This week on Non Judging Breakfast Pod, Leif and Steve dive into Gossip Girl Season 5, Episode 5: “The Fasting and the Furious.”

As Yom Kippur approaches, the stakes rise for our favorite Upper East Siders. Blair faces off against her future mother-in-law, while Nate struggles with his secret relationship with Diana, turning to Charlie to stir jealousy. Meanwhile, Serena must navigate her feelings for Dan as her boss pushes for the film rights to his book, leading to a tangled web of ambition and emotion.

Join us as we dissect the chaos of this episode, explore character motivations, and dish out our favorite moments from the drama-filled world of Gossip Girl.

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I like that Nate's just doom scrolling at work.

Yeah. Yeah. Again, I hate I'm gonna find a

news story by looking at old Gossip Girl stories.

Yeah, I'll find that.

Yeah, great idea, Nate.

He doesn't get paid to think. No, he gets paid to

have sex with his boss. He just doesn't quite

recognize that yet.

I think there's a word for that. Oh, yeah.

Prostitute.

Prostitute. Oh, yeah.

Hey, Upper east siders and all you scandal loving

listeners out there, you've 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 greenhorn, the

rookie, the. What are we saying now that we're in

season five, Leif?

I don't know. I recently emerged from a period of

prolonged numbness, and I'm starting to feel

again, both physically and emotionally. And it's

made me realize I need to try new things to

prevent a relapse.

New things? Give me an example.

I've had sex on almost every conceivable service,

but never on a podcast desk, so there is that.

So, folks, here's the deal. Leaf has been watching

Gossip Girl since it first aired, and I'm diving

in for the very first time. And together, we're

your dynamic duo, uh, 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 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, there is

always a seat for you at, uh, the non judging

breakfast table. So go ahead and grab a mimosa or

a cup of coffee or maybe roll up something from

Nate and Chuck's stash. And let's go ahead and get

into this.

And this episode is all about Yom Kippur. And yes,

we are here to talk about season five, episode

five, the Fasting and the Furious. The original

air date was October 24, 2011. And. And of course,

it was based on the movie all about family, The

Fast and the Furious.

Yes. Um, here's my confession. I have never seen a

Fast and the Furious movie. Not one of them. I've

seen little clips I've seen either. Uh, was one

that I think I saw, like, the first 10 minutes of,

but I have never seen a complete front to back

Fast and the Furious movie. They have never caught

my interest in any way, shape or form. And I love,

like, cars and whatnot. But, like, yeah, some of

them are,

uh, pretty fun heist movies.

Yeah. I should give them a shot, I'm sure.

And I was actually thinking it might be time for

me to rewatch the original because it's been a

long time. I do own the DVD. It was actually one

of the first DVDs I had ever bought.

Oh, wow. Who was it that was in that? The died.

Paul Walker.

Paul Walker, right.

He's hanging out with his backup quarterback,

James Vanderbeek now.

Yeah.

From, uh, Varsity Blues.

Varsity Blues, right, right. Because he did not

want his dad's life. No, I don't want your life.

Which also was used in, uh. Holy shit, was it

Chris Evans and not another teen movie?

Yes, it was.

Did I just put that together with

a banana in his ass?

Yes. Oh, my God, I cannot believe I just put that

together.

That is America's ass.

That is America's. That is America's ass for sure.

Wow, that's really funny. I just put that

together.

He's been in a lot of weird movies.

Yeah, I fucking love not another teen movie. Uh,

although I haven't seen it since the 90s, so I

don't know if it still holds up. But I loved that

movie.

This episode was written by Peter Elkoff. This is

his first of two episodes on the show. He also

wrote the movie the Education of Charlie Banks. I

don't know if you've seen that one.

I have not.

Jesse Eisenberg is the star.

Oh, okay.

Um, he also has written for the show Ugly, uh,

Betty, North Shore, Sons of Anarchy, some other

stuff as well.

I used to think Jesse Eisenberg was the poor man's

Michael Cera. And then I realized that Jesse

Eisenberg is, if Michael Cera was a good actor,

awesome.

Uh, no disrespect, like, I love Michael Cera and

he's good in stuff, but I just. I think that my. I

originally thought that he was the better actor,

but now I really think that Jesse Eisenberg is a

better actor.

The episode was directed by Joe Lazaroff, longtime

producer of the show, has also directed O Brother,

Where Bart Thou how to Succeed in Basness, the

Empire Strikes Jack, War at the Roses, and the

Townie.

Now I know the Townie was good. Oh, Brother, where

Bart Thou. Was that the funeral?

Yes, I believe so.

Okay. Because that was good. That was a good

episode. I remember the title, how to succeed in

Vastness, but I don't remember.

So that one and War of the Roses were both episode

sevens, which are both chair centric episodes.

Okay. And I hated Empire Strikes Jack. That was

the start of the, uh. That was in the midst of the

mom and selling the hotel for Blair storyline.

Well, I mean, that's, like, the end of it,

basically.

Is that the last one?

Pretty close to it.

Okay.

But the directing actually was not bad because

they did get all, like, the very Star wars feel to

it. With Jackson, it was Darth Vader, like,

standing by the window, evil and just standing

there.

Yeah, it looked cool. He was standing there with

the mom too, right? No. Was the mom still in it

yet?

No, I think she had left at this point.

Okay. Okay. Yeah.

I believe sixteen was the episode with the

indecent proposal.

Okay. Okay. I think so.

And then as far as guest stars, uh, of course we

get Wallace Shine and Margaret Colin back as

Eleanor and Cyru, and we are introduced to KK Magi

as Dr. Eliza. Uh, burn Eliza Barnes.

Awesome. Uh,

why don't you give us that Vulture recap?

You won't get where you want to be unless you bend

the rules a little. Ivy informed Nate on last

night's episode of Gossip Girl after the pair

cracked open the Vanderwoodsen family box of

secrets so she can keep her job false identity.

And Nate can keep entertaining the notion that

he's not the sex slave of a second rate tabloid

editor, but kind of like John F. Kennedy Jr.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Upper east side,

Serena has sold out Dan, the love of her life, in

order to fulfill her career woman fantasies. Which

is sort of fair enough because Dan sold out

everybody else already. And Beatrice connived to

steal the throne from under her brother, which is

also sort of fair because Louis has the charisma

of a piece of lox and couldn't lead a child

softball team with the necessary aggression. No

lies. No lies detected.

And I think we're back to the writers not talking

to each other between episodes.

Yes.

Because, like, Louis was, like, totally flip flop

from last week.

Well. And they can't figure out what to do with

him because they keep recycling these things, and

it's the same conflicts over and over again, and

they can't figure out what to do with him. You

know, and one week it is, oh, well, my family is

the most important thing. And the next week it's

like, well, no, you're fuck you, family. I'm in

charge now. And what are they doing?

