This week, Leif and Steve recap Gossip Girl Season 5, Episode 8, “All the Pretty Sources”—an episode that finally brings the drama back in a big way. From a lavish bridal shower to a full-blown Gossip Girl data leak, chaos reigns across the Upper East Side.

Key Topics & Moments

• 💎 Blair’s Bridal Shower Goes Nuclear
• Serena plans a stunning Tiffany’s-themed event—but a leaked Gossip Girl source list turns celebration into catastrophe.
• 🚩 Louis’ Red Flags Are Now Billboard-Sized
• From manipulation to sabotage, Louis officially enters “worst fiancé ever” territory.
• 🍸 Dan’s Drunken Spiral
• Lonely Boy crashes the party (literally) in one of his messiest—and most revealing—moments yet.
• 🤝 Unexpected MVP: Chuck Bass
• Acting like the voice of reason?? Supporting Dan?? Growth?!
• 🕵️ Gossip Girl Gets Exposed (Sort Of)
• A massive data leak reveals anonymous sources, putting everyone on edge.
• 💰 Ivy vs. Max: Blackmail Escalates
• The con gets messier as secrets—and price tags—grow.
• 📰 Nate “Earns” Editor-in-Chief
• Nepotism strikes again at The Spectator.

Best Moments

• Chuck and Dan’s surprisingly wholesome (and chaotic) friendship
• Serena actually being a good friend for once
• Blair realizing Louis might not be it
• The sheer absurdity of the Gossip Girl source list fallout

Episode Grades

• Leif: B
• Steve: B
• A strong rebound episode with great character dynamics and actual momentum.

Stock Watch

📈 Up: Serena, Chuck, Nate, Max, Grandfather

📉 Down: Dan, Blair, Louis, Ivy, Diana (and the Waldorf doorman)

What We’re Watching For Next

• Fallout from the Gossip Girl leak
• Blair & Louis: officially doomed?
• Dan’s feelings for Blair getting harder to ignore
• Diana’s secret finally coming out
• Nate running a newspaper (what could go wrong?)

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They would find her.

Yeah, yeah.

Lily would. Lily would. Cece would just destroy

her.

She'd need to, like, find. She'd need to, like.

There's no running Cooper. The roads, Vander,

Woodson, Basses.

Living.

Living somewhere out in a cabin in the woods.

Unless a private SWAT team will show up.

hey, Upper east siders and all you scandal loving

listeners out there, you just tuned into the non

judging breakfast pod where the coffee is strong,

the waffles are fresh, and the gossip is hotter

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

Gossip Girl veteran.

And I'm Steve, the newbie, the rookie, the

greenhorn, the. I don't know, Leif. What am I now

that we're in season five?

I don't know, but something I learned early on,

never watch a clockwork garage while you're

stoned. It takes you your mind to places, has no

business going. Also, I'm Batman.

like Blair's wedding, shower that you and I were

somehow left off the list.

Tragic oversight.

Rude Serena. So here's the deal, folks. Leaf has

been watching Gossip Girl since it first aired,

and I'm diving in for the first time. And

together, we're your dynamic duo, bringing you all

the drama, romance, and sometimes questionable

fashion choices of this iconic 2007 series.

Bring your magnifying glasses, because each week

we're dissecting every juicy detail of the show

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

uncover those sneaky little Easter eggs, and of

course, serve up some piping hot behind the scenes

tea. And expect some iconic fandom moments too,

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

And since we are all about inclusivity here on the

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for you at the non judging breakfast table. So go

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

up what Dan got ahead of this weekend and go ahead

and let's get started.

This episode, will be releasing on 4 20. So happy

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Happy 4 20.

And also, hopefully by the time this episode

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Check that out. you can go to patreon.com non

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able to get access to that episode.

Yes, very excited about that.

But today we are here to talk about season five,

episode eight, all the pretty sources. The

original air date was November 21, 2011 and was

based on the movie title, all the Pretty Horses.

Not seen it, but no, it's me neither. Directed by

Billy Bob Thornton. Starring, Matt Damon, Penelope

Cruz and Henry Thomas. Two Texas cowboys head to

Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves

in trouble with the law after one of them falls in

love with a wealthy rancher's daughter. All right,

this episode was written by Austin Winsburg.

Another first time writer goes on to write two

more episodes this season. Written, for a handful

of shows. Nothing really stood out. He was also

listed as the creator for a show called Jake in

Progress.

I think I saw an episode of that. I have no real

complaints on the writing in this episode.

This is a much better episode.

Yeah, yeah, this was a much better episode than

what we've been getting. And I have no complaints

about the writing other than anything I didn't

like. It was handed to him and not.

Yeah, overall story arc.

Yeah, it's overall story arc things.

The episode was directed by Sherry Newlin. this is

her one and only episode of Gossip Girl, but been

a TV director from 92 until present. Worked on

things like the 90210 reboot, Grey's Anatomy and

Blood and Oil, which, ah, starred Chase Crawford.

Oh, okay.

I think it was a one season show.

Notable guest stars this week we have the return

of Michaela, Annette and Ellie Pettit as the mini

Serena and mini Blair.

And we also had Mary o' Rourke and Darcy Falona

credited as board strippers. And once again

returning we have friend of the pod, Alice

Callahan, along with Amanda Sutton and Nan Zhang

back as Blair's minions. That would be, Jessica,

Penelope and Coti. And of course we have Hugo

Becker as Louis. And I was actually looking at a

recent picture of him. He looks strikingly like

Adam Brody.

Oh, really? That's pretty funny.

He's got like a beard and stuff like that going

on. shaggy hair. Of course we have Elizabeth

Hurley as Diana, Brian J. Smith as Max, and James

Norton as the grandfather. Yes, why don't you give

us that Vulture recap?

Here's what Vulture had to say. Despite his recent

trip to Italy, which faces real problems, Prince

Louis was still twitchy upon his return to the

Upper east side over the goings on among New York

City's leisure class. He's barely put down his

conciliatory gift to Blair and finished claiming

to be a better man before declaring in the grand

tradition of overly possessive ex boyfriends, his

belief that her friends were not looking out for

her best interests. Au contraire, mon fr. Last

night, the scheming when plotting was left to the

outsiders as many of the characters bestowed

kindness on one another. Serena orchestrated a

Tiffany's themed shower for Blair and even roped

her minions into containing the surprise. When Dan

grew despondent over his outsider status, Chuck

shared with him his wisdom and his pot and even

his hookers, proving that Lonely boy is not so

much of an outsider after all. Even tooth bearing

cougaress Elizabeth Hurley showed a softer side.

The Maud to, Nate's Herald. She sacrificed herself

so that Nate might live on unencumbered in this

case by a terrible secret that would blow his pure

and honest mind. She's actually a man and having a

great gay affair with his grandfather. Just a

guess.

