Clearly, the words of dearly departed CeCe Rhodes - girls like Serena don’t end up with Dan Humphrey … and people like you, they turn into cocktail-party anecdotes of their foolish youth - deeply penetrated Humphrey’s brain, passing all that hair. What set him off? You could say it was his breakup with Blair or Rufus’s transgressions with young Ivy, but rage has fomented in Lonely Boy from the show’s very beginning, when he first locked eyes on Serena, the girl he’d never be able to keep. Once-gentle Humphrey has been flirting with darkness for a long time, but never has he been so razor-focused on the destruction of the Upper East Side, at all costs, since this season. (Except for maybe Nate, who mostly just sleeps with the wrong women and looks so genuinely befuddled when caught that its impossible to blame him.) Now it’s Dan Humphrey’s turn. Pretty much everyone on this show has Gone Evil at some point.More Real Than a Male Writer Letting Girls Buy Him Drinks
In this final season of Gossip Girl, our characters are coming full circle and learning the lesson that all parents wish their children would: Adulthood is not as easy as it looks, especially when you come face to face with a teenage version of yourself. Elsewhere, other Upper East Siders have also become their parents or are at least trying to be: Blair keeps slipping in her attempts to step into her mother’s shoes, a milieu that Chuck, who has spent the last several episodes vainly attempting to cut off the head of Bart Bass and replace it with his own, can understand. Only this time, it wasn’t Lily insisting they all get along like family - it was Serena, who, in setting up house with the Poor Man’s Guy From Justified, has inadvertently become her mother. Last night’s Gossip Girl opened with a scene we’ve seen many times before: With Lady van der Woodsen presiding over an awkward brunch, attempting to ingratiate herself to the recalcitrant stepchild of her benefactor.