gossip girl: small-town manhattan

tyra & serena are totally bff // the cw promotional photo

I can suspend my disbelief for Gossip Girl, but this is getting a little ridiculous.  In last night’s episode, Hilary Duff’s character, starlet-come-NYU newcomer Olivia, was randomly assigned to live with Vanessa, randomly struck up a flirtation with Dan, and randomly sat one table away from Serena at a restaurant.  I know social circles are smaller when you’re wealthy, but NYU is a big school and New York City is a big city.  While it was definitely convenient for Olivia to integrate herself into different facets of the Gossip Girl scene so quickly, it doesn’t exactly seem realistic.  So I’m calling blue snakes on this one, which was my sister’s and my code word for bullshit as tweens–look, I even gave it its own tag.

Also, just saying, Tyra Banks is actually a better actress than Hilary Duff.  (That’s not really that big of a compliment.)