, he is once again interrupted, and this
Leif:time, it's the empire security alerting him
Leif:to something happening in his suite.
Steve:Yeah, then you just hear the
Steve:ruckus in the background.
Leif:Now, why didn't the
Leif:security tell them what was going on? Or if they
Leif:did, why would Nate bring Juliet to see
Leif:that?
Steve:I. Okay, I was going to say that. And
Steve:when they showed up, that, like, why
Steve:is she there?
Steve:Oh, man. There's an emergency at my thing. You
Steve:better come with me, person I'm trying to hook
Steve:up with. I hear a bunch of women screaming
Steve:in the background of my room. You gotta
Steve:see this.
Leif:Check out how much booty I'm getting.
Steve:Yeah, yeah. I know you're not really impressed
Steve:with me so far, but if you see how much ass I pulled
Steve:this summer, you will definitely turn your. Turn
Steve:your whole idea around. Enlightened, notach
Steve:chauvinistic.
Leif:bless your heart. Blair
Leif:is sitting on a fountain by herself when Serena tracks her
Leif:down. Blair reveals she found out about
Leif:Serena.
Steve:Going to Columbia and another one of
Steve:these bestie fights that,
Steve:And it makes good tension between these
Steve:two.
Leif:We'll continue the next scene, but I guess this is
Leif:a good time.
Leif:I need to talk about. What was the
Leif:timeline on Serena applying to Columbia?
Steve:Right, because we know
Steve:that Blair didn't actually apply. Didn't actually
Steve:apply, but was accepted. And
Steve:there'the deadline after the deadline at the
Steve:beginning of, Before the end
Steve:of the school year. Yeah, right. She. All of those
Steve:were sent out, but she didn't apply because she had missed
Steve:the deadline. Which means that Serena
Steve:knew that she applied to Columbia
Steve:way before that. Or
Steve:Serena serenaed her way in like she did
Steve:to. To Yale. Ye. Which is
Steve:my real assumption that Serena's like,
Steve:where Blair applied to
Steve:Columbia. Serena told
Steve:Columbia I'd like to go here, and they
Steve:sent her a welcome packet.
Steve:That's where I would assume, you know.
Leif:Her highly reputable dad went to med school there.
Steve:Yeah,
Steve:he was recently honored, and I'm sure that they
Steve:would be really proud of him.
Steve:Oh, boy. it's not like anyone's ever gonna
Steve:know, because no one wants a scandal on the upper east
Steve:side. Highly
Steve:reputable. And the highly
Steve:reputable Holland Campbell is Dr.
Steve:Holland Campbell as well.
Leif:No. 3 is. She was a child.
Steve:Is she sereno have
Steve:aspirations of medical school? Because, sweetie,
Steve:maybe a psychiatrist, maybe.
Leif:Georgina apologizes to Lily for the dramatic
Leif:reveal, but she felt like it was the only way to get
Leif:Dan to face reality. She then plays on
Leif:Lily's maternal instincts for other people's children
Leif:to get her to soften up towards Myla.
Leif:Rufus comes out of Sera's room and tells Lily
Leif:that Dan hasn't done a paternity test.
Leif:Georgina comes prepared because she produces a
Leif:paternity test showing that Dan's the daddy.
Leif:Rufus remains skeptical.
Steve:Oh, well, there you go. There you go. She had
Steve:the test done. That must be legit.
Steve:These people with unlimited resources.
Steve:That's gotta be legit. Dan. But you know what? Call
Steve:and check. Call and make sure. We'll get back to
Steve:you.
Leif:I'm sure it was actually your sample.
Leif:Serena and Blair continue to argue. And Serena
Leif:wants to continue on with what she has always
Leif:known. But after Blairair's horrible freshman year at
Leif:NNU and the Chuck drama, she wanted
Leif:a clean slate, away from her old life.
Leif:Blair says she is going back to the date alone
Leif:and that she will say as Serena tripped and
Leif:fell into a fountain. And then she
Leif:pushes her into a fountain.
Steve:Yes. Which
Steve:I loved. It kinda. You know, it's just so
Steve:classic Blair and it's so classic Blair
Steve:and Serena that Blair is mad at
Steve:this thing. And I'm going to lash
Steve:out and shove your face in a
Steve:cake or push you into a fountain
Steve:or tell everybody that you
Steve:have that you're a drug addict in recovery. You know,
Steve:like, she does these overly dramatic
Steve:things when she's mad at Serena
Steve:because Serena's the only person who would put
Steve:up with her bullshit.