But I mean, as far as his, like, last week he was

completely non trusting of Lair, but this week

he's completely trusting her again.

Yeah, well, and completely trusting of her again.

Or is he just like, fuck it, I'm not going to

trust her ever, so that's the life I'm going to

live. That's almost what it seems like, especially

by the end.

We roll into Act 1. Gossip Girl has this to say.

On the Upper east side, it's not what you say that

determines who you are. It's what you do. Whether

you make the big announcement or trying to close a

deal or firing the first shot. Blair and Louie are

preparing to tell their families about the

pregnancy.

Yeah. Good job, guys. Yay. Glad, uh, you're on the

same page.

This week, Jane calls Serena to remind her and the

audience that Serena's job depends on getting the

option for Dan's book Locked up. We also learn

that Serena has finished reading the whole book.

Now, is this when she comes downstairs or. No, no,

she just is talking now.

Yeah, she's in her room on the phone with Jane.

Yes. And Jane puts all of this on her.

Yeah.

But I think it's important that we learn that she

has now finally read the whole book.

Yes. Yes, indeed.

Her and Rufus, I think, are the only ones.

Uh. Uh-huh. Huh. Huh. Uh-huh. It seems so.

Maybe Lily.

No, I think Lily did. I think Lily tore through

that book.

Yeah. She loved it.

Yeah. And again, I feel like Lily loved it. And

I'm sure Lily was not presented in a great light.

And I'm sure there was a lot of moments that Lily

was reading that that was like, huh, huh. That

seems like a shitty thing for someone to do, but

took it as a work of fiction and gave herself

complete sociopathic separation from any terrible

shit in that book. Lily is his ideal, perfect

audience.

Eleanor and Cyrus welcome Sophie and Beatrice back

to New York, and they are excited to hear Blair

and Louis announcement that is happening at Yom

Kippur.

Welcome back. It was nice for, um, Cyrus to. I

like the little throwback to when they greeted

each other too, that I hope you're still a hugger.

And, you know, I thought that was cute.

Yeah. The show recognizes that even someone as

stuffy as Princess Sophie just can't help but love

Cyrus.

Yeah. Yes. That it is impossible not to love

Cyrus. And, yeah, I love that.

I'm not sure how close you're paying attention,

but scene is another One just really shows what a

good actress, uh, Margaret Collins is. Like, I

don't know if he does, like, when she sits down on

the couch and she, like, puts her legs up and,

like, takes up the whole couch while everyone else

is standing around her.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I. I mean, I. And I. Did.

I. This was a awesome Eleanor episode in general,

I thought.

Blair and Louis come downstairs and announce Blair

is having a baby. Cyrus is thrilled. Eleanor is

initially shocked, but rolls with it. Sophie is

happy as long as they are married before the baby

is born. Blair privately whispers to Beatrice,

thanking her for keeping the secret, and Serena

breezes past the celebration on her way to work.

Yeah, so, first of all, I loved Eleanor's reaction

that it was like, what the fuck? Like, you're

still in school.

College watch.

Oh, yeah, college was mentioned.

And with Serena, we get the first hint that she's

kind of jealous of the way Blair is portrayed in

the book.

Yeah.

She doesn't outright say here, but she's. Yeah, I

can read about it. She makes the comment about

being able to read about it, like, yeah, uh, yeah,

which.

Which. What's really annoying is that here you

have Serena taking out her anger at something Dan

fantasized and wrote about, and now she's mad at

Blair for Dan's published fantasy.

Yes, but also, uh, uh, it's not about the fantasy

of Dan wanting to have sex with Blair. It's more

about something we've known about Serena since

season one. She likes to be the muse. She likes to

be the center of attention, and she's not in this

book. Where is the star?

Yeah.

And that's what she's jealous of.

Yeah, I completely agree.

Ivy is finishing up breakfast with Rufus and Lily

and on her way to her first day of work. After she

leaves, we see Rufus ignore a call from Dan. Lily

says the obvious, that he needs to hear Dan out,

but Rufus says he hasn't finished pouting yet.

Lily rolls her eyes.

Yeah, when Lily is being the good parent, Rufus,

take notes, because what a fucking baby. You're

ignoring your kid who's trying to apologize to

you, and you're like, I'm not ready to.

I'm not ready yet.

I'm not ready for my successful kid to, uh, remind

me that he loves me. Uh, I forget if I said it

here on this podcast or if I said it to a friend,

but when parents say, I didn't raise you to be

like this. Sorry, Rufus, this is exactly who you

raised Your kid is who you raised, how you raised

him. So don't try that shit. You raised him and

this is how he turned out.

And it was basically almost completely you for the

last several years. Because his mom disappeared.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Chuck and Nate are at the dog park with Monkey and

discuss Nate's job. Dan shows up, and Nate acts

like a scorned lover before running off for work.

Dan gives Chuck a spiked collar for Monkey, but

Chuck thinks it might look better on a few girls

he knows. Dan is still bemoaning that everyone is

mad at him, but just then, his luck appears to

turn around as he gets a text from Serena.

Nate, you are the worst of all of this.

Because, like, he's such a baby.

You are being such a fucking baby. And I don't

feel. I honestly don't think that this is in

character for Nate. I think that they were just

trying to drive a wedge to send him further to.

Unless he was in love with Dan.

Well, unless he was in love with Dan, which.

Because that's how he's acting.

Yeah, Yeah, a little bit.

After Dan leaves, Monkey is inspecting another

dog's hindquarters and Chuck apologizes to the

owner, an attractive, professional looking woman.

It turns out she is a psychologist. Chuck could

use one of those. So she gives him her card.

Chuck has been needing one of those. Chuck could

have used a psychologist a long time ago.

Indeed.

Although I meant to pay attention if she said

psychologist or psychiatrist when they met.

It says, uh, doctor of Psychology on her card.

Okay.

At the Spectator, Diana with Nate and Ivy and the

rest of the staff are getting ready for the big

website launch, but they have to abort at the last

minute because Gossip Girl scooped them.

What's more suspicious, launching the thing or all

of a sudden being like, we're not going to launch

our thing the second that comes out? Like, either

way, it looks like you stole a lot of cell phones

and gave them back.

Yeah, I guess they, like, within a day, they still

got a new story up. Yeah, it was technical

difficulties.

Right. But also this whole fucking magazine, this

whole. God damn it, I hate this whole thing so

much.

And we still don't know who's behind Diana.

Well, I think we got another clue, and I think

we're inching towards something that I said a

while ago when I said I was never convinced Bart

was dead. And now we'll get to it. Get to it.

Back at the Waldorf apartment, Blair is explaining

plans for the wedding to go on as planned, but the

honeymoon will have to be postponed until after

the baby. Beatrice pulls her mother aside and

turns this Into Blair trying to control everything

with the baby.

