Warning: This article comprises spoilers for season 2 of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl.
You know you’re keen on them! The HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot revealed what the OG collection’ energy couple Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) are up to now.
During episode 2 of season 6 — which aired on Thursday, December 29 — Serena’s outdated frenemy Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) returned to maintain the modern-day Gossip Girl, Kate Keller, (Tavi Gevinson) hostage in Dan and Serena’s condo. Although the fictional couple are nonetheless collectively — and have a toddler — after tying the knot within the 2012 collection finale’s five-year-flash-forward, they’re additionally nonetheless being tortured by Georgina.
“This is Dan and Serena’s house. They fired their staff when they thought someone was breaking in,” Georgina revealed to Kate in Thursday’s episode, explaining that she’d been sneaking into the duo’s house to wreak havoc for years. “They put up cameras everywhere. I had my son loop the image, so now they’re bringing in a paranormal expert. … At first it was small annoyances — taking a sock or two, turning the heat down — but then I wanted a little more fun, like replacing the oat milk with full dairy. Their kid’s lactose intolerant. They’ve seen every specialist, and no one knows what’s wrong.”
The return of the calculated villain — who was a recurring character on the unique CW collection — has been on reboot creator Joshua Safran’s thoughts for fairly a while.
“I definitely knew that I wanted Georgina back from pretty much the day after I pitched the show,” he informed Deadline earlier this month. “Michelle actually started DMing about it during the season 1 writer’s room. She was like, ‘I want to come back.’ And I was like, ‘I really want you to as well, but I actually don’t think season 1 is the right place,’ because I wanted everybody to be really set up so that she could come in and sort of destroy them.”
The solid of the HBO teen drama was equally excited by the character’s comeback.
“She’s an icon,” Zión Moreno, who performs Luna La, informed POPSUGAR of the Harriet the Spy star, 37, earlier this month. “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.”
Trachtenberg, for her half, introduced her return to the position through Instagram in October.
“You can tell Jesus: She’s baaaaaack … #xoxo #gossipgirl 💋,” she captioned a nonetheless from the reboot, referencing a line from the unique collection.
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