Gossip Girl: Rufus Getting Married
Rufus Getting Married was a surprising and twisty episode that managed to wrap up some plotlines in a satisfying way. Starting off on a lovey dovey note we see a montage of how into each other all our young couples are: Serena and Carter have breakfast, Chuck and Blaire make out, Nate and Bree try to look interesting and Dan Humphrey texts or twitters or something with Hillary Duff. It’s just poor Rufus and Lilly that aren’t feeling the love yet, but this is the Upper East Side and things never stay the same for long. Georgina, somewhat inadvertently, drives a good chunk of the plot this week. After returning home from Boston with the truth about Scott, Georgina uses the secret to blackmail Vanessa into getting Dan Humphrey to dump his new love interest and come back to her. I didn’t really buy this part of the story, I love Georgina and liked her with Dan Humphrey but having her go this nuts over him so soon is a little silly. Georgina may be many things, but I don’t think a girl who is hung up on Dan Humphrey would ever be one of them. Of course Vanessa’s morals can never be compromised, so she only tries to get Dan Humphrey to dump Hillary Duff for a while before she tells him Scott’s secret she promised to keep. After some back and fourth, some angry words and nights spent on the couch Rufus asks Lilly to marry him the next day. Of course she accepts and soon Serena, Jenny and Blair are spearheading the attempt to pull off the perfect wedding in less than a day. This leads to some good stuff with Little J finally ruling the way Blair wants her to by commanding the minions and dismissing the poor. And of course it creates the wedding will serve as a great setting for big confrontations and drama. Bree meanwhile uses Chuck’s rivalry with Carter to get revenge for her family. Chuck lets on that Carter needs to prove his devotion to Serena by attending the wedding. Bree invites her stereotypical, football playing cousins from Texas to get some “Southern Justice”. Carter confesses to Serena that her promised to marry Bree’s cousin, but ran off after the Buckley family paid off his debts. And because this is Gossip Girl, this is a conversation he decides to show up at the wedding to have as opposed to using one of the cell phones they’re never without. Well, have fun with those Buckley boys Carter, hopefully you live to see future episodes! When it is time for the wedding to start Lilly has a case of cold feet (I guess Rufus won the coin toss in the writers room this week). Georgina plays her master-stroke by inviting Scott along when she crashes the wedding. Right after Lilly acts like a grade A bitch to Scott, Georgina reveals that he is the not so dead Rufus/Lilly love child. Scott has already taken off and Lilly and Rufus set off to find him, reaffirming their love in the process. This was a bit schmaltzy but I was surprisingly happy to have them actually go through with the wedding in the end. Even if it was bizarrely officiated by Sonic Youth in a cameo I wouldn’t have noticed had we not be informed of their presence several times throughout the episode. And that’s the way they be came the Rufus Bunch! I seriously hope they start putting all the Humphrey/van der Woodsen/Bass/Ronsson family in a grid at the beginning of the show. Georgina’s warped plan for revenge ended up bringing everybody together, instead of driving them apart. It is pretty hilarious how many people are now related thanks to Lilly and Rufus finally getting married. Dan Humphrey and Jenny, half & half brother Scott, Serena and Eric and sometimes step-brother Chuck, hypothetically throw in cliché baby (you know it’ll come in a season or two) and it’s one big happy family. I’m not sure how I feel about the implications of this yet, it all seems sort of creepy and incestuous, Dan Humphrey and Serena dated multiple times, and Chuck once tried to force himself on Jenny, that whole aspect is pretty icky. And also, did Blaire just sell Georgina into white slavery?