Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 7: How to Succeed in Bassness

This week’s episode of Gossip Girl seemed more like exposition: not much of a story, but setting the dominos in place to fall throughout the rest of the season.  From the looks of it, it’s going to be a long, friendless season for everyone.  All in the swoop of one episode, Blair and Chuck are seriously on the outs,  Serena and Blair are more enemies than frenemies, and the worst part, Gossip Girl dashed my hopes that Jenny and Eric would become the teen version of Jack and Karen.

As if that’s not enough to make you want to sob into your Pucci handkerchief, Dan and Olivia are still together (although Olivia is starting to grow on me).  And in an utterly pointless subplot, Rufus makes like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin — if Linus dressed up as Joey Ramone, made KISS jack o’ lanterns, and required Lily and Vanya the Doorman to create the happy illusion that trick or treating is socially acceptable on the Upper East Side.