Leif:Indeed.
Leif:And we move into Act 5.
Leif:Dan confirms the paternity results for the doctor, but
Leif:Rufus is still doubtful. However, it is enough for
Leif:Dan who signs the birth certificate. Dan and Rufus
Leif:embrace. Dan, bless your
Leif:heart.
Steve:You called to her doctor that she gave the
Steve:sample to. That's not
Steve:verification. You may have just called
Steve:a photo hut that just at
Steve:this point in time, was so hurt for money
Steve:because no one was getting film developed anymore
Steve:that she. That she just paid them off. Like you don't know
Steve:who you just talked to.
Leif:Again, all she could have done is just get the actual
Leif:dad's sample and submitted that.
Steve:Yeah. Or that.
Leif:Yeah.
Steve:Either way.
Leif:Cause we know, she's actually cut off that so she doesn't have
Leif:a ton of money.
Steve:That's true. That's true.
Leif:She can't just go around bribing people. So it's much more likely that she
Leif:just had a father's sample.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:Ready for this moment, Nate and
Leif:Juliet returned to the Empire suite to find a
Leif:Cadre of women in lingerie playing rock band
Leif:3. Nate is flustered, and Julia has
Leif:seen enough. She gives Nate her number and
Leif:instructions to call her when he gets his shit
Leif:together.
Steve:What was the emergency, though?
Leif:I guess they were just being loud and disturbing. Other guests
Leif:maybe.
Steve:Yeah, but like, doesn't Chuck do that all the time? Like,
Steve:it's the. Yeah, it just didn't seem to be.
Leif:I think Chuck's party is more subthu
Leif:subuede.
Steve:Yeah, it just didn't seem too
Steve:crazy to me. It just seemed like a bunch of women
Steve:playing Rock Band. Yeah, that seemed pretty
Steve:harmless to me. And also, once again,
Steve:why is Juliet there? Why did you.
Steve:Why did you invite this person with you? Or
Steve:did she invite herself? Because at the reveal
Steve:at the end, we know that she may have been
Steve:like, oh, well, let me go with you. But
Steve:also, why would you want to got take.
Leif:I gotta take care of this my end. Yeah,
Leif:yeah, I'd love to see you for lunch tomorrow.
Steve:Yeah, I'll call you. And she gives him her
Steve:number too. She's like, man, well, if you're ever, ready
Steve:to actually talk now, I'll give you my number. Now that
Steve:I've seen this craziness. Okay,
Steve:I'm into you, but not now.
Leif:Oh. Nate getting taken advantage of by a guest star yet
Leif:again. Lily ask
Leif:her stepson about his romantic future with
Leif:her daughter. Dan thinks that
Leif:that ship is sailed, and he doubts Serena wants to be a
Leif:stepmom. This doesn't stop Dan from asking how she
Leif:is, though.
Steve:Yeah, sweet Dan. And
Steve:also fair.
Leif:It's an awkward conversation.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah, super awkward. Yeah. You know,
Steve:I almost wanted to hit it with your daughter. Mom,
Steve:but. But
Steve:I. But, you know, I ended up, getting this.
Steve:This other person pregnant, so.
Leif:Womp, womp.
Steve:Yeah. So I guess, yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be dating my
Steve:stepsister.
Leif:A dripping Serena re enter the restaurant and
Leif:pulls John Michelle away to take her home.
Leif:Being alone with Louis, Blair starts making excuses to
Leif:leave. Which, when Louis reveals that
Leif:she has failed his test, Louis was
Leif:in fact the royal all along. Wa.
Steve:No.
Leif:Blair, you dumb bitch.
Steve:So fucking stupid. Blair, you did
Steve:it again. Blair, I, want you
Steve:to love me for me. Or maybe before me,
Steve:but you're hot enough that I don't care.
Steve:Also, I don't often say this
Steve:because I in general, don't
Steve:really think this very often
Steve:watching the show, but Serena looked hot
Steve:when she got out of the water. Like when she walked
Steve:in in that scene that was like, that's kind of
Steve:hot. Like, to walk into the restaurant and be like,
Steve:walk me home to that dude. I'd be like,
Steve:okay, sure, Sure.
