Netflix’s description for Gossip Girl is shockingly savage (but accurate)
If you’ve ever scrolled through Netflix, you probably noticed that all of its shows and movies have brief descriptions. For example, the description for The Princess Switch is: “Stacy makes delicious confections. Her look-alike has royal connections. Swapping lives gives both a taste of what they’re missing.” Pretty standard right? Well, the Gossip Girl description is shady af, but also appropriately shady.
The Netflix description for Gossip Girl is: “Rich, unreasonably attractive private school students do horrible, scandalous things to each other. Repeatedly.” For comparison, here’s the Gossip Girl synopsis on IMDB, which is always very PR-friendly: “Privileged teens living on the Upper East Side of New York can hide no secret from the ruthless blogger who is always watching.”
Lane Moore noticed the savage Gossip Girl logline and shared it on Twitter where it went viral.
Netflix: “let’s get someone who fuckin hates Gossip Girl to write the description of Gossip Girl” pic.twitter.com/BewiyilXmK
— Lane Moore👉NYC 9/7, PDX 10/15 (@hellolanemoore) December 11, 2018
Thought the description is a tad salty, it’s not wrong.
I mean…this isn't WRONG per say
— it was rachatha all along (@RachelLeishman) 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 🔜 PAX West (@samred) December 11, 2018
Nah, this person clearly loves the show and is still furious about the difference between Blake Lively and Leighton Meester's careers.
— LaToya Ferguson (@lafergs) December 11, 2018
gossip girl is my favorite tv show and i still wholeheartedly support this description https://t.co/fnUIN0W6bn
— 𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑜𝑚 (@kaieous) December 11, 2018
Netflix’s response to the viral tweet is even better.
1. Everybody loves Gossip Girl.
2. Where is the lie tho?
— Netflix (@netflix) December 11, 2018
Here’s the thing, Gossip Girl was a show about attractive teens doing horrible things to one another. In no particular order, here are some of those things:
- Serena van der Woodsen was drugged (twice) by two different women.
- Dan Humphries wrote a tell-all book about his friend’s lives without asking their permission.
- Dan and Serena both slept with their teachers, but only Dan slut-shamed Serena for it.
- Everyone cheated on everyone, all the time, always.
- Dan spread STD rumors about his ex-girlfriend and supposed “best friend” Serena.
- Blair Waldorf told the Dean of Admissions at Yale that Serena was a murderer.
In many ways, that Netflix description is the only description that would suffice. Thanks for keeping it 100% real, anonymous logline writer.
