Gossip Girl

Right now you can watch Gossip Girl in Australia on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and in the US on Netflix and HBO Max Amazon Channel — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. 6 seasons in, and the quality has not slipped. With 2,319 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Blake Lively anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. Put it on tonight on Netflix and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Gossip Girl earns its spot. Gossip Girl trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester lead a cast doing genuinely serious work here. Across 6 seasons (2007–2012), it never lost the thread that made it worth starting. What elevates Gossip Girl is a refusal to let any character off the hook too easily. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, Gossip Girl delivers. The tonal similarities to The Magicians are real, though Gossip Girl carves out its own identity quickly. 6 seasons gives the story real room to develop. Blake Lively carries the material with a performance that rewards close attention. Worth starting sooner rather than later.

Gossip Girl wrapped up in 2012, created by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz — and 6 seasons are available to watch from start to finish. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.