Yeah, I hate them. Um, I'm. Beatrice is the

fucking worst. It's just conflict for drama's

sake, and just annoying. And it makes me hate

Sophie, too, because it just does. I'm so over

Princess Blair. I just, I, I. Can we get to this

goddamn wedding and get it called off already? Can

we get to whatever terrible thing makes Blair lose

this baby and just get rid of that already?

Because there's, uh. I'm just. I'm over it. I'm

over it.

Fair enough. At a cafe, Serena is giving a

rehearsed apology to Dan, telling him she

overreacted to the book. Dan, desperate for

forgiveness, falls for it. Serena pretends to

flirt with Dan, but we know she's faking it

because she never puts that food she's playing

with in her mouth. Leads to the conversations, the

possibility of the book being made into a movie.

Stan thinks that would be crazy awesome. But

before Serena can get him to give the race to

Jane, he has to take a call from Alessandra and

get to an interview. First time I watched it, I

was watching her play with that food. I was

waiting for her to put her put it in her mouth and

do something stupid with it, but she never did

because she wasn't actually flirting.

Yep. She never heartened it. She never heartened

it.

No.

Oh, excuse me, waitress? Can I get an order of

strawberries, please? And just so subtle, Serena.

So subtle. Hey, I'm really sorry for getting mad

about the thing that I shouldn't have been upset

about. So, uh, what's happened to movie rights to

your book?

Wow.

Wild. You don't know?

Huh?

Huh? You know who would really like it? My boss.

Hypothetically, Dan exits the cafe and answers the

call. He asks Alessandra how they can give the

movie rights to Serena's boss. She tells him to

hold his horses because they have Harvey Weinstein

on the other line, and Jane, what's her name, is

small fish in comparison. Dan is excited by the

news. Back in the cafe, Serena calls Jane and says

she's got the deal in the bag.

Uh, okay, so this is drama. I can get behind,

like, this storyline. I can get behind. Right? It

makes sense. You have two people that are trying

to. That have competing interests that may one may

not be best for each other, but could also work

for each other. So I liked this. I did like this

storyline in the episode. I, uh, felt like this

storyline was the episode Saving Grace. Really.

Uh, that and it had Cyrus and also just Harvey

Weinstein. Wow. This is really going to go places.

This was 2011 still. Yeah, late 2011. So we're so.

Yeah. Plenty of time to make his money and get out

before Harvey, uh, has his big fall.

Yeah. Yeah. And what's funny is that, like, if

this deal were to go through with Miramax. Right.

Or Weinstein, one of Weinstein's companies.

The Weinstein Group.

The Weinstein Group. If that were to be the case,

Dan probably would not receive the option to write

his own screenplay. It would probably be, here's

money for your thing. We'll take it from here.

With a bigger group like that, with a little

unknown author. And so Dan actually probably could

have gotten this movie made for a lot of money

without any kind of actual crossover with the wine

scenes, you know, without any. Without ever

actually knowing what horrible things went into

making his movie.

Yes. Which. Which actresses were taken advantage

of.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Whoever played young Serena in.

In the movie, do they get to the movie? Is that

too much of a spoiler?

We'll see.

Because that would be. That'll be kind of fun to

do a few episodes of someone playing Serena,

someone playing. Playing Claire and Sabrina.

We roll into Act 2. We come back from break, and

Diana and her cleavage are interrogating Ivy.

Diana assumes Ivy is the one who leaked their

launch to Gossip Girl. Diana doesn't believe Ivy's

denials and says she needs to get her a better

story by the end of the day or else she is going

to release the info about Ivy pretending to be

Charlie. A Gossip Girl blast about the royals

attending the Waldorf Yom Kippur has Ivy running

to find the story.

Ivy, when are you going to get better at this? If

you don't get me a better story, I'm going to leak

that you're Ivy. If you don't get off my dick, I'm

going to release to everyone that you are the

thief that stole everybody's cell phones and all

their personal data and all of their information.

We have blackmail on each other, so get off my

dick.

She needs Blair to explain it to her again like

she did with Carol.

Yeah, she really needs a coach. She needs Blair to

be her Upper east side coach.

So speaking of that, who do we think did leak to

Gossip Girl?

I don't. I wouldn't think Nate would, because he's

just not. He's too Nate of a Nate to do that. He's

too Golden Retriever to do that, I would think.

Unless he is Gossip Girl.

Yeah, unless he is Gossip Girl. If Nate is Gossip

Girl, that Is the absolute biggest spin on this

show because Gossip Girl reads. Gossip Girl is

insightful. Gossip Girl makes predictions, and

Gossip Girl does analysis. All things that are not

Nate heavy activities. I have long come, um, to

believe that Gossip Girl is a man just for the wah

of it all. The way this story does things, the way

this show operates. I think it was episode one I

predicted. It was Chuck.

Yeah.

And episode one, I felt like it would be a

regularly occurring segment of who is Gossip Girl?

Until I realized that they didn't have an answer

to that until near the end, if I'm correct. Right.

At least season six, if not the end of the, uh,

series. So at the same time, someone could be

sitting there right now like, oh, what if Nate's

Gossip Girl do, do, do, do, do. And wrote this

episode with that in mind. But I don't think it

would be out of the show's character to have Nate

be Gossip Girl. I think it would be out of Nate's

character for him to be Gossip Girl because of the

sheer amount of work Gossip Girl does that Nate

doesn't do work like that.

Nate enters Diana's office as Ivy is leaving, and

Diana plays Ivy against Nate in an attempt to get

herself an invite to the Waldorf Siam. Kapoor.

Huh? It's a religious holiday, and some strangers

are throwing a party. I must attend. What on what

fucking. And you're asking Nate to get, like,

Nate's not going. What?

Why?

This is the dumbest.

He has a perpetual invite to any advice at the

Walnorps. That.

That is true. That is true. He will always, always

be Eleanor's favorite, no doubt. But I hate this

character so much that, like, oh, I'm an editor of

this magazine of this gossip rag, and I'm just

gonna go into parties and just stop. I. It is. I

hate it. I hate her presence on this show so much.

I loved her first episode. It's. She's like my new

Vanessa. She was awesome in the first episode, and

now I fucking hate her.

The hoodie think lasts longer on the show. Diana

or Louie?

Oh, God damn. I really want to say Louis. And are

we talking going forward or are we talking entire

run? Because Louis, of course, started earlier

than Diana.

Who will be the last man standing?

Uh, so my prediction is that Louis is gone by

episode 11. I really hope that the Diana is gone

before that, but just because you're asking, I'm

worried she's here for at least the entire season,

which really makes me sad because I can't, ah,

stand her. Maybe. Or maybe she's gonna be like a

half season thing. Like Juliet, you know, like

Juliet started looking like she was going to be on

the show for a while, and then halfway through,

just disappeared. Just disappeared. Instead, kept

Ben. Oh, my God, this show.

