GG REVIEW SEASON 2

Hello Newyorkers, Legally Polymath here, and i got the review for Gossip Girl season 2!

When HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot premiered last year, it attempted desperately to strike an uneasy balance between progressive consciousness and messy teen drama in order to fit in with the modern Gen Z status quo. That, unfortunately, was where they went wrong.

Mercifully for us, the second season revels in its namesake's chaotic glory. So far, the first five episodes available to critics have demonstrated that what made Gossip Girl so popular in the first place was not social commentary, but rather the entertainingly reckless antics of the Upper East Side's elite.

Season 2 brings a much-needed status quo reshuffle to the show. Savannah Smith savors every bored eyeball, perfectly placed sneer, and pop culture-flecked insult. Whatever else is wrong with Gossip Girl's second season, she is impossible to ignore, and that has made all the difference.

Gossip Girl has finally transitioned into the sharp, polished homage to the original we always knew it could be by finally giving us a diabolical villain to both root against and adore.

One of the first season's biggest flaws was that each episode felt too neatly wrapped up by the end. Major plotlines were confined and resolved all at once, almost like a sitcom episode, and it lacked the slow-burn conflict that makes teen dramas so appealing in the first place. The season's treatment of Gossip Girl trio Aki (Evan Mock), Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind), and Max (Thomas Doherty) repeats some of the same errors made in the first installment. Every episode thus far has seen a new problem emerge and deal with it all at once, which can feel quite repetitive. Nonetheless, it's encouraging that the show continues to depict a healthy polyamorous relationship.

Gossip Girl, for the most part, improves on its flaws from the first season by allowing the characters to embrace being wealthy, petty, and just plain messy.The first season of HBO Max's reboot of Gossip Girl saw the soapy teen drama reimagined for a modern audience, with a new group of Constance Billard students navigating the Instagram era a decade after its predecessor's blog first took the world by storm. Season 2 picks up right where we left off after last season's New Year's Eve party, and while some storylines require this consistency, others feel like they could have used at least a short time skip, becoming bogged down by some repetition.