XOXO. He then teams up with Blair to take Georgina down and they succeed. One of Serena's most infamous style choices happened in the Season 2 finale, which centered on the main cast's high school graduation. It lifts us up where we belong. No plotting, no meddling, no Blair Waldorfing." Meanwhile, Chuck is presumed as dead after the Paris police find a body with his identification on him. Nate kicks Jenny out of the apartment to reconcile with Serena, spurning Jenny's advances. Meanwhile, Juliet is still trying to befriend Serena and is excited when Serena confides in her that she has a crush on her professor. At the same time, the press has heard about Colin and Serena's relationship and Dean Reuther encourages her to leave the university but both Lily and Serena decline the offer. She kicks him out of the car and attempts to call Nate, but Jenny answers the phone. It was, then it changed when all the good lit professors went to Yale. Serena has a nail-biting habit and also cuts her split ends off, mainly during her classes at school. Following a night drinking with Chuck and Nate, Nate and Jenny go back to his apartment. It is revealed that Dan wrote two chapters on Serena, and that the second one was the "Good Serena Chapter". After Chuck and Blair's car accident (Riding in Town Cars With Boys), Serena tries to help Blair and Louis' struggling relationship by claiming to be in a relationship with Dan to alleviate any rumors of Dan and Blair (The End of the Affair?). Serena goes to Yale at the end of the series. Blair and Chuck defend Serena, and the group banish Juliet from Columbia and Manhattan. Serena finds out and tells Lily and the two angrily leave to attend the library benefit alone with William. "Oh my god." Serena says she refuses to be one of the women he hands off in a cab every morning. Gossip Girl: Created by Joshua Safran, Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz. Due to watching her mother's many failed marriages, Serena has issues with truly committing to a man and understanding what real love is, but that seemed to disappear when she married Dan. This blog, launching Serena's rise to legend, became known as Gossip Girl. In Season 3 of Gossip Girl, Chuck invests in The Empire Hotel, which is indeed a very real hotel in New York. Serena soon finds out that Carter has been delaying her in an attempt to get close to her and leaves him, flies alone. Later that day, Jenny confirms it by finding a hotel key to Carter's hotel room in Serena's purse. Shimmery Eyes. He always has. Birthplace: When Georgina arrives, Serena is revealed to have Georgina's video camera that was used to record Blair's confession and she takes the fall for the video. In season 6, Serena is seen together with a new boyfriend, Steven Spence (who is significantly older than her). Although Serena's boss, Marshall, is difficult to please, his boss, Jane, promotes Serena after she succeeds at a task that Marshall failed. When Dan tells Serena, Nate, Blair, Chuck, Rufus and Lily that he wrote a book about his life and their roles in it, Serena is offended when he portrays her as a self-centered, promiscuous party-girl and is even more upset when Blair tells her that's exactly who she's been. What episode does Gossip Girl go to college? Georgina Sparks (frenemy)Ivy Dickens (frenemy)Juliet SharpMaureen van der BiltSage SpencePoppy Lifton Vanessa Abrams Her father runs the same Dutch shipping firm his great-great-grandfather founded in the 18th century, and her mother, Lillian van der Woodsen, is a socialite, art collector, and philanthropist. Louis has his suspicions that Blair is only going because she believes he is a royal and when they arrive to pick up the girls for the date, Jean-Michele is introduced as the royal. does serena go to yale in gossip girl? She has Dan publicly ostracized throughout the school. [8] Blair and Serena consistently fight and reconcile throughout the show's subsequent episodes, often dealing with Serena's tendency to overshadow Blair. If you were a kid or a teen during Gossip Girl's heyday, you probably remember how everyone on MySpace was obsessed with this show and texted each other about it from their . Part of the error, too, is the general misunderstanding of all that Gossip Girl can do. During a party held by her mother, Serena discovers that Gabriel and Poppy have conned her mother's guests and calls on Blair's aid to obtain their stolen money, breaking up with Gabriel as she pursues Poppy. Privileged teens living on the Upper East Side of New York can hide no secret from the ruthless blogger who is always watching. She, along with Blair, Nate, and Chuck and the newly born-again Christian Georgina hatch a plan to catch them. Lily first assumes that she's preparing to go to Brown but defers from entering, preferring to stay in the city and find herself. In Empire of the Son, Ben's mother comes to town to visit. Dorota was packing Blair's best Brr berries in prep for her lady's trip overseas to spend a chilly autumn in Paris with her father. Connections: none. Serena decides to go with Carter to meet him before she leaves to attend Brown University in the fall. His grandfather, William van der Bilt, disapproves but Nate chooses to go there anyway. Answer: Serena van der Woodsen. He successfully gets Lily to write him a check but Ben threatens him to get the money back, which Vanessa witnesses (While You Weren't Sleeping). Serena was supposedly in an illicit, but not ever consummated, relationship with Juliet's half-brother and Serena's boarding school English teacher, Ben Donovan (David Call) and was arrested when Lily forged an affidavit that falsely accused Ben of statutory rape, out of concern for Serena. Pilot In order to move their plan along, Juliet tips off GG that Serena has an STD. Dan: good shoulder to cry on. Gossip Girl 206 Summary. ", "11th Teen Choice Awards 2009 Nominees", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_van_der_Woodsen&oldid=1134647774, This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 