XOXO, Gossip Girl.

Finally, after five years of running on TV, CW has put an end to one of my favorite TV series, Gossip Girl. Fun fact, GG is the first US TV series that I watched in perfect order. Followed by my all-time favorite, How I Met Your Mother (which is ending this season, too). 

Since 2007, we have witnessed how a mysterious online writer stalked and, in a way, controlled the lives of the modern royalties of Manhattan's Upper East Side. 

Serena Van der Woodsen and Blaire Waldorf and their friends have been everywhere and they have pretty much all the material things we all could just wish we were born with. But aside from the loud promotion of fashion, wealth, and beauty, there are other exciting things that happened to this bunch of elites and social-climbers.

1. Serena

Went to high school in Constance; was the queen of Constance until she ran off to boarding school without a word to everyone; tried her very best to go to college and dropped out to work; fought with Blaire a hundred times but made up with her always; went into a relationship with Daniel Humphrey, the lonely boy from Brooklyn; broke up with Dan, got back together, then married him in the end; had a lot of other relationships in between, both good and messed up; went away a lot of times and still went back to New York; always the damsel in distress; always turns into the phoenix who always rises from the ashes.

2. Blaire

Instant Queen B of Constance when Serena suddenly disappeared; dated Nate, Chuck, and Dan, but married Chuck in the end; went to NYU then took over Waldorf designs; first marriage was with a royalty from Europe; got pregnant and lost the baby in the accident; almost lost her inheritance; got kidnapped plenty of times; tried so hard to remain on top not knowing that no one could take her throne away from her.

3. Nate

Was in a pretend relationship with Blaire for the longest time until the story about him cheating on Blaire with her best friend leaked from GG; survived complicated family situations; went to school, dropped out of school and started a business; slept with almost all the women with significant roles on GG (Serena, Blaire, Jenny, Vanessa, Juliet, Charlie/Ivy, Lola, Diana, Sage) except Lily and Georgina; betrayed and defended friends; been in jail; the only person who never gave a single tip to Gossip Girl.

4. Chuck

Slept with almost all the women in Manhattan until he became monogamous; deflowered Blaire; fought and reconciled with his best friend; owned a bar and then owned a hotel; lost a father then witnessed him get resurrected; somewhat killed his father for real; got in two vehicular accidents in the course of the series; thought of almost all the best schemes with Blaire; the boy who's been fed with gold when he only asked for parental love; playboy turned one-woman-man.

5. Dan

Started out as the Brooklyn-raised boy who wanted to be accepted in the elite society because he is so deeply in love with Serena; got into wrong relationships; for a while, thought that he was the father of Milo, Gerorgina's son; published two books about Manhattan's elites; gained friends, lost friends, and then gained them back; the lonely boy who ended up marrying his dream girl; the original Gossip Girl.

So all those stories, along with parties, glamorous clothes, sex, and drugs, made GG a pretty messed up show in general. But we all learned to love the dramatic and chaotic life of the Upper East Side too much that we relied on Gossip Girl for the past five years to stay on the loop. It still would've been better if they never revealed who Gossip Girl was. That was supposed to be the one secret she'll never tell.

Thank you for being New York's magazine show and thank you for being Project Runway's drama equivalent. I guess it's time to bid you a fine farewell.

You know we love you.

XOXO, Gossip Girl.

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