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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 327
Released: August 19, 2008 |
| Our Price: $17.96 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Want to know a secret? A really juicy secret? Look no further than the latest message from Manhattan's notorious blogger Gossip Girl. She keeps tabs on the city's most elite teens as they make the rounds from the preppiest school events to the most lavish, decadent parties. And between Serena and Blair's explosive friendship, Dan and Serena's budding romance, Nate and Blair's fairytale relationship (or is it?), Chuck's escapades and Jenny's introduction to the glamorous life, there's a lot to track! In this 5-disc, 18-episode Season One, friends, lovers, rivals and enemies abound. Even the darkest secrets don't stay hidden for long. You know you love it. XOXO!
Description of Gossip Girl - The Complete First Season:
Gossip Girl is a delicious not-too-guilty pleasure, a visual feast of couture and perfectly coiffed hair. The elite high-schoolers of New York's Upper East Side throw red-carpet parties, live in five-star hotels, and plot dastardly deeds against each other. Their actions are reported--and often exposed--by an omniscient presence known as Gossip Girl (voiced by Kristen Bell), an anonymous Web master who posts updates via her blog and text messages to the student body. Her primary target is the social circle of Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), best frenemies who lean on each other (save for the occasional throwdown). The show opens as Serena returns from a semester at boarding school, determined to put her hard-partying ways behind her. But she's chock full of secrets, one of which is that before her abrupt transfer she'd slept with Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Blair's boyfriend. In season one, Blair becomes embroiled in her own triangle between Nate and slimy womanizer Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick); the two guys also happen to be best friends. Serena, meanwhile, steps into a romance with studious Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), an aspiring writer on scholarship whose rocker dad (Matthew Settle) once dated Serena's gold-digging mom (Kelly Rutherford, Melrose Place)--got all that?
Based on the teen novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, the show doesn't present any new ideas (the richer the parent, the worse the parenting, etc.), but the snappy dialogue and pop culture name-checking are perfectly delivered. Most intriguing are the power struggles to be "queen bee," a title Blair relishes, as Dan's freshman sister Jenny (Taylor Momsen, a.k.a. Cindy Lou Who from The Grinch) learns the hard way the price of joining her clique. While the high-school series of the '90s (Beverly Hills, 90210, Saved by the Bell) had the popular gang scolding each other for drug use and embracing nerds and outcasts alike--a well-intentioned but unrealistic premise--Gossip Girl, like The O.C. before it (both shows were created by Josh Schwartz) features grittier storylines with drugs and alcohol flowing freely in the background and the cliques making no apologies for snubbing anyone who doesn't summer in the Hamptons. Meester is the standout of the cast, with strong support from the rest, but if you're looking for teenage role models, these kids ain't it. For everyone else, to quote Gossip Girl's signature line, "You know you love me. XOXO." --Ellen A. Kim
Gossip Girl - The Complete First Season Reviews:
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2009-12-08 - I really appreciated you timely service in getting the DVD's to me. They were for my daughters birthday and they arrived in time. Thank you again.
I'm addicted!
2009-11-21 - Ok, gossip girl came in great shape,did you even watch it? lol It also came pretty quickly in the mail, and I can't believe I got it so cheap! Thank you!
Gossip Girl DVD AWESOME!!!!
2009-11-08 - the gossip girl dvd is in great condition and worked perfectly and came before the due date which was exciting
i would purchase from this site again
Gossip Gird - 1st Season 
2009-11-05 -
I did not watch this DVD as when it arrived at my house I realized I had ordered the wrong one.
Suprisingly got me hook, line & sinker!
2009-09-29 - I have never read the books, or really even heard of them. It took me until the 3rd season of the show to finally give it a shot. And it was only because my girlfriend forced the dvd's on me. I have watched 30 hours of episodes in a week and a half. I cant stop. The drama and scandal is excellent. My first thought about a show called Gossip Girl was that it was going to be completely juvenile. Boy was I wrong. The title doesn't describe the show itself at all. I'm really happy I've been forced to watch this show. And now I'm making all of my other friends, that are non-watchers, watch this show.
