
Scripted series · The CW
Gossip Girl
You're nobody until you're talked about.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How Gossip Girl actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Gossip Girl reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
The run
Seasons
6 seasons · 121 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
201228 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200718 episodes
8.0IMDbThe privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side first learn that notorious party girl Serena Van Der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives–from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. Serena’s closest friend, Blair, is just as surprised as everyone else to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. The tension between Blair and Serena isn’t lost on Gossip Girl, who is determined to uncover and fuel any and all scandals. Does it involve Serena’s younger brother Eric, Blair’s boyfriend Nate or Nate’s buddy Chuck? Maybe it has something to do with Dan and his sister Jenny, whose middle-class background keeps them on the fringes of this exclusive clique who live for fashion, shopping and partying–along with gossip.
Best episode · S01E13 The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
200825 episodes
8.0IMDbSex, lies and scandals never take a vacation. Rumors is the temperature began to climb between Nate and Serena, who escaped to Hamptons for the summer following their break-up with Lonely Boy. As summer draws to a close, Blair returns from abroad with a hot guy on her arm and Dan, who has spent the summer assisting a famous author, decides to head to the Hamptons. Then, everyone gets back to the city for senior year. Applying for college is only one small part of the story as new romances (and some not-so-new romances) bloom and fade, scandals erupt at every turn, and alliances shift even faster than Gossip Girl can send an update.
Best episode · S02E18 The Age of Dissonance

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
200922 episodes
7.7IMDbWelcome back, Upper East Siders. Summer is officially drawing to a close. Rufus, Dan and Jenny spent the summer in the Hamptons, adjusting to the van der Woodsen's glamorous lifestyle surprisingly faster than any of them expected. Blair and Chuck are madly in love and adjusting to their new "in a relationship" status. Nate returns from his travels with a mysterious brunette in tow. Serena returns from her European adventure with many secrets to hide as she gets ready to move into her dorm at Brown. Blair is determined to have her Queen status at NYU, along with Dan and Vanessa, but her roommate sets out to ensure that she does not retain her title.
Best episode · S03E18 The Unblairable Lightness of Being

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
201022 episodes
7.9IMDbSeason four's main mystery revolves around Juliet Sharp, a secretive girl with an agenda against Serena involving her past. The second half of the season builds on the complications of Serena's new found relationship with her former teacher Colin, Chuck trying to regain control of Bass Industries from Russell Thorpe, and Dan and Blair's growing friendship. The season also focuses on Lily's past betrayals coming back to haunt her; Chuck and Blair's tumultuous relationship after their break up; Dan and Vanessa's deteriorating friendship; and the arrival of Serena's cousin Charlie Rhodes to the Upper East Side. By the end of the season, Blair has ignored Chuck, Dan has told Vanessa they are no longer friends, and Serena is on that single grind.
Best episode · S04E11 The Townie

Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
201124 episodes
7.6IMDbThe season began in Los Angeles when a re-energized Chuck and Nate decided to pay Serena a visit. Chuck has a newfound philosophy and says "yes" to everything, even death defying stunts. Serena continues to work on the movie set, and is offered a full-time job at the end of the episode. Nate begins an affair with an older woman, Diana Payne, who may have an ulterior motive for being with Nate. Back in New York, Dan learns that Vanessa has published one chapter of his novel, and Blair continues to plan her wedding to Louis, and she also learns she is pregnant. After realizing she still had feelings for Chuck, Blair and Chuck decide to go away together, but their car crashes. As a result of the crash Blair loses her baby, Chuck nearly dies, and Blair eventually marries Louis. The season also focuses on Nate running an online gossip site NYSpectator, Blair and Dan's friendship turning into a relationship, Chuck's quest to find his real parents which leads him to discover that his father, Bart, is still alive, and the effects of CeCe's death on Lily and her marriage to Rufus. At the end of the season, Blair makes a choice between Dan and Chuck, and Lily makes a choice between Rufus and Bart. Serena is seen leaving town while Dan decides to write a new book about the Upper East Side, with the help of Georgina.
Best episode · S05E05 The Fasting and the Furious

