Last night really sent me over the edge. I KNOW what the writers are trying to do, I get it. And I'm not necessarily hating on them for trying to turn Jenny into some Kira Plastinina/Cory Kennedy creature. It's not a bad avenue to take the show's youngest character down. But when the young lady playing the character looks like she stepped out of Calabasas or Orange County instead of Manhattan, there's a problem. Let's look at the facts:
1) Taylor Momsen can't act. Obviously no one on the show can really act except Ed Westwick, regardless of what you think he's doing, he calls it acting and I'll believe whatever he says. Back to T.M. though, her dialogue is too eager and contrived. She makes you think she's never gonna make it in the fashion industry....and she isn't.
2) Jenny Humphrey is not producing amazing work. Let's be honest, the show is making her out to be some kind of fashion prodigy, but the pieces they make to be hers are...well....TARGET. Just because you put a bright blue satin lining on a dark plaid dress does not make it high fashion, it makes it the Abby Dawn collection by Avril Lavigne for Kohl's. And the piece de resistance- the fucking green party dress. BORING BORING BORING.
3) If Jenny Humphrey is SUPPOSED to be a fashion prodigy, she would have:
A) Kept her apprenticeship with Elinor, the greatest minds are those which are humble.
B) Already been akin to the party scene in NY w/out the help of WillUHHHH why are you
this show Holland. She wouldn't have been hesitant about taking off her own design to bear her nubile body to a creepy version of Mark Hunter (the cobrasnake to those of you
that have ended up here by accident).
C) Been the best dressed character on the show and would have developed a relationship
with Chuck Bass because he is the style minded queer on deck for inspiration and
support.
4) Why have they not written in stimulant fueled nights of creative brilliance? HELLO, all great artists are supposed to be tortured drug riddled youths. Even her brother Dan, the only other "artist" on the show got slipped some Ecstasy by Chuck which made for a barely quixotic experience.
5) Since when does dying your hair a more platinum blonde and giving yourself charcoal raccoon eyes make you a more dynamic, edgy young person? In my book, those two things are the quickest ways to lose respect and legitimacy in the fashion world. She might as well be Kristin Cavallari.
ALSO: writing in a relationshit with Nate is NOT going to save Jenny's pathetic, talentless life. I HOPE HE BREAKS HER HEART!
So in conclusion, I ask for you to find some spare time and write to your local Gossip Girl script supervisor and ask that maybe in the next season Jenny has a freak accident with a sewing machine?
Ugh and can we all agree that upon Jenny's very appropriate and celebrated death, the writers instantly shift focus to her grieving peer, Serena's younger, gayer brother Eric.
Can we say BATH HOUSES!?
GG will never be raunchy enough for me. Even if female masturbation is the first topic of conversation in an episode.
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