Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for season 2 of HBO Max’s Gossip Woman.
you’re keen on them! The HBO Max Gossip Woman reboot revealed what the OG collection’ energy couple Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Vigorous) are to date.
Throughout episode 2 of season 6 — which aired on Thursday, December 29 — Serena’s outdated frenemy Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) returned to carry the modern-day Gossip Woman, Kate Keller, (Tavi Gevinson) hostage in Dan and Serena’s residence. Though the fictional couple are nonetheless collectively — and have a toddler — after tying the knot within the 2012 collection finale’s five-year-flash-forward, they’re additionally nonetheless being tortured by Georgina.
“That is Dan and Serena’s home. They fired their workers once they thought somebody was breaking in,” Georgina revealed to Kate in Thursday’s episode, explaining that she’d been sneaking into the duo’s residence to wreak havoc for years. “They put up cameras in all places. I had my son loop the picture, so now they’re bringing in a magical skilled. … At first it was small annoyances — taking a sock or two, turning the warmth down — however then I wished a bit extra enjoyable, like changing the oat milk with full dairy. Their child’s lactose illiberal. They’ve seen each specialist, and nobody is aware of what’s improper.”
The return of the calculated villain — who was a recurring character on the unique CW collection — has been on reboot creator Joshua Safran’s thoughts for fairly a while.
“I undoubtedly knew that I wished Georgina again from just about the day after I pitched the present,” he informed Deadline earlier this month. “Michelle really began DMing about it in the course of the season 1 author’s room. She was like, ‘I wish to come again.’ And I used to be like, ‘I really need you to as properly, however I really don’t suppose season 1 is the appropriate place,’ as a result of I wished all people to be actually arrange in order that she may are available in and kind of destroy them.”
The solid of the HBO teen drama was equally excited by the character’s comeback.
“She’s an icon,” Zión Moreno, who performs Luna La, informed POPSUGAR of the Harriet the Spy star, 37, earlier this month. “I beloved her within the OG collection, and it was an honor to get to work along with her. She’s a hoot for certain, and there’s by no means a uninteresting second round her. It was a bit nerve-racking since you wish to make her proud, however she was simply actually, very nice and fantastic.”
Trachtenberg, for her half, introduced her return to the position by way of Instagram in October.
“You may inform Jesus: She’s baaaaaack … #xoxo #gossipgirl 💋,” she captioned a nonetheless from the reboot, referencing a line from the unique collection.