Who could be, uh, Diana's Ben. Does she have a

boyfriend hanging around somewhere?

Oh, my God, probably. I mean, yes. And you know,

and I. Based on things in this episode, I'm

wondering if this is, uh, Chuck's stepmom.

At New York One Studio. Dan is prepping for his

interview with Alessandra. Dan is nervous and

rambling about, but Alessandra tries to calm him

down and tells him to mention Harvey. But Dan

feels bad about cutting Serena out of the deal.

I get how, uh, Dan feels, but he could have done

something about it,

but again, he's just. He's trusting his agent,

which is what he should do, because that is her

job.

Right. I do want to say I really liked Pen's

acting in this scene too. There is that flicker of

him when she said, oh, well, you know, if this

works, you can go on Charlie Rose. And he's like,

you're giving your already anxious and prone to

rambling. When he's anxious, quiet this news right

before he goes on. And the. And just his

presentation of that line and just how Dan of him.

It was in that moment, I really, I really liked

that.

Blair and Eleanor negotiate the future of Blair's

child with Beatrice and Sophie while Louis and

Cyrus watch like a ping pong match. Louis does

actually try to speak up for Blair, but she has

had enough and storms off. Beatrice comments under

her breath in French.

Cyrus was like, lady. He said, I think in French,

ladies, please. Or something like that. But Louis

is like, eleanor, that's enough. Which I thought

was kind of strange for Louie to go at Eleanor and

not both of the moms.

It was Louie that said, ladies, please.

Louie. Oh, uh. Because Cyrus says something, but

Louie very directly says, eleanor, that's enough.

Which I thought was really.

And he also says, mama.

Oh, okay. I didn't. Oh, okay. That I missed. I

just caught the Eleanor. And I was like, damn,

you're just going right at her. But now that

you're mentioning it, I think that I get what

you're saying. I think I heard it and didn't put

it together as that.

I think the writers, they have Beatrice kind of

like commenting to Sophie in French, but I think

the writers forgot that everyone in the room

speaks French. Eleanor and Cyrus both live most of

the year in Paris.

In Paris, yeah. Although an American living in

Paris does not preclude them knowing French. I

would assume the two of them do. Especially

Eleanor's entrenchment in the fashion world.

Yeah, and we know Blair is fluent as well.

Yes, and we know Blair is fluent. I just also

would assume there are many Americans who would

have the audacity to live in French and not speak

the language and not get along very well, because

the French are not necessarily very forgiving of

that either. So it'd be going the other way.

Chuck goes to Dr. Barnes's office and finds her

leaving for the day. She notices the troubled look

in his eyes and agrees to see him. Chuck lies on

her couch and leers at her legs. When it becomes

obvious he is only there to hit on her, Dr. Barnes

throws him out so she can get to her own Yom

Kippur service.

Oh, classic Chuck. Classic. Uh, yeah, I did notice

that when he introduced himself to her in the

earlier scene and she said her name, he just said,

ah, Chuck Bass. He didn't say, I'm Chuck Bass,

which I don't think he said since Nate and Serena

said he's Chuck Bass.

In the first episode, Ivy is back at the penthouse

with Lily and fishing for a story. Her interest

has piqued when she sees Lily putting Bart's

family dossiers back into the safe.

Yeah.

Still hanging on to this?

Yep. Yeah. You still have these? Yeah. Why? Why

do. And then she's like, oh, well, uh, you know, I

was gonna put him back in the safety deposit box,

but I'm not gonna do that since Nate or since

Chuck and Serena tried to break into it. I'm just

going to put them into Chuck's dad's old safe that

I never changed the combination to. So how are you

preventing Chuck from tampering with your shit?

Well, I guess this. I guess they, uh, never leave

anymore, right? Yeah, these roof is padding, so

they can just guard it now.

Yeah.

But of course, Ivy gets her out. Serena's co

worker Sam is still ribbing her and tells her Dan

is on TV talking about the movie. As they watch

Dan, he mentions Harvey Weinstein and Brian

Glazer, but not Jane. Blaire bursts into the

office wanting to talk to Serena about Sophie and

Beatrice trying to control her baby, but Serena is

still far too busy to deal with Blair. Serena asks

Blaire if she can convince Dan to sell the movie

rights to Jane while. But Blair doesn't care. Jane

comes in and rags on Serena for gossiping while

the deal is falling apart on live television. When

Jane walks away, Blair Tells her Serena, her boss

is a bitch and she should quit so they can get

lunch together. But Serena still wants to try to

save her job.

A few things here. First of all, this is where I'm

like, Dan, when you're listing these producers who

are interested in your book, you could have at

least thrown Serena the bone of mentioning Jane as

well. Like, you could have done that. He didn't. I

get it. But I get why Serena's pissed because you

did talk about it and now you just didn't mention

it at all. Okay. Blair coming in. Uh, uh, Blair

reminded me of me when I. Whenever Robin has a

minor inconvenience at work, Robin will be like,

oh, man, someone scheduled a meeting for 3 o'

clock on Friday. And my response every time is,

quit. Just quit. But Blair's also kind of right

here. Like, you don't. You don't need this job and

she's treating you like shit right now. And she

was like. Jane came in and was like, you're just

sitting here fucking gossiping. The one thing that

I thought Jane said that really landed though,

like, the real punch in the gut that I thought

really got Serena was when she's like, if nothing

falls in your lap, you don't know what to do.

And it's like, that's later.

Oh, is it? Oh, I thought that was right here. My

bad.

Couple other days. Uh, I do like the. Serena

thinks that Blair could convince Dan is to sign

over the rights.

Yes. I meant to bring that up too, like, again and

again. It's showing that she has this, like,

jealousy, but very subtle. Her attitude towards

Blair is cold. And we know it's about the book,

but it's so subtle in her little digs, which I

also kind of. I thought it was done. Done well. I.

I thought that this storyline on the show was done

well. Even if I thought that the. Her boss was a

little bit much. I did think that this was the

best part of this episode. This storyline.

Yeah. Jane was way over the top here. Yeah. Yeah.

You're. You're blaming her for Serena for the deal

falling apart. Serena is basically an intern.

Yeah. A 20 year old.

She should have just been giving you the

introduction and then you got to sign the deal

because you're the big producer.

Yeah.

You, uh, you should be writing point, not so.

Yes. Yeah. And how big of a producer are you if

your staff is you and these two interns? Yeah.

Like, how big of a production company do you have?

Blair upset that everyone is moving on without

her, calls Louis and tells Him. She is ready to

move to Monaco and live life as a Grimaldi.

Yes.

