The TV series Gossip Girl is based around the set of books by the same name.
The show revolves around the lives of socialite young adults growing up on New York's Upper East Side. They attend elite academic institutions while dealing with sex, drugs, and your basic fun, dramatic, dangerous teenage issues.
Featuring an ensemble cast, the series mainly centers around the lives of former best friends, Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester). These two share a love interests in Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford).
As outsiders looking in, Dan (Penn Badgley) and Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) don't run in the same social or financial circles as their peers - but are drawn into their lives nonetheless. If that sounds similar to The OC, you won't be surprised to learn that OC creator Josh Schwartz is also behind Gossip Girl.
The series is narrated by a seemingly omniscient character, "Gossip Girl" (voiced by Kristen Bell), who runs a blog about her fellow Upper East Siders, consequently stirring the pot and creating potential rivalries in this exclusive and vicious circle of friends.
