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Gossip Girl: There's Always Room for Chuck

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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 10:22

Thanks to Ed Westwick's exquisitely expressive face, pretty much any Chuck-centric episode is going to end with someone scraping me off the floor. In an episode that featured Dan confessing his feelings to Vanessa, a Jenny-Eric detente, possible adultery (by Lily), definite adultery (by Trip), a car accident, and a punch in the face,  you wouldn't think that there would even be time for Chuck Bass, but let me tell you something: if you think that, you really don't know Gossip Girl.

For Bart Bass found time to haunt darling Chuck, leading to Chuck making a face so chilling I actually shivered. How does he do that? Fortunately only Ghost-Bart was on the receiving end. Despite pretty much everything we saw in the run up to Bart's death, Ghost-Bart is even more cold and callous toward his son, informing him that loving Blair has made him soft and guarantees that he will never live up his father's memory. Chuck spends the episode making chilling faces, getting drunk, and pushing his family away. It would be terrifying if we didn't remember that GG's Thanksgiving truism (Serena fucks everything up) has a wonderful fall hiatus corollary: Serena fixes everything. In this case, by getting into a car accident. Chuck finally takes one of Blair's phone calls, abandons his plan to turn a homeless shelter into condos, and hurries to his sister's bedside. Sure, he has a breakdown at the hospital about his father's traffic-related death, and, sure, that leads us to a nighttime cemetery visit where we spy a woman with Westwickian cheekbones leaving yellow roses (Evelyn's fav) and a locket engraved 'E' with a photo of a young Bart. Will it turn out that Chuck's got an entire other family he doesn't even know about? I sure hope so! They can be friends with Lily and Rufus' son that they've already forgotten and whose name I can't remember. Scott. That's it.

Other glorious things that we can credit to Serena fixing everything yet again:

  • Continuity! Once again, Dan runs to Blair first in a state of emergency.
  • Because Blair's love of Serena is often maternal, she does the parent thing and comes to the hospital with her coat on over her housecoat.
  • Dan confesses his feelings Vanessa, and she tells him that they're not real.  
  • Nate punches Trip in the face, messing up his Kennedy hair sweep.
  • Trip and Maureen might just go to Washington and stay there.
  • Rufus finally gets the hint that he is useless and friendless, so he goes to talk to a woman he just met about how Lily may have cheated on him.
I'm not putting the Jenny-Eric detente on this list because I am going to delude myself that it's all part of a larger, even more evil plan of Eric's. Plus, you know, Jenny's a drug dealer now.
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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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