Problems with 'Gossip Girl'

Netflix has become more popular than television, and now it has more shows that are interesting, and above all, no commercials. I enjoyed watching the series Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, they helped filled the void of my drama-less life. When I finished watching both those shows, I found myself flipping through Netflix trying to find something good to watch. I started to watch Gossip Girl and halfway through season two I could not stand to watch it anymore, because of how the characters acted like they were already adults, when realistically they were rich high school kids.

The problem with the character Chuck Bass is that his father is a multimillionaire owning a large company and Chuck is a drinker. In a lot of the scenes Chuck is always holding a glass of whiskey and drinks it without making a face. Yes, whiskey or scotch is meant to be an expensive taste, but when in high school most kids want to drink the stuff that does not taste like alcohol. Fun drinks that have a lot of sugar, or beer, is usually a good option. Once in a while drinking an expensive whiskey is not bad, but this show demonstrates it in almost every scene Chuck Bass is in.

All the characters on the show can walk into a bar ,and not get asked to show their ID. Chances are the characters would have a fake one at least, but the fact that the bar tenders never check their ID, when clearly there are high school students in the midst, shows unrealistic expectations that kids can get away with anything. Also, the drinking age in the states is twenty one. High school students do not look anything like twenty-one. I know that a lot of teen shows do this, but I feel that this particular show does it to an extreme, where they are all drinking at bars all the time. Even Pretty Little Liars had a few drinks themselves, but it was sneaking alcohol, which made it a rebellious cause, and they did not drink all the time.

Sex and affairs. Just stop right there, everyone is sleeping with someone and then someone is cheating on someone else and everyone gets angry. High school in real life is nothing like that. They act like they were married, and then act like a divorce is happening when someone cheats on someone else. In high school this sort of thing was rare. Sure someone would be dating someone else, but then they would break-up and they would start dating someone new. If couples were having sex in high school it was either that they got caught doing it, so everyone knew or that information was only told with best friends. That is the only way people would know.

Not studying. In these shows about high school kids, everyone is expected to get good grades, because it is a prep school and in this show they do everything except study. It bothers me so much that they only worry about the drama. I understand that it is a show, and drama is supposed to be happening, but you only see the characters head off to class and then end up hanging out a lot after school or snooping to find out someone else's dirty secrets. These kids never study, and yet they all have the ability to stay in school.

Chuck Bass having a job before graduating. No, no that is not how the real world works, he is unfit to run a company and yes rich kids get everything handed to them, but they need at least a college degree or a university degree to actually be able to have the job. They might get into universities much easier, because they are privileged kids with parents who have connections and money, but that does not mean you can open your own club and do what ever you want. He is a kid that really does not know anything about running a business, because his father ignored him all of his life until he told him to grow up, and it seems like the change happened over night, when that is not how the real world works.

The minor character, Scott, they met him at a bus stop and they hugged it out and then nothing. Nothing happened there, why did they decide to even put that in? What was the point of it, if it did not go anywhere?

Jenny and her designer clothing. Okay, this is where the show got overly ridiculous. She scored an internship with Waldorf designs, which is already a big deal for a fifteen year old girl to have, but then in the course of one night she managed to change a big designer's mind. That was just too easy. Then, when Rufus, her father, finds out she had skipped school to do the internship, he agrees to home-school her. Rufus has put a lot of money so they can go to school, and then he's like "sure, let's home school you." How does that make logical sense. It is a father's responsibility to raise children, and not let them do whatever.

Blair eating lunch with her group on the steps of the metropolitan museum. Like what? someone like Blair would have had a small thing to sit on. Steps are gross, dirty, and unsafe to sit on because they would be blocking the way if there was a fire. It was also not very close to their school. So, her spot was inconvenient, and dirty. That does not sound like something Blair would do.

Pilot episode on a bus? Nate and Chuck are two of the most privileged boys that go to the private school and they were on the bus with everyone else, when in other scenes Chuck is often peeking his head out of a limo. That makes no sense, Chuck was always taking a limo to school. Then, they put him on a bus, and I do not think the writers thought it through.

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And gossip girl is... Dan? what? there were scenes where Dan would be by himself in his room, and express shock to what was being said on the gossip girl blog. Then, he had been posting things about his love interest as well? Talk about betrayal and misguided trust. There were times when Dan would be getting a text from gossip girl herself without texting something else first. How did that make sense too? There were so many plot holes, and it misleads teens into thinking what high school is like. In most high schools there is the popular crowd, who are popular because you see them sitting in large groups of twenty, but that was it. Your life did not revolve around those people and there was no "cool" spot to sit. You just did what you wanted and no one would tell you off or anything.

yours truly,

xoxo, gossip girl.