For adults, romances are variable, and friendship is the constant. Privileged Youth reverses the equation: Love affairs are constant, and it’s the friendships that vary.
And matter most.
That is the essence of “Gossip Girl,” a semisatirical portrait of power and privilege in the private schools and penthouses of New York’s ultra rich. It is often said that Hollywood is “high school with money.” On this glossy, glamour-soaked CW series, high school is better than Hollywood.
“Gossip Girl” explores the unnavigability of friendship. Female bonding is punctuated by the joy and disappointments of dating, but the ruling passion is power: the pride that comes with connecting with one’s ilk and asserting control, as well as the scorching pain of rejection and ridicule. Sex is easy; it’s the cliques that take time and solicitude.
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