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Blake Lively

Serena van der Woodsen

Leighton Meester

Blair Waldorf

Penn Badgley

Dan Humphrey

Chace Crawford

Nate Archibald

Ed Westwick

Chuck Bass

Kaylee DeFer

Ivy Dickens

Kelly Rutherford

Lily van der Woodsen

Matthew Settle

Rufus Humphrey

William Baldwin

William van der Woodsen

Sofia Black-D'Elia

Sage Spence

Margaret Colin

Eleanor Waldorf

Desmond Harrington

Jack Bass

Connor Paolo

Eric van der Woodsen

Wallace Shawn

Cyrus Rose

Zuzanna Szadkowski

Dorota Kishlovsky

Taylor Momsen

Jenny Humphrey

Michelle Trachtenberg

Georgina Sparks

Michaela Annette

Ally

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Trivia
The flashback scene was the last scene of the series to be shot. It was arranged that way after Penn Badgley decided that after the series he wanted to cut his hair the way it had been when the series began so that they would be able to use his real hair in the flashback.

Quotes
Gossip Girl: Hey, Upper East Siders. Gossip Girl here. And I have the biggest news ever.
Rachel Bilson: [enters] Serena. You're back from boarding school.
Gossip Girl: [reading from a script] "Yeah, hi Blair, so I gotta go".
Rachel Bilson: Come on, Bell, can't you try a little harder?
Gossip Girl: If I'm being really honest, Rachel, I don't think you can pull off high school anymore.
Rachel Bilson: Thanks a lot.
Gossip Girl: Sorry.
Rachel Bilson: [as Kristen Bell is looking at her iPod] Come on, you are always on that thing. This audition is really important to me. Plus the book is a best-seller and has a built-in movie audience. This Dan Humphrey is a really good writer.
Gossip Girl: O.M.G. You are not going to believe who Gossip Girl really is.
Rachel Bilson: Wait. Gossip Girl is real?
[Kirsten Bell winks at the camera]

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Shocking Series Finale Plot Twists (2019)

Soundtracks
Kill Me
(uncredited)
Written by Taylor Momsen
Performed by The Pretty Reckless

I have seen, and been greatly disappointed by many series finales yet my first thought when the final credits rolled was "flawless". The writers pulled off this conclusion flawlessly. OK well, maybe is wasn't "perfect" per se (few finales are) but it ended in such a way that I certainly didn't feel like I'd wasted years of my life following a show with no pay off in the end. Everything seemed pretty logical and true to form as far as the characters are concerned.

While I wasn't exactly blown away by the big reveal of Gossip Girl's true identity I won't lie and say I "totally saw it coming" either. I'm glad it turned out to be who it was and the Kristen Bell cameo was very well done. I liked the brief flash-forward at the end as well and I liked seeing where certain characters ended up. All in all, I'm quite pleased and more than happy to give this a very high rating.