How the New ‘Gossip Girl,’ and the Rest of Teen TV, Got So Gay

In the reboot of the teen drama Gossip Girl, which premiered this month on HBO Max, the queer characters are allowed to have a little more fun

the TV series’ most prominent gay character, the blond and depressed Eric van der Woodsen, spent the first season on suicide watch at an upscale mental institution.

In the reboot of the teen drama series, which premiered this month on HBO Max, the queer characters are allowed to have a little more fun. In the second episode of the 2021 version, bisexual lothario Max takes his straight but seemingly curious best friend Aki to a bathhouse popular with gay men. Their mission? Find and seduce Max’s teacher. In an attempt to make the teacher jealous, Max and Aki end up making out near the steam room.

“The original show was a product and a reflection of its time,” Schwartz says. “And we wanted the new show to be a reflection and product ofmoment.” Schwartz and Savage serve as executive producers on the new version. They also collaborated on Fox’s 2003 teen dramacharacter Marissa Cooper kissed recurring guest star Olivia Wilde’s Alex Kelly, it was headline news. These days, Schwartz says, it’s much harder for a TV show to generate an outrage-fueled news cycle with its content.

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