💋 Episode Description:

Spotted: Serena van der Woodsen waking up in a hospital bed with no memory and a needle’s worth of deception in her veins. As secrets spread faster than a Blair Waldorf text blast, loyalties crumble, truths twist, and Thanksgiving turns into a full-course serving of manipulation. Looks like this holiday, no one’s giving thanks — they’re just giving alibis. XOXO.

⏱️ Show Notes & Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome Back, Upper East Siders

Leif and Steve dive straight into the chaos, recapping where we left off and teasing the emotional fallout to come.

02:40 – Serena’s Breakdown: Victim or Villain?

The hosts unpack Serena’s shocking overdose setup — is she naïve, or just another casualty in Juliet’s long con?

07:25 – Juliet’s Master Plan Unraveled

A deep dive into Juliet’s manipulation game: from Ben’s wrongful imprisonment to Serena’s drugging, Leif and Steve explore how this arc cements her as one of Gossip Girl’s most ruthless antagonists.

13:40 – Blair’s Crisis of Conscience

Blair tries to balance loyalty with her trademark scheming. The pod discusses her moral conflict — does she finally grow, or just pivot her power plays?

18:55 – Chuck Bass: Savior or Strategist?

The boys debate Chuck’s motivations in rescuing Serena and confronting Juliet — has he evolved since his darker arcs, or is this just another redemption performance?

24:30 – Rufus and Lily: Parent Trap, UES Edition

Rufus’s judgmental spiral and Lily’s guilt take center stage. The hosts break down the adult drama and how it mirrors Serena’s own fall from grace.

30:50 – Nate’s Family Drama: The Archibald Redemption Tour

Nate’s storyline collides with his parents’ scandal. Leif points out the parallels between Nate’s family facade and Serena’s unraveling.

36:20 – Thanksgiving on the UES

The pod dissects how “Gaslit” reinvents Gossip Girl’s iconic Thanksgiving chaos — this time replacing turkey with betrayal and cranberry sauce with consequences.

42:00 – Fallout and Forgiveness

The episode ends with Serena leaving town and Juliet disappearing — or does she? Steve predicts the ripple effects heading into the next episode.

47:10 – Final Thoughts & Stockwatch

The hosts crown their MVP of the episode, debate who gaslit best, and rate the Thanksgiving drama on a “Pumpkin Pie to Full Chaos” scale.

🥂 Episode Takeaway:

Deception may be the main course, but guilt is the dessert nobody ordered.

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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.

Leif: 00:00:01

Rufus and Lilith, take a look in the mirror,

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because you're getting out parented by Anne and

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Al.

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You're getting out parented by Anne and Howie

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Archibald.

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Oomph. Hey, Upper east siders and all you scandal

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loving listeners out there, you've just tuned into

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the non judging breakfast podcast, where the

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coffee is strong, the waffles are fresh, and the

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gossip is hotter than ever. My name is Leif, and

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I'm your seasoned Gossip Girl veteran.

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And I'm Steve, the newbie, the greenhorn, the, uh.

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I don't know, Leif. Now that we're in season four,

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where do I stand?

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I don't know. But what do you say we find Juliet

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and get us a little frontier justice? Sure.

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I actually thought I'd be the last person you

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wanted by your side, but let's do it. So here's

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the deal, folks. Leaf has been watching Gossip

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Girl since it first aired, and I'm tuning in for

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the first time. And together, we're your dynamic

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duo, uh, bringing you all the drama, romance, and

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sometimes questionable fashion choices of this

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iconic 2007 series.

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Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week

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we're dissecting every juicy detail of the show

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one episode at a time. We'll connect the dots,

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uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of

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course, serve up some piping hot behind the scenes

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tea. And expect some iconic fandom moments too,

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because what's a deep dive without a little drama?

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And since we are all about inclusivity here at the

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non judging breakfast pod, there is always a seat

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for you at the non judging breakfast table. So go

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ahead and grab a mimosa, a cup of coffee, or roll

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up something from Chuck's stash, and let's go.

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Ahead and get started before we get into the

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episode.

Steve: 00:01:56

What is it now?

Leif: 00:01:59

We have an email from a, uh, friend of the

Leif: 00:02:01

podcast, Jaden.

Steve: 00:02:03

Oh, hello, Jaden.

Steve: 00:02:05

I wanted to give my stance on season's

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Thanksgiving episode gaslit, mainly with what they

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do to Jenny and Vanessa's characters. And I can

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already hear you guys getting upset at, uh,

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Vanessa from a distance. And as a Vanessa lover, I

Steve: 00:02:17

was upset with her too. But I wasn't like, mad at

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her per se, more mad at the writers, at the

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direction they took with her character in this

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season and for most of the entire show. Cause

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like, I believe Vanessa has every right to hate

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Serena, since Serena did kiss Dan while he was

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still with Vanessa, and Serena never apologized

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for it. I didn't mind the petty revenge, which by

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itself is not one of the worst things on this

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show. Chuck literally assaulted women on the

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regular, but Vanessa and Jennie were not

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responsible for Juliet drugging Serena when they

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literally had no idea and the fandom seems to

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forget that because they hate both girls so much.

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Truly, the only horrible thing Vanessa did was put

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the blame on Jenny so she'd still have Dan in her

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life even if it meant throwing his sister under

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the bus. That was what I was upset at Vanessa

Steve: 00:03:02

about, even if I gave her the slight benefit of

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the doubt because Juliet planted thoughts in her

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head that led her to do that. As for Jennie, these

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writers could not let her leave on a good note

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after being in episode six. And the fandom also

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tends to misinterpret Jennie's actions here. Like

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she only came back to help Vanessa to get revenge

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for Vanessa because Vanessa was one of the few

Steve: 00:03:23

people that didn't hate Jennie by the end of

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season three. I believe Vanessa was pretty

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grateful to find out she was cheating on, even if

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the circumstances and motives weren't entirely

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pure. And people try and say Jennie wanted revenge

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on Serena because of Nate when there was nothing

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explicitly stating that she believes what Vanessa

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and Juliet told her and how the NJBC humiliated

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Vanessa at the ballet and well, Jennie already

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dislikes Blair and Chuck doesn't care for Serena

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and she probably stopped caring what Nate thought

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of her long ago. I would go into deeper detail

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about that another time, but anywho, it just felt

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so heartbreaking to see Jennie's reaction to

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Vanessa betraying her like that was the final nail

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in the coffin. I was surprised they managed to

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even rebuild a relationship after the whole letter

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heart, uh, dress stuff with Nate back in season

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two. So this was way worse. And my last input is

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how much I hate how this show villainizes all the

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poor characters. R uh, makes the villains poor

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while the rich are the heroes. As much as I

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dislike Juliet, the way the main four were ganging

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up on her in four hours 08 was not iconic to me as

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the rest of the fandom deems it as it was just

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kind of gross. Plus Blair being a loser again by

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trying to banish someone. So for Jennie and

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Vanessa I cut them slack. Not only because of

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their lack of role in the drugging Serena part

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that Juliet intentionally left out because both

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girls would not have joined said plan if they

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heard of it, but also because of how the writers

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frame them as bad guys and how they're seen by the

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fandom.

Leif: 00:04:52

Thank you for writing in Jaden.

Steve: 00:04:53

Yes, we really appreciate it.

Leif: 00:04:55

You can send emails to non judging breakfast

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podmail.com. we are here to talk about Season 4,

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Episode 10, Gaslit. Original air date was November

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29, 2010 and this was based on the 1944 movie

Leif: 00:05:14

Gaslight, directed by George Kakour and starring

Leif: 00:05:19

Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.

Steve: 00:05:22

I've heard of this movie. In fact, this is this

Steve: 00:05:25

movie where the term Gaslight comes from. Yeah.

Leif: 00:05:31

And yes, the description of the movie is. Ten

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years after her aunt was murdered in their London

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home, a woman returns from Italy in the 19 or the

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1880s to resume residence with her new husband.

Leif: 00:05:45

His obsessive interest in the house rises from a

Leif: 00:05:48

secret that may require driving his wife insane.

Steve: 00:05:53

Yeah, and I remember us talking a little bit about

Steve: 00:05:55

it. It's so fitting, though, this whole ploy. It's

Steve: 00:06:00

really fitting for this episode, which.

Leif: 00:06:03

Was written by Robert Hull and co written by Josh

Leif: 00:06:07

Safran.

Steve: 00:06:08

You could feel the heavy hand of Saffron. And

Steve: 00:06:13

Hull's done some other big ones too, hasn't he?

Leif: 00:06:15

Uh, yeah. So he has done the X Files. Uh, it's a

Leif: 00:06:19

Wonderful Lie. The Grandfather, the Lost Boy,

Leif: 00:06:24

Treasure of Serena Madre, the lady vanished, Dr.

Leif: 00:06:28

Strangelove, and goodbye Columbia.

Steve: 00:06:31

So that's two Thanksgiving episodes. Yeah, two

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previous Thanksgiving episodes, both really good

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ones, which I really liked. The Lost Boy, Is that

Steve: 00:06:42

the Yale?

Leif: 00:06:43

No, season three. That's the, like the second.

Leif: 00:06:50

Yeah, it's the second episode at nyu.

Steve: 00:06:54

Um, with Georgina.

Leif: 00:06:57

Yeah, yeah. When Dan's, like, hooking up with her.

Steve: 00:06:59

Uh, yeah, yeah. Okay. I think that was fun. I

Steve: 00:07:04

can't remember anything that I didn't like about

Steve: 00:07:06

the Georgina episodes in season one.

Leif: 00:07:08

Yeah, I really liked the early NYU episodes, but

Leif: 00:07:11

it kind of got stale.

Steve: 00:07:12

Yeah, I can see what you're saying. Although, uh,

Steve: 00:07:16

as I said, I liked the tone of season three being

Steve: 00:07:20

a little more grown up when they're not dealing

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with the Columbia stuff this season and they're

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doing stuff that is more detached from that. I

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tend to like it a little more, if that makes

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sense.

Leif: 00:07:32

Well, get, get ready to enjoy it because they're

Leif: 00:07:34

going to just keep phasing college out.

Steve: 00:07:36

Oh, are they?

Leif: 00:07:37

It's just going to. It's going to go away.

Steve: 00:07:39

I. I'm okay with that at this point. I feel like

Steve: 00:07:42

they tried it, that they tried to do a

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continuation of a high school show and just never

Steve: 00:07:48

found the right footing for it. So I'm okay with

Steve: 00:07:51

that.

Leif: 00:07:52

Yeah, I wish they would have just done like a time

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jump like One Tree Hill did.

Steve: 00:07:56

Oh, yeah.

Leif: 00:07:57

They literally skipped four years after high

Leif: 00:07:59

school.

Steve: 00:08:00

Oh, that. See, that's interesting. That's a see?

Steve: 00:08:03

Interesting, because then you could just come back

Steve: 00:08:05

and everybody's at that first season.

Leif: 00:08:07

Back was a lot of flashbacks of what the people

Leif: 00:08:09

were doing in college. Uh, yeah, some in college,

Leif: 00:08:14

some not in college.

Steve: 00:08:14

During the four years, I mean.

Leif: 00:08:16

Right. But it allowed them to spread out, go to

Leif: 00:08:18

different places.

Steve: 00:08:19

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually really cool.

Leif: 00:08:23

And this episode was directed by Tate Donovan.

Leif: 00:08:26

Does that mean anything to you?

Steve: 00:08:28

It does. And I'm not touching on why he's.

Leif: 00:08:32

Mostly known as an actor.

Steve: 00:08:33

Right. I was gonna say he's an actor.

Leif: 00:08:35

He was in Love Potion 9. Um, he was also on the

Leif: 00:08:39

O.C. as Jimmy Cooper.

Steve: 00:08:41

Oh, okay. Yep.

Leif: 00:08:44

And, you know, he was like, uh.

Steve: 00:08:45

A. Jimmy Cooper's the dad, right? Yeah. Misha

Steve: 00:08:48

Barton's dad. Yeah. He's a good actor. I've liked.

