Gossip Girl vs Friday Night Lights – Teenage Murder Subplots

*Updated with GG pix, FNL to come… eventually

Gossip Girl Season 1 was everything you could ask for: a show about rich beautiful people, high fashion and steamy gossip, intricate and interesting characters… all revolving around a murder subplot involving one Ms Serena Van der Woodsen, which was wrapped up all too cleanly in a single episode.

[crickets chirp]

Friday Night Lights Season 2, on the heels of a highly successful and well received first season about high school football, starts a long and unwieldy plot which draaaaaaaagggs through several episodes and ends in a rather unsatisfying anti-climax.

[a pin drops, loudly and clearly]

Why on earth writers think it’s a good idea to insert such an unlikely scenario into teen drama is quite beyond me. Not only does it require quite a leap of the imagination on the part of the viewer, neither of the 2 shows murder subplots really helped the show move along.

Let’s break it down now.

Thanks to Home of the Nutty for the Gossip Girl screencaps! Very comprehensive gallery

Friday Night Lights Season 3 – Promo

The wonderful FNL returns 1 Oct! Granted it’s only 13 episodes (which is about half of Season 1’s 22 epis), but hopefully it’s good!

taken from this buddytv article.

comments below… spoilery!

Gossip Girl 2×03 – The Dark Night

Soooo wanted to write about the previous episode but was so caught up I never did manage to…

Here we have the epi react for the third episode “The Dark Night”, wherein a blackout in New York causes considerable chaos amongst our Upper East Siders.

Gossip Girl – Chair/Bluck love!

I just wanted to post the cutest Chuck and Blair picture I’ve seen.

Bluck/Chair love! They officially have the worst celeb couple combi name ever~

According to the article also with this picture, 2/3 of the respondents think Chuck and Blair… woot!

taken from ONTD post. (some minor spoilers within article)

Gossip Girl 2 x 01 – Summer, Kind of Wonderful

omg news flash, Gossip Girl is back!

This is the first episode of Season 2, wherein Summer comes to an end and we see what our favourite Upper East Siders have been up to all this time.

Here’s my completely arbitrary and biased thoughts and ratings below. Spoilers abound, proceed only after watching!

Project Runway vs Project Runway Australia

Project Runway’s Season 5 has been.. middling so far, which is why I haven’t been inspired to cover it much even if I do follow it regularly.

Mostly I’m annoyed tiring reality star wannabe characters – ‘xx-licious’, talking in 3rd person and ‘whackadoodle’ are NOT and WON’T be the new ‘Fierce’, not when they’re done so self consciously. Also, the standard of work just hasn’t been as Wow as I hoped, or perhaps it’s because last season’s batch (Christian, Jillian et all) were just so fabulous that this batch is having a hard time matching up.

Also the challenges were starting to get rote and repetitive. The latest Saturn Car Challenge however, did turn things around considerably by amping up the standards and not reworking old challenges (the grocery one, the inspiration one, zzzz) and finally getting rid of Keith whose thought process and work was kinda suspect. Now all they need to do is get Blayne off and Suede to stop talking and perhaps we’re headed somewhere.

Then, one day I was quite bored waiting for the new episode to come out, so I started watching Project Runway Australia on youtube (thanks to Kimmikimmileon, is that a riff from Culture Club’s karma-karma-karma-chameleon?). My thoughts between the 2.