I think the iCarly reboot did a good job at capturing the feeling and shenanigans of the original show *AND* they realize their target audience is older and not 10 year olds

The teachers in Gossip Girl are giving I was bullied in high school and ate my lunch in the bathroom stall and had an embarrassing nickname that followed me throughout all 4 years. They all need to seek help immediately

Idk about the gossip girl reboot but the I’ve kinda noticed that with the ICarly reboot, people were/are expecting it to like revolutionise television and it’s like... it was never going to do that and it high-key doesn’t have to? Like it’s a perfectly fine fun show, let’s just have fUN for once (especially with ICARLY which has always been A SHOW FOCUSED ON FUN???)

the teachers deserve jail. literal jail. on top of that, they’re literally targeting the ONLY TWO STUDENTS in the school who are actually nice to them instead of targeting monet or Luna…the ones who are getting them fired.

Obie had no chance with me from the jump! The moment they introduced him with white, rich guilt I chose to make him my enemy and he proves me right every episode.

I feel like Obi is so horrible I really can’t stand him. He dated Julien didn’t like her. Then started dating her sister and now he’s seeing their similarities…..I mean what did he expect. They’re freaking sisters they’re gonna act a lot alike. He’s giving rich Dan Humphrey vibes and I don’t like it NOT ONE BIT

The teachers being gossip is believable. Because some adults are terrible to children

I feel like Gossip Girl will dedicate an episode to a character's home life, like Euphoria or Skins, but more subtly. Like in the first episode we got a lot of Julien, in the second a lot of Audrey and in the third a lot of Max.

First things first, Monet & Luna are the mean girls we don’t deserve. Definitely need to know more about them and their home lives. THE TEACHERS S ARE LOSERS! Grown people being sad enough to smear their students on the internet is peak pathetic. They couldn’t just put it in the group chat and level up their witty come backs? I hope by the end of this season the teachers get a 1 way ticket to a state run facility.

I feel like the main teen group on the gossip girl reboot aren’t even friends. They barely hang out and some of them don’t even like each other. Obie and Max keep to themselves, Aki and Audrey are together, Julien is always with Monet and Luna.

people are a bit too harsh on millicent. She's a young adolescent girl with a deceased father and now a split family likee. don't do too much on her lol Plus she's funny and she's not as mean as people make her seem

The way nobody likes Obie is hilarious lmao and yes We stan Max I love him

Obie being a horrible person for association is his brand because he talks all that sht about inequality but always tries to shift the blame from his family and uses all the resources whenever he wants something

Since episode 1 Obie has been GRIMEY: 1. When he was ranting to Zoya about Julien and being mentally checked out from the relationship, I was like “Why are you ranting about your girlfriend to her little sister?” 2. Then a couple days after breaking up with Julien, he immediately pursues Zoya (again, her sister 🤢). Like you couldn’t wait (although that wouldn’t make it much better) 3. The age gap is just weird overall. He’s like 16/17 and a junior and Zoya is 14 and a freshman. This relationship with Zoya is just a NO. Gross, weird and grimey in so many ways. I’m rooting for his downfall

46:55 THANK YOU omg i’m so annoyed at the amount of og gg fans who are SO pressed on twitter. they were literally comparing one 50 min episode to SEASONS full of HOURS worth of content. and ofc a reboot will be different - like what did y’all expect…

Gossip girl was originally supposed to be Eric, but then at the last minute they changed to Dan so him being gossip girl doesn’t make sense at all😭

I could totally see them being friends since they were small children and growing into their teen years and still hang out together even though they don’t like each other. They’ve known each other forever, their families are friends, they come from the same social class, they’re familiar and comfortable with each other and they have friends in common.

i desperately hope the season finale of gossip girl is the blonde teacher being publicly exposed and embarrassed for her disgusting behavior hehe but fat chance that’ll happen

The teachers in gossip girl need to be ARRESTED

"You're changing, Zoya" SHE'S 14, CREEP

I don't know why people who watched the OG Gossip Girl were being so weird about the new one. They keep acting like the original was the height of television - it never was and not only that but it could be pretty shitty at times, it was just a really over the top teen drama and that's all Gossip Girl has ever needed to be.

"I think Obie is revolting" OMG thank you I've been saying this since episode 1!!!!

People keep saying that they DESPISE Millicent and immediately could tell it was cuz she was black. Someone else was like "she's just Sam's character i don't see the issue" and people keep saying shit like "yeah but her character is so unnecessary" just say you're racist :/

So glad we're on the same page, like everyone else I talk to loves Zoya and Obie together and I'm not down for it. Obie gives very privileged white rich boy with a black girl fetish and when he couldnt get that with Julian or because Julian wasn't what he "wanted" he switched to Zoya cuz why not. I seriously dont like him, he screams trouble and he's going to get Zoya into trouble too.