Leif: 00:08:52

And, like, in the 90s there, he was a. Like, a

Leif: 00:08:55

Hollywood Lothario kind of guy too. He did

Leif: 00:08:57

Jennifer Aniston and a couple other starlets, but,

Leif: 00:09:02

yeah, on the OC At a certain point, his character

Leif: 00:09:05

gets written off, but he remained friends with

Leif: 00:09:08

Josh Schwartz, and Josh Schwartz gave him a shot

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at directing, and he's done a few other things.

Leif: 00:09:13

He's done. You know, he did the OC A few episodes.

Leif: 00:09:15

He did a few episodes of Nip Tuck Glee. This is

Leif: 00:09:18

his first of two episodes. Doing a Gossip Girl is

Leif: 00:09:21

Nip Tuck Schwartz. No, that and Glee are actually

Leif: 00:09:24

both Ryan Murphy shows.

Steve: 00:09:25

Oh, okay. Um, good directing too. Yeah, I thought

Steve: 00:09:30

there was a lot of good stuff in this episode,

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especially performance wise.

Leif: 00:09:35

Yeah, this was a real spoiler alert for the

Leif: 00:09:37

grades. This was a very good episode.

Steve: 00:09:39

Yeah, I actually, for some reason, kind of. You

Steve: 00:09:44

told me when we first started this podcast that

Steve: 00:09:46

Thanksgiving is always a big deal and that those

Steve: 00:09:48

episodes are always huge. This one snuck up on me.

Steve: 00:09:52

I knew we had to be getting to Thanksgiving.

Leif: 00:09:55

Ah, this is also the first time it's on a 10th

Leif: 00:09:58

episode of the season, which is the Dan Serena

Leif: 00:10:01

episode, right?

Steve: 00:10:02

Yeah.

Leif: 00:10:02

Which was definitely in full effect this episode.

Steve: 00:10:05

Yes. Yeah. So a lot of, uh. Just all of that, that

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kind of came. Came around. So why don't you go

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ahead and.

Leif: 00:10:13

Give us that vulture recap?

Steve: 00:10:14

All right, here we go.

Leif: 00:10:17

Uh.

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Traditions can be wonderful. But as the eponymous

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narrator of the Greatest show of Our Time, sagely

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observed traditions can also become hab. And

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habits, like, say, annual fests of extreme

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gluttony can be unhealthy. In last night's

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Thanksgiving episode, Blair managed to avoid

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indulging in two of her most potent Chuck and her

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father's. Pie. The rest of our crew was not as

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lucky. Dan continued his annual tradition of

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falling back into doomed love with his now

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stepsister Serena. Nate once again fell into the

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trap of believing his father had really changed,

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this time for real. Lily continued to believe her

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daughter is the same drugged out, crazy person she

Steve: 00:11:07

was four odd years ago, despite copious amounts of

Steve: 00:11:11

evidence to the contrary. And the Gossip Girl

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writers continued their tradition, started just

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this year, of letting Juliet run amok beyond the

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fringes of all logic or. Or reason. And they also

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kept up their ongoing tradition of driving us

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crazy with things that are hopelessly unrealistic

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and at the same time, including details that are

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uniquely true to life. Uh.

Leif: 00:11:38

So we go into Act 1 for the gossip Girl monologue.

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Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. As always, I'll

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be spending it giving thanks for. For the bounty

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of secrets I've been harvested from you this year.

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But leave a place for me at your table. I'll be

Leif: 00:11:56

back for just desserts after Gossip Girl reaffirms

Leif: 00:12:03

her traditional day off for Thanksgiving. Read

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over a montage of the Thanksgiving day parade. We

Leif: 00:12:09

open with Dorota and Blair discussing her trip to

Leif: 00:12:11

Paris. Dorota thinks Blair is avoiding Serena and

Leif: 00:12:15

Chuck, but of course she denies it. Dorota forces

Leif: 00:12:19

the issue by suggesting they drop off a pie for

Leif: 00:12:22

Serena on the way to the airport.

Steve: 00:12:25

This was a great opener. I loved the. This. This

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pie isn't for you. And it's not to take with you.

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It's to drop off at the Vander Woodsons. Uh,

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Dorota. Just making sure. Dorota. Putting it out

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there. Knowing Blair is a softy for tradition and

Steve: 00:12:44

knowing that she's a softy for Serena.

Leif: 00:12:46

And we get to meet m. Baby Anastas.

Steve: 00:12:48

Yes. And we meet baby Anastasia for the first

Steve: 00:12:50

time, who is now learning pain in the ass in

Steve: 00:12:53

polish. That look when she whispers to the baby.

Steve: 00:12:58

And you see Blair out of focus in the background,

Steve: 00:13:02

flipping her head around to look. It was just the

Steve: 00:13:05

whole episode. The whole tone of the episode was

Steve: 00:13:09

just set right here.

Leif: 00:13:11

Eric is watching Rufus set the table. Eric seems

Leif: 00:13:14

worried about Serena and wants to go to Blair's to

Leif: 00:13:16

talk to her. Lily overhears and tells Eric. You

Leif: 00:13:19

will do no such thing, Lily.

Steve: 00:13:23

Classic Lily.

Leif: 00:13:26

Uh, yeah, she's pretty rough in this episode.

Steve: 00:13:28

Yeah. Yes. And we'll get to more of her because I

Steve: 00:13:33

think she had a phenomenal episode. But yeah,

Steve: 00:13:36

Kelly Rutherford had a phenomenal episode.

Leif: 00:13:39

Dan and Vanessa are pie shopping in Brooklyn. Dan

Leif: 00:13:42

invites Vanessa, but she is unsure about seeing

Leif: 00:13:45

Serena. Uh, Dan Confirms that he and Nate have no

Leif: 00:13:47

plans to pursue her any longer.

Steve: 00:13:50

They're both pretty much over and done with it.

Leif: 00:13:53

Nate is calling his dad to announce that he is

Leif: 00:13:56

stopping by before heading to grandfather's

Leif: 00:13:58

Thanksgiving. How he is still disappointed that

Leif: 00:14:00

Ann hasn't come to see him. After the call, Nate

Leif: 00:14:04

bumps into his mom's lawyer who was delivering

Leif: 00:14:07

divorce papers.

Steve: 00:14:09

I love that. One of the huge consistencies of this

Steve: 00:14:12

show is how terrible of a liar Nate is. How he's

Steve: 00:14:17

doing, he's like, well, she's, um, not home. She's

Steve: 00:14:25

getting her hair cut. Now. You could have stopped

Steve: 00:14:29

that. She's not home. Which already doesn't sound

Steve: 00:14:32

believable. But she's now getting her hair cut on

Steve: 00:14:34

Thanksgiving.

Leif: 00:14:36

Gotta look good for the grandfather, right? Blair

Leif: 00:14:40

and Dorota arrive at the penthouse and Chuck is

Leif: 00:14:42

already there. Chuck and Blair are friendly but

Leif: 00:14:45

reserved. Lily enters and welcomes Blair. When

Leif: 00:14:48

everyone realizes that Serena isn't with any of

Leif: 00:14:51

the others, they begin to actually worry for her.

Steve: 00:14:54

Yeah, this was sweet with Chuck and Blair. Like,

Steve: 00:14:58

we're going to run into each other. I'm not

Steve: 00:15:01

staying. We need to get used to this. And also

Steve: 00:15:07

them all realizing that nobody knows where Serena

Steve: 00:15:10

is.

Leif: 00:15:11

Yeah, now they're actually worried.

Steve: 00:15:13

Yeah, now they're actually worried. Which it does

Steve: 00:15:15

make sense that they weren't worried earlier.

Steve: 00:15:17

Mhm.

Leif: 00:15:17

Because, well, they all thought she was somewhere

Leif: 00:15:19

else.

Steve: 00:15:19

Right, exactly. Which for all of the shit that

Steve: 00:15:23

I'll give everybody later for not listening to

Steve: 00:15:26

Serena at all ever during this episode, at that

Steve: 00:15:30

point, it is like Serena. Yeah, it is Serena. To

Steve: 00:15:33

hop on a plane to Spain because everybody's mad at

Steve: 00:15:36

her. Mhm.

Leif: 00:15:37

But I mean, really, Lily thought she was at

Leif: 00:15:39

Blair's.

Steve: 00:15:40

Blair thought she was home. Yeah. Yeah. But to

Steve: 00:15:43

hide is Serena.

Leif: 00:15:45

Yeah. Serena wakes up in a daze, surrounded by

Leif: 00:15:49

liquor and pill bottles. She dials 911, announces

Leif: 00:15:52

she has no idea where she is and she needs help.

Steve: 00:15:56

I wake up in this hotel room. There's a phone. I

Steve: 00:16:00

dial 911. I don't know how I got here, and I need

Steve: 00:16:03

help.

Leif: 00:16:04

I'm Serena Vanderwald. Yeah, she remembered Dan's

Leif: 00:16:07

lesson.

Steve: 00:16:09

Yes, I'm Serena. Yes, I'm Serena Van Der Woodsen.

Leif: 00:16:13

Come find and help me.

Steve: 00:16:15

Yeah. Of the Van der Woodsen Bass, Rhodes family.

Steve: 00:16:20

Humphrey, Klaus.

Leif: 00:16:26

And we move into Act 2. Nate asked Dan to come to

Leif: 00:16:30

his house to talk about the divorce papers. Dan

Leif: 00:16:33

says his own parents are much happier post

Leif: 00:16:36

divorce. Nate is just confused by the fact that

Leif: 00:16:39

Ann stayed with the captain for all this time.

Leif: 00:16:42

Only to divorce him right before he gets out.

Steve: 00:16:45

I really like this scene. I thought it was. I,

Steve: 00:16:48

Dan. And throughout this whole episode, his wisdom

Steve: 00:16:53

in general, this just being like, this isn't your

Steve: 00:16:59

fight. Yeah, this isn't. This isn't your battle.

Steve: 00:17:02

And Nate being like, you know, she hasn't tried.

Steve: 00:17:07

Uh, he already talked to Howie earlier on the

Steve: 00:17:10

phone, right?

Leif: 00:17:11

Mhm.

Steve: 00:17:11

They already had that conversation, which I

Steve: 00:17:13

actually meant to bring up that it was once again

Steve: 00:17:16

Howie putting his shit on his kid. Again, like

Steve: 00:17:19

right back to all Howie putting his on his kid.

Steve: 00:17:22

But here's Nate feeling the responsibility of

Steve: 00:17:25

bringing his parents together. And Dan being like,

Steve: 00:17:30

it's not you, you, you can't do anything and it's

Steve: 00:17:34

on your parents. And Nate has a solid point. My

Steve: 00:17:39

mom has had two years to do this and she's doing

Steve: 00:17:44

it now without ever actually going to visit him.

Steve: 00:17:48

Without ever actually trying to see his progress.

Leif: 00:17:51

Yeah.

Steve: 00:17:52

So Nate has a good point. I also just really liked

Steve: 00:17:57

Dan's. And I loved at the end when he's like. And

Steve: 00:17:59

thanks for your advice. No, never mind. Your

Steve: 00:18:01

advice sucked.

Leif: 00:18:04

Dan gets a call from Rufus letting him know Serena

Leif: 00:18:07

is in the hospital. And keep the news in the

Leif: 00:18:09

immediate family for now.

Steve: 00:18:11

Dan.

Leif: 00:18:11

Dan says he's on his way, which the.

Steve: 00:18:14

The keeping the news in the family for this thing.

Steve: 00:18:18

Nate is one of Serena's best friends. One of her,

Steve: 00:18:22

one of her three best friends. Chuck is her

Steve: 00:18:26

stepbrother. Blair is her best friend. The only

Steve: 00:18:29

person in Serena's life who is not included in

Steve: 00:18:32

this is Nate. And I just kind of felt like if I

Steve: 00:18:36

were Dan, I'd be like, hey, it's just Nate and I'm

Steve: 00:18:41

with Nate. I kind of got to tell him.

Leif: 00:18:44

I mean, I kind of get that. The other thing is

Leif: 00:18:47

they are still kind of competing for Serena also.

Leif: 00:18:50

I mean, Blair probably wouldn't have been there if

Leif: 00:18:53

she hadn't been at the apartment when they found

Leif: 00:18:55

out.

Steve: 00:18:56

Yeah, I get that too, that Blair was. But because

Steve: 00:18:59

she was is why I was thinking.