And so, yeah, she walks out of the office and

calls Louis.

Yeah. She feels abandoned by Serena at this point

and just doesn't really know what she has left

here. I felt for Blair here. Although.

School.

Huh? Huh?

School.

What? Oh.

Oh, that Ivy League education you fought so hard

for the first two seasons.

That Columbus, uh, place she's doing. Right.

Yes. Womp, womp. We move into Act 3. Nate is doom

scrolling Gossip Girl at work when he is

interrupted by Chuck. Chuck needs Nate's advice on

seducing an elder woman, which is convenient

because Nate needs advice on crossing moral lines.

I like that. Nate's just doom scrolling at work.

Yeah. Yeah. Again, I hate.

I'm going to find a new story by looking at old

Gossip Girl stories.

Yeah, I'll find that.

Yeah. Great idea, Nate.

He doesn't get paid to think.

No.

He gets paid to have sex with his boss. He just

doesn't quite recognize that yet.

I think there's a word for that. Oh, yeah.

Prostitute.

Prostitute. Oh, yeah.

Blair finds Louie waiting for Eleanor and Cyrus to

return from temple. Louie didn't tell his mother

about Blair's decision yet because he wants to

make sure it's what Blair really wants first. Just

then, Sophie and Beatrice walk into the room and

Blaire tells them herself. Sophie is overjoyed,

but Beatrice rolls her eyes, upset that her plan

failed.

Beatrice is so fucking annoying. Maybe she can act

in French, I don't know. But she.

I think your acting is fine.

I thought I found it just to be so transparent

maybe. Which I know is kind of a thing you're

going for in acting, but I thought it was just a

little too.

I blame it on the writing.

Yeah.

The character is written to be over the top, one

dimensional. I want the throne. That's my only

motivation.

Yeah. And then that's really what's bothering me.

So maybe I'm putting too much on the actor. I felt

like there were some of the things that she was

telegraphing were just. I don't know, it felt like

with Matt Settle. And it's like, Matt, act mad.

You know, Like I kind of got that from her.

Again, she has. She has so little to work for. Uh,

uh, as far as a character is, it's like, what is

my characterization?

Yeah, yeah.

You want the throne and you are evil.

Yeah. And that is. And that is the character of

Beatrice.

Yes.

So, yeah, I get it. I. Yeah. Again, I hate this

storyline. I hate half of the storylines going on

right now.

So, yeah, storyline is stupid. I don't really have

a problem with the actress.

Yeah, I'm projecting.

Lily is frustrated that Rufus is forcing her to

look through the same Chinese venue for the fifth

time in seven nights. Ivy comes in and convinces

them to go to the Waldorf's. Breaking of the fast

with the penthouse to herself. She texts Nate to

come over and dot, dot, dot.

Ivy, I know you don't know Nate well enough, but

that means he wants. He thinks you want to bang.

And Nate will come over to bang because. Because

that will be the new shiny thing in front of him.

Dot, dot, dot means something else.

Yes.

It's like on the Office when Craig Robinson's

character when dot, dot, dot.

Eleanor is still stressing about the fasting. When

Beatrice introduces her to Diana, they try to get

a reaction out of Eleanor. When Beatrice surprises

her with the news that Blair is moving to Monaco,

Eleanor scoffs and says, Blair will do what she

wants. And it's not like she's signing a contract.

Yeah, because Blair is going to do what she wants.

And I love how, like, unfazed, how Eleanor takes a

moment to be like, oh, wow, is that a thing? Okay,

yeah. Blair's gonna do whatever she wants. It's

not like she's signing a contract. She's gonna go

there while she wants to be there. Also, this was.

What the are you doing at my house with Diana

Payne? Just like. Yeah, being introduced by

Beatrice.

And we do see a little bit before they. They

introduce her is like, where, you know, Beatrice

and Diane are scheming a little bit. M. But then,

yeah, she's like, oh, yeah, Nate Otravel called

about me.

Yeah.

Yeah, Okay. I guess so, uh, yeah.

Why are you here?

Back at the office, Serena once again gets

demeaned by Jane for losing the project. Jane

says, f. Scott fitzjackass nailed Serena in his

book. When Jane leaves, Serena hops back on her

laptop clock. Clearly up to something because

Gossip Girl says sometimes all it takes to cross a

line is a little push.

Yeah, again, like, Jane is an asshole. She does

kind of nail Serena here

because, like, as Dan kind of nailed Serena here

because Dale.

Well, because we know Dan nailed Serena. But. But,

but also Dan nailed Serena in the book, right?

Yeah.

That is who Serena is. If something doesn't fall

in her lap, she doesn't know how to get it. It was

like, cold.

But again, yes. Why are you relying on this

teenager to. With zero, zero experience to secure

this billion dollar project?

She has been working for you for five minutes and

has zero experience. She Is seriously, it's been.

This is episode four. Right. So she's worked for

you for a month?

Well, presumably she worked all summer for her as

well on the movie.

Oh, I guess the movie was. I guess that episode

was supposed to be mid summer and not the end of

the summer. I guess I take it working directly for

her. Right. Like on the other movie, she wasn't

directly working for Jane. She was working under

the other guy and the other director and whatnot.

Whereas then she got hired directly by Jane a

month ago, like four weeks ago. Jane was like, oh,

I recognize the good work you do. Now come work

for me and know everything about the industry

right now and don't mess up at all.

Ever. Alessandra and Dan are walking down the

street talking about how excited Harvey Weinstein

is about the project. However, Alessandra gets a

call that Harvey canceled because it's on

deadline. That Jane's company got the rights. Is

that how that works?

They seem to think that that's how it, uh, works a

lot. Because this is the second time that somebody

just up and canceled because they saw a thing.

Because the Daniel Day Lewis project, where they

just see Serena, uh, is in a book and they're

like, well, nope, no more.

Well, that was more of just not wanting to be

involved in that thing. This is like a whole thing

where they could just verify that, no, Jane does

not have the project.

Yeah, yeah.

You are still welcome to buy Harvey.

Yeah, yeah, it's still for sale, but apparently

not.

We move into Act 4. Lily and a still grumpy Rufus

arrive at the party and we see a delicious looking

buffet set up.

Yes.

This is where he's like, if. If Elder calls you

Lily Bass one more time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she didn't. She gave him

permission to go full Sean Penn.

Yeah.

Uh, which was Sean Penn back in the news in 2011

for some more of his shenanigans. I feel like

that's such a dated reference.

It's never a dated reference with Sean Pen.

Yeah, I guess so. Although his most recent work.

Have you seen one battle after another? No, it's.

It's worth the watch.

Eleanor finds Cyrus reviewing a legal document

with Blair and Louis. Princess Sophie had an

actual contract drawn up detailing how the baby

will be raised. Cyrus points out that the rules in

the contract are ridiculous and breaking them

could cause Blair to lose custody.

