Gossip Girl Season 3

Gossip Girl Season 3 is currently streaming on and , and it rewards the patience it asks of you. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Blake Lively's performance alone is worth the time investment. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Gossip Girl Season 3 is worth clearing space for. Gossip Girl Season 3 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Welcome back, Upper East Siders. Summer is officially drawing to a close. Rufus, Dan and Jenny spent the summer in the Hamptons, adjusting to the van der Woodsen's glamorous lifestyle surprisingly faster than any of them expected. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2009. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Gossip Girl Season 3. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Blake Lively is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.