16 Shows to Watch After 'Gossip Girl'
Dear Upper East Siders. Whether you're watching "Gossip Girl" for the first time or for the fifteenth time, you must have been hyped by the drama, intrigue, secrets, and especially the tangled web of relationships, friendships, and rivalries. Now, to avoid being jolted back to reality after "Gossip Girl" ends, you have a few options: rewatch the show from the beginning, which is entirely the right choice.
If you chose the latter, then the following list is for you. I've picked out 16 shows that have something in common with "Gossip Girl". They may have a similar premise, share the commonality of being set in Manhattan, have overlapping casts and crews, or, like "Bridgerton," have another anonymous gossip columnist driving the show. Whatever direction they choose, we hope they capture at least some of the magic of the good old "Gossip Girl" reruns.
Like "Gossip Girl," "Pretty Little Liars" features an anonymous character whose identity is the show's main mystery. Unlike "Gossip Girl," however, "A" in "Pretty Little Liars" says and does much darker and more sinister things than the N.Y.C. gossip columnist did, and (spoiler alert) is revealed to be more than one person as the seven seasons unfold.
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Dan Humphrey returns. This time Penn Badgley plays the extremely creepy Joe, who tends to obsess over the women he loves to the point of stalking and sometimes murder, and with the fifth season scheduled for 2024 being the series finale, now is the perfect time to catch up on the first four seasons of YOU.
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If you thought the plot of "Gossip Girl" was confusing, wait until you dive into the seventh season of "Riverdale." In addition to plot twists, love triangles, make-ups, and breakups, there's plenty of psychic powers, time travel, and cold-blooded murder.
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A spin-off of the 90s classic "Beverly Hills 90210," it began a year after "Gossip Girl" first aired in 2007 and lasted almost as many episodes.
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For anyone who has ever wished the high school season of "Gossip Girl" had been a hundred times more severe, full of more sex, drugs, and dangerous situations, HBO has you covered.
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Set in California and following the dramatic ups and downs of young people, "The O.C." is the first hit series from "Gossip Girl" co-creator Josh Schwartz. In an interesting and realistic development, one of the stars, Adam Brody, married one of his "Gossip Girl" co-stars, Leighton Meester.
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Watching "Bridgeman" after seeing "Gossip Girl" may not sound like a good idea. After all, the film is set in 1800s England, a time when teenagers and young adults were expected to follow very careful social rules. Not only is "Bridgerton" filled with "do-or-die" romance and lots of sex, but this toned-down place is haunted by an anonymous gossip columnist who can't help but cause trouble.
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"The L Word" was a groundbreaking film about lesbian and bisexual women. And, like "Gossip Girl," all of these characters were linked by a series of friendships, relationships, and other romantic and sexual entanglements, all of which were tracked by an online site known as "The Chart."
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Before Carrie Bradshaw was Carrie Bradshaw, she was just Carrie, a Connecticut high school student determined to make her way in the New York magazine industry. Both "The Carrie Diaries" and "Sex and the City" are great follow-ups to "Gossip Girl," but the military might have a leg up on this one, which shares GG's coming-of-age vibe and high school-level intrigue.
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"Gossip Girl" co-creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are also behind this five-season wonder, a reboot of the hugely popular 1980s soap opera.
"Younger" is another show about secrets and lies in New York City, about a 40-something woman who takes a job at a publishing house after a divorce, but must continue the ruse for seven seasons by pretending to be in her 20s. As an added bonus, Hilary Duff, who had a recurring role as Olivia Burke on "Gossip Girl," is also in the cast.
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There is really no shortage of TV shows that are completely shaped and determined by a vital secret. In this one, a young woman moves to the Hamptons and takes on a new identity.
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This Spanish Netflix show has much in common with Gossip Girl. Both are set in an elite high school and depict the teenage turmoil that ensues there. Both are set in elite high schools and depict the teenage mayhem that ensues there. However, "Elite" focuses specifically on a trio of scholars at the school and includes flash-forwards throughout each season that lead to the unraveling of a major mystery.
"There's plenty to keep your head spinning throughout the five seasons, including a love triangle, amnesia, secret identical twins, and dramatically resurrected characters.
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The characters in this freeform series are a bit older than those in Gossip Girl, but their lives are no less troubling. Bold Type follows three young women who work for a New York women's magazine. And fun fact: the show's fictional magazine, Scarlett, is based on Cosmopolitan, and the entire show was actually inspired by (and executive produced by) Cosmo's former editor-in-chief Joanna Coles.
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Another of Netflix's international productions, this Italian series follows two high school girls whose lives are quite different from Serena and Blair, except for the fact that they share a serious secret. In this show, both Chiara and Ludovica are drawn into an underground teenage prostitution ring.
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