That would be interesting.

That would be interesting. It would be a lot more.

I'd be interested.

What do you think the secret is? I assume you

think you know what it is.

Yeah, I think it's the ch. I think it's Chuck's

dad. I think it's that she's Chuck's mom. But then

it makes me wonder, is grandfather Chuck's real

dad? And did Bart raise this kid? Some weird thing

like that. But I do think that the biggest secret

is she's Chuck's mom. Or maybe. Maybe Nate's mom.

That one's a little harder to fake.

Well, other than the fact that if grandfather is

like, you will raise this

kid, we get into Act 1 with a gossip Girl blast. A

shower is supposed to make you feel fresh and

clean, but on the Upper east side, they're where I

get the most dirt. And Bea's bridal shower tonight

promises be an absolutely filthy affair. The only

two people left off the list. One. Chuck. As for

number two in high school, D. Got left off the

list because no one knew who he was. Now it's

because they know all too well. Looks like Lonely

Boy needs to change his name to banished boy.

First of all, I loved how that was delivered only

partly from Gossip Girl and how Dan delivered the

end. Yeah, but the other thing. I know I don't

often comment on the Gossip Girl things, but this

one, something really stood out. She said, I get

all of my best gossip at showers. You cover

teenagers for all this time? How many showers have

there been? Gossip Girl. How many of these

teenagers were getting married or pregnant?

At this point? At least three years worth.

Sure. But it's still like, is that really where

you get all your best stuff?

And they're probably also going to showers from

people. People. She's covering are going to

showers from people from ages, ah, 20 to 30.

Yeah, I'm just saying that I. I, feel like it is

not something that has been because she so

regularly goes after the same people that there

isn't that they have not been in. This is the

first, what, second shower in the show. Did Lily

have a shower? I forget.

Probably.

I. I think Lily had one for the Bart wedding, but

not for the Rufus one.

We get Gossip Girls episode intro during shots of

Serena prepping gift bags for Blair's shower. Not

much to see there.

No.

Next we see Chuck, a walking monkey in the park,

and he is confronted by Mini Blair and Minnie.

Serena loved this scene. It was so good when he's

like, I will feel no remorse if I let my attack

dog on you. And I'll have you know it's trained to

attack fake Prada.

Burn, burn. Dan is reading Gossip Girls blast to

Lily and Rufus as he complains about not being

invited to the shower. poor Dan.

M. Oh, I wrote a book and all my friends hate me

because I talked on most of them. Yeah, Dan,

exactly like you predict. Lying about the book

tour. Again, like Dan.

Maybe the writers decided that was too dark for

Dan.

Yeah.

And he actually did go off screen. Yeah, because

it didn't really make sense. Just go.

Yeah, it's a free trip. It's a free trip across

the country in all of these bookstores to sit

there and sign. If you sign one, if you sign 50,

who cares? The less you have to sign, the less you

have to interact with people. Dan, this is perfect

for you. You could go and not have to deal with

anybody.

Louie returns to Blair's room, gifts in hand and

apologies spilling out of his mouth. Blair

forgives him and begins talking about the shower.

But Louis tries to throw some shade at Serena and

the rest of her friends.

Did that all happen in the same scene?

Yeah, Louis.

Fuck all the way off you come in. Oh, I'm so sorry

that I was such an asshole about, there is

more arguing later in a later scene, right?

Yeah, yeah, in an upcoming scene. But it's like

you come in with all these gifts to apologize and

like

Gossip Girl or like you just said, he doesn't even

set him down before he's shitting on her friends.

Love bomb. And then isolation.

Yep. Yep. Demonstrate value. Engage physically.

Nurture dependence. Neglect emotionally. Inspire

hope. Separate entirely.

But that's not what he's trying to do.

Yeah, yeah, he's already got it. To fall in love

with him, he

doesn't need to well, he doesn't want to separate

entirely.

Yeah, he doesn't want to separate entirely. He's

just. Well, yeah, he's definitely not.

This is not the Dentist. This is the. I want to

control and put you into an abusive relationship.

Yeah. Forever. Yeah.

I Want you to be this pretty thing on my

mantelpiece.

Yeah. I saved you from that abusive relationship

so I could put you into a new abusive relationship

with me.

Nate is showing the grandfather around the

Spectator and he says he's impressed with it.

Enter Diana, who plays dumb about knowing the

grandfather.

We all know you know the grandfather, but like.

Yeah, I mean, I know Nate doesn't, but God, I

can't. She's. I just can't wait for her to be gone

and I feel like I. I'm not done with her yet.

Despite all signs.

Definitely got you. Don't reiterate that she has a

big secret right before she leaves.

Right, right, right. And you don't have her say,

I'm about to wage war on you.

Yeah, well, she stops, she stops that because the,

the list was out. We'll get to that decision. Ah,

Ivy gets a call back from Carol because Ivy is

panicking about getting caught. Carol threatens to

take Ivy down with her if she tries to run.

So Ivy, you have all the money you need right now

to disappear. Just write yourself one big check

and disappear. Change your identity, go to

Portland with Max. I mean, not that you really

want to be with Max.

Yeah, that would never work with these people. No,

they would fucking find her.

Yeah, yeah, Lily would.

And Lily would. Cece would just destroy her.

She'd need to like, find. She'd need to like.

There's no running Cooper. The roads. Vanderwoods

and Basses living, living somewhere out

in a cabin in the woods. And a private SWAT team

will show up.

We jump back into Blair and Louis arguing. Louis

says he has created separation from his family and

Blair should do the same for. With her friends.

Completely unrelated. FYI, when your partner tries

to isolate you from friends and family, it's a big

red flag. Just then a, ah, Gossip Girl blast comes

through talking about Blair's paternity test. And

of course Louis, one of Blair's friends just had

the tip. When Blair goes to ask Serena about it

directly, Serena closes the door to their

conjoined bathroom in Blair's face.

This was when I was really like, Louie, like, fuck

all the way off. Like, this is just the thing that

you left in shame for was doing this stuff. Like

she's mad at you. In the first place for fucking

with

her friends and just being manipulative in

general.

And, just being a manipulative, gaslighting

fucking prick, man. My hatred of Louie has

increased every episode this season. He's just the

fucking worst.

Now that Nate has left Diana. Ah. And the

grandfather dropped the pretense of not knowing

each other. The grandfather is pissed that Diana

and not Nate as the center of attention. He gives

her 72 hours to accomplish her goals or else she

is fired as editor in chief.

why is he your boyfriend? He's like, I've got this

magazine here. Why is he your boyfriend? Standing

behind you and all this. But yeah, it's this plot

to rehabilitate Nate and make him the editor in

chief of a newspaper.

Because he earned it.

Yeah, because he earned it. He's earned it by now.

I cracked up so hard at the thought. Yeah.

