BATTLE OF THE BITCHES: Serena Vs. Dan
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Discussed: Grudge Matches Fueled By Heartbreak, Existentialism And The Problem of High School Romance, Heretofore Unexplored Measures of Magnitude, Delayed Onset Stockholm Syndrome, Words of Wisdom: “All Girls Are Crazy, It’s Just Finding The Particular Brand Of Crazy You Most Love”, Power Of Climatic Analogies, Aquanet, Masterclasses In Wasted Opportunities, The Audacity Of Hope
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It’s been a rough year to be Dan Humphrey. With no super sexy figuring-her-shit-out girlfriend idolizing your outer borough coolness and general know it all attitude on all things about everything, you, Dan Humphrey are a tsunami of self righteous, unsympathetic, mansy-pansy annonyingness to the bitch degree.
Sure, Serena gave you a run for your money. That string of episodes towards the beginning of the season saw a flare of bitch-osity that could surely have frightened a stoic stone gargoyle to its core, but as the weeks progressed, we’ve really seen the other side to her, a little rationale and reason behind her Girl Insanity. Which in many ways is the nice thing about Serena, she’s complexily non-complex. While the Serena Crazy Drama Tornado may touch down wreaking havoc for a perplexed 25 mile radius, the glaringly obvious causatory reason is lurking just behind the hairsprayed centrifugal funnel of angry blonde locks, easily decipherable yet still quite rewarding in the secret unlocking. …