WE DEFINITELY EATINGGGG

Obie is an EXACT copy of Dan from the original GG like annoying, hypocritical and simply just stupid, he gives the same vibes as when Dan dated Serena then a few seasons later he goes and dates Blair pretty much Serena’s sister. And Audrey is definitely way way closer to julien than Monet + Luna. I see more of a friend relationship between the two of them than Monet + Luna. and I love the way max plays “chuck” and how he’s transparent with his emotions from the 3rd ep bc the old chuck it took him like 4 seasons to show an inch of emotion. And ban ALL OF THOSE TEACHERS TO HELL

AHHH AMANDA IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO TALK ABOUT GOSSIP GIRL😭. She really feeding us this week

i think luna helped zoya for that one scene because luna wanted “get out with the old and into the new” and convinced monet to drop julien bc she thought she was a sinking ship (after her and obie’s break up) but then after the little fairy god mother moment zoya didn’t really take on her advice that well and they refocused to julien again, just my take

my main problem with the gossip girl reboot is the over sexualization of it all. aren’t they like minors in high school??? i have this same problem with so many hbo shows it’s so weird and i get that they’re acting but still 😭

The iCarly reboot is SO good. When they had Josie Totah guest star and learning more about Harper's character I was like, oh they understood the assignment.

To be honest, the only characters that I don’t like in GG, are Obi and the teachers. Obi it’s so obnoxious and bland. And the teachers are like teenagers 😭 girl?? Why are you investing your time in your students????

i really hope that at the end of the season the teachers are exposed, fired and GO TO PRISON!!!! and then a student become a the gg. the last episode ends and everyone is like yay we’re safe and then a post of gossip girl saying she didn’t went anywhere. END OF SEASON

OKAY OKAY. Since you brought up Descendants, I NEED you to do a everything wrong with those movies, because I need Mal’s character to be dragged to filth 😊

The way max was ACTING!! He was amazing last episode

Amanda, we see each otha because Obie is a NO for me. He just has super uneasy vibe about him and he’s too pretentious.

GG teachers need to find hobbies, bc why are you fighting w literally teenagers!!!! It’s giving I was unpopular in high school honestly

Gossip girl creators really had a chance to fix the mistakes they made with the original series but they somehow committed even worse crimes the second time around

ONLY the first season of OG Gossip Girl is good. it went straight DOWNHILL in the later seasons...Dan being GG makes not a lick of sense...coming from someone who watched the show till the BITTER END.

I’m honestly tired of Hollywood only casting light skin biracial girls in shows/movies. It’s sad that they are the only representation we get. So seeing that Harper is being played by a beautiful melanated queen was a breath of fresh air. Can’t say the same about gg

maybe its just bc of the siren in me but i replay that ending scene of luna and monet in ep 3 while royl is playing in the background like that song with THEM ... it just feels so right

no fr i love thomas doherty 😭😭 hes saurrrr good at getting the audience on his side

It would be amazing if you did an everything wrong with Gossip Girl original because there’s definitely a lot wrong with that show and it would be really interesting to know your thoughts on the characters

its the teachers coming at the only two girls who are nice to them for me (julien and zoya)

I know we live in the wrong timeline bc why is Spencer straight...

No she wasn’t kidding, she has thoughts! 👆🏻

When Amanda posts it automatically becomes a good day.

I haven’t watched the reboot of gossip girl and I haven’t been on Twitter bc it’s been toxic and annoying but hearing fans of the the original (which I watched and loved) complain about wokeness is weird to me bc the original book series that is all about the supposed “wokeness” the author of the books said it’s a commentary on social class and race relation clashes and using Manhattan, NYC private high school to be the backdrop for it so I’m confused. I see the OG fans are mad bc from what I’m hearing it sounds like the reboot is subtlety calling out the original’s causal racism and sloppy commentary on classism and that’s gonna ruin the glamorized image of characters like Chuck, blair and Serena. So idk but I loved your review and it making me decides to take the rest of summer before school starts back to make me watch it

Also, on top of the whole slimy vibes that Obie gives me just by dating his ex's sister, he's like 16/17 while Zoya's FOURTEEN, the writers really said make him as creepy as possible.

as someone who watched the original GG for years I urge you to NEVER finish it - so much emotional abuse romanticized via Chuck and while the music is always good and there's some great arcs it overall was a mess. The reboot of it is great and I'm looking forward to the things like Aki's blooming bisexuality and the sisters figuring out a relationship for themselves despite their fathers' egos keeping that from happening in their childhoods. And agreed on Monet and Luna raising Zoya's profile when she literally just wants to go to school and mind her business. If they would just LET her the public interest would dwindle faster, gossip girl or no gossip girl. Also, all them damn teachers are pathetic

Also the new hair is beautifulllll

For those that haven't watched both Icarly reboot: 0:00 - 10:50 Gossip Girl reboot: 10:51 - 46:19

The teachers as gossip girl, literal JAIL!