Leif: 00:19:01

And Dan didn't know that though.

Steve: 00:19:02

Uh, yeah, that's true. I'm also going to say this.

Steve: 00:19:05

Matt Settle had a good episode. I thought that

Steve: 00:19:08

this was some of his better acting in general

Steve: 00:19:12

because I found him to do a lot of reacting

Steve: 00:19:15

instead of like, Matt looked distraught, but it

Steve: 00:19:20

just felt like really natural. Like. And there's a

Steve: 00:19:24

scene coming up that I'll get into it more. But I

Steve: 00:19:27

liked Matt Settle. In this episode at the

Steve: 00:19:30

hospital, Blair.

Leif: 00:19:30

Um, um, backed by Chuck and Eric, is trying and

Leif: 00:19:33

failing to get News on Serena from a nurse.

Steve: 00:19:38

Yeah, you're a kid. You're just her friend. Chill.

Leif: 00:19:45

Rufus finds Lily on the beach and comforts. Uh, on

Leif: 00:19:49

the beach.

Steve: 00:19:51

I was singing.

Leif: 00:19:52

Rufus finds Lily.

Steve: 00:19:55

Serena's in the hospital. I'm going to the beach.

Leif: 00:20:00

Rufus finds Lily on a bench and comforts her. When

Leif: 00:20:04

Lily gets up to get some coffee, Rufus calls Jenny

Leif: 00:20:07

to let her know what's going on. Jenny, clearly

Leif: 00:20:10

shocked by the news, says she is coming right

Leif: 00:20:12

away.

Steve: 00:20:14

And Jenny here, thinking she's responsible

Steve: 00:20:18

immediately. Jenny the only one taking any

Steve: 00:20:21

accountability for what happened to Serena. Yeah.

Steve: 00:20:25

Uh, yeah. Oh, man.

Leif: 00:20:29

Vanessa arrives for Thanksgiving dinner.

Leif: 00:20:34

Thanksgiving dinner at the penthouse. And only

Leif: 00:20:36

Droda and her baby are there. Vanessa gets a text

Leif: 00:20:39

from Jenny that reads, serena in trouble. We

Leif: 00:20:43

screwed up. Coming home, Vanessa calls Dan and it

Leif: 00:20:46

goes right to voicemail.

Steve: 00:20:48

Yeah. And she's like, maybe you should ask Mr.

Steve: 00:20:50

Humphrey what's going on, Dorota. Yeah. I'm a

Steve: 00:20:55

little surprised Dorota recognized Vanessa because

Steve: 00:20:58

she's only seen her like, twice. Two, three times.

Steve: 00:21:02

I guess Vanessa just always happens to be around,

Steve: 00:21:06

even when it's inappropriate for her to be.

Leif: 00:21:09

Dan arrives at the hospital and has a distraught

Leif: 00:21:12

conversation with Blair about Serena.

Steve: 00:21:15

Uh, do you know how I loved the chemistry with Dan

Steve: 00:21:21

and Blair this whole episode? They were fantastic.

Steve: 00:21:24

Every time they shared scene time, it was

Steve: 00:21:28

masterful.

Leif: 00:21:30

The doctor finds Rufus and Lily and lets them know

Leif: 00:21:33

that Serena will be physically fine after the

Leif: 00:21:36

overdose, but wants to see if they are willing to

Leif: 00:21:39

put Serena into a forced stay. In rehab, they

Leif: 00:21:42

learn that Serena had antidepressants in her

Leif: 00:21:45

system. Lily is worried that she ignored her

Leif: 00:21:47

daughter in the middle of a mental health crisis.

Steve: 00:21:50

I don't believe they said that the antidepressants

Steve: 00:21:55

were in her system. They said that?

Leif: 00:21:56

Oh, yeah, they were in the room. Yeah, the room.

Leif: 00:21:58

Yeah.

Steve: 00:21:59

Yeah. They didn't actually test for any of the

Steve: 00:22:01

drugs in her system, it seems, because they may

Steve: 00:22:04

have seen that it was like fucking formaldehyde or

Steve: 00:22:07

something. Ether or something that knocked her

Steve: 00:22:10

out. But, yeah, this for one, this is.

Leif: 00:22:16

Where I love the look that Lily gives Rufus after

Leif: 00:22:19

he says, not that we're aware.

Steve: 00:22:22

That we're aware of. It's just like, what?

Leif: 00:22:24

How dare you?

Steve: 00:22:27

And I loved that line. I honestly think that that

Steve: 00:22:31

was one of the best lines in the episode. And it

Steve: 00:22:34

seems like such a throwaway line, but it's like,

Steve: 00:22:37

does she battling depression? No, absolutely not

Steve: 00:22:41

is Lily's response. And Rufus has to be like, we

Steve: 00:22:47

don't know. We don't live with her. Yeah, we

Steve: 00:22:50

haven't seen her in months. The last time you guys

Steve: 00:22:54

have had a grown up conversation.

Leif: 00:22:57

It's reverse psychology on it.

Steve: 00:22:59

You. Yeah, you sent her into the arms of a. You

Steve: 00:23:02

know, of another man or are you got her to. God

Steve: 00:23:05

damn it. The reverse psychology for fuck's sake.

Steve: 00:23:10

But seriously, you. You haven't been. You haven't.

Steve: 00:23:13

You've never really been in her, been a full time

Steve: 00:23:17

mom to her. And now for the past four, six months

Steve: 00:23:23

you haven't been around each other. So yeah. The.

Steve: 00:23:29

You don't know if she's battling depression and

Steve: 00:23:32

Ruf is saying that and Rufus just laying that

Steve: 00:23:35

blanket on it like no, not that we know of. I

Steve: 00:23:40

thought was just a very important way and such a

Steve: 00:23:44

great. Again, the reaction from Rufus and the way

Steve: 00:23:51

that he responded with that I just thought really

Steve: 00:23:53

drove home the lack of relationship even more with

Steve: 00:23:58

Lily and Serena at this point.

Leif: 00:24:01

And next we get a quick scene where Nate confronts

Leif: 00:24:04

his mom about the divorce papers and kind of

Leif: 00:24:07

convinces her to give Howie a chance.

Steve: 00:24:11

Yeah.

Leif: 00:24:11

And at least tries to.

Steve: 00:24:13

Yeah.

Leif: 00:24:13

He doesn't know he succeeded yet.

Steve: 00:24:15

Yeah. She's still skeptical. She takes the papers

Steve: 00:24:18

from him. And again, Nate's not asking for

Steve: 00:24:22

anything out of line, I don't think. I think a

Steve: 00:24:25

conversation is a reasonable thing to ask. And the

Steve: 00:24:30

other thing, when Ann is like, we're leaving at 6

Steve: 00:24:33

to go to grand, you know, we need to be leaving

Steve: 00:24:36

here by six to go to grandfather's. You can visit

Steve: 00:24:38

your dad tomorrow or whatever. It's like, lady, do

Steve: 00:24:42

you. Do you know how to talk to your kid? Like

Steve: 00:24:45

the, the. If you just told Nate, go see your dad,

Steve: 00:24:49

Grandfather will just be mad about it later. Mhm.

Steve: 00:24:52

If given a choice, Nate will always do the one

Steve: 00:24:54

that will make grandfather mad, even if he doesn't

Steve: 00:24:57

mean to.

Leif: 00:24:59

Back at the hospital, the wagons are circled and

Leif: 00:25:01

everyone argues for or against committing Serena.

Leif: 00:25:05

It seems like everyone except Dan wants to force

Leif: 00:25:07

her to the Ostrov Center. The argument is

Leif: 00:25:10

interrupted by a news story where they play

Leif: 00:25:12

Serena's 911 call. The doctor says Serena is ready

Leif: 00:25:16

for visitors, but at first Lily says she wants to

Leif: 00:25:19

put the involuntary hold on Serena and force her

Leif: 00:25:22

to the Ostrov center for recovery.

Steve: 00:25:24

And here, when we have Dan, did anyone talk to

Steve: 00:25:28

Serena? Has anyone asked her what happened? Has

Steve: 00:25:31

anyone asked her what's going on? And Lily just

Steve: 00:25:35

being like we need to just send her away just like

Steve: 00:25:39

she did with Eric. Just like she is always done

Steve: 00:25:41

with all of the problems that she ever has. She

Steve: 00:25:45

can't buy it off she'll send it away, which is

Steve: 00:25:48

kind of buying it off. And Dan just not having it.

Steve: 00:25:52

And I just thought that he was. And also, you have

Steve: 00:25:56

Blair, who is worried about Serena, who also

Steve: 00:26:00

believes that this is a cry for help. I really

Steve: 00:26:05

liked how we had Blair and Dan sort of being the

Steve: 00:26:09

devil and angel on Lily's shoulder to a degree

Steve: 00:26:13

where Lily's listening more to Blair because

Steve: 00:26:15

that's what she wants. But she does have these two

Steve: 00:26:18

different voices of people close to Serena talking

Steve: 00:26:21

to her. Mhm.

Leif: 00:26:28

We go into Act 3. Eric and Lily visit Serena at

Leif: 00:26:32

the Astro Center. Serena is feeling very betrayed.

Leif: 00:26:35

Serena insists that she didn't try to hurt

Leif: 00:26:38

herself, but Eric is really worried about her.

Steve: 00:26:41

I liked Eric here. How could you do this to me?

Steve: 00:26:44

Because I love you and I'm worried about you. I'm

Steve: 00:26:48

worried about you, and I love you. That's why.

Leif: 00:26:51

Uh, Although I'm kind of disappointed that Eric

Leif: 00:26:54

didn't talk to her a little bit more.

Steve: 00:26:56

I am too. I was too. Especially because when she's

Steve: 00:27:01

like, I didn't do this. And he was like, when I

Steve: 00:27:03

was here, I didn't want to be here either. Yeah.

Leif: 00:27:06

Now Eric's gaslighting her.

Steve: 00:27:08

Yeah, exactly. And. And so I felt kind of bad

Steve: 00:27:12

there, But I do feel like Eric wants to be there

Steve: 00:27:16

for his sister and didn't want to just lock her

Steve: 00:27:18

away, but also only knows what he knows from Lily.

Steve: 00:27:21

Yeah.

Leif: 00:27:22

Nate and Dan share some bro time in the lobby and

Leif: 00:27:25

discuss Serena. Dan wants to believe Serena, but

Leif: 00:27:29

Nate is still feeling salty. Nate has to leave

Leif: 00:27:32

when he gets a text from his mom.

Steve: 00:27:34

Yeah, not too much.

Leif: 00:27:36

If anything, this shows you that Nate is probably

Leif: 00:27:38

not the right person for Serena.

Steve: 00:27:40

Well, yeah. I mean, I also. Once again, I like

Steve: 00:27:43

that Dan's like, sorry, I didn't tell you. And

Steve: 00:27:44

he's like, it's cool. But also the way that Nate

Steve: 00:27:47

is just like, uh, like everyone else, like, no,

Steve: 00:27:50

this is a pattern. We've seen it. And this is how

Steve: 00:27:53

she draws people in, and I'm not gonna let her do

Steve: 00:27:56

it to me. Ouch.

Leif: 00:27:58

Jenny shows up at Juliet's apartment, who is

Leif: 00:28:01

playing dumb about the drugs, and Jenny wants to

Leif: 00:28:04

admit what they did and tells Serena she is sorry.

Leif: 00:28:07

Juliet suggests that Serena needs the help Ostrov

Leif: 00:28:10

center can provide, which temporarily stays

Leif: 00:28:12

Jenny's hand. As Jenny leaves, Juliet sends a pic

Leif: 00:28:16

of herself dressed as Serena doing a line of coke.

Steve: 00:28:20

It's her day off. Juliet let her alone. It's

Steve: 00:28:23

Gossip Girl's day off. And Jenny. It's funny how

Steve: 00:28:27

Juliet says, before you say anything, make sure

Steve: 00:28:30

you talk to me first. I am talking to you right

Steve: 00:28:34

now. I'm in your house telling you this. But Jenny

Steve: 00:28:38

instead is like, okay, come on, Jenny, have some

Steve: 00:28:41

backbone.