Of Nate earning something. He earned it the way

I've earned everything and the way my father

before me earned everything by being a white man

in corporate America.

Dan does an unannounced popover to the Empire

suite, hoping Chuck can distract him from not

being invited to the shower. At first, Chuck is

nonchalant and casually insults Dan multiple

times. However, when Chuck glances at an article

about Blair and Louis, he changes his tune and

says he's in.

Yeah, I love a good. I love the Dan Chuck stuff. I

love the. I loved every part of that in this

episode. I. I loved every part of the friendship.

We'll get to Dan get to Pen's acting drunk.

Later, Max shows up at the penthouse looking for

Ivy. He shows Lily a picture of Charlie on Gossip

Girl. Charlie walks in and it cuts to a commercial

break.

Should have stayed in Portland, Max.

And Gossip Girl has this to say as we go to the

break. Seems Charlie's in hot water and she's

about to get burned.

Yeah. See how you get out of this one, Charlie?

So we get into Act 2, and Charlie, apparently on

the spot, comes up with an excuse that would make

Jenny proud. She convinces Lily that Carol forced

her to go under the name Ivy Dickens to hide her

family wealth.

Yep, it was a really good, like you said, Jenny

esque move. Thought on her feet. Got out of it

quickly. It was well done, Jenny.

Charlie at the Spectator. Diana explains her 72

hour deadline to Nate without telling the full

story. They decide their only hope is to, attack

Gossip Girl directly. When Diana wishes they could

hack Gossip Girl's phone, Nate has an idea.

I have an idea. I'm going to call Someone smarter

than me? Yes.

Well, I said this before, but, Nate really is just

Tommy boy.

Really? Yeah. Lots of you people spend seven years

in college, and I would have loved to see a young

Chris Farley play Nate.

God, now I'm just picturing, like, the Chris

Farley reaction when. When the stuff gets

released.

Oh, Diana.

Oh, yeah.

It would be so much better.

It would.

It would.

It would love you, Chase.

But, I mean, it's not. Is that Chris Farley isn't

quite as pretty as Chase Crawford, but, he's a lot

more charismatic.

Yeah. Yeah.

Snacks, whiskey, weed, and Keanu. These are the

tools of distraction Chuck has presented for

himself and Dan. It's not working, though, because

Dan can't stop whinging about Serena not inviting

him and ruining his movie. Chuck tells Dan he

needs to be a man of action and leaves him alone

with two escorts who get off the elevator.

This is the first time we've seen Dan smoke pot,

right?

I'm pretty sure.

yeah, I don't think he's much of a. Of a weed guy,

so. In fact, I don't think we've really seen him

drink much either, have we?

He does once in a while.

Yeah. I guess when he.

He's at parties, he drinks beer.

Yeah. And he. When he banged, Georgina, he was

drunk.

Yeah.

And, yeah, so, yeah, he's definitely drank before,

but I don't think we've ever seen him smoke

before.

Although who knows what. What they all did that

night where he hung out with Chuck last time.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

He at least did pills.

Yeah.

Some guy. Yeah, they could have been Tylenol, for

all we know. Right? Which.

That would be the most Chuck thing to do, too. You

want to really live in my world? Like, make them

snort some Tylenol.

and as. So as I mentioned at the top of the

episode, IMDb lists them as strippers, but they

are clearly not a little more than strippers.

They're clearly prostitutes.

Yes.

They come in and it's like, yeah, hey, these women

are here for your delight, Dan. Go be a man of

action.

Yes.

At the very best, they're just gold diggers. Like,

with the thought of, maybe if I sleep with this

guy, I'll, have access to his money. But more

likely, Chuck hired prostitutes for Dan.

Yes.

Which you can't say Chuck isn't a good friend.

No.

Chuck looks out for his friends the way Chuck

knows how to look out for people. What would I

want in this situation? I'm gonna go take Monkey

for A walk.

I have to say, the dog is working on me a little

bit.

Yeah, I hate how much it's working on me. It is

such a great addition.

The daddy issues can totally miss me. but the dog

kind of gets me a little bit.

Yeah. Yeah.

Blair is shopping with the minions and trying to

pry info about the shower out of them. They. They

lie and tell Blair Serena has been really busy and

it's going to be a low key, casual affair. Blair

begins to spiral Louis. Earlier words about her

friends are starting to take root in her head.

That made me sad. That. And there was a small part

of me. A small part of me that hoped Louis was in

on it. That Louis was like, oh, your friends don't

really have your back as part of the thing. I

didn't really feel that was the case, but I was

hoping there would be that reveal that, like,

maybe Louis is also playing along and loves the

friends and it's fine. And obviously.

But also. Serena, when will you learn this? This

bait and switch for the parties is never a good

idea. Yeah, it always pulls up in your face.

Yeah, always. Although honestly, it really didn't

this time. Like, it wasn't.

And it didn't really in the Nate case either,

because he was, The only time it really blew up

because it was slightly different was the Jenny

case.

Yeah. Yeah.

But that was a different type of basement because

that. That she said she was giving the party that

Jenny wanted and gave her something different.

Right.

In all the other cases, it was giving. Saying the

lame party and giving her. Giving them what they

want.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. The whole, like, surprise thing

with Nate.

Yeah. but of course, she does always get away with

it in the end because it's. She's Serena.

Yes. Serena gets away with absolutely everything

she ever does.

Also from the scene, what was Penelope wearing?

Oh, yeah, it looked like a smock.

Yeah.

Like a floral, like, painting smock. Yeah. with a

skirt attached to it.

Yeah.

It just like, it was very ill fitting and. Yeah.

Just didn't look good.

Yeah.

Serena receives a text from Penelope letting her

know the deflections are working. She then gets a

call from Nate, who tells her to check her laptop.

Nate created a webpage, which apparently he is

something he can do. He got Jonathan to hack

Gossip Girl again and has published a list of all

her previously anonymous sources. Serena convinces

them releasing it would hurt their friends and

they shouldn't release the list. Unfortunately,

Diana overhears Nate and Louis on Serena's end.

Oh, man. I want. There was something I had to Say

about this? This was Serena. And convinces Nate

not to. Not to post the thing, Right? Yeah.

And they calls her and says, like, here, I created

this thing.

I created this website. That's what I wanted to

address. I believe that when Nate says, I made

this website, that it's actually, Jonathan made

the website, but because Nate told him to do it

and it's on the Spectator, he's kind of taking the

editorial. We here. Yes, I made this website by

having someone do it for me. Nate, you didn't make

a website.

Or maybe he did.

Yeah, well, we'll get to that. We'll get to that.

We'll get to that. We'll get to that.

Ivy, alone with Max in her room, says she still

loves him, but she can't be with him right now.

She offers him 50,000 to go away, and she will

follow him in a few months.

She's not going to follow you, Max. Max, just go.

