‘Gossip Woman’ Reboot Reveals What Occurred to Dan and Serena

Warning: This text incorporates spoilers for season 2 of HBO Max’s Gossip Woman.

You recognize you like them! The HBO Max Gossip Woman reboot revealed what the OG sequence’ energy couple Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Vigorous) are to date.

Throughout episode 2 of season 6 — which aired on Thursday, December 29 — Serena’s outdated frenemy Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) returned to carry the modern-day Gossip Woman, Kate Keller, (Tavi Gevinson) hostage in Dan and Serena’s condominium. Though the fictional couple are nonetheless collectively — and have a toddler — after tying the knot within the 2012 sequence finale’s five-year-flash-forward, they’re additionally nonetheless being tortured by Georgina.

“That is Dan and Serena’s home. They fired their workers after they thought somebody was breaking in,” Georgina revealed to Kate in Thursday’s episode, explaining that she’d been sneaking into the duo’s house to wreak havoc for years. “They put up cameras all over the place. I had my son loop the picture, so now they’re bringing in a magical skilled. … At first it was small annoyances — taking a sock or two, turning the warmth down — however then I wished a bit extra enjoyable, like changing the oat milk with full dairy. Their child’s lactose illiberal. They’ve seen each specialist, and nobody is aware of what’s flawed.”

The return of the calculated villain — who was a recurring character on the unique CW sequence — has been on reboot creator Joshua Safran’s thoughts for fairly a while.

“I undoubtedly knew that I wished Georgina again from just about the day after I pitched the present,” he informed Deadline earlier this month. “Michelle really began DMing about it throughout the season 1 author’s room. She was like, ‘I wish to come again.’ And I used to be like, ‘I actually need you to as nicely, however I really don’t assume season 1 is the precise place,’ as a result of I wished all people to be actually arrange in order that she might are available in and type of destroy them.”

The forged of the HBO teen drama was equally excited by the character’s comeback.

“She’s an icon,” Zión Moreno, who performs Luna La, informed POPSUGAR of the Harriet the Spy star, 37, earlier this month. “I cherished her within the OG sequence, and it was an honor to get to work together with her. She’s a hoot for positive, and there’s by no means a uninteresting second round her. It was a bit nerve-racking since you wish to make her proud, however she was simply actually, very nice and great.”

Trachtenberg, for her half, introduced her return to the position through Instagram in October.

“You’ll be able to inform Jesus: She’s baaaaaack … #xoxo #gossipgirl ?,” she captioned a nonetheless from the reboot, referencing a line from the unique sequence.