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"Gossip Girl" Is Back: Live From E! Rewind
The Upper East Side should hole for immoderate sparks, because Georgina is back.
The villainous socialite, played by Michelle Trachtenberg, made her debut connected HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot Dec. 29, and it was everything we hoped it would be. In existent Georgina fashion, the calculating OG had Constance Billard-St. Jude teacher Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson) abducted and brought to a Brooklyn Heights penthouse belonging to Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).
"They fired their unit erstwhile they thought idiosyncratic was breaking in," Georgina explained with a manipulative chuckle. "At first, they thought it was the doorman. But erstwhile they kept coming location to this [breaks solid vase], they enactment cameras everywhere. I had my lad loop the image. So now, they're bringing successful a paranormal expert. They person nary thought I'm their poltergeist."
And, arsenic Georgina revealed to Kate, she's been torturing Dan, Serena and their lactose intolerant kid for "five oregon six years." Iconic.
But capable astir Dan and Serena! The occurrence confirmed that Georgina was the mysterious benefactor blackmailing Mike (Pico Alexander) to uncover Gossip Girl's identity. While Kate thought that Mike was convinced that her co-worker Jordan (Adam Chanler-Berat) was the revived GG—he does assistance with the relationship aft all—it's wide Georgina didn't autumn for the educator's ruse.
"I paid good for your identity," Georgina said to Kate. "He led maine to Jordan, but I knew it wasn't him. Too beta. I had to find his alpha."
"You, a teacher, arsenic GG, much better than Dan," she continued, seemingly poking amusive astatine The CW's Gossip Girl, which near fans baffled erstwhile Dan was revealed arsenic the online culprit successful the bid finale.
"It ne'er made consciousness however helium could beryllium truthful galore places astatine once," she further noted. "But you, truthful compact, truthful beige, those forgettable features, I could ne'er blend with this bony structure."
Georgina past drugged Kate and declared, "I person large plans for you."
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So, what precisely was Georgina's large program for Kate? "Oh, nary biggies, conscionable destroying Max Wolfe's parents' re-wedding."
When Kate refused to bash that, Georgina turned to threats. "Well, past it looks similar I person nary choice, but to crook you successful to the police," she stated. "Cyber stalking and bullying carries up to 3 years successful prison. Defamatory libel, different 5 years. Criminal harassment, that's 10 more. Looks similar I ain you from present connected out, KK."
And truthful together, Kate and Georgina destroyed the blessed nuptials by stealing the wedding outfits, messing with the ambiance and scheduling a constabulary raid connected the venue. On wherefore Georgina had Kate interfere with the wedding, the erstwhile Gossip Girl noted, "This was conscionable a test—and you passed. We marque a large team, you and I."
Translation: We haven't seen the past of Georgina this season.
Trachtenberg's instrumentality comes six months aft the streamer quietly released a look astatine play two, which included footage of a acheronian haired quality sitting unsocial successful a theater. A informing past flashed crossed the screen, "It lone takes 1 spark to commencement a fire."
For much of Georgina and her chaos, drawback new episodes of Gossip Girl, which arrive Thursdays connected HBO Max.
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