Everyone’s worst qualities were on display, but their virtues were too, as when Nate fondly reflects: “Here was the thing about Blair that he loved. Von Ziegesar may have placed her characters in an ever-escalating lineup of decidedly adult situations, from modeling at Fashion Week (Serena) to dating an English lord (Blair), and getting published in the New Yorker as a high-school student (disaffected poet Dan, in perhaps the least likely scenario of all), but she still cared about them. Meanwhile, blonde goddess Serena and her curly-haired protégé Jenny are serving as muses-of-the-day to a very Strokes-ish band called The Raves, another extremely relatable high-school experience. Consider, for a moment, the “Nobody Does It Better” storyline in which Blair, reeling from being waitlisted at Yale and sick of living at home with her mother and corny new stepdad, simply moves into the Plaza-as one does. While Von Ziegesar’s references were precise, her plot points tended toward the wonderfully deranged.

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