Gossip Girl: Belles de Jour (S4E1)

YES! So happy to kick off fall TV with Gossip Girl. Highly anticipated? By me maybe, but not by a lot of previous loyal followers. When it first premiered in 2007, it was new, hip, edgy, different, now it's more monotonous, dismal, and unfortunate for many. The ratings have gone down significantly since it's birth, and now show runners have already predicted a series finale, which season, I don't know, but I just know that I'll be sad when it does go. I grew up with Gossip Girl, reading those scandalous books, to watch the TV show, it has really been a pleasure to have known you.

I'll bid you farewell in the future, mon ami, but for now, let's just enjoy the 4th season while it lasts! :)

This season kicks off in the beautiful city of lights: PARIS! :) It's always good to get out Manhattan with a previous season kicking off in the Hamptons. I love when the first couple of episodes revolve around the new city in order to lure viewers back into the NYC scene which GG is famous for.

For the first episode, basically the main story lines are exposed for the upcoming episodes/season and some questions unanswered from the mildly shocking 3rd season finale:

• Main question? WHY THE HELL ARE WE IN PARIS?
• Blair and Serena are trying to run away from all the problems that await them in the city...
• Blair and Serena live it up in Paris
• Serena is still obsessed with which boy to run back to: Dan or Nate?
• Blair's trying to get over Chuck...wait no! GO BACK TO HIM! I love you 2 together!! :)
• Dan and Georgina have baby mama drama
• Dan and Nate are raising a little baby together...who knows what tricks Georgina has up her sleeves. She's so annoying, she comes in and out of every season, a different person each time, different lies, I'm starting to wonder if she's schizophrenic or something.
• Nate + Chuck's black book
• Running wild around town after finding out about Serena, Nate jacks Chuck's little black book and starts hooking up left and right until he meets a new season regular: the mysterious Juliet. (For those of you who are wondering how you might know her: she had a short stint in the CW's Melrose Place)
• Chuck appears in the last 5 minutes of the episode...
• After getting shot in the last episode, people are wondering where the hell he is...Is he dead? And of course, GG sticks him in the end of this episode, more as an afterthought, something to lure the viewers back into the season, saying "oh yeah! WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?!"
• Well, we see him being taken care by a mysterious blonde, having flashbacks of his previous life in NYC leaving viewers wondering, did he lose his memory or what is happening?

Favorite Quote:" B, what are you doing? Cinderella did not google Prince Charming!" --Serena as said to Blair