Fugly People with Problems or the show formerly known as Gossip Girl

So i have now watched to episodes of the CW's new hit show Gossip Girl, and i for one am speechless,i thought that the CW was known for beautifull people with problems (no like seriously, it was in there ad campaign last year.) Gossip girls cast while for the most part is young and slightly attractive, is pretty fugly in comparison to shows like Dawson's Creek, Felicity, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, and Smallville. The cast of young up and comers (Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen, Nan Zhang) looked so good on paper (literally those promo shots made my mouth water in anticipation of the beautiful teen angst that was headed my way) but on screen they look rather average, and even a little blah. While the plot is not amazing, i suspect it will grow into the teen drama i've grown to love and adore. the acting is not great, as an actor i was dying over the complete lack of physical life, and how awkward they looked on screen. I would also like to point out that they are said to be upper east side sociallites, but nothing they've shown is on the upper east side. i live on the upper east side! they keep showing places in Brooklyn, come on people try to hide it at least a little bit. As cheesy as it is though, i do love the blogger "gossip girl's" narration... it is pretty brilliant (and by brilliant i mean so horribly cheesy it makes me excited to hear the next gut-busting line of brilliance). Also in the first episode main charachter Serena drinks martini's at the hotel bar, even though they have clearly said she is underage, i believe 17 or 18. but they covered it up with a crack about serving minors, i was like good form CW. All and all the show is completely dreadfull. it had aspirations of being a "Cruel Intentions" meets "90210" at a dive bar and they have a threesome with "Sex and the City" type drama, which it still could rise out of the ashes and become, but i'm alittle wary...


don't get me wrong, im soooo watching it every week. It's my new guilty pleasure.