When Gossip Girl returns to television screens this summer, things will be different. We will meet the young, rich protagonists on their first day of school—finally reunited after a long pandemic. Presumptive heartthrob Obie Bergmann IV shows up late, disheveled. “You’re rumpled and sweaty,” his social media influencer girlfriend, Julien, berates him. He had better More

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