http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/25/GOSSIP-GIRL----The-Handmaidens-Tale.aspx I guess television executives know what young women want and it’s a super lame nighttime soap opera that does not have enough of the high school student’s doing blow to accurately depict the social scene it’s trying to.  This week we deal with the snotty elitists of the Upper East Side & their social woes—gag me with a spoon. Dan (Penn Badgley ) & Serena (Blake Lively), sitting in a tree...not exactly.  If you thought they got over their star crossed lover crap last week, well, think again.  Serena isn’t sure if Dan wants to go to Blair’s (Leighton Meester) costume ball with her.  When she finally calls him she hears a girl in the background.  Dan, the quick thinking idiot tells her it’s his sister Jenny.  Too bad Jenny (Taylor Momsen) is over at Blair’s house with Serena.  Serena never asks him and sort of feels betrayed because she is an idiot.  Blair tells some of her ladies in waiting to get Serena a date and get him fast & good looking.  For being a total bitch, Blair is my sort of girl. Now Nate is slowly piecing together the fact that his father’s financial problems are suspicious.  His father’s working double overtime to land the account of Blair’s mother, Elinor.  This account means mondo buckaroos and would solve the problem for the time being.  Still, when Nate stumbles upon a bag of blow he questions if the money problems aren’t so much from poor financial planning, but from his father trying to snort all of Columbia up his nose.  He tries to call Blair about this, but she’s too busy being popular so he shows up unannounced at Serena’s house and she tells him to confront his father.  He thanks for her help by creepily rubbing her hand as thought he were Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. 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/2007/10/25/GOSSIP-GIRL----The-Handmaidens-Tale.aspx 77 60