Back when the original “Gossip Girl” series was launched in 2007, it would have been almost unthinkable to see lives unfurl beyond the Upper Eastside “whiteness” of its lead characters, led by Constance Billard School’s Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and her frenemy Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester).
The two photogenic beauties ruled the teenage roost in that swanky Manhattan neighborhood, along with the dreamy guys of St. Jude’s School for Boys, Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick).
But times, as they say, are a-changing,
In HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot, which premiered last Thursday on HBO Go, the serie…
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