http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/18/GOSSIP-GIRL----Dare-Devil.aspx Storyline wise, GOSSIP GIRL has to be the most overrated thing on television since the last crappy, big deal on television.  The dialogue is trite and overdone.  Moreover the storyline is the same high school crap we dealt with in DAWSON’S CREEK, FELEICTY & BEVERLY HILLS 91210.  The ultimate sense of fashion & wardrobe changes going on with each & every character would be the one and only redeeming quality of this show.  Fashionistas unite!  I cannot even begin to tell you how impressed I was with the ultimate sense of attire flashing before my very eyes.  It was like Christmas for the style inclined.  Anyways, this episode reads exactly like anything ever written or depicted about high school.  The narrator is anonymous (Kristin Bell) and known as Gossip Girl.  God, that’s brilliant, why didn’t I think of it?  So the shoe’s about this clan of ridiculously social elite high school students that do whatever they want and use their parent’s money and power to stay out of trouble.  It sounds exactly like my high school experience.  I guess that is why I am writing reviews of television shows nightly and not a power lawyer, or is it because I like to spend all my other waking hours partying?  WHO KNOWS FOR SURE.  This week, Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) casts his lifestyle of simple means away and finally asks glamorous Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) on a date.  Dan makes a big deal out of it, telling his dad, Rufus (Matthew Settle) that he’s going to spend every last penny he has to make this the sort of date worthy of Serena.  Too bad Dan didn’t get the memo that Serena doesn’t want the five star service. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/18/GOSSIP-GIRL----Dare-Devil.aspx 77 60