Leif:I can do that.
Steve:Yeah. And there's so much of this show. It's like,
Steve:these are teenagers. And I know they're not
Steve:teenagers, but I to keep my own
Steve:immersion. I don't think of them
Steve:like that. You know, it's
Steve:so seeing Serena that come in like that,
Steve:it was like, damn. Which is
Steve:just. I don't usually think like that
Steve:about her.
Leif:It's a little bit different me. Cause I was watching it when I was the same
Leif:age as the actors.
Steve:Right. No, and I get that.
Steve:And, because there are other shows that it's
Steve:more where I have that sort of
Steve:sense, you know, that, like, where
Steve:it's not like I think these teenagers are
Steve:hot, but when I watch this as a
Steve:teenager, they were hot.
Leif:You get that, Lily. Nostalgia boner.
Steve:Yeah, exactly. Yes.
Leif:Gossip Girl takes us to the break with.
Leif:We hear Bakarat just updated its menu.
Leif:The ghetto d Jour is now humble pie.
Leif:Bo Blair.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:So we know. We remember Lord
Leif:Marcus. So, we know that actor was American. Do we
Leif:think Louis is American or is he actually
Leif:French?
Steve:I kind of feel like he has
Steve:an American swagger to
Steve:him, which makes me think he's not
Steve:really French. But I also think his
Steve:accent is pretty impeccable, so it could be.
Leif:I, believe he actually is French.
Steve:Yeah, he nails the accent.
Leif:So we move into the
Leif:epilogue. Vanessa calls the
Leif:loft and Georgina answers the two spar.
Leif:But the general gist is that Vanessa is ready to
Leif:be Dan's friend whenever he needs her. As she hangs
Leif:up, Georgina leaves a post it note with a message that she's gone
Leif:to the spa. Passport in hand, she exits
Leif:aloft. And we see a shot of Dan sleeping with
Leif:baby Milla.
Steve:Again, Georgina. This
Steve:whole episode, she walks in and
Steve:drops the bomb, the little one. But this whole
Steve:episode was really her just dropping a
Steve:chaos bomb and post a
Steve:note. Going to the spa. And
Steve:I saw the bags packe the first time, so I
Steve:knew she was running away. I didn't notice the
Steve:passport the first time. I didn't notice that
Steve:she was running all the fuck away. Yeah.
Leif:Oh, Dan, you're stuck now.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:And that's the last time we ever seen Regina Sparks.
Steve:No.
Leif:Oh, no. I'm just kidding.
Steve:Oh, okay, good. I was gonna say I would be.
Leif:Really sad because y stuck with a babe for the rest of the series.
Steve:The rest of the year.
Steve:well, then just use it for baby
Steve:oile. They squeeze the oil
Steve:from the babies. They have to wring the oil from the
Steve:babies. Is that how they do it?
Leif:Blair finds Serena packing and sort of
Leif:apologizes. Blair tells Serena that she has been
Leif:faking all summer and that she isn't even close to
Leif:being over the pain of what happened with Chuck.
Leif:This softened Serena's stance. The two make up
Leif:and agree to give Columbia a shot. Blair sends the
Leif:tip to Gossip Girl and we get some shots of the
Leif:masses reading the blast.
Steve:Yeah, it's kind of the classic Blair
Steve:manipulation of Serena of
Steve:I did something really terrible to you.
Steve:Now here's the really terrible thing
Steve:I'm going through, so forgive me.
Steve:Yeah, it's not an unnatural thing to
Steve:do. It is also something
Steve:that many of us do to especially the people we
Steve:love. You. You lash out at the people you love
Steve:because you know they'll forgive you. So.
Steve:But it is that same sort of
Steve:manipulative,
Steve:oh, my life is so terrible. I
Steve:need you here. And, Serena also
Steve:rightfully being like, you know, I went through some shit last year
Steve:too. Yeah, I. And if
Steve:you went measure for measure for that
Steve:year, I'd say Serena had
Steve:it a bit worse. Mostly because I'm
Steve:saying Serena had more
Steve:stuff happen, I guess.
Steve:Well, I guess some of that was preeason before,
Steve:but most of Serena's stuff.
