After the terrible reviews, this pay cable/streaming service wants to shoot new scenes for the almost network reboot.

I don’t think that will make things any better.

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The New “Gossip Girl” Is Nostalgic Fun, But Not Much More

When it premiered in 2007, the original Gossip Girl felt juicy and daring — almost dangerous. (Granted, I was a teenager myself at the time.) Sex! Drugs! Lavish, reckless spending! The CW’s inside look at the private lives of Manhattan’s underage elite scandalized kids and parents alike.

Now it’s over a decade later, and there’s no shortage of titillation on television. Nor is there a shortage of television, period — we’ve all got plenty to watch. So why an HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot, and why now?

When it premiered in 2007, the original Gossip Girl felt juicy and daring — almost dangerous. (Granted, I was a teenager myself at the time.) Sex! Drugs! Lavish, reckless spending! The CW’s inside look at the private lives of Manhattan’s underage elite scandalized kids and parents alike.

Now it’s over a decade later, and there’s no shortage of titillation on television. Nor is there a shortage of television, period — we’ve all got plenty to watch. So why an HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot, and why now?

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The reboot mostly just made me want to watch the original Gossip Girl again. While the new Gossip Girl is allegedly about the authenticity lost in our hyper-curated age of social media, the original already nailed the sort of preening artifice required of socialites who schmooze one second and backstab the next.

In the reboot, wealth is almost incidental; what these kids want is influence. But is anyone really buying it? ● – Source

OPINION: The new “Gossip Girl” makes no sense

Last Thursday, the first episode of HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot premiered and it was … weird. While the hierarchical energy of its predecessor was evident, this new iteration lacked the charm and intrigue that gave the original version from 2007 its massive success.

The new series revolves around a group of friends that rule Constance Billard School for Girls, the same school that Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodson ruled 14 years ago. The highly exclusive private institution is riddled with money, drugs and frantic power grabs from anyone and everyone.

The immediate problem with this reboot is the entity of Gossip Girl herself. In the original show, Gossip Girl was a mystery voice and drama instigator in the school halls, with an insight into the lives of everyone that mattered. Part of the fun was trying to figure out who it was — who was really behind the scandalous posts? Fans waited six seasons for an answer, and while the answer wasn’t satisfactory for most, at least the mystery was entertaining.

So now 2021’s “Gossip Girl” premieres and almost immediately we know exactly who Gossip Girl is. It’s a huge blow to the main appeal of the plot, but that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that Gossip Girl is a group of teachers at the school who are being victimized by their students.

Clearly, these super-rich elite students are manipulative monsters, and I can sympathize with the teachers. However, following underage students around to get dirt (and even taking compromising pictures of them half-naked) is just plain creepy, and I find it hard to engage with the people we’re supposed to root for. – Source

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