Take the money and go.

On his way out, Max tells Lily it was nice to meet

her, and she shows him a family portrait. When he

sees Carol, he goes from nice guy to scheming

villain, all in an instant, like, a flash.

You just see him. You just, like, in his face, you

see him just go from, like, fucking the beef.

the nice deer.

Yeah.

Just comes this country bumpkin cook guy. Yeah,

Like.

Like, he. He goes from being Colin Hanks in, like,

any of his comedic stuff to Colin Hanks in Dexter.

Just, like, a quick flash of like. Like, oh,

that's her mom. Well, also, I. I feel like Lily

when he's like, oh, Mrs. Humphrey. Yes, I'm Mrs.

Humphrey.

What the fuck am I doing?

What is that? Is that the name? Why didn't he take

one of my names? Why couldn't he be Rufus Van Der

Woodson?

this is what Gossip Girl says as we go to the next

act break. Oh, Charlie, your mother of a lie is

about to get you stuck in one big parent trap. We

move into Act 3. Diana is a giddy schoolgirl after

she has gotten a chance to look at Nate's webpage.

However, when she realizes Nate has never sent a

tip to Gossip Girl, he convinces her not to

release the list. When Nate leaves, she makes a

call to someone and says, we need to talk.

Okay. First, I want to bring something up about

the previous scene that we had just mentioned with

Lily. Do you think Lily has ever maybe since her

first husband. Do you think she's legally changed

her name?

Sure. Why not? Because it's just, It's Just a

bunny thing.

Yeah, I could almost see it that, like, I could

almost see all of her checks being Lily Rhodes and

it not being a legal thing, because why bother?

You're right that it could also just be like, oh,

well, it's just signing checks and sending paper

to someone. But I could also see her being like,

sure, Rufus, I'm Lily Humphrey. Now, onto the

matter at hand. I paused the show and stood up and

said, nate is Gossip Girl at this moment. I don't

know who it's going to end up being, but at this

moment, the writers think that Nate is Gossip

Girl. And I missed the earlier hint with the

whole, like a, ah, website I made that Nate is

saying I have the capacity to make it a website,

but when she pulls up the emails and there isn't a

single one from Nate and he is unfazed by it, I

paused it and I stood up and I said, nate's Gossip

Girl. As of right now. I don't think Nate's going

to be Gossip Girl in the end, which. What. What

makes me even happier is that if they don't make

him Gossip Girl in the end, right. If they do

change it again and have it be somebody else, then

that means canonically he is not Gossip Girl now

and he really is just the super fucking nice guy

that we really want Nate to be. I can't imagine

Nate's not smart enough to be Gossip Girl unless

everything is just a huge fucking act, which,

cool. But I think that it's a little too much of a

stretch. I'd believe Chuck. I'd believe Dan with

releasing Inside and all that stuff. I believe Dan

could do it. I believe it could be Bart, because

I'm still not convinced Bart's dead. But I do not

believe that they're going to let it end up being

Nate. But I do believe that at this moment, the

staff is convinced or whoever is running it is

convinced Nate is currently Gossip Girl.

That would be a fair assumption. who did you think

Diana called?

So it almost led me to believe. My first watch

through, I was like, why is she calling Louis?

Because it cuts right to Louie. But then I

realized that that was just a progression thing.

I'm assuming she called Grandfather because she

sees him later in the,

I mean, that's when we figure out what it was.

Yeah, yeah.

But like, initially, well, the first time

I watched and they cut right to Louis, I thought

it was Louis.

It doesn't. The next scene is, ah, Lily.

Oh, right. It's because then we see Lou. It Was

because the next time we see Louis, he releases

the stuff. So that's why I was thinking it was

Louis at that time.

Nathan, she could have been calling Gossip Girl.

Well, no, because he just left.

Fair enough.

Could you imagine now? Excuse me, I need to take

this call. It's like voice modulated. Nate on the

other end. Yes, we will meet up soon.

It comes outside like, Kirsten Bell.

Yeah, good. See Kristen Bell. Kristen Bell.

Kristen.

One of them. Something like that. Yeah.

Veronica Mars.

Lily gets a call from Blair fishing for more info

on the party. Lily, with a huge grin on her face,

bold face, lies about what will be at the party

while Charlie listens in the background. After the

call, Lily is eager to gossip about Max. Charlie

apologizes to Lily for having her find out about

the whole Ivy Dickens thing. That way Lily puts

all the blame on Carol.

Well played, Charlie. Really well played. Way to

put Lily and Carol against each other even

further. Divide them more. Divide and conquer. I

also loved Lily fucking with Blair.

She was so happy about it.

Shaved ice. And just to hear Blair on the other

end and just knowing how bad. And then for. And I

love the explanation too, how Charlie was like,

isn't this kind of mean? And she's like, this is

the one thing Blair isn't going to have control

over in her life. Let us have this.

We see Max in a crappy looking apartment, pull a

playbill from a packing box. He sees Ivy and Carol

both listed, but then a third listing. Although we

don't see the face for Charlotte. Charlie Rhodes.

Dun, dun, dun.

Yeah, I honestly feel like Charlie had another

easy out here of like. Yeah, my mom didn't want me

associated with it, so I switched names with the.

With the stage manager. Not a great one, but like,

there are ways around. Oh, it was a misprint in

the thing.

Presumably he was also working the show.

Oh, was he also a theater person? I didn't get

that.

I figured he was not like a theater, but more like

a stagehand or something like that.

Yeah, I guess I just didn't really put that

together. But he finds this out, unfortunately.

I saw this scene when we get the close up, her

picture is cut off. And the cat, because there is

a cast photo above. We know she's the middle of

the middle row. She's. She's the queen of hearts,

so. But her face is cut off there.

Oh, for the. For the Charlie Rhodes.

Yeah. So we don't. We don't get to see her here at

all.

Smart. Smart. I. Yeah. I thought there just wasn't

A picture of her on there. I thought that.

That's what I thought originally. And it was like.

It was kind of weird. It's like, why are you

showing pictures of the, like, stage manager and,

like, a donator, Someone who donated money to the

show and not the cast? But then, yeah, the above

photo is, like, a group photo of the cast. And,

like. And like. Like, if you read the. The prints,

it's like, left to right, first row, middle row,

and. And front row.

Yeah. Yeah.

Charlie. Charlotte Rose was in the middle row and

the fourth from the. The end. Chuck returns home

to find the escorts sitting alone on the couch in

towels. One tells him that Dan left when they were

in the shower together. The other one just sits

there looking incredibly bored.

You know, he went into the shower and waited for

him and never showed up. Just something about

being a man of action.

He said something about a shower, so we figured,

yeah, let's go get a shower. Yeah. And then he

never showed up.

