Ben Barna
August 27, 2008
The first five minutes of Monday's Gossip Girl season premier are now online, along with a recap of last season. It starts off in the Hamptons, just as New Yorkers are reliving the birth of their own Cooper Beach orgies this summer (just watch the clip). And as promised, Chace Crawford has landed himself a cougar in former Twin Peaks star Mädchen Amick. I initially wondered why pouty Ed Westwick's eyes seemed barely open, until Blake Lively makes her first season 2 appearance in a blinding platinum frock.




Like most of you, I sometimes stay awake at night counting down the minutes to the second season premiere of Gossip Girl -- somewhere just shy of 11,000. I don't necessarily watch it for the revolutionary acting or the envelope-pushing story arcs. (Although there is a certain je ne sais quoi with Blake Lively's
Gossip Girl, affectionately referred to as the Greatest Show of Our Time by
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