Pilot review: Gossip Girl

"Young Folks"? Really, Josh Schwartz? Aren't you supposed to be so far ahead of the music curve that you're some kind of genius? Well, I guess the pilot was made six months ago.

Um...I love a voiceover by Kristen Bell as much as the next Veronica Mars fan, but is this really necessary? I feel like I'm watching Page Six. I really don't get this whole blogger narration thing. Hey, maybe Kristen can start doing the voiceover on Heroes this year, replacing Mohinder. Actually, Heroes probably just needs to get over the voiceover thing altogether. Evolution, everything's connected, we can all make a difference in the world. We get it. But if she could maybe do the narration for my life. That would be cool. Anyway, back to this show. Yeah, Page Six, acted out. Weird.

Wow, Blake Lively is acting the pants off of Mischa Barton. She's on this show, Mike Vogel is in 1-18-08, America Ferrera just won an Emmy...who would have thought the cast of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants would be doing so well. Anyway, it's like Serena is supposed to be Ryan and Marisa combined into one person. That doesn't leave much character for Chace Crawford. Also Leighton Meester looks way too much like Rachel Bilson for me to focus on who she's actually supposed to be. I really like Dan, as I'm supposed to. The girl playing Jenny is like Michelle Trachtenberg 2.0. Dan and Jenny's dad is really pleasant. Blaire's mom is the most one dimensional character possible. Why does Serena's brother Eric have that two toned hair? Also, for a kid that just tried to kill himself, he sure is upbeat.

Now, my main issue with this show is Chuck (hmm, there're a lot of characters named Chuck on TV this season). Why are these people friends with him? They seem to know he's a horrible person. There's absolutely nothing that we can learn about him in the future that will redeem him from being an attempted rapist. And where can his character possibly go from here? Will he get worse and be the villain? Will he have something happen that will make him feel some kind of remorse and try to become a better person?

Yeah, so, party, fight, some engaging characters, a few actors who know how to act, this show definitely doesn't have anything big working against it. It does seem to have a lot of things that you would think are working for it. Regardless of all of that though, I can't seem to muster up the energy to be really interested. I can't believe I'm actually saying this...but maybe I've outgrown the teen drama. No, there's no way that's it. This just didn't have the appeal of the first episode of The OC. Well, I'll watch the next one and see if it gets any better. I guess that's all I've got on this one.