19:54. Serena's aunt Carol returns and Serena overhears an argument between the two about Carol forcing Charlie to live under the name 'Ivy Dickens'. However, once Lily discovers the nature of their relationship, she uses some reverse psychology to convince Serena to focus on her future and not on men. After failing to achieve admission to Yale University, Blair ends up at NYU. They begin to hang out again but Serena asks her to stay away when she misses the SATs after a night out with her. After realizing their feelings are real for each other, Serena decides to accept Blair and Dan are going to be together (Cross Rhodes). She is cold towards Serena, who tries her best to befriend her. -Dan, "Well, you can't be worse than the guys I do know." She is advised by Blair to make him jealous while Nate is advised by Dan to take it slow. After her revelation, she leaves and Blair eventually finds her, drunk and unstable. However, William beats them to the VDW apartment, surprising Rufus, and all three tell him together. She is the daughter of a successful doctor, and a well known socialite/heiress. He made me realize I don't want to run away, that you guys are my family and I belong here." After being offered a more permanent position with her boss, Jane, Serena plans to stay in LA until she finds out her boss is moving back to New York, where her office is, so she plans to return home with Charlie (Beauty and the Feast). This causes Serena to declare war on Gossip Girl, using Nate's power at the Spectator, and Dan. Serena has a nail-biting habit and also cuts her split ends off, mainly during her classes at Constance Billard. -Much 'I Do' About Nothing (1x18), "Hey, it's me, Serena. The writer of the show confirmed that Serena. As the school year begins for New York's elite, a new student at Constance St. Jude's finds herself thrust into the spotlight, while a mysterious presence threatens to shake the status quo. Chuck- tried to rape the bride and the grooms sister on the same day. When Gossip Girl first started, Blake Lively's Serena Van der Woodsen was front and center. After a few mishaps during The White Party, the two resume their relationship. Later, while walking the streets of Los Angeles, Serena gets offered a job in Hollywood where she decides to move to. However, Gabriel and Poppy escape (The Wrath of Con). She clashes with Chuck while they stay together and he tells Rufus that she did not leave for school. Vanessa did film, Dan Literature or english or smth but I think He droped out when Gorgina handed him her son. Serena ultimately moves back to the UES with Steven, and his jealous daughter Sage. A frustrated Amanda leaves and Dan lashes out at Serena, who is innocent of the incident, and tells her that she should own up to her real self. The exclusive and elite high school that Blair, Serena, and Jenny attended is based on a real New York City school. "[1], People compares her character with Josh Schwartz's original it-girl creation, Marissa Cooper, stating that Serena "seems to have it all, but in addition to a party girl reputation, dark family secrets and a disregard for high society, Serena one-ups the sulky Coop with a history of BFF betrayal. In the finale The Wrong Goodbye, Serena finds out Charlie is off her meds but is able to talk her down from anything extreme and tells her that being Serena van der Woodsen isn't all it's cracked up to be. With Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford. Her style is based off real life model Kate Moss and is meant to be more boho and casual as opposed to Blair's. She hasn't eaten bread since she was in middle school. Lively also earned a People's Choice Award nomination for Favorite TV Drama Actress in 2011 and 2012. You've Got Yale! Gossip Girl is known for bringing out the worst in its characters, and Dan and Serena are prime examples. "[2] Jason Gay of Rolling Stone describes Serena as "the bad girl gone good(ish) who serves as Gossip Girl's wobbly moral compass." After being fired by Jane, Serena is hired by Nate's boss, Diana Payne, to start a blog based on her life in order to take down Gossip Girl. Serena is charismatic, charming, talented, funny, kind, care-free, and laid-back. She knows how people's minds work. A scene set in the future shows everyone reunited at the Bass-Waldorf residence, witnessing the marriage of Dan and Serena. New York, I Love You XOXO She then leaves to spend the summer in the Hamptons (Much 'I Do' About Nothing). Eric's homosexuality upsets Lily, who blames herself for Eric getting institutionalized. Serena and Ben's relationship eventually ends due to family complications. At the end of the night, Holland confesses to Serena that she and Rufus slept together, leading Serena to begin to box Rufus out (It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World). In order to make Dan see that Blair's happy ending will be with Louis, she sends Louis to the Humphrey loft. At the wedding reception, Serena admits to Dan that she kept the relationship longer than she had to because she was still in love with him (G.G.). In the finale, Dan reveals to her how they first met at a party at Blair's, and how he fell in love at first sight. After her break up with Carter, Serena works hard with K.C. Manhattan, New York City, NY Charlie helps Serena find out that Dan and Blair have had a secret romance, causing a fight between Serena and Blair. Gossip Girl is the weapon of choice on the Upper East Side. Serena Celia van der Woodsen is the fictional character and the protagonist in the Gossip Girl novel series and in its TV adaptation, in which she is portrayed by Blake Lively. When confronted, Juliet mentions that Blair called and told them about Serena's involvement in the death of Pete Fairman, which led to her being ousted, and at the same time tries to convince Blair that Serena not being a member is a good thing. In the series finale New York, I Love You XOXO, Serena discovers Dan was