I Am Gossip

I Am Gossip
Air date	January 26, 2023
Written by	Sigrid Gilmer & Pilar Golden
Directed by	Joshua Safran
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Previous	I Know What You Did Last Summit

I Am Gossip is the tenth episode of the second season, and the twenty-first episode overall. It serves as the season finale of the second season and also as the series finale.

Summary

With the school year winding down, Julien and her friends team up for an ultimate final showdown with Katie, where troubling revelations resurface that puts everyone's reputation on the line.

Memorable Quotes

Gossip Girl: Greetings, followers. Do you feel it? The aftershocks from my bomb's direct hits in Hudson yesterday are still reverberating through all five boroughs. But don't blame me for that unsteady sensation below your feet. That, my dear followers, is the feeling of regret. Maybe it was that wrong thing you did for the right reason, but now, somehow just feels even more wrong. Or maybe it's something even worse than regret: remorse. Remorse for the things we didn't know we did until it was too late. But lucky for you, I'm here to keep an eye out for any regrets in the making, which brings me to my final word of caution: if anyone thinks they can stop my mission, I regret to inform you, I'm unstoppable now.

Gossip Girl: Monet de Haan, looking funereal Kim at Kourtney's Dolce & Bananas wedding. It's giving a nine out of ten. But what's hotter is her mother having been the brains behind the union-busting scandal Daddy de Haan pinned on Nick Nobody. Max Wolfe in Bode bondage. Seven out of ten. 'Cause haven't we been here before? A leopard can't change its spots, and a lone wolf can't be tamed. Max strayed from his pack with none other than apex predator Heidi B. Will the collision with that icy Berg sink the Tri-Tanic? Oh, JC. You should have heeded Coco's advice and taken one thing off: yourself, out of that fit. Shine slight like a zirconia, BB. Six out of ten. When will she learn to not be such a try-hard? Or is she still trying to outrun that she's still living large off DJ Daddy's dirty dollars? Audrey and Aki, this year's harle-queen and king. A median six out of ten. Monochrome was so last season. You know what else appears to be over? The unholy trinity. Max may have trifled outside the triad, but Audrey and Aki trifled within. Evens beats odds any day. Noble O, what did that disco ball do to you? Two out of ten. But since we're talking betrayal, let's focus all in the family. That fall of Helena? Less her due and a lot more coup. She was set up by her duplicitous daughter, wanting to snatch the empire all to herself, and I have the receipts to prove it. Achtung, Baby H?

Kate Keller: Whatever happens to me, I'll be able to sleep at night knowing I succeeded. I made you better. I made you good.

Julien Calloway: You didn't make us anything.

Zoya Lott: And in a year's time, we'll have all forgotten about you. But you? You'll have lost everything.

Roger Menzies: Gossip Girl, it shouldn't be just one person. It should be everybody, in the palm of your hand, at any moment, in any part of the world. And all ad-supported. Imagine: all the teenagers all over the world, spying on each other. I'm offering you a piece, Mr. Glassberg. A piece of the future. What do you say?

Trivia

• It’s the series finale due its cancellation by HBO Max.
• Due to the show's cancellation, Joshua Safran reshaped the episode to make it closer of a series finale, cutting many cliffhangers.
  • The scene in which Julien met her aunt was shorter. The audience did not knew who was the woman, hinting she could be Julien's mother still alive.
  • The last 25 minutes were meant to focus on Aaron Dominguez’s character which would have been a major character/plot in Season 3.
    • His interaction with Julien and Audrey were cut, but they are referenced through a dialogue.
    • It's also him interacting with Max.
    • He was pretending to be a different person with anyone he was interacting with.
    • There was also a scene where the character was interacting with everybody without them knowing, and he was watching them.
• Joshua Safran always wanted to include the Met Gala in the original show.
  • It was the biggest and most expensive set he ever had.
  • The Met Gala took 3 days to shoot.
• Safran tried to bring back Nate and Eric in the finale, but dut to scheduling conflicts, the actors were unable to film.
• They were supposed to have a couple other cameos from the original, but couldn’t make it work because of scheduling and COVID.
• Joshua Safran gave some clues about what the writer room had planned for Season 3 :
  • Kate's story would have continued in Season 3. She would have gotten out of prison and tried to claim her piece of Gossip Girl.
    • Her love story with Jordan would have ended once she discovered he became a multi-multi-millionaire and she has nothing.
  • Luna would have been a more central character. She would have reach a level of celebrity never reached by any character of the original show and reboot, being a super star and a supermodel. She would have tried to stay away from the drama of the other characters that wants to be a part or take credit of her fame. Florian was gonna be more important.
  • Julien and Monet would have team up against Luna, who could count Max by her side.
  • With the idea of creating a Gossip Girl application teased in the post-credit scene, they wanted to explore what would happen if people believed that Gossip Girl was theirs, but it actually was still just a money making corporate scheme. Joshua Safran compared it to their own version of TikTok.
  • The teacher role would have change, but they were continuing to feature their God-complex. The storyline would have been lighter.
  • Max would have had a new boyfriend, whom Aki and Audray would be jealous of.
  • Monet would have a new love interest.
  • Max, Aki and Audrey were meant to be endgame, the show would have continue to make them grow enough to accept this kind of relationship.
  • Julien trying to reconnect with her mother's family would have been a major part of the season.
  • Aaron Dominguez's character would have been Zoya's love interest.
  • They had a juicy storyline in Season 3 that tied together the parents in a way that the kids didn’t know. It was a really great plot that would’ve shown the parents coming together to try to help the kids. It had a lot of impact on the kids.
  • Joshua Safran would have tried to bring back Nate and Blair in the show.
  • If he knew the show only had two seasons, he would have wrapped up the whole story.

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