gossip girl's back!

although i'll be mourning the end of the city for a few weeks, there is one silver lining on my gray television cloud, and that is the fact that gossip girl is finally back! i dont know what they think they were doing taking like a month off without telling me, but i'm just...so glad they're back.

that also means....more recaps!! this one is also from nymag. they really know what they're doing over there:

"Like a crocus poking out of the late-winter snow, last night's new episode of Gossip Girl was a welcome arrival to the cold and barren television landscape. As its petals slowly unfolded, it stirred the life that has lain dormant inside our souls since the show went on unexpected hiatus in February, and gave us a glimpse of colorful spring ahead. And how colorful it was! Last night's plot — the Constance Billard/St. Jude performance of The Age of Innocence — required everyone be dressed in ridiculous costumes (everyone except Jenny, Chuck, and Vanessa, who were not in the play, but who, let's face it, always wear ridiculous costumes). Blair was tragic and noble in black, while Serena was luminous in white, her creamy breasts nestled like eggs in the feathered Easter basket of her dress. Nelly Yuki was forced to wear a fat suit to play Mrs. Manson Mingott, and when Blair spat at her, "My problem is a two-faced, four-eyed devious little snipe in a fat suit!" it was like the first balmy spring breeze blew across our faces."

yessssssssssss.