Georgina Sparks watch

[The Tomtrek]

After years of just being a (very lovely) name buried between meaningless guest stars, she finally gets the credit she deserves:



I cheered.

Great journalistic instincts, no nonsense career woman feminism, Georgina Sparks is perfect!

Really this.

Georgina Sparks is the woman who can produce a book demonizing the privileged upper class, find a missing member of said upper class, all at the same time as raising a child.

But what's important is, she doesn't begrudge her motherhood. Yes, she may complain about the baby, but every mother does at some point. She realizes that you can be a mother and have your own self-identity away from that, which is an incredible positive role model to show (even if she's portrayed as the villain!). As she puts it herself: "A woman shouldn't have to choose.".

Plus all that while she stays classy as hell.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

"One of the first things I learned after being run out of Manhattan by a gang of overprivileged teenagers was to let my anger go." I absolutely love that the show is now explicitly pivoting to showing that these people don't fucking matter, after spending five seasons merely implying it.

So this episode was even more ridic than usual. Here's a photo of a cat watching Gossip Girl.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Tomtrek this might interest you:

Oh, also. Probably you want to know about Penn Bagdley and Michelle Trachtenberg, or as we prefer to call them, Dan and Georgina. They were both really, really nice and very patient with Chris and I shouting in their faces and giving our lines our Joaquin Phoenix–all while they were just being, like, normal. Dan liked the Occupy Wall Street poster. Georgina liked my shoes, which were not my shoes but really fancy shoes picked out for me by costumer designer Eric Daman. They also backed me up when I said, “Um, I’m sorry, I don’t really understand what this tennis camp joke means? What is the insinuation I am making about Chuck Bass and the owner of our magazine? What is my motivation? And Penn was like, ‘Yeah, that makes no sense.’ And a writer was called over and called someone in LA who explained the joke and still no one got it and the director had me say it anyway a few different ways because “it will probably just get cut,” And it wasn’t. Anyway, afterward, both Chris and I made the same two observations: Babies would be jealous of Michelle Trachtenberg’s skin. It is that amazing. And wow, Penn Badgley can make some serious eye contact.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe Penn and Michelle should write the show. And it's about them solving crimes. And there's a logo at the end that says "A PENNCHELLE PRODUCTION." And it's a picture of a pen and a shell.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Jesus Christ.

This dress has just broken my brain.

 

[The Tomtrek]

UPDATE REQUIRED.

IMDB lists her as being in next week's episode but not this one. Is this true?

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

What is that background pic from? The Great Train Robbery? The Perils of Pauline?

 

[The Tomtrek]

The impending arrival of Hurricane Sandy on the east coast is causing some networks to push original episodes by one week.
CW and CBS have both postponed the new episodes of their Monday night shows — including How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Hawaii Five-0, Partners, Mike & Molly, Gossip Girl, and 90210. All the shows are scheduled to air next week.
ABC says Castle is still scheduled to air as planned at 10 p.m. ET — for now.
Meanwhile, NBC has announced that tomorrow’s episode of Matthew Perry’s Go On will not air due to storm coverage.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-tv-listings/


DAMN YOU SANDY.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Man, I wish there had been another hurricane. This episode was terribad.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Hang on let me check.

Good enough for me!

I think Michelle Trachtenberg's eyebrows are more expressive than the majority of the rest of the actors on the show.

 

[The Tomtrek]

UPDATE REQUIRED PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Give me a couple hours!

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

She's a fantastic literary agent, apparently. After a period of teen turbulence, she's turned into a fine, normal, functioning member of society.

None of those adjectives can be applied to any other character on the show.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

And blackmail. She's good at blackmail for your own good.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

I love how flawlessly Rufus transitioned from being the kept man of a 50 year old woman into being the kept man of a 21 year old.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Ugh, fucking Sage. You don't disrupt the plans of a literal Mastermind (Georgina Sparks) for your own stupid petty reasons. And you keep wearing that stupid fucking hat.

At least Georgina Sparks is pro enough to deal with it! She keeps a tight work ethic while raising a child and not losing her sexuality. She's the ideal modern woman.

Plus we finally got to see this lovely dress which is lovely.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Smart take:

You know what it is, it's that the first three years of this show it was kids metaphorically acting like adults. A fantasy parallel world where Blair wasn't really the Queen of New York and she didn't really "banish" Princess Jenny, we just pretended those things were true; where Serena's social climbing was about being on the arm of similarly diaphanous It Boys, not marrying actual pharmaceutical CEOs. You could then look at the second half of this show as being a concentrated effort to play out those exact same stories, but in real life: Basically, taking the entire cool part out and just watching children actually act like adults, in a boring adult world.
[...]

But by making the metaphor real, the show turned into a soap opera like any other soap opera -- fabulously wealthy people having ridiculous problems; children living out these grownup situations like in any Danielle Steele potboiler -- and the heart vanished, because they weren't us anymore. Just these weird monsters.

(emphasis in original)

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Georgina Sparks is dormant this week.

 

[The Tomtrek]

TWO LINES?

I sat through all of that for two lines?