XOXO 90210

It's fun to be a child once in a while right? It's been said we should not lose the child in us. I certainly wouldn't want that to happen. Or else, stress will get the better of me. Nope. No way.

I need a break from my existential thoughts. Let me delve into my favorite past time, pop culture. Like what I've shared in my previous post, it has been a habit to go over my daughter's current interests in music, television shows and even books. It's because of this that I come across the "what's hot" list in Hollywood from my web hopping. I got to read about the fad on headbands - plaid, with big bows and
all that. I came to know that there is such a term as "man scarf". And "man bangs" too, would you believe. How juvenile can I get? Blame that on Gossip Girl.

Gossip Girl got my attention. The 90s has the cheesy teen drama, Beverly Hills 90210, the kids of today (and some of their mothers too) has Gossip Girl. I see them displayed on the book shelves of Power Books whenever I go with my daughter in the young-adult section. But she never touched Gossip Girl. She's still into more middle school stories. Good.

The story is fast phased and I like it that way. I look into the parent-child relationship of the main characters. Like most glossy soap operas, the parents have their own stories to tell which affected the current state of their children.

Gossip Girl, if you must know, is an anonymous blogger. She is more like the Perez Hilton of the school for the privileged in New York. She blogs about the personalities in their school so everyone tends to stay glued on what she is going to post. If Gossip Girl is into blog advertisement, maybe she'd be one of the highest paid bloggers. Some characters are known with the first letters of their names, there's S for Serena van der Woodsen and B or Queen B for Blair Waldorf. Such fancy names.

Fashion icons were born from this series. Like what I've said, the head bands, the scarf, the man bangs, the big hair. And it is supposed to be a conservative private school but what you see are girls with Ferragamo bags and vintage coats.

I expected that this show will have its love teams, love fights, kissing scenes. But it still surprises me sometimes how loosely the series tackles delicate subjects such as premarital sex - with different partners. It presents the "it girls" and "it boys" smoking, doing drugs and more often than not, partying. And the story unfolds what could be perceived as reasons why they are the way they are. Blame the 'rents. What could be the redeeming value of this series? Next question please.

We had Brandon Walsh then, it's Nate Archibald this time. Maybe he is the redeeming value. The one to your right. xoxo.


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