Yeah, Blair was all ready to sign this thing. It's

a good thing. She. She's like, oh, I have two

lawyers for dads, so listen to the fucking dad.

Lawyer. Which. Which at least when he said, like,

you can lose custody, she was like, wait, what?

Wait, that's not cool.

So even Louie was upset by that.

Yeah. Louie didn't even recognize that provision.

Blair was being an idiot in this episode.

Yeah. Yeah, sometimes. And, uh, it's one of those

things where I sometimes feel the writers. This

episode particularly, I don't feel like the

writers necessarily nailed the characters for who

they are. Except for Serena.

Uh, yeah. It was a first time writer.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Nate finds Charlie trying to break into Lily's

safe. Nate texts Chuck for help getting in. Chuck

texts back the safe combo, and we see him stalking

Dr. Barnes.

Yeah.

Old Chuck is back.

Yep.

Dan goes to Jane's office where she pretends to

kiss his ass. Dan thinks Jane pushed Serena to

sabotage his deal, but Serena walks in and takes

full credit for the scheme.

I like that Dan was ready to. Dan has never had an

issue going after authority figures. Dan is

always. When. When he felt something was unjust or

not right. He'll go at anybody. And he did the

same thing here with Jane, only to find out he was

wrong. But Jane was really wanted. Was. Was like,

no, I want your book.

The actress who played Jade did a good job of

being bad acting here.

Yeah.

Like. Like pretending to kiss Dan's ass because,

like, we know she thinks very little of him.

Yeah.

Louis comes down to the party with the contract

and complains about it. First to his sister and

then to his mother. We discovered the more

outrageous clauses were snuck in by Beatrice. But

because Blair was rightfully upset, Sophie now

thinks her daughter was right to include them.

Sophie says that if Blair doesn't sign the

contract, she won't acknowledge the child or Louie

as her heirs. But Louis steps in and says, too

late. No takesies. Backsies.

Yeah, I. This was like the first time that I was

like, okay, Louie. Like, fuck, yeah, Louie.

Because he's like, it is up to my kid to recognize

you. And it was like, damn, how the

hell does this royal succession thing work here?

Yeah, well, none of it really makes a whole lot of

sense. It does seem like it's all tied up in a

circus somehow.

But it's like, no, you already said I can be it,

so you can't take it back now. Too late.

Yeah. Yeah. Don't take these backsies well. Yeah,

because you already convinced the board that I'm

allowed to be, even though you were going to

convince them not to be. Jesus Christ. I like and

I hate. That's what I hate. Like, uh.

And we move into Act 5. Sophie tells Louie that he

is making a mistake to trust Blair. She even told

Beatrice before him about the pregnancy, but Louis

insists that he can trust her. Sophie. Oh,

sweeties him. Before she walks away, Sophie tells

Beatrice that she might be moving up in the line

of succession. Um, Beatrice surreptitiously nods

to Diana across the room, who has clearly been

watching all the scandal unfold.

Beatrice, why are you putting your faith into this

random person that you just met, this random

gossip columnist that you just met?

Because she's desperate and all she needs is help

causing more chaos.

Yeah, but, like, you don't know this person. This

isn't an ally.

But they have mutual interests.

Yeah, well, I mean, but they don't. Um, in the

sense that Beatrice has interest in the chaos to

get to a certain goal. Diana's interest in. It

doesn't matter what happens with Beatrice. All

that matters is that there's drama. So you're

basically trusting someone whose entire goal is

just to use you to stoke drama in your family for

her to exploit for her own newspaper.

Well, Beatrice went to the Littlefinger school of

Game. Uh, of Thrones. Chaos, Zolata. Ivy and Nate

are staring at the treasure trove of secrets and

scandal they pulled from Lily's safe. Ivy is

excited to save her job and keep her cover as

Charlie, but Nate says they should put it all back

because he can't betray his friends. Nate appears

to convince her to do the right thing.

Well, he gets her with the line, you're acting

like you don't even know these people. At which

point Ivy is like, oh, right, that's because I

don't even know these people, and I need to stop

seeming that way immediately.

Whoops.

Yeah.

Chuck is still stalking Dr. Barnes, and he

confronts her on a dark street. She calmly gives

him a dime store psychoanalysis, and this kind of

breaks Chuck and she walks away.

It was a nice tear down, though, and it was

something that Chuck needed to hear.

Yeah. And it was 100% right.

There was no lies detected in anything she said. I

actually really liked it. And I love that Chuck

just sat there at the end like owned. Um, just

recognizing that he had just been.

Serena finds Dan still waiting for her in the

office after she had gone all the way to Jane's

car, apologizing along the way. Dan finally

figured out that she was playing him. At the

breakfast earlier. Sarina says she finished the

book, and Dan reiterates that it's fiction and

inspired by a lot of different things. Serena says

Dan was the Love of her life, and she thought she

was his as well.

And you were, Serena. You were at one point. And

there are stories.

Well, I like what Dan points out, uh, at the end

there. They're still young. There's a long time to

find the love of your life.

Yeah. Yes, that too. But also, Serena, there are

stories Dan wrote about you that are not in a bad

light. Mhm. That aren't about him eventually

getting together with Blair. He wrote a novel

while he was into Blair. Like, get over it. And

much like Nate, it's not just you. It is a bunch

of people combined into you.

And this is Gossip Girl's thoughts on it. That's

the thing about writing what you know. Soon

everybody else knows it too. We move into the

epilogue. The Spectator was launches its website,

this time with a story about the royal feud as its

lead. Ivy and Nate are sitting together and are,

uh, glad they didn't have to cross any moral lines

and keep their jobs. At least for now. Ivy sees

Diana staring her down. Nate, of course, is

oblivious. As the meeting is breaking up, Diana

tells Ivy to come back to her office for a private

chat.

Yeah. Way to go, everybody. We now have stuff to

write about. It was dumb.

Back at the party, Eleanor confesses that she gave

Beatrice the idea of a contract, but then tells

Blair that she will be a good mother. Eleanor

gives a lovely speech about accepting the children

will do things on their own time schedule. The two

hug.

Yeah, she's like, look, uh, like, I may have given

her the idea because I was just telling her that

you're going to always do what you want, and

that's who I raised you to be. And I loved that.

Just another wonderful Eleanor being the best

parent on the Upper east side.

Moment accepted. The kids are gonna do things on

their own timetable.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Rufus and Lily overhear the conversation, and Lily

shames him, causing Rufus to finally realize he's

being a shitty parrot and should answer Dan's

calls.

Mm. Fucking asshole. You're such an asshole,

Rufus. No, I don't have any kids that like me.

