Gossip Girl - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Kristen Bell, Leighton Meester, Taylor MomsenBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 810 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
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DVD Review: Pulp Fiction Should Always Be This Good
Summary: 4 Stars
People have described "Gossip Girl" as a guilty pleasure. That description perfectly fits the show. Its combination of humor, camp and sexiness makes it the treat one doesn't necessarily want to admit to in this year's TV roll call. An adult viewer might look at Gossip Girl and think it simply sustains itself on a steady diet of teen pulp. While there is no shortage of adolescent thrills, Gossip Girl succeeds because it is for the most part, believe it or not, character driven. The show presents a cast of well-drawn, distinctly different, sexy and charismatic characters whose neuroses and emotional makeup are the product of their individual family histories--the show deserves enough credit to know that people are not always evil for the sake of being evil, are not bitchy and difficult simply because of mood, and that the public face covers over, in some cases, countless wounds. IN surveying the show's main characters, we encounter:
Daniel "Dan" Humphrey--Dan is unlike most of the characters on Gossip Girl because he comes from a roughly middle class background. Intelligent, talented and scrupulously honest, Dan is a star student at Constance and St. Jude's, known for his moral fiber as well as his ambition and intellect, and like almost all "moral" characters in TV and film claiming to uphold a value system, Dan is also chronically judgmental and self-righteous. No surprises there. Dan has a humble, almost gentle charm to him which together with being impossibly handsome makes him quite attractive to women. His moral centeredness, decency, and honesty make him something of a spiritual and moral lifeboat for Serena VanDerWoodsen, who recognizes his goodness as something entirely alien to her family, friends and the social world of the Upper East Side.
Nathaniel "Nate" Archibald--a rich kid from a old money family on the Upper East Side, descended from Cornelius Vanderbilt himself, Nate is more beautiful than most of the fashion models in Manhattan. On the surface of things Nate has it "made", as they say--his ridiculous male beauty combined with an easy affability and a gracious manner make him irresistible to women, single and married alike. Behind the veneer, however, Nate is another young man trying to find himself--he struggles to assert himself against a domineering, selfish father who tries to control Nate's life and make his decisions for him; the senior Archibald is more than willing to use his son as a frequent pawn to aid his own unethical business schemes, all in the name of family, of course.
Serena VanDerWoodsen--Blond, beautiful, statuesque, Serena quite naturally blossomed into a celebrity on the Upper East Side, almost in spite of herself; despite not having the internal lust for power and prestige of her best friend Blair, her beauty, presence and impeccable pedigree hold the power cliques of Constance and St. Jude's in a kind of muted awe; Serena, truth be told, is something of an anomaly at the private school--not belonging strictly to any one social group, her social standing there is nevertheless nearly impregnable. She is also something rare in the Gossip Girl world in that she is inherently a decent, loving person; her tender nature and deep sense of loyalty has embedded her in a lifelong friendship with Blair Waldorf, a relationship which teeters perpetually on the verge of breakup due to Blair's incurable neuroses and gameplaying.
Blair Waldorf--Watching the first episode of Gossip Girl, one might think that the villain of the piece is Chuck Bass, the overaggressive womanizing billionaire's son; one is progressively informed, however, observing the show's plotline unfold over the first season, that the real devil of the bunch is Blair. Blair is, on closer inspection, little more than a moral monster. Her own psychological makeup is equal parts egomania and painful insecurity; the unlikely marriage of these two aspects of her personality give birth to her most distinguishing trait, an alpha female desire to control and dominate others, whether it be the girls of Constance and St. Jude's or her best friend Serena; this will to power is sustained and carried out by an almost total ruthlessness to destroy and ruin others to get what she wants. The character is not, however, entirely unsympathetic; she is at heart an apprehensive young girl who wants to be loved, but who has been denied that love by those people closest to her--by her mother, who is too self-involved with her burgeoning fashion career to care and nurture her daughter, and her supremely selfish father, who left the family to live with his male companion in Europe. Left unsupervised and largely unloved, Blair has replaced the need for love with the twisted pleasure of dominating, controlling and ruining other people--the distorted high of domination and manipulation yields her the validation she craved and should have received from her family. To be fair: when she is not plotting and hating other people, Blair shows a confident dry wit which can be quite hilarious and entertaining. If she would perhaps feel a bit more assured and at home with herself and could relinquish the anger she has for her parents, the anger which chronically finds its way out by venting on innocents, Blair could grow into a wonderful person. News Flash: Just watched Episode "There Will Be Blood": Blair is very kind to a mixed-up young girl she is assigned to baby-sit. The rule is ever true--noone is completely good or totally bad.
Charles "Chuck" Bass--Where Blair fights and wars against the world with cunning and cruelty, Chuck keeps them at arm's length through the manipulation of his image as a supremely confident, self-assured playboy, donning the mask of arrogance to avoid letting people in; but behind the swagger, the viewer finds a young kid who has literally never been loved by anyone, a boy drowning in the inner emptiness of his privileged, unbearably lonely upbringing in which he practically grew up an orphan. Chuck has never known either the love or the approval of his father, and silently starves for both; his attempts to bond with his father meet with curt rejection, as do his proposals for business projects. Chuck is a young man who like Nate isn't sure who he really is--is only sure of the image he projects to the world of the insufferably lecherous rich kid, and clings to that image, because it is in a way safe, it is all he knows. And yet there are moments where Chuck encounters another person down deep, senses reserves of decency, genuineness, warmth, that he did not suspect were there. The viewer is surprised to see that Chuck in episode after episode is treated routinely with alternating degrees of callousness, contempt, and cruelty by practically all the characters of the show; he is almost as a rule abused, dismissed or ignored by the others. Admittedly his reprobate antics earn his sentence at times; but it is sad that people do not seem to give him a chance; and with each hurtful remark Chuck is pushed away from those inner reserves of decency and into his old defense of detachment and reactive cruelty, more miserably entrenched in the familiar schema of the debauched playboy. It is this exchange of interpersonal dynamics that make Gossip Girl something even more than just a guilty pleasure.
Description of Gossip Girl - The Complete First Season
Want to know a secret? A really juicy secret? Look no further than the latest message from Manhattan's notorious blogger Gossip Girl. She keeps tabs on the city's most elite teens as they make the rounds from the preppiest school events to the most lavish, decadent parties. And between Serena and Blair's explosive friendship, Dan and Serena's budding romance, Nate and Blair's fairytale relationship (or is it?), Chuck's escapades and Jenny's introduction to the glamorous life, there's a lot to track! In this 5-disc, 18-episode Season One, friends, lovers, rivals and enemies abound. Even the darkest secrets don't stay hidden for long. You know you love it. XOXO!Bestsellers in DVD
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