Every couple of years, a show comes around that fits under the category of "guilty pleasure." From 2003 to 2007, that show was Fox's "The O.C." The adventures of Ryan Atwood and Seth Cohen were filled with soapy drama, fistfights and tons of boozing. After the end of the series, "O.C." producer Josh Schwartz turned a best-selling teen book series into a soap opera of super-rich proportions known as "Gossip Girl."
While last season ended with a rather underwhelming finale, the season that preceded it was such juvenile fun that it was easy to overlook that minor infraction. After months of waiting and plenty of buzz-building, it's unfortunate to reveal that the season premiere of "Gossip Girl" took a note from Eliot and ended not with a bang but with a whimper.
In "Summer, Kind of Wonderful," gone are the days of coke overdoses, backseat de-virginizing and social stair-climbing, replaced by the same East Hampton shoulder-rubbing you could read about in Us Weekly.
Long story short: Serena misses Dan, Dan misses Serena, Chuck misses Blair, Blair hates Chuck and Nate is bedding a MILF. If none of those names ring a bell, I suggest you educate yourself, and watch the first season on DVD.
Unlike the days where Michelle Trachtenberg's Georgina Sparks was ruining lives, there are no big revelations in the premiere aside from *spoiler alert* Blair's fake boring boyfriend is actually a boring duke, which seems to light her fire.
Unfortunately, the most interesting relationship of the first season - between Lily Van Der Woodsen (Serena's Mom) and Rufus Humphries (Dan's Dad) - is nonexistent, with Lily not even showing up and Rufus on the road with his band Lincoln Hawk (which sounds like a Lorenzo Lamas show).
Where's Jenny doing whatever it takes to climb to the upper echelon of society? Where's Serena making terrible and idiotic decisions? Where is Chuck Bass instead of the big-hearted baby that replaced his character? Hopefully, next week's episode, which promises some signature Bass scheming, will return the show to its once-shiny luster of ridiculousness.
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