Oh, I just now put that together. I don't know why

I didn't put that together at all. And that is so

funny. I'm such an idiot. But that is so funny.

Blair finds Louis on Serena's computer, but Blair

is too distracted to think twice about it. She

says that perhaps he was right about her friends,

but it's time to go to the shower. Before

following her, Louis hangs back to publish the

list of Gossip Girl sources.

You fucking asshole. Also, Serena, there's a

little X at the top of the browser that lets you,

like, close things out so that people. But also,

like, you went into someone else's laptop and

uploaded something to someone else's company's

website. Fraud from the Prince of Monaco.

And this is what Gossip Girl has to say about it.

It's important to be careful about what you tell

others because sometimes your words can come back

to haunt you. It can happen to anybody, even me.

We move into Act 4. Of course, Serena threw the

perfect breakfast at Tiffany's theme shower. And

Blair is pleasantly surprised when she and Louis

arrive. Serena and Blair hug. Crisis momentarily

averted.

Yeah. Beautiful shower when she walks in. And

Blair is immediately thrilled and loses all of her

concerns of her friends abandoning her and not

having her best interests at heart.

And of course, we will be talking about breakfast

activities at, our. On our first Patreon, episode.

Yes.

Patreon.com non judging breakfast pod. The minions

get an alarming text just before Serena gets up to

give her toast. Serena gives a lovely speech

honoring her long friendship with Blair. She

announces everyone Gets a blue Tiffany's box. One

will contain a Tiffany's diamond ring. The rest

are empty. After the speech, minions reveal Gossip

Girl's list of sources have been released.

Why? Favorite one ring for one person?

Yeah, I guess having like a big fancy ring in one.

But then you put like a, you know, $3, $5 for

$100. For Serena. Yeah, for Serena.

Yeah. Like, yeah, you have like this nice ten

thousand dollar ring and then a bunch of other,

like, dollar four hundred rings.

Fucking Serena.

Fucking Serena.

A drunk and belligerent Dan gets onto in an

elevator with a group of party guests. He ra how

he is cra. How he's crashing the party. The guests

seem disgusted.

Pen, your drunk is your Joe Goldberg.

It's.

It's almost the same thing.

Like.

Like, it's the crazy Joe. Like, when he gets. Like

when Joe starts getting, like, anime animated and.

But, like, I just thought that it was a terrible

drunk. Like, I didn't like, it felt.

I was entertained by a force.

I. I was entertained. I thought that the acting

was mid, but I was entertained by the scene.

I think the acting accomplished what it was trying

to accomplish. Sure. Serena calls Nate about the

list. Nate assumes Diana posted the list. Serena

asks him to fix it while she does damage control

at the party.

Didn't she give her speech, you said?

Yeah.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I loved her speech for Blair. It

was very sweet, very heartfelt, and very, like,

season five. Serena.

That was like three scenes ago.

Oh, was it? I thought I was right there. I thought

that all happened at the same time. Because then

she leaves the speech and sees Penelope in the.

yeah, yeah, but that was two scenes ago.

Was it? My bad. All right, I'm catching up.

So you had the speech, then you had Dan on the

elevator, Then you had Serena call Nate.

Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I don't know how

I flaked on that. Well, I know how I flaked on it,

but. Yes. now, Serena. Okay. Serena calls Nate.

Moving on.

Dan and Chuck arrive. Louie goes to intercept

Chuck, but when Chuck says he's there to stop Dan

from making a scene, Louie lets him through too.

Yeah. And grumpily. Why don't you ask him for

yourself?

I actually really like Lou's act scene. The way he

just, like, swung his whole body around to stop

him.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, when they. When they first

confronted. Yeah.

He, like, turns around and like, the way he turns

around, like, it's like almost like a running

back.

Yeah. Yeah.

Diana meets with the grandfather to tell him she

saw a new side of Nate's. Today, William makes a

crude joke about their, intimate. The intimate

nature of her relationship with his grandson. She

tells him he she was ready to stand by Nate and go

to war against him until Gossip Girl's list was

leaked. Before we can hear how this affects her

plans, they are interrupted by Nate and the scene

cuts.

Yeah, I had trouble really caring about this

because I want her gone so bad anyway. But, like,

how she's like, now trying to recruit Nate to go

to war against grandfather, which not difficult to

do.

I think she's that though.

well, she says. I mean, she's saying there that

she's trying.

Nah, she said she was going to. Right, That's.

This is what I was going to do until the list

leak.

Right. No, I'm saying that that was a bad idea. I

mean, that was a. A feasible idea in the first

place because getting Nate to go against

grandfather would not be too tough, especially if

you're the hot older woman he's banging.

But you keep talking about going to war, in the

present tense, but that never is going to happen.

No, no, Yeah, I get you.

The leaked list is causing chaos at the bridal

shower. Blair is finally looped in on what's going

on when Penelope shows Blair the list on her

phone. Serena is trying to do damage control by

announcing it's time for everyone to open their

boxes. Of course, her air quotes cousin gets the

diamond and the rest of the gets get diddly squat.

Nothing.

Charlie immediately panics when she sees Max get

off the elevator. She starts to pull him off

towards her room, and he says he knows the real

Charlie is in Florida.

Yeah.

Yep, Blair is being lambasted by the means for all

the shit she slung at Gossip Girl over the years.

Yeah, I mean, but, like, it's not like you didn't

know that already. And it's not like Blair hasn't.

Wasn't just as nasty to you in person.

Like, so we do learn that Penelope has a shrine to

Nate.

Yeah.

Which, of course, Cotty has some issues with

excess hair. Mm.

Mm.

And Jessica went commando to her communion.

To her communion. Yes. Which means she was in,

like, eighth grade or sixth grade. Like, gross.

Now, did she do it? Well, ask Alice this, but did

she do it because she was trying to be sultry or

just because she was forgot? She's kind of

airheaded. Yeah, the character is airheaded. Chuck

fails to stop a drunken Dan from confronting Blair

about his many grievances. Chuck and Louie also

show up, and Blair asks Louie to handle them. and

he escorts Chuck and Dan out.

Yeah. And, Which Chuck was there to do in the

first place. And also, like, God damn it, Dan.

Just way to screw yourself over. When Blair is

sitting there, like, finally, someone who's not

mad at me. Thank you, Dan. And he's like, wait a

second.

I love this scene.

I did, too. I did, too. But it's like, dan, you

fucking idiot.

Blair confronts Serena about the Gossip Girl list

being on her computer. Blair says Sarita

intentionally sabotaged her night and Lily was

right about her. Serena protests and says she

tried to stop the list from getting out. Serena

thinks it must have been Diana. She thinks that

because only Serena, Diana, Nate, and Louis knew

about it.

So I thought this was one of those moments where

the writing, the directing, and the acting all

came together masterfully. The way that Serena is.

