Everything else that occurs at this pretty insignificant dinner just feels like a comedy break from the more serious plot with Julien and a chance to remind us this show once had interesting characters. This monologue would come off very condescendingly if not for Margaret Colin’s utterly soothing voice, which makes everything sound like the most tender message you’ve ever received. Eleanor ends up having a brief heart-to-heart with Catherine at the dinner and tells her she should heal from all the trauma she’s been through before relaunching a business.
But she very stupidly loans it to Julien at truly the worst possible time. Also aren’t they in financial straits? Wasn’t Audrey supposed to leave Constance Billard? There’s no point in asking these questions.Īnyway, her mother makes this basic coral dress that Audrey thinks will be a best-seller. Did we know Catherine was a designer? I feel like every detail about these characters only gets mentioned once, and the last time we heard about her “company” was in episode two. I had a slightly better time watching Eleanor, Cyrus, and Dorota (and Dorota’s daughter) make their special cameos at a Hanukkah dinner that Audrey and her mom crash to get some grant money for her fashion line (because Eleanor is the head of the CFDA now). And of course it all ends with Zoya and Julien fighting over bullshit. But these writers are making us suffer through another pointless party fiasco because no one can come up with anything compelling for these characters to do besides anxiously check their phones and concoct unnecessarily elaborate strategies to get out of whatever inconsequential problems they find themselves in every other day. I’m just not buying that all these PR measures are necessary for an influencer? Julien could post an apology statement online that mentions her donations to Time’s Up or whatever women’s org like Timothée Chalamet did after working with Allen and wanting to win that Oscar. I’m sorry, but this girl is not Ariana Grande. This episode even recycles a plot point we saw earlier in the season in which Monet and Luna plan a party whose proceeds all go to charity to get the internet off her back.
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But Julien somehow becomes a primary target of everyone’s ire and manages to lose all her brand deals (when did she get brand deals?) after the whole IG Live fiasco, sending Julien and her friends into full crisis mode once again. But I promise you not even the most self-righteous Twitter users are demanding that - I don’t know - Lily-Rose Depp be nailed to the Cross for speaking out against Amber Heard’s accusations against her dad or attacking Hailey Bieber for having an ardent Woody Allen defender for an uncle. Like, yes, people express outrage about this kind of shit online (and it’s typically short-lived). The portrayal of “cancel culture” feels very broad and cartoonish. But she also manages to get enough people to show up to a party later on in the height of this scandal, so go figure!Īll these narrative inconsistencies aside, I just think there’s a better, more accurate way to capture the level of social awareness (some but not all) kids have these days thanks to social media without writing them all off as mindless social-justice vigilantes. There’s literally a scene in this episode in which an entire gymnasium of students boo Julien after Gossip Girl posts something about her old tweets.
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Either way, everyone’s sudden obsession with this “scandal” - which is just a series of misunderstandings - seems very unusual.Īdditionally, I think the writers are confusing rabid stan culture with the behaviors of normal-ass Gen-Zers who have, like, schoolwork, and promposals to worry about. As I wrote earlier in the season, it’s hard to distinguish Julien as a queen bee compared to the other students at Constance Billard because no one seems to really care that she exists besides Gossip Girl (except in this episode when it’s revealed she has stans?). For one thing, the way this show portrays Julien’s fame is extremely confounding. This week, the cancellation of Julien continues to make little sense or reflect how this situation would actually go down in real life.
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