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The rich kids on HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” continuation look a little different than they did in the original series: they take Ubers instead of private cars, they actually think Dumbo is cool and, as many have wrote about, are a lot more woke — a fact made even more clear by the characters’ reading choices.
While sitting on the steps outside of their Upper East Side private school, the elite can be seen reading everything from Kennedy Fraser’s collection of feminist essays, to Eve Babitz’s stories about the hippie craze of the ’60s and ’70s.
The well-placed book prop creeps into many of TV’s richest worlds, working as an...
The rich kids on HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” continuation look a little different than they did in the original series: they take Ubers instead of private cars, they actually think Dumbo is cool and, as many have wrote about, are a lot more woke — a fact made even more clear by the characters’ reading choices.
While sitting on the steps outside of their Upper East Side private school, the elite can be seen reading everything from Kennedy Fraser’s collection of feminist essays, to Eve Babitz’s stories about the hippie craze of the ’60s and ’70s.
The well-placed book prop creeps into many of TV’s richest worlds, working as an...
- 8/12/2021
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
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