Well, only Diana, Nate, and I knew about it. I

mean, and Louis, but. And the look on her face, it

was just like both Blake's acting of just,

obviously it can't be him, and then Leighton's

face when she looks at him. And it's a, punch in

the gut. And she knows instantly who did it. And

it was just like. I felt like it was a masterclass

in tying all of the production qualities together

in one moment right there.

And this is what Gossip Girl had to say about it.

Sorry, B. Must be hard to keep your head above

water when your prince is causing everyone around

you to drown.

Good lion, Duple. Gossip Girl.

We move into Act 5. Nate asks Diana and the

grandfather if they have been working together the

whole time. They both deny it. Diana takes the

fall for the leak, and Grandfather uses this as an

opportunity to push her out of the Spectator.

Yep. So she gets canned, and Nate is now the new,

Or did he?

No, he didn't say it yet.

He doesn't say it yet. But, yeah, she gets canned.

We know that that's Grandfather's plan because he

had said it earlier in the episode, and, yeah, he

has the out. I thought that she was going to

fight, again, like, she indicated earlier that she

was looking to fight Grandfather, and this is

where I was really, like, you're just going to

back out? Like, what's your plan here? You have

been saying over and over, you have a plan, you're

working towards something. I don't feel like

you're just going to walk away that easy.

Well, the other meta, indicator that Diana will be

back is the fact that, of course, Nate's going to

find out that she did not Leak the list.

Right.

At this point he thinks that she leaked the list.

Yeah, but she's going to. I'm sure he'll find out

that it was Lily.

Yeah. Next episode he should.

From one of the someone in the front group.

Yeah. Why isn't Blair getting married?

You see, alone in her bedroom, Max shows Ivy the

playbill. She says she can still get him the 50k

and they can go away together. But he responds

back with everything she says is a lie. She gives

him her new ring as down payment on the hush

money.

And I'll get you the rest later. How much is that

ring worth? You don't even know. You don't know

how much you just handed. That could be 50k right

there. You don't know.

She just could give him another 50k on top.

Just. Yeah, I mean which. Fair deal. Yeah, take

it, Max.

Yeah, just take it and take it.

You don't want.

That was just, you know, that's like just a

barker. Say she's good for it.

Yeah, take it.

The money. The money. She said the money is real.

Prove it. Okay, here's. Here's fucking the ring.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She proved it. She fucking proved it. Here's here.

Here. Yeah.

And ah, we do get a full look at the cast poster

at this point. But even zooming in on a high res

screen screen grab, all I can really tell is the

person is blonde and most likely female

presenting. But I'm not even 100% sure on that.

Yeah.

Because it's just too out of focus.

Yeah, yeah, that'd be really funny. Cece doesn't

know her own grandkids so badly that she doesn't

know that her daughter had a.

Had a boy or Charlie is a ah, kind of neutral

name.

Yeah, yeah.

They could be taking.

Yeah. Yes. I mean I've always said that, you know,

Bailey lucked out being born with a gender neutral

name.

Chuck finds Dan spiraling on a random New York

stoop. He finally realizes that Dan is in love

with Blair as well. Chuck says Blair follows her

heart and they both lost, but at least they are on

the outside together. Chuck helps Dan up off the

stoop.

You're really going to make me do this? You're

really going to make me sit on a stoop. This was a

great Chuck Dan scene. I loved it.

You know, in a post heated rivalries world, this

episode would have ended very differently. Yes,

Blair kind of cockblocked there at the end. Blair

confronts Louie about leaking the list. Louis

tries to turn it back on Blair because He read

about Chuck and Blair going to the theater

together. She turns it back on him when she

reveals it was Beatrice who sent out the blast

about her paternity test. Blair tells Louis to

leave because she needs time alone to rethink the

relationship.

Yeah, fuck off, Louie.

Bye. Bye.

Blair's greatest point here. Why didn't you. You

could have come to talk to me. You could have

shown me you didn't need to ruin our shower. Yeah,

you could have just been like, hey, Blair, this is

how much your friends hate you. Then you would

have won, Lily. So good thing you did the dickhead

thing. I also want to point out that throughout

this whole episode, they also never mention the

pregnancy at all. And I just kind of imagined it

going the way of college. I just stopped talking

about it more than it ever happened.

That'd be nice. This is what Gossip Girl says as

we go to the final break. Guess this shower's

officially over. It looks like Bea's the one

throwing in the towel. We move into the epilogue.

Serena and Blair are alone after the party, eating

cake and doing some bonding. Blair is worried

about Louie self destructing the relationship.

Blair asks Serena not to tell anyone Louis leaked

the list. Blair is shocked when Serena tells her

that Chuck only showed up to stop Dan from ruining

the party.

Yeah. So leave it alone, Blair. Yeah, he's

actually doing some.

You really need to go over there in the middle of

the night.

Yeah, he's actually been doing good things lately.

When he's not around you. Leave it alone.

This season really has a really a weird thing

about. They're clearly showing. Being around Blair

makes you bad.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

The grandfather says he's going to continue

investing in the paper and names Nate the new

editor in chief. Because he's earned it.

He sure has.

They smugly look on as that peasant Diana is

packing her things in the next room.

M sure earned it. Nate, you earned this job by

your grandfather already buying the company,

installing the person that he wanted to have you.

We have reillability. Your image earned it.

I literally laughed out loud. Even I've seen this

episode multiple times.

Uhhuh.

Uhhuh.

Serena returns to the Waldorf apartment to find

Max creepily waiting in the shadows for her. He

begs her to forgive him for standing him up, which

she does.

Max, you and Serena, it's not your fault. You

don't know.

Why did he even go into the whole begging thing?

Why did he just tell the truth? That. That Diana

lady told me that you were inside and come find

you And I couldn't find you.

Yeah.

I didn't stand you up.

Yeah.

I was there. Yeah.

Like, the truth was actually, like, a better

avenue.

I mean, he can omit the whole thing about kissing

her cousin.

Yeah.

But.

Yeah. Ah. I went looking for you and could not

find you in there because that crazy lady you work

for.

But also, let's add the doorman to the shittiest

system column for letting this random person into

the Walrus apartment.

Right. Yeah.

Like, he could have just murdered them all.

Yeah.

When they came up.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just, the penthouse button

on the elevator there. Go on up.

They do that.

Like, how often does that happen? They just, like,

let people into the apartment.

Usually it's the least plausible. Like it's

someone that's been there before.

It's one of the friends.

This is a completely unknown person to the

Waldorfs.

Yes.

He's never been there before.

Yeah. No, no, no. I'm just friends with them.

Sure. Wait, the lobby. Diana calls the grandfather

and explains she took the fall so Nate wouldn't

find out her secret. But if she goes down, William

goes down with her.

