DVD Review: Gossip Girl Season 2

Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season
Starring: Blake Lively, Leighton Meeter, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick, Jessica Szohr, with Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Steele

Special Features: 5th Avenue Meets Gossip Girl: Tour the Gossip Girl Crowd's Favorite Haunts, Faces Behind The Design: Creative Forces Behind the Show's Art and Fashion, Unaired Scenes, Chasing Darota webisodes, gag reel, Downloadable Audiobook of the Best-Selling Novel Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar, read by Christina Ricci.

From the Box: It's senior year for our beloved Upper East Siders, and the drama is at an all-time high. Applying for college is only one small part of the story, as new romances (and not-so-new romances) bloom and fade, scandals erupt at every turn, and alliances shift even faster than Gossip Girl can send an update. Families and reputations are destroyed and made; so are fortunes. And even the strongest friendships are tested. In this sizzling 25-EPISODE, 7 -DISC SEASON TWO, you never know what's next for Serena, Blair, Dan, Nate, Jenny, Chuck, and Vanessa. Good thing Gossip Girl is always there to provide us with the latest, juiciest info! XOXO.

The CW's best show (since the demise of Veronica Mars and Aliens in America that is) continues to be Gossip Girl. It's more entertaining than it has any right to be. It's trashy, and depraved, and utterly addictive.

Season Two continues that tradition extremely well.

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It's Senior Year for the Gossip Girl gang, at least for most of them, and almost time for college. Some find out their dream school is out of reach while others realize it's just where they belong. It's a season of growth and tragedy of love and loss. Not to mention the sex and the scandals.

This Second Season of Gossip Girl has it all and it is a helluva lot of fun to watch.

Part of the charm of this show is its perfect cast. Each actor embodies their characters wholeheartedly and it gives us equal opportunity to love and hate every one of them. Season Two is full of chances for all of that. The season has a lot of twists and shocks and even some comedy thrown in (intentionally or otherwise).

If I had to make any complaints, it'd be that there wasn't enough of Eric Van der Woodsen, played by Connor Paolo. I feel like they don't know what to do with this character. Whether they're just afraid to fully explore his character or they just don't want to, I don't know. He just feels wasted to me. There is plenty of opportunity for smart and inspiring story lines revolving around this character and they're just not doing it.

Besides that, most of the other characters get ample screen time. The stories stay strong this season and never feel tired or cliched. In fact, I find myself consistently surprised at just how smart the writing is. A nighttime teenage soap shouldn't be as good as Gossip Girl is.

The Season Two set features all twenty-five episodes along with a plethora of features including featurettes, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and more. It's a nice collection for fans of the show to check out. I don't know how interested a casual watcher would be but it's definitely packed for loyal viewers.

All in all, Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season continues to be an entertaining and deplorable show to watch packed full of sex, drama, great characters, and underage drinking.

I can't get enough of it.

Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season is available on DVD now.

Season Three premieres September 14 on The CW.