'Gossip Girl' recap: Serena vs. Georgina
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As Gossip Girl herself noted, Serena’s “ghost of parties past” blew into town last night in the couture-clad form of Georgina Sparks.
Just as last week’s episode marked the Clash of Blair & Jenny, this week’s marked the one brewing between S. and G.
And it looks like it’s going to get ugly.
Basically, Georgina brings out the worst in Serena, coaxing the “bad girl” to come out after a few too many Cosmos.
It seems that G. is hell-bent on ruining Serena’s new life, perhaps jealous that S. has been able to reform her dastardly ways. First, she got Serena to substitute an SAT study session at Dan’s for drinks at a club—prompting S. to ask her soon-to-be stepbrother, Chuck, to provide a lame food poisoning alibi.
Then Serena skipped the SATs themselves, though that wasn’t entirely her fault. Georgina spiked her diet Coke with a knock-out drug, enabling G. to concoct a lie that had Serena tossing back Patron instead of getting a good night’s sleep.
Chuck got her out of that jam by hiring a red-haired ringer to take the test for Serena. He hired someone else to take it for him, too, of course. (And just as a side note, Chuck is showing his softer side these days; he seems to be serious about his protective role as brother to Serena and Eric.)
Anyway, Dan knows something’s up, having seen through Serena’s excuses and spotting her SAT stand-in.
But she’s not able to tell him what’s wrong. Even Chuck notes that whatever Georgina’s got on Serena must be really, REALLY bad, if she can’t even tell him.
Apparently G. and S. got into some trouble about a year ago, something so terrible that Serena fled to boarding school and Georgina to Europe. And they refused to talk about what happened ever since.
Which is the big question, of course: What happened?
Whatever it is, as Serena told Georgina, “If I go down, you go down with me.”
Looks like G. doesn’t care much, since the episode ended with her still plotting against Serena. She manufactured a meeting with Dan in the park, calling herself Sarah.
(Insert ominous teen movie music here.)
Oh yeah, and elsewhere on the Upper East Side (and Brooklyn), Nate and Vanessa hooked up, Blair sabotaged the college chances of nerdy brainiac Nelly Yuki and Jenny snagged a rich b-friend.
Can you tell I could so care less about the subplots last night?
Until next week, XOXO…
(Photos courtesy of the CW)
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