Leif: 00:28:42

Dan visits a still despondent Serena to try to

Leif: 00:28:46

figure out what really happened. Serena tells Dan

Leif: 00:28:49

that the last thing she remembers was choosing

Leif: 00:28:51

him. Dan gets a stupid grin on his face and tells

Leif: 00:28:54

Sarina to grab her stuff. It's time to blow this

Leif: 00:28:57

popsicle stand.

Steve: 00:28:59

I, uh, believe her that she was there to see Dan.

Leif: 00:29:02

Yeah, I did.

Steve: 00:29:03

I really. But I also feel that if Nate were the

Steve: 00:29:07

one to come in and show her attention, that she

Steve: 00:29:10

would have said the same thing.

Leif: 00:29:13

Possibly.

Steve: 00:29:14

Yeah, possibly. Although I think the fact that Dan

Steve: 00:29:18

is the one that will believe her through thick and

Steve: 00:29:20

thin to the end is the reason why she, yeah,

Steve: 00:29:25

chooses him.

Leif: 00:29:26

Juliet calls Vanessa, who is also going to the

Leif: 00:29:29

Ostrov center to confess. Juliet attempts to

Leif: 00:29:32

dissuade her by saying that they may forgive Jenny

Leif: 00:29:35

because she's family, but they will never forgive

Leif: 00:29:38

Vanessa, and Dan will just use it as an excuse to

Leif: 00:29:41

go back to Serena. After hanging up, Juliet starts

Leif: 00:29:44

packing a suitcase.

Steve: 00:29:46

First of all, too late. The driving her back to

Steve: 00:29:49

Serena thing, that's already done. Yeah.

Leif: 00:29:52

Also, uh, I like Dan and don't really like

Leif: 00:29:55

Vanessa, but at this point, why does she even care

Leif: 00:29:59

about him? Go back to NYU and live your life.

Steve: 00:30:03

Yeah. Yeah. Any of these people that are all.

Leif: 00:30:06

Does Dan have, like, a magic dick or something?

Steve: 00:30:08

Maybe. I mean.

Leif: 00:30:10

I mean, he is distractingly pretty in this

Leif: 00:30:12

episode.

Steve: 00:30:13

Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

Leif: 00:30:17

But still, have some self respect.

Steve: 00:30:19

Yeah. Well, especially like earlier on in the

Steve: 00:30:22

episode. And it's, uh, kudos to Jessica's acting

Steve: 00:30:26

when Dan and her are talking about Thanksgiving

Steve: 00:30:30

and she's giving these little looks of excitement

Steve: 00:30:34

when he talks about not wanting to be around

Steve: 00:30:37

Serena. But it's still. It's like everything that

Steve: 00:30:41

you have coming to you is your own fucking doing

Steve: 00:30:43

because you didn't just walk away and go to

Steve: 00:30:46

college. You're going home to your mom. You could

Steve: 00:30:49

have just chilled at the loft and gone to school,

Steve: 00:30:51

but you got jealous. Yep.

Leif: 00:30:54

Chuck and Blair are talking in the lobby. Um,

Leif: 00:30:57

Blair is glad they can be there together to

Leif: 00:31:01

support Serena. Before Chuck can respond, they see

Leif: 00:31:04

Jenny walking across the lobby. A very ominous

Leif: 00:31:08

scene.

Steve: 00:31:09

Yeah. And it feels like they're about to do

Steve: 00:31:13

something. But before they do something, uh, you

Steve: 00:31:16

know, she runs into.

Leif: 00:31:19

So. Yeah. Ah. Jenny is too late, though, when she

Leif: 00:31:21

goes to tell Rufus what the trio did to Serena.

Leif: 00:31:24

Rufus is being followed By Vanessa, who has

Leif: 00:31:27

already poisoned the well. Vanessa lied and pinned

Leif: 00:31:30

everything on Jenny. Rufus's self righteous

Leif: 00:31:33

diatribe is interrupted by Lily who who announces

Leif: 00:31:36

that Serena is gone.

Steve: 00:31:38

Yeah, but also Vanessa, you dirty dog. And like

Steve: 00:31:46

they like it's not gonna come out. Like it's not

Steve: 00:31:49

gonna come around and like they're going to still.

Steve: 00:31:52

Oh, because Vanessa told us this thing, we're

Steve: 00:31:56

gonna believe her over Jenny in the long run.

Steve: 00:32:00

What's your end game here, Vanessa? How do you

Steve: 00:32:03

really think this? Do you really think Dan, at the

Steve: 00:32:05

end of the day when Jenny goes and was like Dan, I

Steve: 00:32:08

swear on our fucking siblinghood that Vanessa was

Steve: 00:32:13

in on this, who is Dan believing?

Leif: 00:32:15

Plus Jenny smart. She'll find some way to prove

Leif: 00:32:17

it, right? Yeah.

Steve: 00:32:19

Jenny bugging hacked Serena's cell phone for

Steve: 00:32:22

Christ's sake. Like she'll get you Vanessa or

Steve: 00:32:26

she'll just tell Blair.

Leif: 00:32:29

Well, she didn't hack her phone. She just took her

Leif: 00:32:32

SIM card.

Steve: 00:32:34

But let her have it. She did a cool workaround on

Steve: 00:32:40

in 2010. She did this.

Leif: 00:32:43

Well, that was like the prime time for SIM cards.

Steve: 00:32:45

Yeah, it was, wasn't it?

Leif: 00:32:46

And I think that's why they probably stopped

Leif: 00:32:48

using. It was so easy to do that.

Steve: 00:32:54

Probably. Um, uh.

Leif: 00:32:59

We move into Act 4. Nate is at the prison to visit

Leif: 00:33:04

his father and is surprised when Ann shows up for

Leif: 00:33:06

the visit.

Steve: 00:33:07

After all, the second time in this series, and

Steve: 00:33:11

both were this season, that Nate gets some good

Steve: 00:33:15

parenting. And when she. Because when she said to

Steve: 00:33:19

him, we made a lot of mistakes in our

Steve: 00:33:21

relationship, but one of them is not. But you were

Steve: 00:33:25

never one of them. And if my son is asking me to

Steve: 00:33:28

do this, then I owe it to him. God damn, Ann.

Steve: 00:33:33

Finally doing something for your kid.

Leif: 00:33:36

Rufus and Lily, take a look in the mirror because

Leif: 00:33:38

you're getting out parented by Anne and Al.

Steve: 00:33:41

You're getting out parented by Anne and Howie

Steve: 00:33:46

Archibald. O. I actually wasn't entirely mad at

Steve: 00:33:53

Rufus this episode for his parenting with Jenny

Steve: 00:33:58

other than I'll get to uh, my m. I'll get to my

Steve: 00:34:01

one big issue with it later.

Leif: 00:34:03

We already had that big yell at her and totally

Leif: 00:34:06

bought Vanessa's story and wouldn't even listen to

Leif: 00:34:09

her.

Steve: 00:34:10

But then he has a conversation with her again

Steve: 00:34:12

after.

Leif: 00:34:12

I, uh, thought that hasn't come yet.

Steve: 00:34:15

Right. He hasn't had that one, which I think so

Steve: 00:34:17

yes, he had the blowout one. But I think that the

Steve: 00:34:19

later conversation with her I appreciate. So I'll

Steve: 00:34:23

get to that when he says it. But my bigger problem

Steve: 00:34:25

is actually even later Than that. And I'll say it

Steve: 00:34:28

when we get there.

Leif: 00:34:30

Dan and Serena are trying to figure out supplies

Leif: 00:34:33

from the meager pantry at the loft. It sounds like

Leif: 00:34:36

they are taking a trip out of the city together,

Leif: 00:34:39

where they leave to catch a bus. Lily and Blair at

Leif: 00:34:42

the door to stop them.

Steve: 00:34:44

Robin goes, so who's at that door as soon as it

Steve: 00:34:47

opened and Blair and Lily were standing there? Um,

Steve: 00:34:53

very predictable that somebody would be there,

Steve: 00:34:55

especially in how it was shot. But it was a good

Steve: 00:34:58

scene.

Leif: 00:35:00

Outside, Jenny and Rufus are arguing about who was

Leif: 00:35:03

involved in the scheme. But at the end of the day,

Leif: 00:35:05

he isn't Vanessa or Juliet's father. Jenny is

Leif: 00:35:08

truly sorry that Serena got hurt for real. But

Leif: 00:35:11

they both agree that she should have never come

Leif: 00:35:13

back to the city.

Steve: 00:35:14

And Jenny walks away when Rufus says, I'm not here

Steve: 00:35:20

to argue how responsible you are. One third, two

Steve: 00:35:24

thirds, you're my kid and they're not.

Leif: 00:35:31

I mhm.

Steve: 00:35:31

Wasn't mad at that.

Leif: 00:35:32

That part's fair.

Steve: 00:35:33

Yeah. And I feel like he has every right to be

Steve: 00:35:37

upset with her in this moment for what transpired

Steve: 00:35:41

that Jenny is saying. And granted, he shouldn't be

Steve: 00:35:46

listening to Vanessa over Jenny. But then when

Steve: 00:35:48

Jenny says, why are you taking her word over mine?

Steve: 00:35:51

He's basically like, I'm not. It doesn't matter if

Steve: 00:35:54

she's involved or not. It matters what my kid did.

Steve: 00:35:58

Which I did. Appreciate that, that notion, that

Steve: 00:36:02

sentiment of like, I'm not saying she wasn't

Steve: 00:36:05

involved. I'm saying that I'm upset that you were.

Steve: 00:36:09

And um, Serena was. From um, everybody's point of

Steve: 00:36:13

view right now, including Jenny. Serena was very

Steve: 00:36:16

badly hurt by something that Jenny and Vanessa

Steve: 00:36:19

did. And so Rufus has every right to be upset

Steve: 00:36:22

about Serena's health scare. That by all evidence

Steve: 00:36:28

presented to him right now is at least 33 and a

Steve: 00:36:33

third percent his daughter. So I get the anger.

Steve: 00:36:36

The thing I didn't like was when she said I

Steve: 00:36:40

shouldn't have come back here. The answer is not

Steve: 00:36:43

no, you're right, that's not what I'm saying. You

Steve: 00:36:47

shouldn't come back here and act like this is what

Steve: 00:36:50

you shouldn't do. And he's also not totally wrong.

Steve: 00:36:53

Because if you're only coming back here to fuck

Steve: 00:36:55

with your stepsister, no, you shouldn't come back.

Steve: 00:36:59

You really shouldn't come back just to play upper

Steve: 00:37:02

Easter side games and try to get your stepsister

Steve: 00:37:06

embarrassed or shunned or whatever your goal was

Steve: 00:37:09

actually to do. Get all of her friends to hate

Steve: 00:37:10

her. What do you think that's going to end well.

Steve: 00:37:12

So I do feel like he had a right to be upset and I

Steve: 00:37:16

do see his side. And I don't think it was as

Steve: 00:37:20

terrible as calling the cops on a fashion show or

Steve: 00:37:23

many of the other things. It's not the classic

Steve: 00:37:25

Rufus Jenny where he's not supporting the

Steve: 00:37:28

decisions that she's making for her life. It's not

Steve: 00:37:31

supporting her for being a to her sister. So I'm

Steve: 00:37:35

not as mad at him. I'll tell. And I'm still not at

Steve: 00:37:38

the part what I am mad about. But I'll tell you

Steve: 00:37:40

that later when we get there.

Leif: 00:37:42

Back at the loft, Lily and Blair are insistent

Leif: 00:37:45

that Serena go back to the O Center. Serena says

Leif: 00:37:49

she will only go back in a straight jacket and

Leif: 00:37:51

walks away. Dan tries to follow her and Blair into

Leif: 00:37:54

the bedroom, but is held back by Lily. Dan and

Leif: 00:37:57

Lily have a tete a tete on who knows Serena best.

Leif: 00:38:00

And Dan says she should have a real conversation

Leif: 00:38:03

with her daughter before deciding what's best for

Leif: 00:38:06

her. Lily admits she's afraid of what Serena will

Leif: 00:38:10

say about her.

Steve: 00:38:11

This was a fucking tennis match. This is one of

Steve: 00:38:14

the best scenes Gossip Girl has ever fucking shot.