Blair is still talking to Eleanor when Serena

shows up and pulls her aside. Serena apologizes

that she hasn't been there for Blair like she

promised. Serena admits she was jealous that Blair

is the star of Dan's book. Blair once again says

it's pure fiction. And the two besties hug. Uh, it

out.

Yay. Also, like, again, Serena having to own that

if she's not in the spotlight, she's. She's

butthurt. So, yep.

Even though when she Is in the spotlight. She acts

like she's so above it.

Yeah. Yeah.

When Ivy comes to Diana's office, we see that she

did give the files to Diana after all. And Diana

returns the folders, but not before secretly

swiping something out of Bart's folder.

Yes, something from Bart's folder. But also, Ivy

is all like, and you're not going to use these for

anything. Right? I just gave you all of this

information and all of these secrets, but you're

not going to use them for your magazine. That is

what I stole them for.

Right, but as we know, most of the pretty much has

been on Gossip Girl.

Right. I'm just all just talking about the. The

naivety of Charlie to even steal it, give it to

her, and then not expect her to use whatever is in

there. But yeah, she takes something from the Bart

folder.

Serena gets a call from Dan, who says they are

still too young to know who the loves of their

lives are. He agrees to sell the book option to

Jane, but that, uh, he wants to write the

screenplay. Serena looks forward to spending time

with him in production meetings. And Dan takes a

call from Rufus.

I liked how that ended up. I liked that because I

liked that Dan was like. He sees where Serena is

coming from, you know, And Dan has always been

like that. Of course, Dan has also been. Anything

Serena wants, Dan's going to try to get.

He was in this exact position last year.

Yeah. Yeah.

So you know, he knows exactly how she feels.

Mhm.

Yeah, he recognized that. And he feels bad about

it, but he can't control that. He just doesn't

feel that way anymore.

Right.

Chuck leaves a message for Dr. Barnes admitting

she was right and that he does need help. He says

he's ready to be serious. She picks up just as he

hangs up.

Good. Let's hope that Chuck actually gets some

therapy. I like that storyline.

Maybe not from this particular therapist.

Maybe not, but he needs therapy. Yeah, it's

probably going to be this particular therapist,

but he needs therapy.

We see Diana alone in the office, and the file she

pulled from the folder is a photo of her much

younger self. She looks at the photo reminiscingly

for a moment before burning it.

Yeah, it's an incriminating photo of you fully

clothed that Barb Bass has from when you were

young.

Okay, so is Nate banging Chuck's mommy?

Yeah, I mean, I had that thought. I had that

thought that this could be Mrs. Bass, a former

Mrs. Bass, or somehow be Chuck's mom, because it

was inconclusive as to whether or not the other

one was Chuck's mom, right? Cause they kind of

went back and forth and alluded to, yeah, she was,

but maybe she wasn't. But the DNA said something.

But the DNA may have been fixed.

Well, she, uh, told Chuck that she wasn't, but I

thought it was pretty clear that she was.

That was my interpretation of how things ended.

This also could be tied to Howie somehow, I think,

too, but we'll see.

Is it Nate's mom? Blair finds Louis sitting in her

bedroom alone with the desk drawer open. Blair

apologizes for coming between him and his mother,

but he says she is all the family he needs now.

When she goes to run a bath, we see that he has

found the paternity test. He pulls out his phone

and calls Dr. Barnes and says he has a problem as

more than willing to pay for her time.

Uh, yeah, let's see how ethical of a psychologist

she is, because seems like he's gonna be paying

her for info on Chuck. So awesome.

And these are Gossip Girl's final comments on the

episode. As challenging as atoning can be, the

rewards make it worth the sacrifice. But the most

difficult part can be admitting there was a sin to

begin with. The problem with hiding your sins is

they always come back. And on the day when some

have atoned for past transgressions, a once pure

prince can't help but commit a new one. XOXO

Gossip Girl. That is our episode. What is coming

next?

Okay, well, we're gonna get some kind of tie in to

Barbass. Obviously, there has to be. Diana is now

tying things to Bart, so we gotta. So something is

getting tied up there. I've been predicting that.

I think that Bart may not be dead. And I think

this might be evidence that they're looking to

bring Bart back. God, I just want this whole Diana

Payne thing to blow up and be done. But I feel

like we're in for such a long haul on it. I think

that we're going to see Louis bribing a therapist

for information. I think we're going to see a lot

of Dan and Serena working together. And, yeah, I

want to see where they go with making this movie

and whatnot. But I didn't feel like there was a

lot of real, like, substance in this episode the

way there often is.

Like, there was definitely a filler episode.

Yeah, a ketchup filler.

Will Blair ever read the book? And if so, what,

uh, will her reaction be?

Yeah, I think she'll read the book, and I think

it's gonna strike her. I think it's going to open

up some feelings that she has for Dan. I still

have high hopes for Dare, and I think that the

book is where Blair is really going to see how Dan

views her.

Anything else coming up?

I don't think so. We got a wedding that there's.

That's gonna happen. I think the wedding's gonna

happen, but fail. So we'll see where. Where that

goes.

So you've already said we're gonna lose the baby.

Do you think that'll happen before or after the

wedding?

I would think before. So then they're like, oh, we

don't want to get married now. I could also see it

happening right at, uh, right after or during,

like, being the catalyst, so. But I'm gonna go

with before for right now.

That is it for our episode. Let's get into

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This week in fandom, we jumped into the Wayback

Machine to travel to the Television without pity

forums from 2011. Their overall impression. This

was a boring episode. Pretty much, yeah. Oh, God,

please tell me that Diana isn't Chuck's mom.

Yeah.

That Ivy is losing the plot, willing to betray the

family just so she can keep the secret to stay in

with said family.

Yeah, she's letting, uh, everything get away from

her.

The only good part of the Dayana plotline was

Gossip Girl giving her the smackdown.

Yes. Facts.

After a good few episodes at the end of season

four and leading into season five, Serena is back

to her old bullshit.

Correct.

Confused about how Serena's leak killed the deal.

Yeah, we talked about that.

Yeah, we talked about that.

And finally, the shippers were hanging on for the

dare crumbs.

That's why I'm still here. That and the podcast.

But I'm pretty sure that if there wasn't a

podcast, I probably would have. Would have dropped

off somewhere before.

Fair enough. Moving over to episode grades. I, uh,

went first last time, so it is your turn to go

first.

I'm gonna land this one at a C minus. I liked the.

I did like the Dan storyline. I didn't hate the

Chuck storyline. I hated the other two things.

Chuck's psychiatrist psychologist storyline was

just kind of there for me. And then also I'm like,

good for Chuck. He needs a psychologist. But I

hated the Louis stuff. I hated the Diana stuff. So

I'm going to land it at a C minus.

