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Haven’t you heard? “Gossip Girl” is again for one more chaotic season on HBO Max, and we have got all of the deets.
The first season ends with a disastrous New Year’s Eve celebration that leaves Julien (Jordan Alexander) cleansing up a significant mess together with her ex Obie (Eli Brown) and sister Zoya (Whitney Peak). Not to say, the will-they-won’t-they throuple with Aki (Evan Mock), Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind), and Max (Thomas Doherty) lastly get the inexperienced gentle (although it certainly will not be easy crusing for them). The largest shock of all of them, nevertheless — other than Gossip Girl teaming up with Julien to reveal everybody’s soiled little secrets and techniques — is Monet (Savannah Lee Smith) gunning for the queen bee title now that Julien has turned over a brand new leaf, however there are loads extra surprising reveals forward in season two, so buckle up for the trip.
“We waited until season two so by the time she arrives, everybody is at the highest place for themselves to fall.”
With season one introductions out of the way in which, this season of “Gossip Girl,” which kicked off on Dec. 1, is all about setting the stage for Monet’s hostile takeover of Constance — and the epic return of Michelle Trachtenberg’s Georgina Sparks. According to “Gossip Girl” creator and showrunner Joshua Safran, who labored on the unique CW collection, the devious character was at all times primed for a comeback in his reboot.
“I always knew I wanted Michelle to come back, and Michelle and I stayed in touch over the years,” Safran tells POPSUGAR. “When season one was announced, she’s like, ‘OK, when am I coming?’ I was like, ‘OK, you’re coming, but I want the table to be fully set and loaded so you can pull the tablecloth out and destroy everything.’ We waited until season two so by the time she arrives, everybody is at the highest place for themselves to fall, and all she cares about is anarchy and destroying people she doesn’t even know. That’s a game to her, so the idea that she can destroy everybody is where we find her, and I think it’s a lot of fun to watch.”
Despite Georgina’s chaos queen title, the “Gossip Girl” forged have been really extremely enthusiastic about her showing in their reboot, which was a shock to some. “I read about it in the script,” Grace Duah, who performs Zoya’s good pal Shan, shares, “and so I remember reading it and being like, ‘I know that ain’t who I think it is.'”
Similar to earlier appearances from authentic “Gossip Girl” characters, Georgina’s return was predicted earlier than it was even confirmed as a form of manifestation by the writers. “Sometimes they’ll write who they hope to get back in the script, and then they’ll revise it depending on who they can and who they can’t get,” Peak explains. “[If] it doesn’t work out, then they just have to rewrite it and it’s completely different, but I was so happy when she actually came through and did it for us.”
“She’s an icon,” Zión Moreno provides of Georgina. “I loved her in the OG series, and it was an honor to get to work with her. She’s a hoot for sure, and there’s never a dull moment around her. It was a little nerve-racking because you want to make her proud, but she was just really, really nice and wonderful.” Lee Smith echoes her costar’s sentiments and needs she acquired the possibility to movie extra with Trachtenberg’s character. “I didn’t get to have as many scenes as I wished with her, but I had one good one where it was all of us together,” she says. “She’s just a really fun person to be around on set. It was a little intimidating, [but] I think we did OK.”
Beyond Georgina’s obnoxious antics, season two plans to show the tables on our favourite tumultuous teenagers, as Gossip Girl is leaving no stone unturned in the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite — not even the adults are off limits. While GG’s gossip suggestions are nonetheless pulling strings in the background, the group’s personal actions are simply as a lot of a risk to their actuality, and it will put all of them to the check. “We were like, in season two, Gossip Girl has pushed them against the wall so hard they have to fight back,” Safran explains. “[So] season two is: who are you when you actually fight back? Maybe you’re a version of yourself that you don’t like or don’t even know, or maybe you’re the best version of yourself and you never knew that you had that strength and resilience in you. That was where we took season two.”
“Now all of season two, you know them and you’re not comparing it to the original anymore, so it feels more like the original because your brain isn’t looking for it.”
For viewers who’ve been ready for the HBO Max reboot to revive the identical vibe from the unique “Gossip Girl,” excellent news: season two fulfills that. In the present’s protection, Safran says it took two seasons to make it occur as a result of “we decided to tell a story with all new characters.” “I think people came to the beginning of season one last year being like, ‘Where is my original ‘Gossip Girl?” But if they look back at the original [show], you were just getting to know the characters. There weren’t even cliffhangers,” he says. ” . . . Now all of season two, you know them and you’re not comparing it to the original anymore, so it feels more like the original because your brain isn’t looking for it.”
“Gossip Girl” is properly on its solution to residing as much as its predecessor’s legacy because of the comeback of the last decade from Georgina. But solely viewers can determine if the drama is greater and higher than ever. Until then, XOXO.
The first two episodes of “Gossip Girl” season two at the moment are streaming on HBO Max.
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