This week on Gossip Girl , the Serena and Dan 10-second sex tape is finally released to reign muppet-haired terror during Cotillion. This group of people have ruined so many Cotillions, you would think their names would be at the top of some kind of socie more

Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 6, Episode 5 of The CW's "Gossip Girl," titled "Monstrous Ball." How do you solve a problem like "Gossip Girl"? Thankfully, The CW has already answered that great philosophical question by determining more

Gossip Girl finally found a little bit of its groove again with the aptly-named " Monstrous Ball ." After a strong premiere, Gossip Girl Season 6 quickly lost steam. The characters have felt like they're through the motions at times in the buildup to t more

Gossip Girl Season 6, Episode 5, “Monstrous Ball” opens with a black-and-white collage of images set to Frank Ocean’s “Super Rich Kids.” It’s a fitting ode to the ever-present wealthy “in-crowd”  — and to the flashy life into which Dan Humphrey is tr more

Whoa. What a difference a week makes. Last week, there was nothing funny spoken for an entire two hours. Which is strange because the show was only, like, forty-five minutes long. So, we were thrilled with the melange of real talk, accidental hilarity, an more

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Cotillion time rolled around again in “Monstrous Ball,” this week’s episode of  Gossip Girl , with darling Sage ready to make her debut into society. Although it seemed like she was willing to give Serena a chance last week, she must have just been h more

This week, we learned that the path to “maturity” in the Upper East Side is an incredibly nauseating one. (Serena realizes that her vitamin-selling boyfriend hooked up with her own mother — but proceeds to sleep with him anyway.) In other slightly less ho more