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Gossip Girl Season 5 Episode 3

The Jewel Of Denial

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AIRED: 10/10/11

Nate has to decide whether to cross moral lines at Diana's request. Dan is trying to figure out who is publishing his book, and seeks help to stop it but ends up in the spotlight anyway. Chuck helps Dan and Dan helps Chuck break through. Meanwhile, Serena and Charlie return to the Upper East Side.

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So damn frustrating!!!!

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By sodapopgirl721, Nov 11, 2011

(Spoilers ahead).

This episode was not that bad in terms of season 5 but as gossip girl as a whole it falls very flat. I have not always watched Gossip Girl and only started watching it earlier this year but after watching the pilot, I watched three and a half seasons in two weeks and owned the dvds within a month. This is not that same show. The characters are all caricatures of their former selves, the plot feels directionless, no one's storyline has anything to do with anyone else's, and wtf is up with dan's hair?!

This season it feels like the show doesn't have anything to keep them all involved, or at least involved with someone else's. In every season before, they've always had school or the hamptons or something to keep them all interacting with one another. But this episode Nate shared one scene with Dan and Chuck and spent the rest of the episode with the British trollop going "you will not use me in this way? oh wait thats your plan? yeah i;ll go along with that." It hasn't felt like Nate is one of the show stars in a long time, he's a step above Serena's gay brother (and now that he's out of high school I highly doubt we;ll ever see him again).

Blair and Dan and Chuck were the only ones whose plots intertwined a little bit. Dan hounded Blair to look at the results of her paternity test and Dan catching Blair lying to him on the phone and steering her to her doctor was pretty funny. Dan also gives Chuck a dog to help him feel which was really sweet. Blair tells Chuck the baby is Louis' (but no one believes that for a minute, and if he really is the father i will put my foot through my TV). In the sweetest and saddest scene of the episode, Chuck is crying into the comfort of his new dog who he has grown to appreciate.

Wtf happened to Serena? I appreciate her trying to find herself again, but now her storylines have nothing to do with anybody else! and her mom was so pissed when she didnt go to college, now she drops out after a year and she;s fine with that? Serena used to be the main character and now she;s faded into the background, into a show that is quickly becoming the Blair Waldorf saga.

Charlie/Carol. Carol shows up when she hears "Charlie" has resurfaced and goes to bring her back. And in the who's the bigger nutcase, fake charlie or carol, i;d vote carol. as ivy tells carol, carol hired her because she wanted to extract the money from the family she hates for herself under the guise of it being for the daughter she tossed aside. which is another thing, what happened to real charlie? from the way ivy put it, it sounds like real charlie is still out there, so I wonder if she;ll ever make an appearance on the upper east side. being that the actress playing fake charlie has become a series regular, probably not for a while.

This wasn't the worst episode ever but this is still a sad shadow of the show it used to be. I hope season 5 is the last year because while I don't want it to end, I its clear the writers have lost any ideas and I don't want it to be like this.moreless
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By thefanof, Oct 25, 2011

I stopped watching the show for a little while before picking up again this season so maybe I am missing something, but why is Charlie such a big part of things? Her scenes were really the worst part of the episode (breath a sigh of relief, Nate, you're off the hook this week.)

I did like the Blair and Dan scenes, and as always the exchanges between Blair and her "loyal" help are great. The show can still be snappy and witty in that regard. I just feel like the show has no direction this season, and that is not a good feeling to have.moreless
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Chace Crawford	Nate Archibald
Penn Badgley	Dan Humphrey
Ed Westwick	Chuck Bass
Blake Lively	Serena van der Woodsen
Kaylee DeFer	Charlie Rhodes/Ivy Dickens
Leighton Meester	Blair Waldorf

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Elizabeth Hurley	Diana	Guest Star
Hugo Becker	Louis Grimaldi	Guest Star
David Patrick Kelly	Noah Shapiro	Guest Star
Zuzanna Szadkowski	Dorota	Recurring Role

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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: October 10, 2011 on MuchMusic
  Sweden: October 23, 2011 on Kanal 5
  United Kingdom: November 2, 2011 on ITV2/ITV 2 HD
  Turkey: December 21, 2011 on CNBC-e
  Norway: January 26, 2012 on FEM
  Czech Republic: October 13, 2012 on Prima LOVE
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- The title refers to the 1985 film: The Jewel of the Nile, the sequel to Romancing the Stone.
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