I know I love you XOXO

I finally got around to catching up on Gossip Girl and I'm pleased that I did. While it's not quite as appealing and enjoyable as The OC was in its best days, it is definitely entertaining. Over the course of the season the narration eased off a bit and I'm grateful for it, despite my unconditional love of Kristen Bell's voice. Chuck's love/lust/obsession with Blair is bizarrely endearing. Jenny is such a weird combination of sweet and calculating that it makes me want to cheer, against better judgment, for her to become the new Blair. Despite a heap of annoying situations, character traits, and acting deficiency against him, I've come to like Nate. And oh, Blake Lively, I am so sorry that I once got you mixed up with Amber Heard. So so sorry.

So Josh Schwartz appears to be two for two in this genre. Whoever thought a nerdy, hipster, twenty something Jewish guy would be the godfather of the teen soap? Oddly enough, his one show in the nerdy, hipster, twenty something Jewish guy genre seemed to struggle a bit more. But NBC is a tougher field than FOX or CW and, as far as I know, Chuck did manage a second season pick up. So I guess I shouldn't question the guy's skills in any hipster-friendly genre.