How the f*** did the Gossip Girl writers take us on such a roller coaster?

How did Jenny and Chuck go from an attempted SA in episode 1 to Jenny willingly swiping her V-card with Chuck in the finale of season 3?

How did the relationship between them evolve to this degree? Was this supposed to be as assassination of Jenny Humphrey as a character?

Keep in mind that the writers of the show knew of the actress playing Jenny Humphrey, Taylor Momsen, wanted to be written out of the show so she could focus on her band The Pretty Reckless.

She wanted to record more music and go on tour and she couldn’t be spread so thin also filming future seasons of Gossip Girl. The writers creatively worked this storyline in as a way to write Jenny out, and it honestly worked out well if their goal was to create shock value.

Because watching this all go down back in like 2008, 2009, I was certainly shocked. Your girl was too stunned to speak. Generally speaking, Gossip Girl thrives on shock value and Season 3 needed a finale twist that would start conversations.

Taylor was leaving the show anyway so they decided to make it the most dramatic exit possible. It was also a great moment to spearhead Chuck’s pivot because he needed to hit rock bottom at the end of Season 3 in order to pave the way for his reset in Season 4.

The writers used this wild bedroom moment to explain Jenny‘s exile and consequent exit from the show, while also opening the door for Chuck’s storyline of emotional growth in Paris.

It was icing on the cake that it created major fandom discourse, which ultimately boosted the show’s popularity. People were going crazy on social media with their hot takes because it was just that wild to see when it was happening live.

But the theme we have to remember is that this was never a love arc. It was a narrative device crafted by the writers of Gossip Girl.

Interestingly enough, to this day, fans still debate if this was intentional character assassination of Jenny since Taylor Momsen wanted to be written out of the show.

Like, did the show writers make her do something that sleazy cuz they were mad Taylor wanted to dip? Fans argue that there were other ways Jenny could’ve been written off the show that didn’t have to be so chaotic.

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