XOXO

I’ve never made any high-fallutin’ claims for my televisual habits:  I am certainly not one of those deep-down insecure types who loftily say they only bother with natural history programmes and Newsnight;  on the contrary, I have an unabashed appetite for all manner of TV-tat.  Still, I never expected to love Gossip Girl.  First, I didn’t see why I would have any interest in a melodramatic soap about teenagers, and second, I’ve never really gone in for what I think of as fashion-led programming (I’ve never even seen one episode of Sex and The City, though I certainly wallowed in the film).  But I do love a box-set, of pretty much anything really, and on one holiday, I was stuck in with the children and a sheaf of dvds of the first series of Gossip Girl.  After the first programme, I just felt old and out of it;  by the second I was hooked.  And now that the box-set of the first half of the second series has come out, I am truly in high-camp heaven.  For those who have never seen it, I will just say give it a go.  Explaining the premise, such as it is, will just put you off.  Yes, it’s about spoilt, rich American high-schoolers, but it’s wittily written and produced with style.  Besides, however old we are, it’s not as if, deep down, we ever leave the playground.

Available to buy from Amazon.co.uk for £14.98 for Part 1 of Season 2, and from Amazon.com for $65.99 for the complete Season 1 and 2 boxset.
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