Uh oh - a New Jenn Show!

As most of you know, when I was single & living alone, I was a self-admitted TV addict, into all of the 'teeny bopper' shows (as my sis & Dad would call them!), but over the past few yrs being with Shawn, I've been able to wean myself off of them, and off of TV in general....I am a lot better than I used to be, put it that way! There are a few shows that Shawn & I follow together as a couple (most of them popular reality shows such as BB, American Idol, Hell's Kitchen, ANTM, The Apprentice). I kept just a couple of my shows that I'd usually tape & catch up on, and there are really only a limited amount of shows you can do this with, without falling behind by weeks & weeks & running out of tapes (yes, tapes, I still use an old-fashioned VHS VCR in my bedroom, where I hole myself to watch the shows that Shawn doesn't even like to have on in the background on the (his) upstairs TV!).

So, with the death of The OC last season, I was pretty much down to just One Tree Hill, which was kind of getting ridiculous last season with the murder of Keith draggging on 4-ever! Plus, I heard that Kevin Federline got a recurring role on it this season, which makes me wonder if I'll be able to watch it at all, without getting annoyed or nauseous! At the beginning of the summer, I caught a few episodes of a really interesting teen soap called Hidden Palms - it was pretty out there in terms of a plot (murder mystery) but any show with beautiful people always does it for me! The murderer's identity was uncovered, then the show disappeared, so not sure if it's coming back on the CW or not....


Anyway, all of this to say that I was pretty happy about not having too many shows to follow, since Heroes was starting up again soon (Shawn & I's fave show), ANTM started, & BB just ended. Things were good. I was quite satisfied with my tv watching level. I didn't think any of the new Fall shows were even going to interest me in the least. Until 3 Wednesdays ago. I was just about to go to bed (it was 11pm), and my head nearly swiveled right around as a show that was just starting caught my attention. I had heard of a show called Gossip Girl starting but figured it would some crappy show not even worth checking out. Wrong. This show's got it all to qualify as a true "Jenn Show" - young & beautiful boys & girls (rich, of course!), a love triangle between 2 best friends & a guy, a new guy & girl in town trying to fit in, ultra current pop music opening & closing scenes & playing cleverly in the background....I was drooling! The narrator is Gossip Girl and we don't know who she is (I have my suspiscions that it's the new girl, but not sure yet)....she updates everyone via Internet & text on the beautiful people of this town, and the season starts off with the popular blonde girl Serena returning from suddenly disappearing to boarding school. We learn that she is estranged from her best friend as she slept with her boyfriend right before she high-tailed it out of there. Of course the actors all look way to old to be in high school, but they're all so good looking that a true fan of the genre overlooks that pretty damned quickly! And of course, the parents of these 'teens' are really young looking too and have their own sordid past and secrets that slowly get revealed. I decided to tape the last half hour cuz I hate going to bed at midnight, I end up more exhausted than usual the next day!


Serena

I didn't want to admit to myself that I was hooked, despite the fact that I set my VCR to tape it every Wednesday night before going to bed! For some reason, I ended up screwing up the program & it didn't tape last week, so Shawn downloaded it for me & I watched it last night & taped last night's episode. Can't wait to see what happens on it next. Yummmm. Juicy stuff.

The show closes off with "You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl."

LOVE IT!!!!