Leif:Was brought on by herself.
Steve:But that's also true. That is also
Steve:true.
Leif:Flair got trafficked by her boyfriend.
Steve:That, yeah, she did get trafficked by her boyfriend.
Steve:Attempted, traffic, but traffic nonetheless.
Leif:One of the people who see the blast was Nate,
Leif:who calls Juliet to admit that he was hurt by
Leif:someone. Juliet invites him to the coffee.
Leif:During this conversation, we saw Juliet putting tags
Leif:back on her outfit. After hanging up, she immediately rips the
Leif:tag off again and puts the jacket back on. And we
Leif:get a shot of her bulletin board with pictures of the
Leif:NJBC and a map of Manhattan with
Leif:strings tacked between the points of interest. There are
Leif:even pictures of Dan and Vanessa on there. And her computer
Leif:is open to Gossip Girl.
Steve:Yes. Bum, bum, bum.
Leif:Who is Juliet?
Steve:Yes. So the one thought is,
Steve:is this Gossip Girl? It
Steve:would be really weird to not have it be
Steve:a cast member or even like a
Steve:peripheral cast
Steve:member. But yeah, I feel like it'd be
Steve:weird to have Gossip Girl be a,
Steve:not an extra, but a short
Steve:lived. Now I also don't know that she's short
Steve:lived. I feel like we're going to need a
Steve:Jenny replacement to balance things
Steve:out. I'm pretty sure you and I, talked
Steve:about there will be another permanent cast member that comes in
Steve:that's on the COVID in
Steve:on the HBO Max M. And I've never
Steve:really paid enough attention to clock that because
Steve:it's like I don't know who that is. So I'm not worried about it. So I don't even
Steve:know if that's the same person.
Leif:It's naturally yet.
Steve:okay. I didn't think so. But is
Steve:this Gossip Girl? That seems like a stretch. Do they want me to think
Steve:it's Gossip Girl? Absolutely.
Leif:In the middle of the night, Lily gets a call from the
Leif:Paris police. They found a body
Leif:with a gunshot wound and Chuck Bass's
Leif:identification.
Steve:Is Chuck dead?
Leif:I could change one thing from this episode. I
Leif:would'put this reveal much earlier in the
Leif:episode and then wait till the
Leif:end. But you get this. Oh, she gets the call and then
Leif:immediately oh, there's Chucky's alive.
Steve:So I actually would have
Steve:made that be XOXO
Steve:that a body washed up on the street Gossip
Steve:Girl monologue out and not find
Steve:out this Chuck shit until next week. Till next week.
Steve:I think that. I think they should have let us think
Steve:he's dead. Yeah. For
Steve:And I think you're saying the same thing, that they should have let us think
Steve:for a while that Chuck is dead.
Steve:And Yeah,
Steve:I. Because I like that she had to like investigate,
Steve:hear about it. But then it'sh. He's dead. Then we
Steve:flash right to no, he's not. And it just
Steve:seemed the wasted opportunity.
Steve:Yes. It seemed like the writers were like, oh, but we can't.
Steve:If people think he's actually dead, they might not
Steve:tun next week.
Steve:We better let them. Yeah.
Leif:So that's why I say just put the Lilyy getting that call
Leif:in the be.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah.
Leif:But the final scene is before we get. We
Leif:can all start Morning Chuck. We get a flashing sequence where we
Leif:see a writhing Chuck being treated by floor
Leif:delacour post gunshot. Chuck sees
Leif:flashbacks with some of the horrible things he has done
Leif:before. We flash forward to him waking up. He
Leif:looks around the room and sees a copy of
Leif:Henry V and introds himself as Henry
Leif:Prince. The scene flashes forward it again
Leif:to present day and the parent are now
Leif:a couple arriving in Paris looking for
Leif:work.
Steve:I loved this episode. I
Steve:maybe not loved, but I really enjoyed this
Steve:episode until this. And I don't
Steve:even mind this storyline. I just thought
Steve:the reveal was so
Steve:anticlimatic and just
Steve:especially with there being no space
Steve:to mourn like you said, to mourn
Steve:Chuck. Good storytelling would have us
Steve:Mourn, Chuck. Good storytelling
Steve:had us mourning Tyrion before he realized that he
Steve:was okay. Good storytelling lets
Steve:you mourn first. And we
Steve:didn't get that.
