Rendezvous
27 April 08 : 02.38 AM
I'm catching the latest episode of Gossip Girl, and I'm thinking about how I knew a girl who looked at me with quite a disdain because at 16, I proclaimed I loved Sex and the City.
It's funny. The girl, wholesome Christian girl, who thinks a blowjob is dirtier than anal sex because you know, the dirty little dick goes into the mouth, rather than the dirty little asshole. She says she'll never watch Sex and the City, with a heavy emphasis on "never". I understand that there's too much about relationships and love and sex for her.
I find out today that she's a huge fan of the Gossip Girl series. What? I have caught every single episode of both series, and I have to say, Gossip Girl is a lot more sinful than Sex and the City. There are so many amorality in Gossip Girl, and a lot more downright immoral stuff that goes on. Everyone else is vicious, shallow and hedonistic. They paint a frightful picture of the youths as people who are able to balance perfect SAT scores while partying booze&sex galore. Kids who haven't even learned the concept of money, using money to their advantage. The show normalizes issues like date-rape and petty drugs, teenage peer hierarchy, which is hardly educational, much less ethical. It's awful. The people that are portrayed. So archetypal.
SATC on the other hand, have none of the viciousness, the shallowness and much less of the hedonism. While they attend the hippest parties and wear the trendiest clothes, they have real day jobs which they are good at. They are emotional, they have depth and they all have a story. One of the underlying and recurrent themes of the show would be the importance of friendship, something I see so sparingly in Gossip Girl. Yes to sex and one-night-stands, but never sleazy or conceited either..
So what's this all about? Is it really just all in the name?