HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot launches Thursday and you know you love it. How do we know you already XoXo the updated take on The CW teen series without having seen it? Well, because if you were a fan of the original show and the drama of young Upper East Siders Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) and Brooklynites Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) attending elite Manhattan prep schools, then you’re probably going to enjoy watching this new generation fill their designer shoes in very familiar — but not identical — ways.
How HBO Max’s ‘Gossip Girl’ Rebooted a World of Chuck and Blair ‘Archetypes’ Without Making Carbon Copies
“I think that any similarities were not intentional, but also unavoidable,” creator Joshua Safran tells TheWrap
