I Am Chuck Bass

Discussed: Gaynderson Cooper’s Auspicious Beginnings, Reflecting Pools Of Life, Deregulating Deregulation, When You Think You’re Burt Lancaster With Jules Dassin Looking On Approvingly, Still Made In China, Antonio Gramsci, Engineering Empathy, Even Forbes Says It Can’t, Appetite For Law Distortion, The Red Road Continues

REFLECTIONS ON CLASS: ‘Gone With The Will’ Episode Recap Bonus Materials

From the limited research we’ve done online and from the on-set moles that faithfully report to us, it seems that Gossip Girl has a relatively short lead time for each episode, so it should come as little surprise the disillusionment and collapse of our heretofore unfettered Free Market Theocracy currently crippling the nation should permeate the tone of GG. Or, barring this, perhaps it’s against this dismally stark backdrop that ‘Gone With The Will’s class-conscious episode was so particularly poignant.

While C was a tad more brutishly unforgiving in his JA Henckels butcher knife-wielding analysis of all things Chuck, I would like to posit that the narrative, and communistically subversive feat the creative team was able pull off was truly remarkable.

With few exceptions, Chucks role as the lightening rod of this season is well documented on these hallowed pages; ‘Gone With The Will’ functioned as the culmination of the extensive groundwork laid to this point. In addition to a season of death and frustrated love, they threw a billion dollar inheritance at him, gave him Bass industries and Blair’s undying support, which he almost entirely tragically and heart rendingly screwed up. And yet, we still felt sympathy for the boy who has it all, for whom money can not in fact buy it all.

Then of course there were the shrewdly manipulative adoptive parents of Rufus and Lilys Chosen child, driven to chicanery and Guiding Light style lying in the face of Lily’s fortune and her water-into-wine power yielding army of Richie Ratfink lawyers; the message being: the rich get what they want, and when they don’t, they litigate their way to their Promised Land, thereby justifying actions taken against them by the noble lesser classes.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this line of narrative framing, either just another diversion in the Longest Season Ever, or, a taste of things to come…

XOXO.
B

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