The essential episodes of Gossip Girl
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Gossip Girl — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side learn that Serena van der Woodsen is back.
- 02
Blair is thrilled when her mother chooses her to be the new face of her clothing line.
- 03
Dan makes elaborate plans to impress Serena on their first official date.
- 04
Serena and Dan finally acknowledge that they are crazy about each other, despite their polar-opposite worlds.
- 05
Blair puts on a happy face for her 17th birthday party and attempts to hide the truth from her friends.
- 06
Georgina reveals the true reason that Serena fled Manhattan for boarding school, and Serena quickly falls back into her old habits.
- 07
With Serena's reputation on the line, Blair takes matters into her own hands to deal with manipulative Georgina.
- 08
When Serena notices Dan's been cozying up to the new girl in school, ever- loyal Blair and her minions decide to sabotage Amanda's budding new romance.
- 09
Blair sabotages her mother's show at Fashion Week. Dan starts hanging out with Chuck, and learns that a walk on the dark side always has risks.
- 10
Serena realizes Aaron has kept a secret from her. Jenny and Agnes plan a guerrilla fashion show. Blair baby-sits the daughter of a Yale donor.
- 11
A sudden and tragic event impacts the lives of everyone on the Upper East Side, especially Chuck and the van der Woodsens.
- 12
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn't a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair suspects her mom has been keeping a big secret from her, but it turns out to be something else entirely. Vanessa is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her mom and shows up on Dan's doorstep. Rufus learns that Lily has been lying to him about her mother, Cece. Chuck tells Nate that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny learns that Eric was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and can't pass up a chance to get even. Serena is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Trip and Maureen to join them for Thanksgiving dinner.
- 13
Charlie is finally starting to feel less like a fish-out-of-water with Serena and her friends, but complications present themselves when Charlie is invited to attend the Constance Billard alumni fundraiser. On the road to "happily ever after," Blair finds herself torn between the men in her life. Jack Bass' return to the Upper East Side sets off a chain of events that could end up destroying Chuck and those closest to him.
- 14
Blair must make a difficult decision about her future, the consequences of which could hurt those she loves most. Serena takes the blame for an incident with Gossip Girl in order to protect someone she loves. Georgina smells the scent of scandal and decides to follow its trail.
- 15
In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree, and the shocking identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.
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