You've changed zoya bro you don't even know her and she is 14, y'all all can change. Obie frustrates me the pursuing zoya a millisecond after he broke up is grimy as hell. Oh and let's not talk about his air of higher morality judgy vibes when he himself is grimy as hell.

i am so glad i’m not the only one who doesn’t like obie. he has no respect for julien to go and start dating her sister almost automatically. on top of that the “woke” rick white boy ?? it’s so ducking cringy. this needs to end

i want so much more from monet and luna because why do they act like that. i think monet like grew up without parental guidance judging from the scene in her house but the show has been fumbling the bag. also I think the gossip girl account posted a pic of monet and aki and called them "childhood besties" but it's like..... are they really though?

The moment you let out that sigh and rolled ur eyes I knew you were gonna drag Obie 💀

What I want for aki as a character is for us to see a backstory for why he always feels he has to see stuff from an objective standpoint and why he's always the most reasonable in a way like from a young age he was put in a position where he had to be a mediator/play into a therapist type role and why he's might put other people's feelings before his own and I want aki and max to get together so that max can teach him how to be selfish and bold and put himself first ya know? And as aki opens up and stops being so passive max and him start to like eachother more.

I think luna and Monet are scared julien is going to take full control of her brand and be more authentic with Zoya's help thats why they see Zoya as a threat

Liiiiiiiisten you’ve gotta just power through season 2 of Gossip Girl, you just do! Once you get through it, I think you’ll be happy that you’ve kept watching. ALSO! I agree that the show doesn’t do a great job of explaining how and why Dan is Gossip Girl and I always HIGHLY recommend that people read the books; oh my goodness the books are GOLD! The show doesn’t even compare to the actual book series--which they couldn’t even make for TV because the CW isn’t HBO lol

As someone who lived with a sister really into GG OG, and would play it loud enough that I could hear the show every week - you really don't have to watch the rest to figure out why he's GG. The show never explains it and only brings it up at the end.

all i know about gg reboot is lunet and akimax endgame. and for icarly, uhh.. well uh...

Monet and Luna single handling reviving the mean girl genre is amazing. Quinn Fabray and Santanna Lopez would be proud.

I've been too scared to watch the iCarly reboot, that show was my entire childhood and I don't want it ruined 😖

The icarly reboot is so good. I love the new characters and how they wrote old characters. I was surprised by how much i like it. Agree with the 9/10 rating

Why does no one hate Zoya ? Everyone blames Obie for dating his ex’s little sister but I find Zoya repulses me with the fact that she would even consider dating obie.

People shouldn’t be mad at Julien being nice when it’s literally the same role they gave Serena ???? The “rich girl with a soft spot for poors” trope like duh

I enjoy hearing Amanda talk about the Gossip Girl reboot a little too much 😂🤌🏼 The face she made right before talking about Obie, I KNEW she was gonna talk about him the moment she made that face. I haven’t watched the ICarly reboot out of fear, but Amanda says it’s funny so I might have to

In my opinion, the biggest issue with the show is the teenagers on gossip girl reboot, don’t act or behave like normal teenagers. They act like 2D charachters crafted by out of touch millenials. In addition, the show lacks nuance and the plot is too predictable. I always feel like *something* is a little off tbh. Maybe it’s the subpar acting idk 🤷🏿‍♀️ My overall judgement is that it’s a decent show - not great but not absolute trash. If the writing and acting improves going forward, I think the show could be massively succesful.

I feel like the icarly reboot is kind of towards the direction Hilary Duff wanted to go with her Lizzie reboot before they cancelled it. Disney were too afraid of seeing a grown up Lizzie do grown up things and have real adult issues; which makes no sense considering the amount of shows on Disney Plus centred completely around sex and adult life ie. desperate housewives

I think as far as fake woke in gossip girl is Obie being critical of his own privilege when the whole point of gg is to showcase obnoxious rich kids😭😭. Plus, the creator Joshua Saffran said on Twitter that the insults and plot wouldn’t be misogynistic like the original gg was, even though that was what made Blaire iconic like..

