For a while, Gossip Girl was the king of teen dramas. It had everything: unfathomable romances, morbid twists, school ground frolicking, high-end parties, and more costumes than you could even think of. Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodson led the pack from their lavish Upper East Side homes, with Chuck, Nate, and Dan bringing up the rear.
As cool and dramatic as the show was, it did last a very long time but isn’t over yet. In that time, it had its fair share of plot holes. Here are ten of the biggest we could think of.
Dan, Obviously, Can’t Have Been Gossip Girl
This is the major one. The plot hole to end all plot holes. Simply put, the thing that Gossip Girl was leading up to, and also the thing that made us question everything until we realized it was obviously just a desperate grab from the writers to make everything come together at the end.
We saw Dan react to GG blasts while alone, we saw him (theoretically) give up incredibly personal details about his sister, father, best friends, and future wife. We also saw about a million reasons why of course he definitely wasn’t ever, ever the titular drama-spreader.
And Then No One Really Cared
If we are able to suspend disbelief for a couple of seconds, then look at the ramifications of Dan actually being Gossip Girl herself. He reveals this to a group of his closest friends, and one could assume that his sister, father, and everyone else he single-handedly ruined found out soon after.
You might expect a few of them to be able to find it in their hearts to forgive him one day, but there are people in that group he destroyed. They would never, ever forgive him for that. I mean, the one he treated the worst, Serena, ended up marrying him!
Serena Doesn’t Get A Lot Of Repercussions
Speaking of Serena, she had a pretty dramatic life in the months leading towards Dan stalking her to Grand Central Station. She had an inappropriate relationship with a teacher, was massively into cocaine as a fourteen-year-old, and committed manslaughter.
We know her family has the sort of money that can sort stuff like this out, but even so, she faces very few repercussions. The teacher she slept with seems to basically be over it, she wiped her cocaine addiction away like spilled coffee, and the police pretty much never asked her a question regarding the overdose she filmed.
Everyone Sort Of Forgave Ivy
Another character who seemed to get away with a lot was Ivy Dickens. For a while, we were all introduced to her as Serena’s long-lost cousin, but this all turned out to be a ruse designed to gain access to a sizeable trust fund. You’d think that the second Ivy was busted, everyone would walk away and find no reason to ever speak to her again. Wrong!
She became part of the main cast and slotted herself right into the middle of everyone else’s beef, despite not really knowing any of them. For some reason, no one seemed to notice or even care.
Who Is Chuck’s Mom?
There is a very confusing backstory behind Chuck’s mom. Is she alive or not? The pilot episode seemed to think so, with Chuck explaining that he was taking some of his mother’s medication (present tense).
However, the next few seasons work under the presumption that she is in fact dead. Then season 3 throws a big curveball and introduces us to Elizabeth Fisher, a very strange and untrustworthy character. But then Diana Payne ended up being Chuck’s mom, and it all got a bit confusing. Then Diana was lying, and honestly, who knows where we ended up with that one.
Their Ages Really Don’t Reflect Their Day To Day Lives
One thing that is almost impossible to get past in Gossip Girl is that (in season 1) pretty much everyone is supposed to be 15. Firstly, they all look about 25. Blake Lively, as great as she looks, doesn’t look like a 15-year-old. Penn Badgley, as great as he looks, does not look like a 15-year-old.
On top of that, the easy access to alcohol and drugs seems grossly overdone for a group so young, no matter their wealth, and Chuck’s ability to buy a bar at age 17 seems not only exaggerated but also not even legal.
Olivia’s Disappearance
Remember when Hilary Duff was in Gossip Girl for like nine minutes? She turned up, went out with Dan for a while, had a threesome with him and Vanessa, and then left. She seemed like a bit of a pointless side character used pretty much just to say, ‘we got Hilary Duff to be in our show,’ but then said she’d be back one day.
Maybe her character will get up to something interesting, or has some sort of inside info on Gossip Girl? Well, the show has been over for many years, and we’re still waiting for Olivia to show back up.
The Existence Of Scott
Remember in season 2 and 3 of Gossip Girl in which it was revealed that Rufus and Lily had a child together named Scott and neither of them knew him before he showed up?
The storyline was very dramatically woven around this brilliant reveal, then as soon as their child showed up (and connected the families of Serena and Dan, who ended up getting married), they never spoke of him or saw him ever again. Nice.
How Did Serena And Blair Remain Friends?
One of the major inconsistencies in Gossip Girl is Blair and Serena’s friendship. It’s certainly a rocky one which keeps the show interesting throughout, but some of the stuff they get up to is absolutely obscene. Serena slept with both of Blair’s boyfriends, which should pretty much be enough to end the friendship there forever.
But Blair also publicly revealed Serena’s brother’s suicide attempt and dated her one true love, so it isn’t exactly great from either end. Somehow, they end the show on great terms and remain (surely the least trusting ever) friends.
Blair’s Avoidance Of Monarchy
In the undoubtedly worst storyline (with worst acting performance ever thrown in for good measure) in Gossip Girl history, Blair ends up dating, falling in love with, and marrying Prince Louis of France. Not only does he admit that he doesn’t love Blair and disappear forever without another word, but also Blair somehow avoids all of her royal duties.
She has quite literally married a prince, and we never see her on a royal visit or being forced into any sort of behavior that would fit that of a French monarch. She just carries on as normal as if literally nothing had changed.
