Social media users are getting ready to add ‘XOXO’ to their text messages now that the CW’s Gossip Girl returns to Netflix.
Twitter has been in a frenzy since Netflix announced that the cult classic would be returning to the streaming platform on October 29.
‘Gossip Girl is like the best show you’ve ever seen. How addictive’, a user of tweeted.
Netflix originally removed the series from its streaming platform in 2021, but it became available for streamers to watch on Max later that year.
The hit American series ended its six-season run in 2012, and critics have praised the show for its stars’ performances and its influence on fashion.
Streamers were excited to learn that Gossip Girl will return to Netflix three years after its removal from the platform.
All six seasons of Gossip Girl will return to Netflix on October 29. They will still be available for streamers to watch on Max.
The television series focuses on the lives of wealthy teenagers living in New York City who are being terrorized by a blogger known as Gossip Girl (Kristen Bell).
Best friends Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Blair Waldorf are two of those privileged, imperfect teenagers who do everything they can to succeed.
As they strive to attend the college of their dreams, Serena also keeps busy in her on-again, off-again relationship with Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley).
Blair also finds herself in a complicated relationship with Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) and later with Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), a troubled young man and womanizer.
The five were seemingly in love/hate relationships throughout the show, but after Dan revealed he was Gossip Girl, all of the character arcs ended on high notes.
Other notable stars of the show included Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szhor, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle.
The hit CW series focused on the lives of wealthy teenagers who went to New York City and were being terrorized by a blogger known as Gossip Girl.
Several X users have been excited about the show’s return to Netflix, with more than one person praising specific seasons of the show.
“It’s perfect that Gossip Girl is back on Netflix just as fall is about to hit.” tweeted a user
Another user tweeted: “The first two seasons of Gossip Girl were great.”
Others shared memories they had about the show and watching it for the first time.
‘The first time I discovered Gossip Girl was on Netflix. I used to exhaust my ‘unlimited’ data by watching it until Straight Talk took my data and then I ended up getting a class action settlement for it – xoxo!’ jokes one X user. tweeted.
Several X users were excited about the show’s return to Netflix, even though it is still available to watch on Max.
Streamers compared Gossip Girl to other shows, and some of them wrote about their memories of watching the show for the first time.
Not many X users showed anger over the series’ return to Netflix, but some of them weren’t afraid to criticize the Gossip Girl stars.
‘Please, God, please, I hate Blake Lively, I can’t stand her on Gossip Girl, her acting is horrible,’ an X user. tweeted.
Other characters that social media users couldn’t stand were Vanessa (Szohr) and Alison Humphrey (Susan Miner).
Rewatching Gossip Girl and Man, I hate Alison Humphrey… You left your whole family and you want to come back like you never left,” an X user. tweeted.
Some X users also pointed out that Gossip Girl is still on Max and streamers who don’t have Netflix accounts can still watch all six seasons.
Gossip Girl has an 84 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews for each season.
Critics who praised the show’s first season enjoyed the atmosphere and culture that all the characters brought to the show.
“There’s no way to ignore how fantastic that first season was. And the pilot… that pilot is almost perfect,” wrote one reviewer for Vulture.
A reviewer of the Los Angeles Times wrote: ‘Oh, the long-legged glamour, the pretty, rich girls at cocktail parties, the rumpled sexiness of those school uniforms, the gothic romance of stone-mansioned New York, which hasn’t gotten so much love since Sex and the City. ‘
Season 2 was even more incredible in the eyes of critics, as it is one of only two seasons of Gossip Girl to have a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
‘The pleasures of Gossip Girl don’t have to be guilty. This melodrama is not great television art, nor even mediocre; but it’s ridiculous, ridiculous and funny,” wrote one critic for the Boston Globe.
Unfortunately, the final season of the show didn’t receive as much praise and more than one critic thought it needed some improvements.
‘With age comes wisdom? Whoever said that should have passed the memo on to the Gossip Girl gang, because after six seasons,” one critic wrote in a 2012 review for Entertainment Weekly.
