“The life of Serena van der Woodsen is like the most complicated Jane Austen novel,” sighs Juliet, Nate’s new blonde, 24-hour life coach and Gossip Girl stalker. (A nice little self-referential chuckle from the writing team can be heard across the Upper East Side.) Soon Juliet is setting up Vanessa with Dan, allegedly to help Nate win Serena back. Meanwhile, Serena and Blair are enjoying their last fairy-tale moments in Paris. Just when Blair is taking off to her date with Prince Louis Grimaldi of Monaco, Lily calls Serena to identify a body found in the Seine with Chuck’s wallet. Chuck is actually very much alive. He has moved to Paris with his savior Eva, where he is beginning a new life as Henry Prince. (Oh, how ironic! That Henry with the many wives and countless lovers, he?) On her way to her Monégasque Prince, Blair’s taxi cab almost knocks Chuck off his feet. Serena picks up on the lead and is able to trace him, but he shuts the door in her face. Confronted with Blair and Serena in Paris, Chuck boldly signs over his Empire Hotel to Lily and dashes of with Eva to London. Then Serena comes back to New York only to find Dan and Vanessa all chummy in the Humphrey’s Dumbo loft, Nate and Juliet holding hands, her mother and Rufus in the nursery, plus Milo, Georgina’s baby. In just one summer everything has changed. For her part, that devious Juliet is talking on the phone with someone about some plan, apparently involving Chuck. So far, the guest stars are a nice distraction from the usual soap drama, and of course Katie Cassidy (Juliet) and Clémence Poésy (Eva) are pretty eye candy. As glorious as the Parisian backdrop has been these first two episodes this season, though, New York is still the Big Apple of my eye!
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