Season 6 · Complete
Season 6
201210 episodes
7.7IMDbSerena has gone off the grid, beyond even the reach of Gossip Girl. Her friends fear for the worst and hope for the best, but even they can't imagine where they will ultimately find her. Meanwhile, Blair has offered Chuck her heart, but is her love enough to help him win back his empire? Lonely Boy Dan has written a new book that promises to make even more trouble than the first, and this time he has no desire to remain anonymous. Nate is determined to finally reveal the true identity of Gossip Girl, thereby making a name for The Spectator, and himself. Lily and Rufus turn on one another when Rufus makes a surprising new ally who threatens Lily and her family. Anywhere else it would be too much drama to handle, but this is the Upper East Side.
Best episode · S06E10 New York, I Love You XOXO
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S06E10
New York, I Love You XOXO
In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree, and the shocking identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.
- Directed by Mark Piznarski
- Written by Stephanie Savage

S02E18
The Age of Dissonance
The Constance Billard and St. Jude seniors have the production of "The Age of Innocence". Serena has a crush on the play's director, Julian, and enlists Vanessa's knowledge of theater to help her get the guy's attention. Blair receives bad news about her future that leads her on a witch hunt for the person responsible. Dan and Rachel agree to stay away from each other in the aftermath of being discovered as more than teacher and student, but find it impossible to keep that promise. Chuck find help on an unlikely friend, Carter Baizen.
- Directed by Norman Buckley
- Written by Jessica Queller

S02E24
Valley Girls
In a flashback to the 80s, 17-year-old Lily Rhodes gets kicked out of boarding school and runs away to Los Angeles, reconnecting with her parents, Rick and Cece, and sister, Carol. Back in present day, Blair and Nate attend prom together, but the evening doesn't turn out exactly as planned and Chuck and Serena have a little something to do with that. Serena and Lily don't see eye-to-eye over Serena's recent run-in with the law.
- Directed by Mark Piznarski
- Written by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage

S04E11
The Townie
Blair and Dan join forces to find Juliet. Serena expounds her boarding school experiences to her therapist and discovers the truth behind Juliet's vendetta against her. Meanwhile Chuck suspects Lily has not told him the full truth.
- Directed by Joe Lazarov
- Written by Stephanie Savage, Amanda Lasher

S02E13
O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
The entire Upper East Side of Manhattan is rocked when Bart Bass dies suddenly in a limo accident. Serena and Eric take the news very calmly while Lily has a troubling time despite her mother, Cece's, awkward attempts to comfort her. Chuck begins to blame Lily for his father's death and threatens to reveal a secret that Bart found on her before his accident. Meanwhile, Blair's mother, Eleanor, prepares for her latest marriage to Aaron's father Cyrus.
- Directed by Joe Lazarov
- Written by Stephanie Savage

S02E07
Chuck in Real Life
Vanessa uses the scandalous picture of Catherine and Marcus to blackmail Blair into being a nicer person, so Blair seeks revenge by enticing Chuck to seduce Vanessa. Lily and Bart throw an extravagant housewarming party and expect their children to make them proud in front of the attending press, but a rebellious Serena isn't ready to play by their rules. Meanwhile, Dan and Jenny discover a big secret that Nate has been keeping from his friends.
- Directed by Tony Wharmby
- Written by Lenn K. Rosenfeld
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Josh Schwartz
Creator

Stephanie Savage
Showrunner
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Dan Steele
Writer

Amy Harris
Writer
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Jake Coburn
Writer
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Austin Winsberg
Writer
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Lenn K. Rosenfeld
Writer

Felicia D. Henderson
Writer

K.J. Steinberg
Writer
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Alexandra McNally
Writer
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Natalie Krinsky
Writer
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Jeanne Leitenberg
Writer
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Matt Whitney
Writer

Sara Goodman
Writer
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Paul Sciarrotta
Writer

Amanda Lasher
Writer

Joshua Safran
Writer

Robert Hull
Writer
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Sarah Frank-Meltzer
Writer

John Stephens
Writer
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Leila Gerstein
Writer
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Peter Elkoff
Writer
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Etan Frankel
Writer
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Annemarie Navar-Gill
Writer

Jessica Queller
Writer
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Robby Hull
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Stephanie SavageExecutive Producer
- Jessica QuellerProducer
Writing
- Dan SteeleWriter
- Amy HarrisWriter
- Jake CoburnWriter
- Austin WinsbergWriter
- Lenn K. RosenfeldWriter
- Josh SchwartzWriter
Direction
- Liz FriedlanderDirector
- Matthew PennDirector
- John TerleskyDirector
- David WarrenDirector
- Michael GrossmanDirector
- Norman BuckleyDirector
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