Gossip Girl all along, but decides that it was really a blessing in disguise as it made her realize New York is where she belongs. This causes him and Serena to break up (Rhodes to Perdition). Serena hesitantly agrees to go, but discovers in the car that Carter has known for awhile and pretended not to in order to spend more time with her. Following this, Serena finds out that Blair was arrested at her own bachelorette party, and rushes to her aide. If you want to chat about the TV show Gossip Girl then you're in the right place. Steven gets Serena into some adult societies and she's excited to host the Conservancy Gala until she discovers Steven and Nate's new girlfriend Sage Spence are hanging out. As Serena and Tripp return to New York, their car crashes, leaving her hospitalized. [35], Blair and Serena's friendship was praised as "it offered a relationship whose depth and complexity approached Rory and Paris' [from Gilmore Girls]. He confronts Colin and asks if he is Ben, which Colin denies. In The Revengers, Serena decides to help Blair with her last scheme and then move to Los Angeles permanently. After quitting her job, Serena takes a new job at Tripp's office, where he is running a campaign to be a Congressman for New York and the two begin to develop feelings for each other after Tripp saves a drowning man, winning him the election (The Grandfather: Part II). Similar to the television adaptation, she dates a variety of different boys, including Nate, whom she lost her virginity to. After throwing a disastrous Sweet Sixteen party for Jenny, Serena retreats to Spain with Poppy and Poppy's boyfriend, Gabriel Edwards. After losing the reins to Gossip Girl and her unintentional role in exposing Blair's diary to the Upper East side, Serena attempts to deceive Blair by having sex with Dan. -The End of the Affair? Nate encourages her to use the blasts productively, but Serena is reluctant to become the next Gossip Girl. Though exposed and aware of the on-goings in the fashion world, she, unlike Blair, is not as meticulous about her fashion choices and wardrobe. Once she discovers that Colin is also going to be attending Blair's birthday party, Serena agrees to let Juliet come as her guest to be her bodyguard to make sure she doesn't get too close to Colin alone. In fact, I think the reveal that Dan is Gossip Girl actually makes total sense. While everyone else is wearing a traditional cap and gown . She spent a summer in Italy where her love of Vespas originated. Each season of Gossip Girl covers a year, once again confirmed by Blair's parties, so by the end of the series, Serena was 21-22. Blair knows it was her, but decided to let it go because she figured she was still angry about her kiss with Dan. But when she arrives to her new class that day, she discovers Colin is her new professor. I don't remember season 2 in it's entirety, but did Blair really only apply to Yale? Dan's motives were simple: he loved Serena. However, Dan tells her that after what she did he wants nothing to do with her anymore. She leaves for the summer with Blair to spend in Paris, planning to spend her time working on herself (Last Tango, Then Paris). If only Mozart had lived on the Upper East Side. She agrees to use K.C. This continually causes problems with her best friend, Blair Waldorf, as Serena is able to waltz her way easily through life while Blair has to work for things Serena attains via her charm. The episode was written by Amanda Lasher and directed by Norman Buckley. Serena becomes proud of her mother when Lily decides to face the consequences of sending an innocent Ben to prison. The Los Angeles Times noted her character's penchant for secrecy but stated "It initially seems as though Bad Serena is back, but we all know her highway of crazy behavior is always paved with good intentions. Sage uses every chance she gets to sabotage her father's relationship with Serena, and proves herself to be on par, scheming-wise, with Georgina and Blair. Blair goes through with her wedding anyway, even after Gossip Girl launches a video of Blair professing her true feelings to Chuck. Dan, on his hand, has been writing a scathingly honest sequel to "Inside" with the help of Georgina. While Maureen explains their arrangement to Serena, she also blackmails her with a letter she stole from the van der Woodsen's from William, who shares that he couldn't see Serena when she came looking for him because he was with Lily. In a surprising turn of events, she gets a package from former Gossip Girl, Georgina Sparks, containing a computer and the means necessary to become the next Gossip Girl. is the 16th episode of the second season and the 34th overall. She asks if he's sure she's the one he wants to be with and her assures her that she was always the one. In the season finale, Serena gets Charlie to help with a medical condition, though it is later revealed that Charlie is really Ivy, and Ivy is just acting. Fans who trudged through all six seasons of Gossip Girl (and what a journey it was) had to wait . Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar.The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, ran on The CW network for six seasons from September 19, 2007, to December 17, 2012.. Narrated by the unknown, omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl" (voiced by Kristen Bell), the series revolves . Plus it was . She tells PJ about the plan, and in return he orders Carter's release. By the time she reached her young adult years (18 to 25), she was legally allowed to do more . Blair breaks up with Dan to get back with Chuck, and Serena attempts to reconcile with Dan, as Lily and Rufus are separating. William van der Woodsen (William Baldwin) returns, making Serena happy but is unknowingly dragged into her father's plot to win back his ex-wife. 1. Serena asks her to explain the situation for her and to also apologize to Nate, which Jenny agrees to but doesn't plan to do. 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