Yeah, this is definitely a subpar episode. The

only thing that saved it From D territory, I think

was basically Cyrus and Eleanor. Yeah, she had

some really good acting in this episode, as usual.

So, yeah, I was also a C minus.

Yeah.

Stockwatch. Who do you have going up?

Cyrus and Eleanor, as always, because they're

awesome. I'm gonna have Blair go up because I feel

like she did regain her power by the end, so I'm

gonna have her go up. Dan's book is getting made

into a movie, so I'm gonna give Dan an up. Uh, I'm

gonna give Lillian up for being the bigger person

and trying to get Dan to talk, uh, with or Rufus

to talk with Dan. Did Diana get what she wants?

Yeah, I'm gonna let Diana. Whatever she's up to,

Diana goes up right now because she's working

something successfully, as dumb as it is. And I'm

gonna give. What's her name? Eliza. The doctor.

Dr. Barnes.

Dr. Barnes. I'm gonna give Dr. Barnes an up for

schooling Chuck a little bit on Chuck. I think

that's it for me.

I had Lily going up because, uh, she was the smart

parent. Dr. Barnes. Yes. Like you said, she got to

give Chuck a little verbal smackdown. We always

like to see that. I did have Chuck actually going

up because he finally, at the end, realized that,

yeah, he does need to see a therapist.

I actually did want to have Chuck go up too. Ah.

And Chuck in general had a good episode for Chuck.

You know, he was being this slimy old Chuck again,

but his heart wasn't in it. And he did, like you

said, come around to that at the end.

I also had Serena and Jane going up because even

though they were shitty people all episode, they

got the movie.

Yeah.

Got the rights. So they did. They got what they

wanted. Eldor and Cyrus going up because they were

great, as usual. I had Beatrice going up because

she got that little nod at the end, even though

she's kind of fooled all episode. She did get the

nod from her mom, which, you know, that's kind of

what she wanted all along. Uh, she wanted your mom

to acknowledge her.

Yeah.

And then I couldn't. I didn't like this guy at

first, but because he's just consistently a sassy

bitch, he started to grow on me. Serious coworker

Sam.

I m. Can see that too. I can see that one too.

Who do you have going down?

I'm leaving Serena neutral because terrible

episode one on the end. I just left her in the

middle. And, ah, same with Jane, because I just

think that Jane kind of sucks. Even if she got

what she wanted in the End. But actually going

down. I don't really feel. Oh, the only person

that I. Rufus just for still being an asshole even

though he called in the end, Rufus just sucks. The

princess, the mom.

Uh, Sophie.

Sophie. Sophie. Sophie, who is seeing her shit

spiral and is going to have to work harder to get

things under control. I'm going to send her down

too. Ivy I'm sending down because she got so

fucking played and she's just getting pushed

around. And I'm going to say Nate for just being

fucking stupid. Nate's just dumb right now. So.

Nate, that's it.

Yeah. For me, Rufus was also my number one. But I

also had Dan going down because he missed out on

having Oscar buzz with Harvey Weinstein. Blair

going down because she is kind of spiraling again.

Louie going down because I don't know what he's

doing. He's flip flopping all over the place and

now he's trying to bribe therapists and not good.

Ivy going down because yeah, she's just so close

to being exposed and you know it's gonna happen

any moment. Nate going down because he is once

again being played. And I had Diana going down

because even though she did get the. The opening,

her story is stupid and she did get smacked down

by Gossip Girl and she's. She is trying to copy a

teenager's website.

Yeah.

And not doing a good job.

Yeah. Yeah. She's doing a very bad job of it. But

here's the best outfits from the

last episode we've seen.

Moving to best outfit. Who do you got?

This one was tough for me because there wasn't a

lot to work with and I went with Beatrice. That

blue dress that she was wearing throughout the

episode was probably, I thought, the best dress

and the best outfit in general.

That was a nice dress. I also liked Lily's green

dress she had at the party was decent. The one I

actually gave to. At first I didn't like it, but

it grew on me on. On my re watches. Blair's pink

sleeveless mini dress with the white framing. It

was actually, uh, from Victoria beckham's spring

of 2010 collection.

Yeah, I didn't care for that one. I thought it was

too boxy.

That's what I thought at first, but it grew on me.

Oh, that's fair. I want to. Also, while we're

talking fashion, I in general like Ivy's style

that I feel like Ivy really dresses a lot. Like

season one Serena before Serena had her boobs in

every scene. Before, before the. The. Her rider

was updated to make sure that there was enough

cleavage in every, in every episode that like she

wears these really kind of casual, flowy but

elegant looking outfits that I. That reminded me

of season one. Serena.

Well, Elizabeth Hurley is sharing the cleavage

quota with Blake Lively this, this year very much.

Yes.

I also did like Chuck's suit, but I couldn't give

it to him because it was wrinkled like the whole

episode.

Yeah. Yeah. From. Yeah, from all the laying down,

I

assume that is it for Sigmas. Do you have anything

you would like to plug this week?

I am still reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and I also

just the crossovers with Gossip Girl and the

references. There's an entire Grimaldi Circus

storyline in one of the books. There's also a time

where one of the characters is trying to name a

uh, changeling and she can't decide to name it Ivy

or Charlie. And there's. Yeah, it's just I might

have to

prevent you for reading this book for fear of

spoilers. You might stop reading.

I think that the biggest one is just the accident

in season five is the only thing that has been

brought up that I don't know about. And honestly

most of the references just fly past. Like if I

wasn't watching Gossip Girl, I wouldn't have

caught that Charlie Ivy reference at all because

it doesn't say they were named after Gossip Girl

characters. It didn't mention Gossip Girl at all

in that part of the book. It's just she was

trying. There's another couple people that she

names Lorelai and Rory at another part of the

book. So the character is a cat who had the

television left on when she would be alone. So she

knows all of these TV shows. It's very funny and I

definitely recommend the audiobook because the guy

reading it is spectacular. And outside of that,

please find my instagram and my TikTok. Steve

Marshalln M M A R C H I O N Nothing for me

to plug this week, but you can follow me on social

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talk about Season five, Episode six, I Am Number

nine. The episode description reads, Blair makes

all her former minions and Charlie compete to

secure the coveted bridesmaid spot in her upcoming

royal wedding. Nate is tired of keeping his

relationship with Diana secret, so he decides to

use Charlie to make Diana jealous. Serena's boss

is determined to acquire the film rights to the

dance book, so Serena must put her personal

feelings about Dan and the book aside in order to

close the deal.

Okay, this is what I'm looking for. I don't know

if I'm gonna hate this episode or not, but I love

Blair making all of the minions fight for

bridesmaids positions. That is classic fucking

Blair. That is classic Gossip Girl. Give me that.

Bring that on.

I will spoil it. It might be our friend Alice's

best episode of the series. Until next time. You

know you love us.

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