With Season 2 of the 'Gossip Girl' reboot on HBO Max on the horizon, here's a recap of everything you'll have neglected all through Season 1.
Welcome again, Upper East Siders.
The time has come to mirror upon the first season of the HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot and get ready for the show's Season 2. Season 1 ended on Dec. 2, 2021, giving fans a complete yr to get to understand the new students at Constance Billard-St. Jude's School.
Although fanatics of the original could also be hesitant to dive into a new version of the show, who knows which characters may just make cameos during Season 2? Keep studying for the whole lot you want to find out about Season 1 of the Gossip Girl reboot in a single to hand recap.
Here's your 'Gossip Girl' reboot Season 1 recap.
The Gossip Girl reboot follows the lives of eight main characters. Influencer Julien Calloway (Jordan Alexander), "guilty rich" Obie Bergmann (Eli Brown), flirtatious Max Wolfe (Thomas Doherty), sporty Aki Menzies (Evan Mock), stylist Luna La (Zión Moreno), apathetic Audrey Hope (Emily Alyn Lind), ambitious Monet de Haan (Savannah Lee Smith), and outsider Zoya Lott (Whitney Peak), who additionally occurs to be Jordan's half-sister.
Julien and Zoya's households had been in a feud over their shared mother. What their parents don't know is that Julien and Zoya have been secretly in verbal exchange and schemed to wait Constance Billard together.
The lecturers of Constance Billard, fatigued from online teaching all over the COVID-19 pandemic, are determined to safe leverage over their rebellious and privileged scholars, in order that they revive the infamous gossip blog Gossip Girl as an Instagram account moderately than a blog.
English teacher Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson) arranges for Gossip Girl to spark a "Blair and Serena" sort blood feud between Zoya and Julien, hinting that Zoya helps Julien's boyfriend, Obie, cheat on her. Julien and Obie break up, and he begins to pursue Zoya for actual. Meanwhile, Max is decided to hook up with a teacher named Rafa, and Aki and Audrey realize they're dissatisfied with their courting — and both attracted to Max.
Zoya and Julien have a few ups and downs, wherein Julien threatens Zoya's scholarship at Constance Billard or even her hire in Brooklyn prior to they in the end reconcile. Meanwhile, Audrey's mom, an approach to life influencer named Kiki (Laura Benanti), is in the throes of melancholy, sending Audrey spiraling. Audrey also by chance outs Aki after he confides that he is bisexual. She and Aki in the end sleep with Max, who spurns Rafa after finding the instructor has affairs with one pupil every year.
Max's dads decide to separate after one of them has an affair, and Zoya's father, Nick, begins a relationship with Kate, which eventually makes its way onto Gossip Girl. Julien's father, song rich person Davis, is published to have a much-younger female friend, who first of all deliberate on accusing him of sexual attack because she was too under the influence of alcohol to consent, but the two get engaged as a substitute. Max finds his affair with Rafa while Julien motion pictures and Rafa quits his instructing activity.
Gossip Girl posts the accusations against Julien's father, and to begin with, she takes his aspect, but as extra ladies come ahead, she starts to work towards him. Aki and Audrey close their dating, leaving Max out yet again. Aki and Obie's friendship develops a rift after Aki comes out. Kate is booted from her place as lead of Gossip Girl, as the relaxation of the lecturers imagine her to be too just about the scholars since she began relationship Zoya's father.
Julien is framed for silencing survivors when she tries to achieve out to one of her father's victims, who revealed she lied to offer protection to the identity of a real victim, a well-known singer. The staff makes an attempt to throw a birthday celebration for proceeds to go to sufferers of sexual assault, but their plan backfires, and Zoya loses her scholarship to Constance Billard, leaving her unable to wait the faculty.
Davis indicators away his property and guardianship of Julien in line with the accusations in opposition to him, and Julien's grandmother desires her to transport out of New York City. Zoya makes a new pal who encourages her to be rebellious, and she and Julien try to get Julien to stick. Obie's sister, a former flame of Max's, arrives in town toting a brand new fiancé, but Max and Obie believe she is mendacity and group as much as take her down.
Gossip Girl leaks a list of those who have sent in anonymous tricks to them all year, causing chaos across New York. Tired of playing minions, Monet and Luna plot in opposition to Julien to take over her function as "Queen Bee" of the faculty, while Aki and Audrey reconcile with Max during his fathers' divorce. Nick and Kate get a divorce, and Davis gives Nick the money for Zoya to continue education alongside Julien.
Julien concludes the season by means of agreeing to replace details about her friend team with Gossip Girl whilst simultaneously vowing to uncover Gossip Girl's actual identification. She has additionally moved in with Nick and Zoya. Kate has taken control of the account from her peers.
What will happen next? That's one secret I'll by no means inform. Stream new episodes of Gossip Girl on Thursdays on HBO Max, beginning Dec. 1, 2022.
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