Steve: 00:38:17

Yeah, it was amazing. Dan just going at. Because,

Steve: 00:38:22

like, Dan's not afraid to stand up to Lily. We've

Steve: 00:38:24

always known this. He's established that a long

Steve: 00:38:26

time ago. He doesn't give a shit if a parent is

Steve: 00:38:29

coming at him. If he thinks he's right, he's going

Steve: 00:38:31

to go at them. And for. For her to. When Dan says

Steve: 00:38:35

to her, I. From what I understand, I've clocked

Steve: 00:38:40

more hours with her than you have. Yeah, like,

Steve: 00:38:43

damn. And when Lily. And well, maybe you're. Maybe

Steve: 00:38:47

I'm not looking in the mirror. And when Dan takes

Steve: 00:38:50

that accountability. Yeah, maybe I do only see the

Steve: 00:38:52

best in your daughter. But I'm not trying to look

Steve: 00:38:54

in a mirror. I'm not. I'm not the one who's afraid

Steve: 00:38:58

to have a conversation with her and just lays into

Steve: 00:39:00

her. And then when he finally gets through, Lily's

Steve: 00:39:04

reaction. My God, Kelly. Like, you had me. Yeah,

Steve: 00:39:08

uh, you had me choked up. You had me feeling that

Steve: 00:39:13

all of the responsibility of motherhood that

Steve: 00:39:16

you've missed out on landing on your fucking head

Steve: 00:39:18

in that moment when Dan finally hit you in the

Steve: 00:39:21

head with. It was beautiful and one of my favorite

Steve: 00:39:24

scenes this show has done so far. And Pen, Pen,

Steve: 00:39:28

you're acting too. Like I said, it was a tennis

Steve: 00:39:30

match until Lily finally just smacked it home. But

Steve: 00:39:35

it was absolutely beautiful and, uh. Excellent.

Leif: 00:39:39

Excellent scene I wonder if, uh, Kelly was kind of

Leif: 00:39:43

channeling some of her real world motions. I think

Leif: 00:39:47

at this time was when she was going through her,

Leif: 00:39:48

like, custody battle.

Steve: 00:39:50

Oh, wow. That. Yeah.

Leif: 00:39:52

And, like, her, uh, kids were off in Paris.

Steve: 00:39:55

Oh, yeah. You can only imagine that you're now

Steve: 00:39:58

playing this character who's an absentee mom while

Steve: 00:40:02

you're away from your kids, which I also contend.

Steve: 00:40:06

The same with Matt. With. With Matt Settle, who at

Steve: 00:40:09

this point is. I believe it's the end of this

Steve: 00:40:13

season. He's divorced, so he's going through a

Steve: 00:40:17

bunch of his own shit while. Have. While he has an

Steve: 00:40:20

infant daughter at home right now.

Leif: 00:40:21

Yeah.

Steve: 00:40:23

Or toddler.

Leif: 00:40:24

Anyway, in the bedroom, Blair and Serena, ah, are

Leif: 00:40:27

talking about their respective problems. Serena

Leif: 00:40:30

thinks she was, uh, drugged. However, just then,

Leif: 00:40:33

Gossip Girl ends her silence to send a blast with

Leif: 00:40:36

the photo that Juliet sent earlier. Serena and

Leif: 00:40:39

Blair come back to the dining room, where we see

Leif: 00:40:41

Dan and Lily also reading the blast. Serena

Leif: 00:40:45

apologizes and says she wants to go back to the

Leif: 00:40:47

Ostrov Center. So she's even believing it now.

Steve: 00:40:50

Yeah, uh, this. That. Because when she's saying to

Steve: 00:40:56

Blair, and Blair's like, that sounds. She's, like,

Steve: 00:40:57

crazy. I know how this sounds, but this is what it

Steve: 00:41:01

has to be. And now she sees a picture of herself

Steve: 00:41:05

doing lines, and it's like, wow. Wow, what did I

Steve: 00:41:10

do? Like, I know I've had these times before. What

Steve: 00:41:14

did I do?

Leif: 00:41:17

And, ah, this is what the blast said. Afternoon,

Leif: 00:41:23

Upper, uh, East Siders. Or your dinners as filling

Leif: 00:41:26

as mine was. Hope not, because I have some dessert

Leif: 00:41:30

for you with sugar on top. It seems everyone's

Leif: 00:41:34

favorite party girl fell off the wagon and landed

Leif: 00:41:37

in rehab. Good luck getting a little handle on

Leif: 00:41:40

things. S. For the looks of it, you've got a lot

Leif: 00:41:44

to recover from.

Steve: 00:41:46

I didn't catch the sugar on top in the. In the

Steve: 00:41:49

original, when I was listening. I didn't catch it

Steve: 00:41:52

until you just read it. So that's really clever,

Steve: 00:41:55

uh, because we don't often talk about the Gossip

Steve: 00:41:57

Girl things. Her actual quotes. But the other

Steve: 00:42:00

thing with this is she was in rehab. She was at

Steve: 00:42:04

the Ostrov center because they thought that she

Steve: 00:42:06

was trying to commit suicide. In this picture,

Steve: 00:42:09

she's out doing lines. So is she out doing drugs

Steve: 00:42:14

or is she trying to commit suicide?

Leif: 00:42:16

Well, I mean, the news already said that she

Leif: 00:42:18

overdosed, right?

Steve: 00:42:19

Yeah, it's just. Yeah, well, no, it is, but she

Steve: 00:42:25

overdosed. But if you're gonna overdose doing

Steve: 00:42:28

lines, that doesn't really seem like a suicide is,

Steve: 00:42:31

I guess, what I'm getting at. I could be wrong. I

Steve: 00:42:33

mean, I guess, you know.

Leif: 00:42:35

Well, yeah, well, that's because. That's why, uh,

Leif: 00:42:37

no one else thinks it was suicides. That's just

Leif: 00:42:38

the people. That's just the family that thinks

Leif: 00:42:40

that.

Steve: 00:42:40

Yeah. Everyone else just thinks the party Gossip

Steve: 00:42:43

Girl's making.

Leif: 00:42:43

Yeah, yeah. She's talking about, you know, Lindsay

Leif: 00:42:46

Lohan reference in there and.

Steve: 00:42:47

Yeah, yeah.

Leif: 00:42:48

Fallen off the wagon.

Steve: 00:42:50

Yeah, they got a low handle on things.

Leif: 00:42:55

As we move into Act 5, Dan and Serena are sitting

Leif: 00:42:59

in his bedroom. Serena thanks Dan for believing in

Leif: 00:43:03

her, but looking at the photo and having no memory

Leif: 00:43:05

of it, has gas lit her into believing she did go

Leif: 00:43:09

on a crazy bender? Dan says he will always believe

Leif: 00:43:12

in her, and the two share a chaste can kiss before

Leif: 00:43:15

being interrupted by Eric, who says, lily is

Leif: 00:43:18

waiting downstairs.

Steve: 00:43:20

Eric comes in, is like, you guys ready? I just

Steve: 00:43:23

wanted them to be like, can we just bang one out

Steve: 00:43:26

real quick before we go?

Leif: 00:43:28

Because I. I didn't really get that sense there in

Leif: 00:43:31

that movie. Like I said, it was. It was a very

Leif: 00:43:33

chase kiss. Yeah.

Steve: 00:43:34

Uh, it was not met.

Leif: 00:43:36

This was only a few months after Pen and Blake

Leif: 00:43:38

broke up. Really?

Steve: 00:43:39

Oh, wow. Oh, that's right. We're going to write

Steve: 00:43:43

you guys back together. Great. Thanks. I did like

Steve: 00:43:50

Penn here. I did like Dan when he. When he's like,

Steve: 00:43:55

I'll never stop believing in you, when even if you

Steve: 00:44:00

did do this, I still believe in you. So that's a

Steve: 00:44:04

good sentiment.

Leif: 00:44:05

Ah, Dan and Pat were great this whole episode.

Steve: 00:44:07

Yeah. Yeah.

Leif: 00:44:09

As Serena and Eric are leaving the loft, Rufus

Leif: 00:44:12

comes in and, still angry, looking for Jenny. Dan

Leif: 00:44:15

apologizes for taking Serena from the Ostro

Leif: 00:44:18

center, and Rufus instantly forgives his male

Leif: 00:44:21

child and gives him a big, happy hug.

Steve: 00:44:22

Uh, there it is. There it is.

Leif: 00:44:27

Yep.

Steve: 00:44:28

That's the part I'm really mad about. Dad.

Leif: 00:44:31

I'm sorry.

Steve: 00:44:32

It's okay, son. Come here. I'll give you a big

Steve: 00:44:34

hug.

Leif: 00:44:35

Aw.

Steve: 00:44:35

Uh, it's okay. It's okay that you kidnapped

Steve: 00:44:38

somebody. It's okay. Come here. Bring it in, son.

Steve: 00:44:41

Now we're going to go try to find your sister that

Steve: 00:44:42

I chased off again. Then we went to find Jenny

Steve: 00:44:47

again.

Leif: 00:44:49

Juliet is visiting Ben in prison and is gleefully

Leif: 00:44:54

explaining how successful the plan has gone. Ben

Leif: 00:44:57

is suddenly shocked that Juliet would go so far as

Leif: 00:45:00

to drug Serena. Julia is rightfully surprised at

Leif: 00:45:04

his change of attitude now that she, too, lost

Leif: 00:45:07

everything.

Steve: 00:45:08

Ben looked different here. Was he, like, clean

Steve: 00:45:12

shaven or.

Leif: 00:45:13

I believe so. Uh, yeah.

Steve: 00:45:14

Ah. Like, he just looked.

Leif: 00:45:16

He looked cleaner. Defanged him? Yeah, from a few

Leif: 00:45:21

episodes when he was beating up some. Someone's

Leif: 00:45:23

dad just to send a message to Juliet.

Steve: 00:45:26

Yeah, yeah, they beat up. But. But now it's like.

Steve: 00:45:28

Wait, but you did. Well, what? Wait, no, no, no. I

Steve: 00:45:32

just wanted you to ruin her life and get her

Steve: 00:45:33

kicked out of college and get all of her friends

Steve: 00:45:35

to hate her and. And make the entire world think

Steve: 00:45:38

that she slept with a professor.

Leif: 00:45:40

So, yeah, there's just. Yeah, it's clearly a shift

Leif: 00:45:44

to make Ben more empathetic.

Steve: 00:45:48

Right. Which I caught that. Oh, I caught that

Steve: 00:45:52

instantly.

Leif: 00:45:53

I fear for what. What that. That entails.

Steve: 00:45:56

No, I mean, it's. Well, no, it's. It. It is all

Steve: 00:46:01

bad news because we.

Leif: 00:46:03

Because I think he already predicted this at one

Leif: 00:46:06

point. What's going to happen?

Steve: 00:46:07

Oh, that. I mean, he's going to eventually get out

Steve: 00:46:11

and find Serena. I can imagine that they're going

Steve: 00:46:14

to end up together at some point, because that

Steve: 00:46:16

just makes sense. But like you said, they. They

Steve: 00:46:20

really defanged him here and they just. I felt

Steve: 00:46:24

like even in how they did his makeup, how they did

Steve: 00:46:26

everything, they made him look like this soft

Steve: 00:46:31

victim character who's been pulling the strings to

Steve: 00:46:34

this whole thing the whole time. And for Juliet to

Steve: 00:46:38

then be like, you know, fuck you, Deuces. Like,

Steve: 00:46:41

I've lost everything, doing all of this, doing

Steve: 00:46:44

this whole plan for you, and now you're going to

Steve: 00:46:45

be mad at me for drugging her. Like, fuck off.

Leif: 00:46:48

Yeah.

Steve: 00:46:49

Like, how is that the line?

Leif: 00:46:52

Yeah, I totally got Juliet in that scene.

Steve: 00:46:55

Yeah.

Leif: 00:46:56

Chuck and Blair are, uh, in his limo. Blair is

Leif: 00:46:59

doing a Dan Humphrey impression and nervous,

Leif: 00:47:01

rambling about everything she needs to do before

Leif: 00:47:03

leaving for Paris. Blair tries to take Chuck's

Leif: 00:47:06

hand, but he pulls away and says that she was

Leif: 00:47:09

right what she said last week. They need to be on

Leif: 00:47:11

their own for a while to figure out where to go

Leif: 00:47:13

from here.

