On Nov. 9, CW's “Gossip Girl” featured a threesome [1], which included the not-so-Disney-anymore Hilary Duff. The show depicted threesomes as a normal, expected event in a college student's life. But that wasn't crass enough for Entertainment Weekly's Tim Stack, who said that the threesome was too “chaste [2].”
“It was basically no more risqué than a game of spin the bottle,” Stack lamented.
After this week's episode, though, which featured graphic flashbacks of the threesome, Stack [3] has declared that “Gossip Girl” is “back up the quality ladder.”
“The flashbacks to the threesome were waaaay more hot than anything in last week's much-hyped episode,” he said. “I wonder if the Parents Television Council tuned in last night.”
Stack went on to say that “Gossip Girl not only entertains, it teaches.”
“We also learned a much repeated rule of threesomes,” he said. “The third person is always supposed to be a stranger!”
In that same episode, “Gossip Girl” also taught teenagers how to deal drugs and have an affair with a married man.
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