Can someone give me a good recap of the 1st season of Gossip Girl?

Question

I need a good descriptive recap of the 1st season. I want to watch the new season tonight and missed most of the 1st season. I need as much detail as possible so I can understand it tonight.

Answer 1

This may take me awhile, but here it goes......

The kids all go to school in Manhattan, Serena Van Der Woodson is the it girl, gorgeous, spunky, fun loving and quite the party girl. Her bestfriend is Blair Waldorf, very classy and classic, think Jackie O, only less nice. Blair is known as the queen bee and definitely plays up to it. Blair dates Nate Archibald, who is your classic American guy. Dan Humphrey has been lusting over Serena since gradeschool. Dan's little sister is Jenny, a young but cute girl who longs to fit in with the Upper East side crew, even though she lives in a loft in Brooklyn. In the pilot Serena is getting off a train at Grand Central after a long self imposed exile. Blair is upset she is back because S left without saying goodbye. She will come to find out S slept with Nate.

-Serena's mom and Dan's dad used to date and are still in love with eachother

-Chuck Bass is the coniving but somewhat charming rich kid, and secretly loves Blair. At the end of the season they are dating, however he bails on her and doesn't go to Europe, and no one ditches Blair.

-Serena and Blair become friends again

-Serena's little brother Eric is g*y

-Jenny is a social climber and has a huge rivalry with Blair the whole season. Blair makes Jenny do her errands to be a part of the circle, but eventually Jenny gets sick of it and says it's not worth losing herself and the respect of her family

-Serena was doing coke with some guy one night and he OD'd. She kept this a secret for a long time until her old friend Georgina came back and blackmailed her. Georgina pretended to be Sarah and "randomly met" Dan and they became friends (only for G to punish S).

-Get used to initials, it's all they use =)

-Dan and Serena broke up in the last episode

Without too much detail I think that should bring you pretty up to speed. You can watch old episodes on cwtv.com

Enjoy!! =)