Steve: 00:47:14

Yeah, the way he was, like, I was there for

Steve: 00:47:17

Serena. And, um. But, uh, again, I actually really

Steve: 00:47:23

like this conversation too, how Chuck is like, you

Steve: 00:47:27

were right, we can't be together. I'm not upset

Steve: 00:47:31

that I got to see you today. It was great to spend

Steve: 00:47:33

time with you and get to be in your orbit, but we

Steve: 00:47:36

can't be friends, so I've got to go now. I thought

Steve: 00:47:39

it was great and also good, Blair, you should go

Steve: 00:47:42

find someone else by the end of this episode to

Steve: 00:47:46

partner up with for a little bit.

Leif: 00:47:49

As Juliet is leaving, she bumps into Howie, who is

Leif: 00:47:52

bringing a tray back to sit with Nate and Anne for

Leif: 00:47:55

a Thanksgiving dinner. At prison, Juliet tells the

Leif: 00:47:59

guard that she won't be back for a while.

Steve: 00:48:02

I didn't get Juliet's bump in with Howie and her.

Steve: 00:48:09

I don't know what she was trying to communicate in

Steve: 00:48:11

her acting when she saw them.

Leif: 00:48:14

So my read on it was that she does have real

Leif: 00:48:18

feelings for Nate.

Steve: 00:48:19

So I kind of had that too. That it was. I'm sad

Steve: 00:48:23

that I. Oh, there's Nate. I. There. There's the

Steve: 00:48:27

guy I had jumped, or there's the guy that got

Steve: 00:48:30

jumped because I dated Nate. And there's the

Steve: 00:48:33

family that I kind of wish I had. I kind of got

Steve: 00:48:37

all that. But you're also a sociopath. And I

Steve: 00:48:40

didn't think that was the best I've seen from

Steve: 00:48:43

Juliet. And I actually blame that more on writing

Steve: 00:48:46

than anything else. That I don't feel like there

Steve: 00:48:48

was a good communication there. That's probably,

Steve: 00:48:52

like my only thing in the episode that I was like,

Steve: 00:48:56

Jenny.

Leif: 00:48:56

Uh, goes to see Juliet, only to find her apartment

Leif: 00:48:59

cleaned out. All except Juliet's mask in the

Leif: 00:49:02

trash.

Steve: 00:49:04

All except, uh, for the evidence. Also, kudos to

Steve: 00:49:08

Jenny. When she knows that she's in trouble, she

Steve: 00:49:12

knows she's found out, and she could just go back

Steve: 00:49:15

to Hudson and forget all of this. She has an

Steve: 00:49:20

escape and it would make family time tense. But

Steve: 00:49:24

she can get out of this and just leave. And

Steve: 00:49:28

instead she's going to go confront Juliet. And

Steve: 00:49:31

kudos to Jenny for still trying to fix this.

Leif: 00:49:39

Uh, and we move into the epilogue. Anne and Nate

Leif: 00:49:44

are talking outside the prison. And Anne is happy

Leif: 00:49:47

that she came and gave Howie a chance. Looks like

Leif: 00:49:50

they're going to be a happy family again. Aw. Uh,

Leif: 00:49:54

and once again, the lowest security prison ever

Leif: 00:49:57

because he goes out. Uh, I'm just gonna run right

Leif: 00:50:01

back.

Steve: 00:50:01

Inside, go back in and say goodnight to dad. Well,

Steve: 00:50:04

and also, if you remember how Juliet's thing, it

Steve: 00:50:06

was just like there was a room that she was

Steve: 00:50:09

walking out with a check in desk and then a

Steve: 00:50:12

cafeteria of visitors there. And then she's, oh, I

Steve: 00:50:16

got this visitor's pass I'm going to throw out.

Steve: 00:50:18

But, like, it's just like, by the way they set it

Steve: 00:50:20

up, it's like a hallway that may have had metal

Steve: 00:50:23

detectors. Yeah, wouldn't have been hard to bake a

Steve: 00:50:27

file into a cake for your brother, Juliet. Yeah.

Leif: 00:50:31

Rufus and Lily are alone with a huge Thanksgiving

Leif: 00:50:34

feast. Rufus admits that Jenny had a part in what

Leif: 00:50:37

happened to Serena. However, Lily says if anyone

Leif: 00:50:41

is to blame, it was her. Rufus suggests packing up

Leif: 00:50:44

some of this dinner and taking it over to the

Leif: 00:50:46

Ostrov Center. Lily gets a text and says she has

Leif: 00:50:49

to make one stop and that she will meet him there.

Steve: 00:50:53

Now, here's the other thing with Rufus that upset

Steve: 00:50:55

me. So. He does rightly point out that he and Lily

Steve: 00:50:59

are diametric opposites in parenting. And then he

Steve: 00:51:03

ends it with, and we both have daughters we can't

Steve: 00:51:06

control. Hey, Rufus, maybe don't try controlling

Steve: 00:51:10

her and try parenting her. Which, again, I'm not

Steve: 00:51:15

mad at his parenting now, but you had so many

Steve: 00:51:17

missed opportunities to have an amazing

Steve: 00:51:20

relationship with your daughter, who would right

Steve: 00:51:23

now probably be paying for that apartment in

Steve: 00:51:27

Brooklyn with her fashion shit.

Leif: 00:51:31

Ah, Rufus, she fucked up.

Steve: 00:51:33

You fucked up.

Leif: 00:51:35

Jenny goes to the Waldorf penthouse and comes

Leif: 00:51:38

completely clean with Blair. Jenny wishes Blair

Leif: 00:51:41

luck in hunting down Juliet and says a final

Leif: 00:51:44

goodbye to Blair and the Upper east side.

Leif: 00:51:47

Afterwards, Blair pulls out her phone, um, to text

Leif: 00:51:50

Chuck, but thinks better of it.

Steve: 00:51:54

Yeah, I like this. With Jenny going to Blair,

Steve: 00:51:58

laying it all out. You know, what would be. What

Steve: 00:52:00

would Thanksgiving be without Jenny Humphrey? I

Steve: 00:52:03

like that they had that moment of and. And Jenny

Steve: 00:52:07

being like, you know, I like a game as much as

Steve: 00:52:09

anyone. Why would I be here? Why would I be here

Steve: 00:52:13

if I just lie about this? Here's who you're after.

Steve: 00:52:17

Here's what you need to do. Thanks.

Leif: 00:52:20

And I do like that her final scene is with Blair.

Steve: 00:52:23

Yeah. Yeah. Is this it? Is this is it? And then we

Steve: 00:52:26

never see this actor again. And, yeah, it was a

Steve: 00:52:31

great ending for her. And I do, too. I love that

Steve: 00:52:35

that really brings that relationship full circle,

Steve: 00:52:39

that it is no longer animosity that Jenny now is

Steve: 00:52:42

leaving, sort of more on a positive note for

Steve: 00:52:45

coming clean and getting everything set in motion.

Steve: 00:52:49

So that's. That's good.

Leif: 00:52:52

Juliet is meeting with Lily, who hands her a check

Leif: 00:52:55

to stop leaking stories about Serena.

Steve: 00:52:59

Um, was that a hundred thousand? Was that a

Steve: 00:53:01

hundred grand?

Leif: 00:53:01

I don't think it was that much because it was a

Leif: 00:53:03

monthly check.

Steve: 00:53:04

Yeah, I know, but I. When I looked, I tried to. I

Steve: 00:53:07

didn't pause it, but I tried to just gaze, and I

Steve: 00:53:10

thought it looked like there was at least five

Steve: 00:53:12

zeros on.

Leif: 00:53:12

I thought it was 5,000.

Steve: 00:53:14

Oh, that's it, Juliet.

Leif: 00:53:17

I mean, monthly. That's a pretty good salary.

Steve: 00:53:19

I mean, it is, but it. But, uh. From the Vander

Steve: 00:53:22

Woodsons. I'd go at least five figures.

Leif: 00:53:25

Forever. Like, perpetuity.

Steve: 00:53:28

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, set me up with a trust.

Leif: 00:53:32

Yeah. At that point, they'll just take you out.

Leif: 00:53:37

They'll put you in prison just like your Brother.

Steve: 00:53:39

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, Juliet, we will do that for you.

Steve: 00:53:46

Orchestrate a bus accident.

Leif: 00:53:50

Nate is leaving the prison and the guard says he

Leif: 00:53:52

was happy to finally see his mom there today. And

Leif: 00:53:56

then it will really help Howie's chances at

Leif: 00:53:58

parole. Nate is instantly suspicious.

Steve: 00:54:03

Yeah. God damn it, Howie. God. Uh, damn. And it's

Steve: 00:54:09

so funny because I. It seems so innocuous. Oh,

Steve: 00:54:14

yeah, he was really glad to see your mom. And

Steve: 00:54:16

yeah, he might be getting paroled, but it's like,

Steve: 00:54:19

how are you, dick? Are you using your kid to get

Steve: 00:54:23

back with your wife to get out of prison early?

Steve: 00:54:27

Oh, God, Nate, uh, you had two great parenting

Steve: 00:54:32

moments this season. Let's. Let's hang on to

Steve: 00:54:35

those, bud, because I feel like things might get

Steve: 00:54:38

worse for you.

Leif: 00:54:39

Chuck is once again alone in his suite shooting

Leif: 00:54:42

pool. He gets a pie delivered from Blair, which

Leif: 00:54:45

causes him to smile.

Steve: 00:54:47

Yeah, the note. Just because we can't be friends

Steve: 00:54:50

doesn't mean we aren't. It was beautiful. He was

Steve: 00:54:54

happy about, uh. Was a great way to cap that off,

Steve: 00:54:58

too. It's the reminder that we can't be friends

Steve: 00:55:01

right now. But we love each other and we are

Steve: 00:55:05

always connected.

Leif: 00:55:07

Vanessa is walking alone and gets a text from

Leif: 00:55:10

Jenny letting her know that Blair knows

Leif: 00:55:12

everything. Everything. Vanessa calls her mom and

Leif: 00:55:15

lets her know she's coming home.

Steve: 00:55:17

You like, every bit of this is your own fault. You

Steve: 00:55:23

could. You could have earlier in the episode not

Steve: 00:55:27

listened to Juliet because you are fucking family

Steve: 00:55:30

to these people. And you could have gone and been

Steve: 00:55:33

like, jenny and I fucked up. We're sorry. Or you

Steve: 00:55:37

could have just not been super jealous of Serena

Steve: 00:55:40

and gone to class. So, Vanessa, you fucked up.

Steve: 00:55:44

Yeah. Go home to your mom and commute to NYU from

Steve: 00:55:50

New England.

Leif: 00:55:51

Vermont. Yeah, Go to New England where your mom

Leif: 00:55:55

can be horrible to you.

Steve: 00:55:56

Yeah, yeah.

Leif: 00:55:57

Shit all over you. Constantly.

Steve: 00:55:59

That, uh, well, not constantly because she's also

Steve: 00:56:01

going to ignore her a lot of the time. True. And,

Steve: 00:56:04

and, and choose her interests over her.

Leif: 00:56:08

Lily shows up at the Ostrov center where Rufus,

Leif: 00:56:10

Eric and Serena are waiting with the probably now

Leif: 00:56:13

ice cold Thanksgiving dinner. Serena is not very

Leif: 00:56:16

enthused, but slightly enticed when Lily reveals

Leif: 00:56:19

that her one stop was to get diner fries.

Steve: 00:56:23

The diner fries and the Gossip Girl starting new

Steve: 00:56:28

traditions. Because we've seen this at the end of

Steve: 00:56:30

the past. Was it all. Was it every one of them? Or

Steve: 00:56:33

is it just the first two? Were there diner fries?

Steve: 00:56:37

The end of the third one? First one, it was

Steve: 00:56:40

Blair's. Blair at the diner with Lily and Eric and

Steve: 00:56:45

Serena.

Leif: 00:56:46

Yeah, I don't think there was ones in the third.

Steve: 00:56:48

Maybe I don't remember how the third ended

Steve: 00:56:51

because. Yeah, but I do like that they had because

Steve: 00:56:56

they've always been diner fries in the diner, you

Steve: 00:56:58

know, So I like that.

