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26.01.2023 - 17:49 / deadline.com
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the Season 2 finale of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl.
It was never supposed to end this way. HBO Max‘s Gossip Girl took its final bow on Thursday as the Season 2 finale hit the streamer. Since news of the show’s cancellation broke last week, the episode now also serves as a series finale.
Showrunner Josh Safran told Deadline that he’s holding on to a glimmer of hope that the series might land at a new home, but he’s had an inkling for months that this might happen, considering the growing number of streaming cancellations and Gossip Girl‘s hefty price tag.
“I asked HBO Max if I actually could go back in [to the episode]. I had the idea to take some of the cliffhangers out, because there were a lot of cliffhangers,” Safran said. “We got the editorial team back together. I went in and I lifted a bunch of stuff, I changed as much as I could. I couldn’t do as much as I wanted, because I couldn’t re-shoot anything, obviously.”
So, the episode that audiences will see isn’t exactly the episode that Safran had planned, though many of the plot details remain the same. The kids devise a plan to expose Gossip Girl once and for all during the Met Gala, after realizing that Obie has been foiling their previous attempts to figure out her identity. They hope that Zoya taking credit for the anonymous account will bring the real GG out of the woodwork, but it takes more than that. Only the fabricated rumblings of a movie deal about GG lure Kate Keller to expose herself, and it turns out that no one is really interested in a teacher revenge story. Her story ends as she’s led away in handcuffs (though Safran says there would have been more to that plot in Season 3).
In order for their plan to
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