‘Gossip Girl’ Boss Joshua Safran Breaks Down Season 2 Premiere And The Impending Return Of Georgina Sparks

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the first two episodes of Gossip Girl Season 2. Attention Upper East Siders: Gossip Girl is back, and she has some unfinished business.

Season 2 of the HBO Max series debuted Thursday with two episodes, which ease viewers nicely back into the drama at Constance Billard.

Now that we’ve had some time to acquaint ourselves with this new cast of super rich kids and their secrets, Season 2 will show us “the kids became this way for a reason,” creator and executive producer Joshua Safran told Deadline. “Essentially what would happen in the first Gossip Girl was the first half of the season would be, ‘These kids are disasters and they’re destroying each other.’ And in the second half of every season, we know the reason is because of their parents,” Safran said, explaining that the two-season story arc is mirrored after one, 22-episode season of its broadcast predecessor. “Whether it was Lily misreporting something that happened to Serena that hurt a teacher’s life, and that teacher’s sister was the one causing all of the havoc to the kids lives.

Or whether it was Georgina doing something based on what Serena did, but because Serena did that her mother helped cover that up and sent her away.