Leif: 00:57:00

Dan, alone in his loft, is surprised to see Blair

Leif: 00:57:03

opening his front door. She apologizes for not

Leif: 00:57:07

trusting Dan that there was something more going

Leif: 00:57:09

on. She knows that Dan loves Serena and uses that

Leif: 00:57:13

to recruit him to help her hunt down and get

Leif: 00:57:16

revenge on Juliet.

Steve: 00:57:18

I'm so excited to have Dan and Blair paired up in

Steve: 00:57:23

a team up. An honest to God fucking team up. I'm

Steve: 00:57:27

so excited. I hope it ends with them making out.

Steve: 00:57:31

Do Penn and Leighton ever date?

Leif: 00:57:35

Not publicly at all.

Steve: 00:57:37

Okay. I wasn't sure if they also had a thing. I

Steve: 00:57:40

thought I had heard that at some point.

Leif: 00:57:41

But yeah, I mean, that would have been kind of

Leif: 00:57:45

weird if he dated her after Blake. Yeah, that

Leif: 00:57:48

definitely would have been awkward.

Steve: 00:57:49

Yeah.

Leif: 00:57:50

But I think that Pen's definitely, uh, her type,

Leif: 00:57:53

judging by her husband.

Steve: 00:57:55

Yeah. Yeah, completely.

Leif: 00:57:58

I don't know if Leighton is Penn's type though.

Steve: 00:58:01

Oh, I don't know much about his wife.

Leif: 00:58:06

Well, all three of his serious girlfriends. So

Leif: 00:58:09

Blake Lively, uh, Zoe Kravitz, and now Domino, who

Leif: 00:58:12

he's married to, are very extrovert.

Steve: 00:58:17

Oh, okay.

Leif: 00:58:19

This is what. Although they all definitely look

Leif: 00:58:21

very different from each other, he doesn't have a

Leif: 00:58:24

physical type, but, uh, I think he's got a

Leif: 00:58:27

personality type. Mhm. Anyways, this is what

Leif: 00:58:30

Gossip Girl has to say to end the episode. During

Leif: 00:58:35

the holidays, we call customary patterns of

Leif: 00:58:38

behavior tradition. And like any pattern, once

Leif: 00:58:42

established, they are not easily broken. Sometimes

Leif: 00:58:45

we convince ourselves we can start new traditions,

Leif: 00:58:49

only to realize it wouldn't be a tradition if it

Leif: 00:58:52

changed other times. Even things we never realized

Leif: 00:58:55

were traditions, become one. But the best kinds of

Leif: 00:58:58

traditions are the ones that bring people together

Leif: 00:59:02

even under the most unlikely circumstances. Come

Leif: 00:59:05

together right now. XOXO Gossip Girl. What is

Leif: 00:59:12

coming next?

Steve: 00:59:13

I mean, Blair and Dan team up to find Juliet, get

Steve: 00:59:18

to the bottom of this. I love that. Uh, if they're

Steve: 00:59:23

teaming up, I can almost imagine a Nate, Chuck

Steve: 00:59:26

team up because both of them need something to do.

Steve: 00:59:30

So I would like to see. I can imagine also that

Steve: 00:59:33

this is going to be a non judging Breakfast Club

Steve: 00:59:36

adventure in some way. I feel like Blair and Dan

Steve: 00:59:39

would rope in Nate and Chuck, but I feel like

Steve: 00:59:42

it'll be Blair and Dan as the focus with the other

Steve: 00:59:45

two doing other things stuff. I predict that

Steve: 00:59:49

Vanessa is going to be out for a little while

Steve: 00:59:53

until she can clear her name or get some kind of

Steve: 00:59:58

reconciliation. She also tends to be written out

Steve: 01:00:02

for episodes at a time. Uh, was she ever full

Steve: 01:00:05

cast?

Leif: 01:00:06

Uh, she's the main cast.

Steve: 01:00:07

She's main cast, but she's just not in every

Steve: 01:00:10

episode.

Leif: 01:00:11

I.

Steve: 01:00:14

I, oh, and I see how he getting out of jail, uh,

Steve: 01:00:18

how he's going to get out of jail, and it's going

Steve: 01:00:22

to seem great for Nathaniel at first, and it is

Steve: 01:00:27

going to be a shit show. And also, at this point,

Steve: 01:00:33

Ben is going to be getting out of jail pretty

Steve: 01:00:35

soon, and I feel like there's going to be a Ben

Steve: 01:00:38

Serena team up at some point and. Yeah, and I feel

Steve: 01:00:43

like, uh, Because I feel like the thing that

Steve: 01:00:47

happened there, if I remember correctly, it was

Steve: 01:00:50

like an accusation, an alleged thing. Anyway, I

Steve: 01:00:54

think I foresee a Ben Serena something happening.

Leif: 01:00:59

So I have homework for you and anyone else who's

Leif: 01:01:02

following along with us.

Steve: 01:01:04

Okay.

Leif: 01:01:04

One of the major storylines of the second half of

Leif: 01:01:07

the season here is inspired by the movie When

Leif: 01:01:10

Harry Met Sally.

Steve: 01:01:11

Oh, okay.

Leif: 01:01:12

So everyone go watch When Harry Met Sally, because

Leif: 01:01:15

that storyline starts next episode.

Steve: 01:01:17

I've seen When Harry Met Sally a few times. A few

Steve: 01:01:22

times, actually. It's actually, uh, one of those

Steve: 01:01:24

movies that Robin loves, and Robin isn't a movie

Steve: 01:01:26

person.

Leif: 01:01:27

It's one of Penn's favorite movies.

Steve: 01:01:29

I may have seen it in the theater. I may have. I,

Steve: 01:01:32

I, of course, we, you know, you know my, my

Steve: 01:01:35

stories with movies. I saw it at a extraordinarily

Steve: 01:01:39

inappropriately young age for that. It's not as

Steve: 01:01:44

bad.

Leif: 01:01:44

There's nothing really that bad. It's more that

Leif: 01:01:47

you would probably find it boring as a kid.

Steve: 01:01:50

Yeah. And a lot of stuff went over my head. The

Steve: 01:01:52

orgasm in the deli went over my head.

Leif: 01:01:55

I forgot about that scene.

Steve: 01:01:56

Yeah. Oh, that is like the such a big scene in the

Steve: 01:02:02

movie. But, yeah, it's because it's their, um.

Leif: 01:02:06

Speaking of impression, Leighton does a very good

Leif: 01:02:08

Meg Ryan impression.

Steve: 01:02:10

Oh, does she?

Leif: 01:02:11

She definitely channels her in this storyline.

Steve: 01:02:13

Oh, interesting. Which is also really interesting

Steve: 01:02:15

because I've often hated Meg Ryan. I've never

Steve: 01:02:18

really liked her much as an actress. I've always

Steve: 01:02:22

found her to be too. Meg Ryan. Uh, yeah, I think I

Steve: 01:02:31

loved her in this. I loved her in When Harry Met

Steve: 01:02:34

Sally. I never found her to have a ton of range

Steve: 01:02:37

outside of Sally. I thought that Sleepless in

Steve: 01:02:41

Seattle really was the same. Not the same movie,

Steve: 01:02:46

but a very similar one. Is Sleepless in Seattle,

Steve: 01:02:50

the Affair to Remember ripoff? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Steve: 01:02:54

Uh, because then there's also the you Got Mail,

Steve: 01:02:56

which was also. I didn't actually watch that one

Steve: 01:02:59

because it just felt like another Sleepless in

Steve: 01:03:03

Seattle When Harry met Sally.

Leif: 01:03:04

It is, but it's worth watching for how creepy it

Leif: 01:03:10

is.

Steve: 01:03:11

That scam so hard because it's Tom.

Leif: 01:03:14

Hanks basically using his knowledge of talking to

Leif: 01:03:17

her online to make her fall in love with him.

Steve: 01:03:20

Right. I think I might want to watch it just, uh,

Steve: 01:03:24

through that lens.

Leif: 01:03:25

Also, a young Dave Chappelle. Is it at.

Steve: 01:03:28

Oh, interesting. It's funny because back then I

Steve: 01:03:32

could see myself watching this movie and being

Steve: 01:03:34

like, this guy's got moves. Just like, oh, he is

Steve: 01:03:39

slick.

Leif: 01:03:40

He is a player.

Steve: 01:03:41

Yeah. But I mean, me in 2000, 2001. I could see me

Steve: 01:03:46

then being like, oh, uh, yeah, this guy's got

Steve: 01:03:50

game. And unironically thinking that now, of

Steve: 01:03:53

course, I'd be like that. That's fucked up.

Leif: 01:03:59

Okay, let's go ahead and get into segments. Hello

Leif: 01:04:04

there. Peabody here. And this is the Wayback

Leif: 01:04:07

Machine for traveling through time. And this is my

Leif: 01:04:09

boy Sherman.

Steve: 01:04:11

Speak German.

Steve: 01:04:12

Hello.

Steve: 01:04:13

Good boy.

Leif: 01:04:15

Uh, this week in Fanom, we jump in the Wayback

Leif: 01:04:18

Machine to travel to the fan forums from 2010

Leif: 01:04:23

overall pressure. It was a great episode.

Steve: 01:04:25

Yeah, sorry, Steve Pig.

Leif: 01:04:33

He Peter pants.

Steve: 01:04:35

I'm just going to say when the episode that

Steve: 01:04:39

dropped yesterday with Alice Callahan. Toward the

Steve: 01:04:43

end when I had to use the bathroom, I actually ran

Steve: 01:04:47

all the way upstairs to the second floor of my

Steve: 01:04:49

house because I didn't want to pee six feet away

Steve: 01:04:53

from the microphone and catch the old. Excuse me,

Steve: 01:04:57

special guest. Thank you so much for being here.

Leif: 01:05:00

He could have just beaded your mic.

Steve: 01:05:04

Okay, okay. You think when your bladder is that

Steve: 01:05:09

full leaf.

Leif: 01:05:11

There was a lot of pre episode chatter about the

Leif: 01:05:13

DS kiss because it was shown in the promo trailer.

Steve: 01:05:16

Oh, okay.

Leif: 01:05:17

So they're excited about that and they're also

Leif: 01:05:23

confused about Ben's sudden onset of morals.

Steve: 01:05:26

Yeah, yeah. I actually turned to Robin, was like,

Steve: 01:05:31

is that the same actor? I was so thrown. She's

Steve: 01:05:34

like, yeah. I'm like, yeah, it is. It was

Steve: 01:05:37

completely thrown. No, that crosses a line.

Leif: 01:05:45

More love for Dan than usual.

Steve: 01:05:47

Earned.

Leif: 01:05:47

Yeah.

Steve: 01:05:48

Ah, hard earned love.

Leif: 01:05:51

And they were intrigued by the implications of the

Leif: 01:05:54

final scene because of the implication. Yes. And

Leif: 01:06:02

this, uh, is actually a direct quote from someone.

Leif: 01:06:06

As usual, Vanessa can go die in a fire.

Steve: 01:06:14

What's so funny about Vanessa is that she used to

Steve: 01:06:17

just suck for being there, and then she decided

Steve: 01:06:19

to, like, actively participate in sucking. I also,

Steve: 01:06:25

once again, really want to point out that none of

Steve: 01:06:28

this is A slight to the actor, I think the actor,

Steve: 01:06:32

I think Jessica, I never say her name right.

Steve: 01:06:35

Scholzer.

Leif: 01:06:37

Not even close.

Steve: 01:06:38

Not even close. I think that Jessica is phenomenal

Steve: 01:06:42

at portraying Vanessa. I think her acting is

Steve: 01:06:45

usually really good. Just playing such a shit

Steve: 01:06:49

character.

Leif: 01:06:54

Let's get into episode grades. Like I've been

Leif: 01:06:59

saying this whole time, great episode. Even the B

Leif: 01:07:02

storyline of the Nate story I was actually good

Leif: 01:07:05

for once. So yeah, the directing was good, the

Leif: 01:07:08

acting was phenomenal. Especially Penn and uh,

Leif: 01:07:12

Kelly Rutherford. So yeah, I gave this an A. Yeah.

Steve: 01:07:16

And we also had the whole gang together a few

Steve: 01:07:18

times. We had all of those things, those boxes

Steve: 01:07:21

that we love to check. I gave it an A as well.

