You by no means fail to remember your first Gossip Girl.

Life the franchise may have been rebooted for HBO Max in 2021, let’s be truthful: the OG form, which premiered in 2007, continues to be the number 1 GG in our hearts.

And a immense a part of its enduring luck? The form’ many {couples}, with the characters switching companions quicker than slight children jacked up on birthday cake play games musical chairs. Serena (Blake Lively) romanced Dan (Penn Badgley) and Nate (Chace Crawford), either one of whom additionally dated her BFF Blair (Leighton Meester). And she or he used to be in a courting with Chuck (Ed Westwick), who secretly used to be with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr), who…k, you get the purpose and in truth, we’re exhausted.

Alas, no longer the entire CW form’ pairings have been created similarly. Life some ‘ships proved to be epic, others didn’t precisely encourage fanatics to mention the ones 3 phrases made up of 8 letters. As a result of for each and every “Chair” (Chuck and Blair, duh), there’s whichever random yellowish dude Serena used to be enthusiastic about.