Yeah. So the feeling of this secret having

something to do with Chuck. Because they've set

that up, right? They've set up the. She's in

Bart's file. Chuck recognizes her, but doesn't

recognize her. We have these, like, weird. Like,

maybe she's Chuck mom. Chuck's mom thing. So why

is grandfather now also tied up in whatever she's

doing? Which. That's what's weird to me. That.

Well, I mean, what other reasons could she be in

Bart's folder? What other kind of things was Bart

involved?

I mean, Bart was Bart. The whole murder of them.

Of the step. Of. Of the mom. Right. Of Chuck's

mom. The. Not that he was directly. Oh, no, no,

I'm sorry. Not the mom. The,

You, being the. The fire, even.

The fire. Yeah, yeah. Reina's mom and all that

stuff, which we know.

Everyone in this inner circle already knows that.

Yeah, that's. And that's vindicate. He's

vindicated to that. I mean, the private

investigators. I mean, she could be somehow

connected to the private investigators because he.

All. He had people.

What other organization was Bart involved in?

Their organization. He did the. He was a realtor.

More on the seedy side.

Oh, wait a second.

There was season two.

Yeah, there was that. What was that? It was so

long ago.

The Eyes Wide Shut episodes.

Yeah.

With the escort and the.

Right.

Right.

Secret gentleman society.

Yes.

bar was Involved in. Carter was involved it.

Right.

Possibly grandfather.

Possibly grandfather. That would make sense for

grandfather as well. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, so

maybe she's like a former, like, Eyes Wide Shut

prostitute from that organization. Yeah, I

remember now. God, that was such a dumb episode.

Two episodes. Two episodes.

Yeah, two dumb episodes.

Well, Chuck was off doing that while everyone else

was like, we had the play with. With the rest of

the people in the one episode, and then I forgot

what they did in the other episode. Max leaves a

voicemail for Ivy that his payoff number just went

from 50,000 to 500,000.

On a voicemail?

Yes, on a voicemail.

Good job.

So Ivy just needs to go to find Max in person. If

he delivers my secret, I'm just going to take this

to the cops.

Yeah. Yeah.

And while her crime, I went into chat gbt&c and

also talked to an unnamed lawyer friend about

which is the worst crime. And while Ivy's crime is

worse, they are both felonies worth serious jail

time.

And there is one little piece of nuance that from

the chatgpt question and from our friend's

response, one little nuance that wasn't in there

is the fact that Charlie, for one, she is also

blackmailing someone herself. She is also

blackmailing Carol. That that's how she hasn't

been outed by Carol is because it's the same sort

of.

I'm necessarily blackmailing. That's just pointing

out the mutual destruction.

Right. But because of that, she's almost kind of

doing this with the permission of Carol. So, the

person who she.

The only person that can really give that

permission would be Charlotte. She is an adult

now, Right?

Yeah. And again, we don't know the kind of control

that Carol has over Charlotte, that she could get

Charlotte on board. I feel like there are avenues

still for Charlie to get out of this with Carol's

cooperation. Right. But, Max, you're just leaving

voicemails saying, I'm, blackmailing you for 500

grand. And so, yeah, I think that Charlie is in

line for a more serious sentence should they get

charged. I feel like Charlie also has a more

feasible way out of this than Max.

not really.

Or she has to kill him. Is it time that someone on

Gossip Girl finally kills someone? It's. They've.

They've.

Besides Bart.

Besides Bart, which, of course, he,

I mean, I guess it was actually, What's the name?

Russell.

Yeah. Yeah. Russell has actually murdered somebody

and was ready to murder Blair. You know, tried to

attempted murder on Blair.

Murder, suicide.

Yeah. And Then the closest other murder that we

had was Juliet, when she was like, I'm gonna

handle Serena once and

for all by talking to her.

By talking to her before I kill her. And then my

monologuing will save both of us.

Diana looks longingly at the Spectator flag as her

limo gets ready to pull away.

Yeah. See ya. Ta.

ta for now.

Yep.

Chuck helps Dan onto the couch at the Empire

Suite, and he immediately passes out. When Chuck

turns around, he is surprised to see Blair there.

She says she knows he's been good this whole time.

So what?

Blair, go home.

Go home?

Why?

I was so annoyed by that. Like, oh, you're good,

and you've been good this whole time. I'm going to

come over right now to let you know I know. A

text, Blair. This could have been a text.

And this is how Gossip Girl ends the episode.

Loyal readers, I'd like to apologize to all of you

for the awful and embarrassing breach of security

that happened tonight. In bad times like this, you

have many options. You can choose to go on the

offensive and come out swinging, or you can pack

your bags and admit defeat, or you can drink

yourself into oblivion and hope it will all just

go away. Whatever I choose to do to win back your

trust, one thing is certain. This is not the end

between us. Because try as you might to fight it,

you know you love me. Xo. Xo Gossip Girl. that is

our episode. What is coming next?

For one, we're going to see the, We're going to

whatever. Blair.

Are, Blair and Chuck in a bag with Dan right in

the next room?

I don't think so. I think Chuck in his I'm trying

to actually be good thing is going to be, like,

come back with cooler heads. I would really like

that. I would hope that that's the angle Chuck

goes with, because I also think that Chuck knowing

that Dan is in love with Blair, and Chuck actually

being friends with Dan now, because I. We, didn't

even address how he said to Dan this time you have

someone on the outside with you. That's the most

kind thing Chuck has said to anybody in this show

so far. Like, you have somebody with you? yeah,

it's super sad, but he's like, now you have, like,

you have a friend to go through this with. That

is, like, seriously next level kindness from

Chuck. The most we've seen from him. And so I

don't think that that would lead him to go through

with it. In fact, I think, if anything, he might

be like, Blair and I are bad news. I'm going to

push Dan and Blair. I could see Chuck kind of

helping that and fostering that. We're going to

see Nate run a company. Yes.

glorious Nate.

Yeah. Oh, Nate, with your sharp wit and fantastic

intuition. So that's going to be fun. Something's

got to happen with this baby. There's still a baby

floating around that needs to be born or otherwise

taken care of. God, I hate sounding like that.

It's an imaginary baby. It's not a real baby,

folks.

Don Cheadle in, endgame breaking the baby that is

his neck.

The Seder glasses. firstborn of death.

Now, were they specifically babies or are they

just the firstborn? Regards of age?

It was the firstborn. Well, I guess it was

regardless of age, but it's kind of associated

with babies. And the glasses were that I. We had

for reference, we hosted a, passover seder. And my

wife got glasses that represented the 10 plagues.

And one of the plagues, as you may know, is the

death of the firstborn. And let me just say that

the dead baby glasses were quite horrifying. They

looked so peaceful. I should post them in the. In

the discord for. For frame of reference.

Any other predictions?

Someone's deleting us for all this talk about dead

babies. Oh, something coming out about the

relationship between Bart and Diana.