Leif:And Gossip Girl ends the episode with this
Leif:line.
Leif:Napoleon once said, secrets travel fast in
Leif:Paris, but Gossip Girl travels
Leif:faster. Bezoo bizzoo.
Leif:What's coming next?
Steve:I'm curious. Is Nate
Steve:gonna have an interesting relationship?
Steve:Because there is somebody who's going to have a
Steve:relationship with Nate who has
Steve:piqued my interest more than anyone else
Steve:he's been with because of this whole she's
Steve:got ulterior motives that we know
Steve:now upfron the other time
Steve:with the last one at the beginning of last season
Steve:when she was with when he was with the Buckley.
Steve:And we find out later that she was
Steve:scheming it was such a boring
Steve:relationship to get to that reveal. So at
Steve:least now if it's a boring relationship, at least the reveal
Steve:is up frontt so we know there's something else going on.
Steve:Again, I feel like this
Steve:episode sets up a season nicely.
Steve:We have the Dan story with
Steve:the Dan Milo story that I don't
Steve:think a baby is just on the show
Steve:now. Although there was that point
Steve:where Lillian Rupus are like, could you
Steve:imagine starting over again? Teeh heee.
Steve:And was that foreshadowing to the damn
Steve:thing or is that foreshadowing to
Steve:them now? Jumping the shark
Steve:together with a new baby coming into
Steve:this. So I did have that thought. Like is are Lillian Ruf
Steve:is going toa have a kid. so I see
Steve:these big, big arcs playing out.
Steve:I'm kind of wondering if we're going toa
Steve:see some of these parallels.
Steve:So again, like the parallels between the Buckley at the
Steve:beginning of last season and with
Steve:Juliet at the beginning of this season. So I'm
Steve:wondering what kind of parallels at the end of this season
Steve:where the friendship's going to kind of like fall apart and
Steve:come back together. So I see like this,
Steve:the Blair and Serena at the same
Steve:school again being plenty of
Steve:fodder for drama for
Steve:them. I also predict some
Steve:really fucking annoying
Steve:storytelling because we have
Steve:Dan and Vanessa at
Steve:NYU and Serena and Blair
Steve:at Columbia and Nate at Columbia.
Steve:So now once again, we don't have the cast
Steve:together. And there is
Steve:zero reason for Dan and Vanessa to
Steve:be involved with Blair, Serena or Nate
Steve:other than the step siblings and
Steve:Nate and Dan just being friends. But they don't have
Steve:reason to be going to the same parties anymore. They
Steve:don't have reason to be going to the same events.
Leif:Any thoughts on, what Juliet's motivations
Leif:are. I had the thought of
Leif:if she's not Gossip Girl.
Steve:Yeah. I do not think she's Gossip Girl. I'll say
Steve:that outright. That I do not think Juliet is Gossip
Steve:Girl. I think that it's
Steve:probably something related to
Steve:Gossip Girl. I kind of had the thought of, is
Steve:she hunting Gossip
Steve:Girl? And these four
Steve:people are always at the center of it, or these six people
Steve:are always at the center of it. So I kind of had
Steve:that thought that maybe she's hunting Gossip
Steve:Girl.
Leif:Anything else?
Steve:I don't think so. I think that
Steve:the Chuck storyline is gonna annoy me until he's back in the
Steve:fold. That's a prediction. I think it's
Steve:gonna take three episodes for
Steve:him to come back to New York, but he'snna come back to New
Steve:York, and the whole Parising is gonna irk me.
Leif:So I'll say everyone's still in Paris next
Leif:week.
Steve:Everyone is still in Paris next week.
Leif:Everyone's there. Is still there.
Steve:Yeah. The girls in Chuck. Yeah. Yeah.
Steve:Oh, great. Okay. So they're gonna run into each other,
Steve:obviously. Oh, and I wonder if Blair's gonna
Steve:get the info that Chuck's dead and then run into
Steve:him and be like, you motherfucker. Oh. So Blair's gonna mourn Chuck for
Steve:an episode and then find out he's not dead.
Steve:Oh, that's okay.
Steve:Interesting.
Leif:Let's get into some segments
Leif:this week in fandom. when we jumped into the
Leif:wayback machine to travel to the fan forums
Leif:from 2010.