Steve: 01:07:24

This was, this is probably my favorite episode of

Steve: 01:07:28

this season and I, I'd put it top 10.

Leif: 01:07:32

Yeah.

Steve: 01:07:32

Easily maybe top five episodes that we've done so

Steve: 01:07:36

far. Uh, I mean Thanksgiving, all four of the

Steve: 01:07:39

Thanksgiving episodes might be four of the top

Steve: 01:07:42

five. Mhm. They're so good and they just, they

Steve: 01:07:46

make it meaningful.

Leif: 01:07:53

Moving into stockwatch, going up for me, I had

Leif: 01:07:57

Dan, I had Eric for being a supportive brother

Leif: 01:08:01

even. Uh, I wish he would have talked to Serena a

Leif: 01:08:04

little bit more. I had Jenny going up for coming

Leif: 01:08:06

clean and getting the right people on the case to

Leif: 01:08:10

get revenge.

Steve: 01:08:10

Leaving on a high note. Yeah.

Leif: 01:08:12

Juliet is. Her plan succeeded and she's getting

Leif: 01:08:15

paid off for it. So yeah. Going up.

Steve: 01:08:19

Mhm.

Leif: 01:08:20

Think it's going to come down.

Steve: 01:08:21

Crashing down, but yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. You

Steve: 01:08:24

take it while you got it.

Leif: 01:08:26

How are you going up? Because it seems like his

Leif: 01:08:29

plan's working and I actually gave Serena an up

Leif: 01:08:34

because she went through a rough thing, but she's

Leif: 01:08:36

kind of dealing with it.

Steve: 01:08:37

Now and taking accountability even though she

Steve: 01:08:39

didn't do anything. Yeah.

Leif: 01:08:41

So that's it for going up for me though.

Steve: 01:08:44

Yeah, I'm giving, uh. So the same Dan, Eric, uh,

Steve: 01:08:49

Jenny for doing the right thing, leaving on a high

Steve: 01:08:52

note, Serena for getting her shit together or, you

Steve: 01:08:55

know, taking this accountability. Howie for having

Steve: 01:08:59

this scheme. Juliet for her scheme working out.

Steve: 01:09:02

I'm also giving it to Ann for having a moment of

Steve: 01:09:09

good parenting to Nate. It doesn't happen often

Steve: 01:09:13

and Anne wasn't terrible. So I'm going to give it

Steve: 01:09:15

to Ann for this one and yeah, I think I'm going to

Steve: 01:09:20

leave it at that. I was tempted kind of for Rufus,

Steve: 01:09:23

mostly because of Matt's acting, but then Rufus

Steve: 01:09:27

himself with the hugging Dan, the forgiving Dan

Steve: 01:09:32

really made me mad. Yeah.

Leif: 01:09:36

So for me, going down, not a lot. Uh, I had Rufus

Leif: 01:09:39

going down because. Yeah, he was just self

Leif: 01:09:42

righteous and then instantly forgiving dad.

Steve: 01:09:46

Yeah.

Leif: 01:09:46

And telling his daughter that good things. She

Leif: 01:09:49

left and.

Steve: 01:09:50

Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have come back.

Leif: 01:09:53

Uh, I, uh, also have Ben going down because. What.

Leif: 01:09:56

What the hell is that? Yeah, and I had Nico down

Leif: 01:09:59

because he was kind of a dick about Serena and it

Leif: 01:10:04

seems like he's getting schemed by his dad.

Steve: 01:10:06

Yeah. Did you say Lily?

Leif: 01:10:08

No, I kept her neutral because she did end the

Leif: 01:10:11

episode on a high note, I think. Okay.

Steve: 01:10:14

I was. I'm leaving Rufus neutral. I am giving Lily

Steve: 01:10:17

the down. I'm. I'm this. Ben is going down for me.

Steve: 01:10:22

Nate is going down for me because he's getting

Steve: 01:10:24

played by his dad. But I'm leaving Rufus neutral.

Steve: 01:10:28

But I am going to send Lily down. I feel like she

Steve: 01:10:31

needs a hit to the ego that she got a big ego hit

Steve: 01:10:35

today that I think she needed and got knocked down

Steve: 01:10:38

a peg or two by Dan and I think she needed that.

Steve: 01:10:42

And I'm going to take her stock away for it.

Leif: 01:10:43

Uh, not too spoiler, but she's going to take some

Leif: 01:10:47

pretty big ego knocks in the future.

Steve: 01:10:51

Well, good, because she needs them. Lily might be

Steve: 01:10:54

my favorite character on the show. Lily is, I

Steve: 01:10:58

think, the most consistent character on the show.

Steve: 01:11:02

And I feel like especially she has the most moral.

Steve: 01:11:07

She's the most consistent morality on the show.

Steve: 01:11:12

It's not a great morality, but it's consistent. It

Steve: 01:11:16

is. We don't let things bother us. We just let

Steve: 01:11:18

money solve the problems. And that is how that is

Steve: 01:11:22

the Lily Vander Woodsen way. And she does mental

Steve: 01:11:26

gymnastics to justify it a lot of the time. And I

Steve: 01:11:29

love that about her character, but she needs to

Steve: 01:11:32

get knocked down here and there. But here's the

Steve: 01:11:35

best outfits from the last episode we've seen.

Leif: 01:11:42

M on to best outfits. For me, fashion was not

Leif: 01:11:47

really stand out this episode. But since it's my

Leif: 01:11:50

last chance, I'm gonna give it to Jenny for her

Leif: 01:11:52

little gray and white outfit with the gray thigh

Leif: 01:11:55

high boots, the matching haute hippie rock bandage

Leif: 01:11:59

skirt, and the gray V neck sweater and a gray

Leif: 01:12:02

plaid coat.

Steve: 01:12:03

That's fair. Yeah. Like you said, not. It hasn't

Steve: 01:12:08

been great fashion wise this season. It's just

Steve: 01:12:11

been a little weaker. I don't think that I'm

Steve: 01:12:14

assuming they just don't have the budget that they

Steve: 01:12:16

did before. But having said all that, I'm going to

Steve: 01:12:19

go with Chuck. I liked his suit better than I

Steve: 01:12:22

liked pretty much. There was a lot of subtle, cool

Steve: 01:12:26

fashion things like Dan's leather jacket and R.A.

Steve: 01:12:30

rufus's sweater looked nice, but I think the only

Steve: 01:12:32

thing that really stood out was Chuck's suit. So

Steve: 01:12:35

I'm gonna go with that.

Leif: 01:12:36

That is it. For segments, do you have anything you

Leif: 01:12:39

would like to plug this week?

Steve: 01:12:42

I suggest people watch Wayward on Netflix. I don't

Steve: 01:12:47

know if I said that last week or not, but it is,

Steve: 01:12:50

uh, it's a show about the trouble teen industry

Steve: 01:12:54

from the early 2000s and it's about couple of

Steve: 01:12:58

girls who are put into a wayward teen facility.

Steve: 01:13:02

So. And what? Meanwhile, a cop is investigating

Steve: 01:13:06

it. It's not based on a true story, but it's based

Steve: 01:13:09

on true scenarios that, uh. Check it out. It's a

Steve: 01:13:15

fun watch. And other than that, you can find me on

Steve: 01:13:19

TikTok or Instagram @ Steve Marchon M A R C H I O

Steve: 01:13:25

N. You can also find me on Bluesky at the Weed

Steve: 01:13:29

Wizard. And other than that, don't have any gigs

Steve: 01:13:32

or anything coming up. But in about a year I'll be

Steve: 01:13:35

in a movie called Best of this. Hopefully. We've

Steve: 01:13:37

been shooting so well for me.

Leif: 01:13:39

I am going to recommend the show Californication

Leif: 01:13:43

because it is basically an AU version of Dan and

Leif: 01:13:46

Serena, this version of their characters. Serena

Leif: 01:13:50

never comes back to New York. So because of that,

Leif: 01:13:53

uh, Rufus and Lily never reconnect and Lily just

Leif: 01:13:56

stays a cold, heartless tyrant. But then when

Leif: 01:14:01

Serena and Dan eventually meet after high school

Leif: 01:14:04

and Serena gets pregnant, Lily cuts her off and

Leif: 01:14:08

they move to California to adapt one of his books

Leif: 01:14:13

to a screenplay. But yeah, Hank and Karen are Dan

Leif: 01:14:16

and Serena almost to a T. Oh, really?

Steve: 01:14:19

That's funny. So I've never. Is this your first

Steve: 01:14:22

time watching California Cajun? I've never

Steve: 01:14:24

actually watched it. I think I started it years

Steve: 01:14:26

ago, but only watched like one episode and then

Steve: 01:14:31

didn't get into it. Maybe I didn't. I only think

Steve: 01:14:33

I'm thinking of a different show.

Leif: 01:14:35

It's like a lot of Showtime shows where the first

Leif: 01:14:37

few seasons are really fucking good and it kind of

Leif: 01:14:41

falls off a cliff.

Steve: 01:14:42

Yeah.

Leif: 01:14:43

Okay.

Steve: 01:14:44

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Be back next week to Talk about Season 4, Episode

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11 the Townie. The episode description reads,

Leif: 01:16:14

Blair and Dan join forces to track down an MIA

Leif: 01:16:18

Juliet. Chuck begins to suspect Lily isn't telling

Leif: 01:16:21

him the full truth.

Steve: 01:16:23

Nice. So it's Chuck and Lily, which I love their

Steve: 01:16:27

relationship, so that's really cool. I'm assuming

Steve: 01:16:31

that it's also Juliet related, so I'm hoping that

Steve: 01:16:34

that's the whole truth that she's not telling that

Steve: 01:16:37

Chuck is in on this investigation. But I do love a

Steve: 01:16:41

Chuck Lilly team up. The Townie Is that from the

Steve: 01:16:45

Ben Affleck the Town? Is that what we're Blake

Steve: 01:16:49

Lively with Blake Lively. Oh, so another movie

Steve: 01:16:54

with. Yes, one of their. Uh, yeah.

Leif: 01:17:00

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

Steve: 01:17:03

XOXO Every time you walk away, run away you take a

Steve: 01:17:07

piece of me with you there Every time you walk

Steve: 01:17:11

away run away you take a piece of me with you

Steve: 01:17:15

there Every time you walk away or run away you

Steve: 01:17:19

take a piece of me with you there oh it seems I'm

Steve: 01:17:25

walking right to your door my heart's still

Steve: 01:17:30

resting looking for something more Are you ever

Steve: 01:17:37

gonna see everything you mean to me? I'm trying

Steve: 01:17:40

really hard to believe.

Leif: 01:17:43

Every.

Steve: 01:17:43

Time you walk away or run away you take a piece of

Steve: 01:17:46

me with you there Every time you walk away or run

Steve: 01:17:51

away you take a piece of me with you there Every

Steve: 01:17:56

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

Steve: 01:17:59

me with you there never feels right when I'm out

Steve: 01:18:04

here on my own I left last night and it feels like

Steve: 01:18:11

way too long Are you ever gonna see everything you

Steve: 01:18:17

mean to me I'm trying really hard to believe Every

Steve: 01:18:22

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

Steve: 01:18:24

meat with you there every time you walk away or

Steve: 01:18:29

run away you take a piece of me with you there

Steve: 01:18:34

every time you walk away or run away you take a

Steve: 01:18:37

piece of me with you there come back to me smile

Steve: 01:18:47

and you'll make my life complete every time you

Steve: 01:18:54

walk away or run away you take a piece of me with

Steve: 01:18:57

you there every time you walk away or run away you

Steve: 01:19:02

take a piece of me with you there every time you

Steve: 01:19:07

walk away or run away you take a piece of me with

Steve: 01:19:10

you there every time you walk away or run away you

Steve: 01:19:15

take a piece of me with you there every time you

Steve: 01:19:20

walk away or run away you take a piece of me with

Steve: 01:19:23

you there every time you walk away or run away you

Steve: 01:19:28

take a piece of me with you there hmm every time

Steve: 01:19:32

you walk away or run away you take a piece of me

Steve: 01:19:35

with you there every time you walk away or run

Steve: 01:19:40

away you take a piece of me with you there.