Yeah, Diana. Secrets got to come out.

Yeah, Diana's secret has to come out. and that's

going to get in there. And I think there's going

to be a Bart grandfather something going on there.

And I don't think this wedding's going to happen.

I don't think. Louis gone. Louie's not gone, is

he? You would tell me if he was gone.

Hugo Becker is not. He will be seen again.

Hugo Becker will be back as Louis twin brother.

Twin brother Louis.

Louis, who's like his long lost American twin who

now also has right to ascendancy. But they have to

dub his accent.

Or you could just whisper like Ed or just whisper.

Blair,

I am Louie's long lost brother.

Let's get into segments. Hello there, Peabody

here. And this is the wayback machine for

traveling through time. And this is my boy,

Sherman Speak chairman. Hello.

Good boy.

This week in fan and we jumped into the wayback

machine that traveled to the fan forums from 2011.

The overall impression. Most people seem to like

the episode.

Yeah, it was a good episode.

They loved the Chuck and Dan scenes.

Yep.

Louie needs to leave Chuck. Blair. Dan is the real

triangle.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Drunk Dan was hilarious.

He was funny. I just didn't think he's. He didn't

play. I didn't think he played drunk very well,

but I thought he was effective in what he was

doing.

A lot of back and forth on how deep Blair's

friendship with Dan is.

Yeah, I feel like they're the kind of friends that

when they're together, they're the best of

friends. And when they're apart, she doesn't think

much about it. I think that he thinks a lot about

her, but she doesn't think a lot about him when

they're not around each other.

I mean, she said earlier this season that she went

to him because she knew he would stop her from

giving it to her worst instincts.

Yeah. And she does. I think she does love him in

that friend way. I think she has feelings for him

that she doesn't like having.

I don't know if you watched her face much in their

conversation. It was kind of interesting how she

went from like, oh, she kind of,

like, took it to heart. It seemed like, yeah,

maybe I haven't been the best friend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did pick up on that.

Let's get into episode grades. You went first last

time, so I am going first this week. Yeah. So

much, much better episode, Much better episode

than last week. Directing was good, Dialogue was

good. A lot of funny scenes with Dan and Chuck.

Didn't like some of the overall stuff, as we've

said, but that's kind of not really, I don't take

that against the individual episode. so I ended up

with a

B. Yeah, I'm right with you. I thought. I loved

the interactions that we had with the non judging

breakfast Club when we had them. I really loved.

I. I really like Serena this season so far, and I

know I missed talking about her speech when it

happened, but the. Just the way that she. And she

handled Blair this whole episode, like the best

friend that she wanted to be. So there were. There

was. And yeah, overall I did. I'm with you that

this was a, a B episode. One of the better ones

this season for sure.

On to Stockwatch. Going up. I have Serena for

planting a great, shower. I had Nate going up for

earning his right to be editor in chief. I had

Chuck for continuing to be a good guy, helping out

Dan and being a good friend of Dan, supporting

him, taking care of him. I had Max going up

because he's looks like he's going to get some

$500,000 because Ivy's too stupid to go

back and reverse Blackmail him.

And I had the grandfather going up because he

accomplished, his goal of getting Nate as editor

in chief.

Yes.

Who do you have going up?

So I had all of those. All the same people for

one. I had Nate forgetting the company. I had

Chuck for being a good friend, Serena for planning

a great party, grandfather for whatever

shenanigans he's pulling, they're going in the way

he wants. Max, being on the upper hand of this,

for right now, anyway, the other one, because he

was mentioned and I love him and miss him. Eric.

I was thinking about it, but he didn't really do

anything.

Well, he did get them in touch with Jonathan who

did expose goth's Gossip Girl. But Jonathan's a

dick, so I don't really care as much about him.

And, exposing Gossip Girl is not. It wasn't really

exposing gossip. It was exposing everyone else.

Yeah, yeah.

It was like.

Yeah, but still, I love Eric.

Sure.

And I miss him.

Anyone else?

That's it for going up.

Going down for me. I had Dan because he was just a

sad sack again. I had Blair going down because it

looks like her marriage is breaking up

before it even happened.

I had Ivy slash Charlie going down because she's

being blackmailed on the ropes again. I had Louie

going down because he was fucking a jackass.

Abusive douchebag. M. I had Diana going down

because she lost her job.

Yep. You suck.

And the Waldorf dorman under the assistant Cobb

going down.

Yes. Yeah, I believe I am right in line with you.

I'm trying m to think if there was anyone else,

specifically Dan Blair.

Ivy.

Yeah, Dan Blair, Ivy, Louie and the doorman. And,

the dog of the doorman too. Because the assistants

on this show need to learn a thing or two. And

yeah, I think that is. Oh, no, the other one

that's going down. We've never done this before

Gossip Girl because Gossip Girl was put kind of on

the ropes as well.

She got hacked. That's fair enough.

She got hacked. And I don't think we have ever

awarded her stock one way or another.

I don't think we have before.

And so interesting. Yes, Gossip Girl has entered

this. Gossip Girl has now gained a portfolio and

it's in the negative. But here's the best outfits

from the

last episode we see.

On to best outfits for me. Not. It was not a great

episode. Blair's orange Alpha was horrible.

Sprita's. Okay. I just didn't like the wings thing

she had going on. like her dress. You know what

I'M talking about.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I actually ended up giving it to Chuck with his

three piece gray suit had light blue accent

stitching paired with a lavender striped shirt and

a tie with light blue accents. Also had matching

pocket square and boutonniere along with brown

patent leather shoes.

Yeah, he was sharp. however I was also annoyed by

the wings on it. But the rest of the print on

Serena's dress and the way that it just I thought

that I loved it so I gave it to Serena. Even

despite the weird wings.

That is it for segments. Do you have anything you

would like to plug?

So I've talked a lot about reading the audiobooks

for Dungeon Crawler Carl. I'm now reading one of

Matt Dinnaman, the author. I'm reading his latest

book Operation Bounce House, which is not related

to those books, but it's still sort of a sci fi

RPG kind of book. and I highly recommend it. I'm m

about halfway through and I've been really

enjoying the book so far, but I'm eye reading

that.

okay. And I am going to recommend the YouTube

channel. Josh Turner Guitar this young man has

over 10 years of music, on his channel. a lot of

COVID songs, some original, him and his very

talented friends. looks like from his older videos

started like about he's probably like 16, 17, but

it's been, he's got over 10 years of it going on.

Nice.

so really fun channel. Josh Turner Guitar and if

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Loved it.

Spelled like the name of.

Yeah.

The. The last name.

Yeah.

And the CDCW episode description reads, Lily,

Charlie, and Serena eagerly, anticipate the Studio

54 party being thrown in CC's honor. Nate takes on

a new role at the Spectator. But his first big

story turns out to be about someone he knows all

too well.

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