Leif:Hello there, Peabody here. And this
Leif:is the wayback machine for're traveling through time.
Steve:And this is my boy Sherman. Speak,
Steve:Sherman. Hello. Good boy.
Leif:A lot of pre episode excitement for the Caesar
Leif:premiere. And overall, most really liked the
Leif:episode.
Steve:Yeah. Yeah. Solid. I guess. I didn't like
Steve:the end, but I thought the rest of the
Steve:episode was solid.
Leif:By the way, did you recognize Flor Delacour?
Steve:I did not. Would I know her from.
Leif:From Harry Potter or. Her real name is Clubet
Leif:Posey. Her character is 4 do dell cor.
Steve:Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Steve:It's funny cause you kept saying fld Delacro. I'm like, I know that name. Where do
Steve:I know that name from?
Leif:Y the actress's name is Clevn Posey.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:even though they liked the episode overall, they are
Leif:tired of seeing Serena and Blair fight.
Steve:Yeah. I mean, we've been doing it for
Steve:three years now. Yeah.
Leif:Lots of love for Katie Cassidy. What is
Leif:Juliet up to? Is she Gossip Girl?
Steve:Yeah. Which she can't be Gossip Girl.
Steve:Like, she can't be at season four.
Steve:And I think. I believe. I
Steve:know. I don't know. No, but I
Steve:thought that someone at one point spoiled
Steve:that. It's revealed in the last episode.
Steve:So I think I do know that I could be wrong,
Steve:but I think Rachel spoiled that for
Steve:me. Or. Or someone. Or may. It could even
Steve:have been you, like, way early on. Like, you don't find out till the end or something
Steve:like that.
Leif:did you watch, Arra.
Steve:Oh, only the first half of the first season.
Leif:Did you recognize Katie Cassidy?
Steve:No. Was she the leading?
Leif:Yeah, she's a, Laurel. Black Canary.
Steve:Oh. Yeah. I didn't even recognize her.
Leif:They were disappointed by so little Chuck s screen
Leif:time.
Steve:Me.
Leif:And why didn't that woman bring him to a hospital?
Steve:Yes. Why didn't she take him to a
Steve:hospital?
Leif:What is she up to?
Steve:Yeah, we had that conversation too. Like,
Steve:why are you nursing him back to health in your
Steve:dirty apartment?
Leif:That is it for this week in fandom. let's move over to
Leif:episode grades.
Leif:You re first this week.
Steve:I'm gonna give it a B. I thought it was
Steve:a solid season premiere. Again. I actually, I'd
Steve:probably say this is my favorite season
Steve:premiere. Out of the three that
Steve:are not the pilot that
Steve:season two and season three, season four, I'd say this is probably
Steve:my favorite of those three.
Steve:I felt like it was a bit better of a,
Steve:foundation. The. Minus the
Steve:places where it comes down from an A.
Steve:No central group
Steve:together. We always like it when everybody's
Steve:together in the end, which they don't always do
Steve:for season premieres. I also
Steve:didn't like the Chuck stuff at the end. I want.
Steve:I wanted to mourn Chuck. So other than
Steve:that, I think that it was a couple, writing
Steve:things here and there that were a little.
Steve:Why are you saying it like that? But it
Steve:wasn't. Didn't take away from my
Steve:experience. So, yeah, B.
Leif:So, yeah, I really liked this episode. Like you said, it's
Leif:definitely the second best season premiere
Leif:of the show. behind the
Leif:pilot, it did feel slightly
Leif:disjointed. It was pretty clear that there was an A
Leif:team and a B team. So I forgot to mention at the
Leif:top. But even though Josh Schwartz hadn't
Leif:written anything since the Valley Girls
Leif:episode, which is the backdoor pilot, and
Leif:before that, the season one finale. Co
Leif:wrote. He was the writer on set in
Leif:Paris.
Steve:Interesting hint.
Leif:so they were filling both
Leif:simultaneously. So he was probably
Leif:the B team back in New York.
Steve:Right, Right.
Leif:And kind of felt those Scenes felt a lot
Leif:flatter.
Steve:Yes. Yeah.
Leif:Ultimately, I landed on a B. Yeah.
Steve:Yeah, it was good.
