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“Gossip Girl”: the new trailer between scandals, love affairs and Instagram

Parties, selfies, fashion shows, loves, sex and a shred of mystery. The reboot of Gossip Girl, which arrives in the United States on July 8 on the HBO Max platform, is enriched with a few more pieces, showing us that the red thread with the original series that ended ten years ago and aired for six seasons on The CW is not as slow as some. he would have expected. Beyond the unmistakable voice of Kristen Bell, who returns as an omniscient narrator to tell “the scandalous lives of the Manhattan elite”, everything seems perfectly identical to the one we left behind, only with a new cast and the digitization suggested by smartphones and, above all, by social networks.

The most important difference between the Gossip Girl of yesterday and the Gossip Girl Today it is, in fact, all in the medium: no longer a blog, but an Instagram account managed by who knows who enjoys making public the small scandals that the students of the prestigious Constance Billard School try to hide. The new episodes, they see Joshua Safran as a showrunner and executive producer alongside the creators of the original series Josh Schwartz e Stephanie Savage, do not give up the glossy look that made us fall in love with Serena and her gang but also that subtle sadism that goes beyond the designer bags and the most fashionable clubs in Manhattan to destroy the lives of teenagers who are simply understanding how they can survive in a world where if you don’t have the money and you don’t come from a good family you will hardly be able to emerge.

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The new characters – da Emily Alyn Lind as Audrey Hope to Eli Brown as Otto Bergmann IV; from Whitney Peak as Zoya Lott to Thomas Doherty as Max Wolfe; from Jordan Alexander as Julien Calloway to Evan Mock as Aki Menzies – they will be forced to compete with a new influencer who could be more ruthless than ever. The series, which will also see some guest stars including the former star of YOU Elizabeth Lail, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, it will be much more inclusive of the original, and “will tell how much social media and New York itself have profoundly changed in recent years.”

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