Please, hear me out. My wife has been watching Gossip Girl on Netflix, and while she's admitted it was a guilty pleasure, we have both found ourselves enjoying it.
Basically, it chronicles the lives and times of a handful of young 'Manhattan elite', through the assistance of a website called Gossip Girl, which receives anonymous texts about the sightings and rumors of these people. It even has a map that shows where the 'it' people were last spotted in the city.
Stay with me...
Now, basically all of them are horrible people, who have absolutely zero communication skills and even less of a desire to be forthcoming with vital information.
Wait, don't leave yet...
As much as I dislike the high-fashion, old money 'genre' that this show is, what I DO like is the way the plots intertwine, unravel and reravel. Whenever new information is discovered, alliances switch, motivations change and suddenly everyone sets out to get whatever it is they want, using everyone and everything they know as tool in their own game.
Again, I know these are terrible, obnoxious, self-centered people, but I am impressed that the writers can keep track of so many plot threads and keep them all spinning throughout an episode, a season, and sometimes multiple seasons.
So, yes, I unashamedly watch Gossip Girl, not to cheer on the characters or to learn valuable life-lessons, but for some of the same reasons that Pirates of the Caribbean, or Lost are so engaging--though the latter have MUCH more interesting genres.
There. I've said my peace. Feel free to judge...