Leif:Stockwatch, who do you got going up?
Steve:All right, so let's see.
Steve:I have Juliet going up. We'renna
Steve:start there because she is up
Steve:to something. And I'mnna have both. I'm gonna have
Steve:the girls going up. Blair and Serena, they had a nice
Steve:come together moment at the end. And
Steve:I don't think that Blair had a particularly great episode,
Steve:but I think that they're heading in a good trajectory. So I'm
Steve:going to give them both.
Leif:The up for me. I had Georgina going
Leif:upuse she pulled her ski off, it seems like.
Steve:See, I was on the fence about Georgina,
Steve:but I was like. I kind of left her neutral because
Steve:it'sus I didn't know where she was, but I was on the
Steve:fence with her.
Leif:I had Serena going up because she got it to Columbia
Leif:and she was a good friend. I had Lily going
Leif:upuse she was a good mother to other people's kids.
Leif:I had Chuck going up because he
Leif:survived. He didn't die.
Leif:I had Eric and Jonathan going up. Cause they were re apparently back
Leif:together in Italy, so good for them.
Steve:No, they said Elliott.
Leif:That was Elliott.
Steve:Yeah, they said Eric and Elliott.
Leif:Okay, I'll change that to Elliott. Then
Leif:they're enjoying Italy. And then we hada. I had
Leif:Vanessa gous. She was a good friend.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:And then I had Julia up cause she's gotten eightate
Leif:wrapped around her finger.
Steve:Yeah, I should put Vanessa up.
Steve:Yeah. She doesn't get
Steve:it very often.
Leif:Who do you got going down?
Steve:I'm gonna start with Rufus for just being
Steve:Rufus. For just the shittiness.
Steve:Dan is stuck with a kid that's probably not
Steve:his. I'm gonna have
Steve:Nate for just kind
Steve:of being a mess right now. I
Steve:feel for him and Jenny.
Steve:I'm gonna send Jenny down because she is still not on the Upper
Steve:east side. And they did mention her in the beginning of this episode, but they
Steve:mentioned.
Leif:She was doing great.
Steve:Oh, they do, don't they? All right, I'll leave her
Steve:neutral. So, yeah, I guess that's it
Steve:for me.
Leif:Going down. I had Blair going downuse she was
Leif:kind of shitt this episode. And she failed the
Leif:princess test.
Steve:Yeah, I guess I kind of knew that was gonna be
Steve:what Blair does, but liked how she ended up.
Steve:But I think, it's fair that she got that.
Leif:And then Dan. Cause, yeah, he's stuck with a
Leif:kid. And Nate not cause his
Leif:life is a mess, but because he's getting Used once again.
Steve:Well, yeah, but here's the
Steve:best outfits from the last
Steve:episode we seen.
Leif:Best Alpha you got.
Steve:I want to first start with my shout out to
Steve:Georgina's first outfit that you see
Steve:the casual around the house and just in general,
Steve:Georgina's like mom wear
Steve:is. It felt like something
Steve:that a young mom would wear and I thought
Steve:that it really matched her general
Steve:style too. So I really liked her stuff. But overall
Steve:I'm giving it to Blair at the
Steve:Louvre. The flower print dress that she
Steve:was wearing, I really liked that.
Leif:So I also gave it to Blair. But
Leif:and Alpha, you see for like half a second at the beginning of the
Leif:episode it was her, purple,
Leif:beaded organza dress by Maxime
Leif:Simons. she's also wearing black
Leif:patent leather Louis Vuitton pumps and a
Leif:clutch from Svorsky.
Steve:And it's interesting that she started the episode in purple
Steve:too, but doesn't end the episode in purple.
Leif:That is it for segments.
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Leif:episode two, Double
Leif:Identity. The episode
Leif:descriptions Blair is pursued
Leif:by a handsome young man she suspects is part
Leif:of Monaco's royal family. Chuck
Leif:adjusts to a fresh start in Paris with a
Leif:mysterious new women woman.
Steve:Yeah,
Steve:you suspect that.
Steve:Okay. All rightah.
Steve:I don't even know where to go with that because we already got the
Steve:reveal Soeah.
Leif:Yeah, I remember these are episodes come out
Leif:like three or four weeks before the episode comes
Leif:out.
Steve:Yeah.
Leif:So.
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