I feel like Miranda Cosgrove isn’t 100% acting like Carly Shay in the iCarly revival. She kinda acts more like an adult version of season 4 Megan Parker in Drake & Josh

“It’s giving wimp” I completely agree😂

Dan being gossip girl makes no sense and I don’t know why the ruined a solid character, penn badgley deserved better !

We won, yet again!

I really liked the new gossip girl, and I think it's because I just finished OG gossip girl, so I really remember how tiring it was. The first season was great. Serena and Dan were not. It went downhill and so did they. That's why I loved the new concept, but the new gossip girl needs a little fine-tuning, but in my opinion, it's going great so far.

"The woman who looks like her name is Agatha" AMANDA 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭😭

I only watched the first season of the original Gossip Girl and I was kind of indifferent to it, but I think that’s just cause there were no black people in it cause the reboot is my favorite thing ever 🤩.

The new Gossip girl is now one of my fav show ever

Guys can we stop saying reboots these are continuations 😭😭 a reboot is like the 3 different Spidermen film series (basically sharing no continuity with the last iteration)

Luna and Monet are trying to take Zoya down since she’s dating Obie and without Obie Julien is losing followers and Zoya is gaining more followers .

the gossip girl reboot started REALLY rough specially with the acting... but this third episode was great and the show is really picking up but they gotta change who is actual gossip girl because this is tired

The iCarly reboot the first reboot show from Disney/Nick that I’ve genuinely enjoyed. It’s really fun and gives feels of the old show but also good elements of the new

gossip girl is hitting idk what everyone is so mad about like the og gossip girl after season 1 did not give🙄

I’m confused by people that don’t like the Gossip Girl reboot it’s a MESS but like…that’s the point? It’s delivering all these ridiculous tropes in semi unique and rather interesting ways, it’s a really fresh look at a similar and nostalgic concept but it’s executed well with the actors, script and show quality. As far as teen dramas go this is pretty A tier for me rn and we are only on episode 3. Idk it’s wild but fun but that’s exactly what Gossip Gril OG was lol

All I have to say is Monet and Luna supremacy ☺️

I didn’t watch the reboot yet (and I don’t want to). But based on what I’m hearing about it, they should have went for the Pretty Little Liars route if you know what I mean. If you want to have adults torturing kids, you need to commit and really give us evil

i thought it was interesting how, that first episode, audrey was all like "we're friends, we don't lie to each other" blah blah blah but nothing about their friend group gives off the impression that they even like each other all that much lmao. but overall, i think the cast kinda suffers from a lack of chemistry, and i think thats why their friend group comes off like this

Thank you for talking about how sad it is for these teachers to literally harass and cause drama to these teenagers. The teachers are so pathetic and can’t wait for the day the teenagers find out who gossip girl is

I’M CAUGHT UP ON GG LETS GOOOOO

Amanda has been posting A LOT! We are eating. Life is good.

I really can’t wait for a everything wrong with gossip girl reboot

julien wasn’t that bad, i’d bribe my long long sister into to my school too 🙁

No bc why did ppl think that julien not being mean didn’t make sense, she’s supposed to the counterpart to serena, who was the nice one in the og gg, except julien is actually cool and not annoying asf. Honestly I think most of the characters served enough for their og counter part, we got Obie that’s literally just Dan except rich but somehow more annoying, we got Luna and Monet that are literally just the two sidekicks that blair had except they’re not just the ethnic token characters and their funny, we got julien whose supposed to be Serena but less annoying than Serena and actually likable, we got max that’s basically chuck except not a r🅰️pist and doesn’t look like an Ed Sheeran version of a bratz doll, we got Zola thats supposed be Jenny but not unbearable and annoying as hell, we got aki that’s like Nate except aki is cuter, and we got Audrey whose supposed to be like blair except she doesn’t terrorize the masses like blair did, honestly the closest thing Audrey is to blair is the mommy issues plot and her face, cus she looks like leighten meister with a blonde wig

10:50 is the Gossip girl session

Amanda would you ever consider watching The Vampire Diaries and or The Originals???

Amanda never misses.

Dan is gossip girl cos he's the writer. The gossip girl's author alter ego. He owns the story, plays with his characters, makes all the narratives and decides how his characters and story evolve. He's the hidden author behind the whole story. The one no one expected to be gossip girl. That's my interpretation.

What I didn’t like about gossip girl was that they already gave her, them right away. The thing that made shows like Gossip Girl and A really good was trying to follow along with the mystery of who was behind it (even though the directors really dragged it on).

i feel like aki is like nate because nate was like that he was quiet and bottled up his emotions in the beginning of gossip girl

you are amazing for this!!!