Yahoo News Gossip Girl's crazy blunt Netflix description is kinda right
Note: This article contains spoilers for a show that ended six years ago.
While Netflix show descriptions are often bizarre, they don’t generally shade the shows you want to watch. That is, until Gossip Girl.
For some reason, the people at Netflix really hate Gossip Girl. We know this, because as comedian Lane Moore recently spotted, the show's Netflix description is more hostile than Little J in the later seasons.
Netflix: “let’s get someone who fuckin hates Gossip Girl to write the description of Gossip Girl” pic.twitter.com/BewiyilXmK
- Lane Moore (@hellolanemoore) December 11, 2018
According to Netflix, Gossip Girl is about "rich, unreasonably attractive private school students [who] do horrible, scandalous things to each other. Repeatedly."
Harsh, no? You'd almost suspect that Dan Humphrey had got a job working as one of description writers at Netflix after the show ended.
As harsh as the summary of Gossip Girl might seem, some fans are pointing out that it's not exactly incorrect either – Serena and Blair could definitely be petty as hell:
It’s kinda right on the money though? And if I owned a production company I would buy a show based solely on that logline. https://t.co/cjBl151ezt
- Megan AllOddPages (@Meganfangirl) December 11, 2018
gossip girl is my favorite tv show and i still wholeheartedly support this description https://t.co/fnUIN0W6bn
- ʰᵃˡᶠ⁻ᵈᵒᵒᵐᵉᵈ (@kaieous) December 11, 2018
You don't have to hate it, just watch it without bias. That description is 100% accurate.
- Nickles B. Hunt (@nicklesbe) December 11, 2018
I mean...this isn't WRONG per say
- rachel leishman (@RachelLeishman) December 11, 2018
omg. They also understand the show in such a profound way it's almost poetry.
- Ben Philippe (@gohomeben) December 11, 2018
Hilarious that the write-up sounds like it could have been written by its biggest hater OR its most diehard fan
- Sam Machkovech (@samred) December 11, 2018
Adding to the (seemingly irrefutable) evidence that Netflix's writer is Dan Humphrey, or at least actor Penn Badgley, hate-describing Gossip Girl is the fact that he was snarky about the show in recent interviews.
His main gripe with the show is the finale revelation that his character Dan was Gossip Girl all along – it just doesn't make sense to Penn Badgley.
"It means the entire time, that even when I was ruining my own life - well, that I was ruining my own life and then I was ruining the lives of those around me, including my little sister," Badgley complained, "but which apparently I let her do to herself."
Maybe mocking the show on Netflix is his final revenge on behalf of Little J?
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