YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Blog Posts by TWoP Staff

    • ‘Gossip Girl’: Predicting each character’s ultimate fate

      (Television Without Pity) — Oh, "Gossip Girl"... how we will miss all of your drama, fabulous clothing (especially those completely decorative velvet headbands that every fangirl just had to purchase), and ridiculous portrayals of human beings. Before the final season kicks off, here's where we'd like to think each character will be years down the road:

      Dan Humphrey
      After Humphrey publishes his nonfiction book about his life teetering on the edges of the in crowd (as opposed to his other fictionalized book about the exact same thing), he is offered a television writing gig for a new show that parallels his own high school years set on the West Coast. Dan ends up as the It Boy in Los Angeles, and in between his palling around with Bret Easton Ellis and developing a prescription drug problem, he has just enough time to ignore Vanessa's daily Facebook friend requests.

      Serena van der Woodsen
      After realizing that all of her friends are going to go out and get jobs and have actual,

      Read More »from ‘Gossip Girl’: Predicting each character’s ultimate fate
    • Reality TV: How to Succeed Without Really Trying

      While many reality competition shows try to throw in twists and promise the unexpected, most of them actually rely on the same basic challenges season after season. Since we're tired of seeing contestants making the same idiotic, and totally avoidable, mistakes every year, we've compiled the three keys to success for every major series. Study up before you audition.

      "Big Brother"

      1. Get physically fit. There are always endurance tests where those core muscles come into play. Plus, America's watching you 24/7 and we don't want to see lazy slobs who don't have the energy to lift their heads off of a pillow for 14 hours at a time.

      2. Think of good alliance names. Because 99 percent of the ones that houseguests come up are ridiculously stupid.

      3. Don't be annoying. If your friends tell you that your laugh is horrible, or that you have a tendency to fly off the handle, work on controlling that, or at least saving it for the diary rooms, so that people don't evict you immediately.

      Read More »from Reality TV: How to Succeed Without Really Trying