Gossip Girl (2021): Season 1

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Gossip Girl: Season 1

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HBO Max | Season Premiere Date: July 8, 2021

Summary: New York private school students discover they are being watched by Gossip Girl (voiced by Kristen Bell), who returns eight years later on Instagram in this follow-up series to The CW series of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Episode 10
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E9. Episode 09
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E8. Episode 08
Air Date: November 30, -0001

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The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon

Jul 7, 2021

This is Gossip Girl, so obviously there are love triangles and betrayals and backstabbing and upsettingly grown-up teen machinations. Some of those threads titillate. Some are incredibly dumb. Which is to say, it is every bit the soap opera you’d expect. Those are the diversions that hook you in each episode. ... But these diversions only work because they’re bolstered by some actually heady thematics. Read full review

Peter Travers

Jul 9, 2021

The old magic isn’t back yet in a woke reboot that forgets a guilty conscience is no substitute for a guilty pleasure. But when these privileged teens get their digital knives out the result is wicked, compulsively watchable fun and deliciously addictive. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jul 8, 2021

Yes, this is a sexier, more drug-fueled and risqué “Gossip Girl,” but only by a matter of degrees. It’s not all debauchery and the conflict generally comes from character and not gender (so far, no cat fights). Read full review

Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich

Jul 6, 2021

The new Gossip Girl is vastly more sensitive about everything, in a way that feels at once wholly sincere and brutally boring. ... It's tempting to call this reboot a fustercluck, but there could be something here — if Safran and Co. are willing to go back to the basics of bitchiness. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Jul 8, 2021

It all seems very much the same as it did by the end of the first series: Tired and repetitive. Read full review

Kathryn VanArendonk

Jul 6, 2021

The show’s most appealing, fascinating, outright fun elements are the parts where it so clearly owns itself, enjoys itself, preens with one hand at the same time as it flips a casual bird with the other. ... It is fundamentally hollow at the core, frivolous and frothy, studded with sequins and infidelities and students who lust for their teachers (but gay!). It seems uneasy with that emptiness, but it lacks the desire or capability to backfill everything with earnestness or do-goodery, and some later scenes in the series where it attempts to suddenly find sincerity are among the worst, most cringeworthy parts of the four episodes provided to critics. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Jul 20, 2021

Toxic reboot. ... Indifferently acted by a cast that looks more suited for grad than elite high school. [19 Jul - 1 Aug 2021, p.7]

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cxp

Jul 8, 2021

Do not listen to the negative reviews. This show is entirely different from the original and the books. It's not trying to recreate the originals, I don't know why people are mad about this.

It's mature, bold, fun, and takes the elements we loved in the original and twists it into a freshDo not listen to the negative reviews. This show is entirely different from the original and the books. It's not trying to recreate the originals, I don't know why people are mad about this.

It's mature, bold, fun, and takes the elements we loved in the original and twists it into a fresh and great show.… Expand

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CelloAfoxx

Jul 28, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show is everything the original wasn't allowed to be. It explores the sisters aspect from afar while diving headfirst into sex and drug exploration in ways that is a respectful middle finger to the original, and a blatant one to the generations that came before. If you don't understand the show it wasn't meant for you.… Expand

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Lotto1999

Jul 9, 2021

Amei, Julian é a melhor personagem. Ela é incrível. Os personagens precisam ser melhor trabalhados mais tem uma faísca que deixa a série instigante.

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mullermalu

Jul 22, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. perfeita vey, julien lenda. luna e monet as maiores de todas a max papai amoo… Expand

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PotterheadGleek

Nov 25, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Such an iconic as already is the original Gossip Girl, the remake is remarkably disappointing. There is no development whatsoever of the characters. I'm not sure why they decided to do another season, there are topics which they didn't need to add, I mean why the teacher is bullying the students? It is immature.… Expand

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SirensOfTitan

Jul 8, 2021

Oh boy, I don’t know how they greenlit this. The acting is comically bad, especially in the scenes with the teachers. The writing, particularly the dialog, is even worse: I could imagine 10th grader writing this as gossip girl fan fiction with the help of Microsoft Word’s synonym tool—orOh boy, I don’t know how they greenlit this. The acting is comically bad, especially in the scenes with the teachers. The writing, particularly the dialog, is even worse: I could imagine 10th grader writing this as gossip girl fan fiction with the help of Microsoft Word’s synonym tool—or perhaps this was just written by the computer that writes Olive Garden commercials: input in catchphrases and topics, and a delicious dialog worthy of chain Italian food pops out. The first season of the original Gossip Girl (very similar to Glee’s first season) was incredible, but due to the departure of the original show runner, the characters gradually degraded into hollow versions of their former complexity. It seems, after one episode here, as if we’re starting over with the same writing mistakes. Shows that parody in a non-comedic way need strong writing, and this isn’t there.

The only saving grace here is the return of Kristen Bell as Gossip Girl’s voice. I don’t know, watch the original first couple episodes of Gossip Girl, then watch a real show about the filthy rich like Succession.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

53

Series Overview
Season 2

68
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: December 1, 2022
Season 1

51
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 8, 2021
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  S1:E10. Episode 10
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E9. Episode 09
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E8. Episode 08
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E7. Episode 07
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E6. Episode 06
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E5. Episode 05
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E4. Episode 04
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E3. Episode 03
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E2. Episode 02
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E1. Episode 01
  Air Date: November 30, -0001