Gossip Girl - Serena and the Nice Rich Girl Fantasy

Why is everyone on Gossip Girl so obsessed with Serena? The Gossip Girl characters are fixated on Serena as the ultimate “It Girl”, someone who manages to effortlessly captivate everyone around her. But Serena’s appeal also comes, in part, from her ambivalence, the sense that she doesn’t actually want to be part of the world of New York’s elite. Still, is her “nice rich girl” persona just an act?

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00:00 Why we can't keep our eyes off of Serena
01:19 How Serena subverts the mean rich girl
03:43 But is this Nice Girl persona an act?
06:46 How Serena's privilege plays into her arc
09:38 Serena as the moral compass of Gossip Girl

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