Gossip Girl Captures The Bizarre Energy Of The Aughts Like No Other Show
During the final moments of Gossip Girl’s 2007 pilot episode, the ethereal plinks and spacey guitar riffs that open Angels & Airwaves’ 2006 song “The Gift” ring out as Blake Lively’s It Girl Serena van der Woodsen leaves a party hand-in-hand with Penn Badgley’s Lonely Boy Dan Humphrey. As I re-watch it in 2024 at 34…