Gossip Girl: The Debarted

The departed starts with a crash and ends with a bang. Serena and Tripp are driving in the car, an icy distance between them that wasn’t present when we last saw our beloved S and the young congressman. The car soon skids out of control and the story cuts back to the events leading up to it starting twelve hours earlier. Serena and Tripp are enjoying their country getaway when he slinks of under false pretences to talk with his wife Maureen and Serena must rely on Nate for help turning on the heat and scoring pot alone in the cottage.

Meanwhile back at the Lily and Rufus’s place Lily con’s him into attending a meeting for their co-op. The meeting turns out to be some sort of ladies who luncheon event where hints are dropped that those in attendance are the trophy wives and leads to some insecurity in Rufus. It feels a little too sudden to be plotting out the demise of the Lily/Rufus marriage, but the only thing this show loves more than break-neck speed plots in red herrings so we’ll have to give this one a bit more time before any real judgments are made.

Eric is foolishly continuing his path to take on Jenny, and still aided by Homely Girl from the cotillion, which is still the most annoying plot. Eric has nothing to gain from taking down Jenny and Homely girl doesn’t really have a reason to be against Jenny either, since there is no way either one of them are next in line to be the Queen B I don’t really see why they keep bothering with this. I did love Jenny’s power move of gifting the coveted bags that Eric tried to have the little Vanessa look-a-like wear to one-up her. Even more brilliant is the revelation that she is getting the money for the designer goods by working for the Ambassador’s drug dealing son. I can’t wait to see where this ends up.

The other main plot of this week was Chuck trying to out do his father while having emotionally draining talks with his ghost. I must admit, I did think during the first segment that Bart had maybe faked his death and that this wasn’t in Chuck head….but it does seem that one Bass at least faked death as Laura (Mulholland Drive) Harrington shows up at the end to leave Chuck’s mom’s favorite flowers on his dad’s grave. You don’t cast an actress her caliber in a role if you don’t intend it to be a back from the grave new character. Sidebar, isn’t it funny how different things ended up for Laura Harrington vs. Naomi Watts? I remember back when Mulholland Drive came out, they were both poised to go onto bigger and better things but now eight years later one is an A list actress and the other a CW guest star.

As the past meets up with the present Serena has been offered the role of Tripp’s mistress by the crafty Maureen, only to reject it and demand he take her home thus causing the pre-credits car wreck. It was touching, if not over-kill that every character decided to go to the hospital that wasn’t even in their own county let alone still in the city limits. Personally if I get in an accident one friend and one former boyfriend is all I want on the scene, but Serena never does anything small and that’s why he love her (that and boobs of course). Nate is now finally getting his chance to be with Serena and I’ve wanted that coupling for quite some time.

And also, Dan almost hooked up with an actress friend of Vanessa’s but then didn’t but then did tell Vanessa he loved her. I do at least liked that she seamed to care as much about his declaration as I did…yawn.