Beyotchs are back!!!

Gossip Girl made it’s triumphant return last night with a fun, exciting and scandalous premier.  When we had last checked in Gossip Girl had dropped the biggest gossip bomb and xoxoed out the season with everybody’s secrets on the table.  Georgina had wormed her way into becoming Blair’s roommate and B. had crowned Little J the new Queen of Constance before perhaps the biggest twist of finally becoming a real couple with Chuck.   It seemed that everything was set to go back to a calmer, innocent time but as all upper eastsiders know that cannot last for long.

Catching up with the gang we find that Jenny and Eric have been spending the summer in the Hamptons and trying to cover up the scandals Serena has gotten involved in abroad.  Chuck and Blair appear, at first, to be back to their usual jealous love/hate selves but we learn a bit later on that they are really just into role-playing which is both hilarious and a little sad.  Nate literally flies into town with the extremely delightful Joanna Garcia who has joined the cast as Bree Buckley, the daughter of a political family that rivals the Archibalds.  And finally our main girl S. comes back, trailed by paparazzi and apparently involved with bad-boy Carter.   Vanessa continues to be a self righteous, annoying and condescending but now is dating the Rufus/Lilly love child, which is perhaps the first interesting thing she has done.  Also Dan has shaggier hair now, but mostly just was stressed out about everything else and kinda plotless this week.

  As the episode went on I thought that Serena really dominated in terms of intriguing plots.  Her romantic development with Carter was not too surprising, but following a horse chase and the gorgeous forest setting I found it rather welcomed.  The big reveal of course is that Serena is intentionally baiting the paparazzi in the hopes that her long lost father will see the pictures and want to contact her.  A great twist, but I felt pretty bad for poor Jenny and Eric who both really tried to keep all Serena’s exploits a secret, as well as Rufus who was trying to buy up the photos Serena herself was hawking to the media.   All and all this was a pretty great start and next week with the return of my fav bad girl Georgia and the start of college things are really going to heat up!