GOSSIP GIRL Season 2 - Episode 05 - THE SERENA ALSO RISES

'What would be a fashion week without a fashion victims'

Associate Producer: Trey Coscia| Director of Photography: Ron Fortunanto, a. s. c.| Story Editors: Lenn K. Rosenfeld and Robert Hull|
Production Designer: Loren Weeks| Editor: Rachel Goodlett Katz| Narrator: Kristen Bell
First Episode Date: September 19, 2007
Cast: Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen| Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf| Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass| Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald| Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey| Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey| Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen| Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey| Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
Genre: Teen Drama

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In New York Fashion Week this time, Blair busied herself by helping Eleanor make list of seating for invited guests. Because Blair feels rivaled by Serena, so she used her duty to put her socialite gang friends to get a special seat in fashion week event this time. But Blair's efforts again invincible with the emergence of Serena with a top socialite in a newspaper. It makes her friends more attracted to Serena. As a skilled worker and talented in the field of design, Jenny became someone who Eleanor count on to help her in fashion week. While Jenny is working under the supervision of Eleanor, Eleanor gets criticism from her assistant about the Blair-made seating list. Eleanor and her assistant agreed that the list of places for the guests of her invitation had to be changed, and Jenny gave the idea of placing Serena and Poppy, Serena's new friend who was a socialite, placed in the desolate spot of Eleanor's guest.

Knowing her job is interrupted by jenny, blair is very angry with jenny, who even Eleanor admits that Jenny is very talented. Blair resentment to Jenny immediately spilled into a plan to bring down Jenny. Blair came to Rufus, by pretending to express to Rufus that for two weeks Jenny has ditched her school and prefer to work in Eleanor Waldorf Design.
Receive the information, Rufus directly pick up Jenny at work and ask Jenny to go home and no longer work in Eleanor Waldorf Design.

Blair's anger is also addressed to Serena. Blair insisted that Serena should be behind, with her to support Eleanor, as they always did since childhood.
Finds Blair treatment increasingly showing her jealousy, Serena then reveals to Poppy that maybe she should not go with Poppy to be an Eleanor guest, to honor Blair and not hurt her more. But Poppy persuades Serena not to postpone the agenda, and offers to invite Blair to the Marc Jacobs event as her redeemer. Serena agreed.
But Serena good intentions did not have time expressed by her. Because Blair has first showed its hostility to Serena because Blair thinks Serena has made her life unhappy. Accept the accusation from her friend, Serena feel hurt and reply with pour out her disappointment that she felt against Blair. Serena was eager to stop trying to be kind to Blair from then on.

Then came the time of organizing a New York Fashion Week where Jenny acted as a very trusted to Eleanor. Blair who is also jealous of Jenny for the trust given by Eleanor, disrupting the work of Jenny by repatriating all the models previously prepared by Jenny to represent all the clothes made by Eleanor. But as an intelligent woman, Jenny then asked for help to Serena and Poppy to demonstrate Eleanor design clothing. Serena was reluctant to do so because she still felt that her actions will definitely make blair more sad. But Poppy convinces Serena not to be afraid and to have a positive thought that the real friend is someone who actually supports her best friend to advance, not by degrading her. At the same time, Blair suddenly gives a dress to Serena to be exhibited. The attitude of Blair when it is considered by Serena as a friendly attitude, therefore Serena more eager to help Jenny. Apparently Blair is still a cunning person. The dress she gave was not an Eleanor design dress, but Jenny dress she designed herself for the fashion week closing party.
Knowing her dress was abused by Blair, Jenny was frustrated and asked Blair desperately about what reason Blair did that, even though Jenny had given up from her previous rivalry with Blair. Heard that, Blair became aware that what she did to Jenny is actually in vain and only impingement lust just because can not beat Serena. Blair finally defend Jenny when Eleanor wrath by knowing the dress is exhibited by Serena is not her dress but belongs to Jenny. Because there is no other choice, Eleanor was forced to recognize the dress as her design when she received information that the dress belongs to Jenny get very good value on the fashion week event.
On the incident, the relationship of Blair and Jenny seems to start to improve. Jenny was also given a deep respect and thanks from Eleanor for helping to succeed fashion week this year with Eleanor. At that time, to coincide with the arrival of Rufus at the festival is underway for Jenny. Rufus also saw with his own eyes that the existence of Jenny is something that is needed for Eleanor. But it does not undo Rufus intention to reprimand Jenny who has skipped school. Rufus asks Jenny to leave her job and returns to school, but Jenny rejects him firmly that he wants to continue his work and she has already talked to the principal that she will not return to school.

For his guilt to Jenny, Blair also felt that she had done to Serena already too much. Blair tried to apologize to Serena, but Serena refused because so far Serena has been much succumbed to Blair. Serena tells Blair that she wants to be herself, and Serena no longer cares whether she will accept it or not.

While Lily, aided by Bex, designed the placement of some paintings she had bought in the new house belonging to Bart and Lily. Some paintings have been placed in place according to Lily directives. But Lily felt lost when a photograph of herself that she wanted from a photographer can not buy by her because it was bought by someone else. Lily was asking for help from her assistant to look for the buyer because she intends to give a higher bid to the buyer to sell her photos to herself.
Then how surprised Lily when Bart back from business trip, Lily then know that apparently the picture of herself has been bought by Bart. Lily began to know that during this time Bart has spied on the life of Lily without her knowledge. Lily is disappointed because Bart does not seem to trust her as a wife, but Bart only means well by doing so to make sure his family stays on a safe path.

While Chuck is still unlucky in approaching Blair again, Dan also experienced dishonesty because his writing is considered unattractive as a material filing recommendations to be able to study at Yale. Dan asked by his tutor to create an unusual piece of writing that went out of writing all this time. For that Dan then dare to get out of his comfort zone, Dan ask Chuck to take him to life altogether from the life normally lived by Dan. Finally, because forced and did not have the choice of other friends, Chuck was willing to invite Dan to go with him. They went to a bar, Chuck shows Dan about the wild life that he had been living. Apparently Dan not as strong as Chuck. Dan drunk, make Chuck feel bored with him and leaving Dan alone in a dazed state of intoxication.

A short night spent with Chuck with his wild life made Dan could produce a completely new script, so that he was asked to go back to continue the tux with a more interesting story. This means Dan should be more deeply into the life of Chuck who became the main character in his writing.
Finally Dan meet Chuck who was spending time alone in a bar. Chuck's heart condition was not in good shape, because he felt the rejection again, given by Bart. Presence of Dan then make Chuck unconsciously told his feelings as a lonely child to his father. Chuck feel Bart hate him because Chuck make his mother died by giving birth of Chuck. Dan quite sympathetic to Chuck. But Chuck does not want to look weak in front of Dan and so he tries to seduce a woman in the bar. But apparently the woman has had a lover, who then did not accept the attitude of Chuck against her lover. Then there was a commotion, but Dan managed to protect Chuck from the physical attacks of the man.
Consequently, Dan and Chuck must be languishing in the police station. Feeling grateful to Dan, Chuck promised that he would help and to get out of the police station with the help of his lawyer. But then Chuck finds a small note belongs to Dan which contains about the story of him. Chuck felt himself only utilized by Dan as the object of his writing. Chuck also expressed his objection and anger to Dan upon it.


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