posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:22AM

the show's a wreck
I'm going to watch religiously

and because I know everyone here loves a little gossip, know that PC is gay (surprise, surprise) and used to hook up with Barron Hilton regularly.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:26AM

Speaking as a private school kid who lives and breathes fashion, and who considers designer collaborations at Target a godsend: I sincerely hope this isn't how the larger population of private school students are perceived.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:28AM

It is Gossip Girl without all the attractive people:/ And when did someone that knows/loves fashion need a stylist?

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:30AM

I was surprised at how most of these kids are ugly.(Except the girl who lives with her brother). So, in that sense the show is more realistic. You would think they would get attractive people so people will tune in and be more interested. And yes, the fashion should be better

posted by nycshoegal

Jun 24, 2009 11:41AM

Abby, why do you plan on watching something that nauseates you? can somebody explain this phenomenon to me?

I can't even stand to watch GG - it took 1/2 episode to realize that.
TV has been/is/always will be 99% garbage - doesn't one have better things to do with one's life than to watch every single show that the media decides to push? rhetorical Q.

posted by Abby Gardner

Jun 24, 2009 11:50AM

I can't stop myself from watching train wrecks like this...it's a sickness :)Love to hate. Hate to love.
xA

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:55AM

it's awful that bravo picked possibly the six most obnoxious spoiled kids in all of NYC to do this show. (Remember that the only ones willing to do this, and have parental sign-off, are probably not normal, and definitely not model citizens.)

As an alum of a private school, really hoping that all of America doesn't stereotype us. And yes, we shop at Target and elsewhere. And nobody I knew had personal shoppers.

posted by Erin

Jun 24, 2009 11:57AM

I watch crappy tv all the time and then when I've wasted another hour I swear I'll never do it again. Then I find myself actually liking the program. I mean all television is bad but who cares? I'm going to watch every episode probably.
but I'm going to go with NOT fashion news.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 11:58AM

I watched it as well and almost vomited at least 3 or 4 times during the show. As a Gossip Girl addict, it was disturbing to see the show's pathetic attempts to mirror not only the GG characters but even the opening shots and editing style. And, as mean as this may sound, I (like many others) expected the cast to be much better looking and more well dressed.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:03PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/arts/television/23prep.html?_r=3&hp

I think the times got it right when they wrote, "The deliciously vulgar heroines of “Housewives of New Jersey” shop and bicker, spend and shout, without ever falling out of character. On “NYC Prep,” PC in particular struggles to insert a little self-awareness and humor into his role as the spoiled preppy ne’er-do-well, but the script keeps veering back to the “Gossip Girl” playbook."

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:03PM

as a new york city private school student, i have to say that this show is a lot more legitimate than i thought it would be. overdramatized and played up for tv, yes, but in the end these are the same kids i go to school with every day.

posted by lauraloveslagerfeld

Jun 24, 2009 12:17PM

haha HELLO PC is so gay its beyond belief, can definitely see it, thank you #2 for confirming.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:23PM

I watched the pre show a couple of weeks ago- 1/2 hour introducing these foul human beings and I promise I will not watch the actual show. These parents and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. I went to private school in the south, lived in LA for years and then Manhattan and have yet to come across people that act like this. I'll stick to watching 'Real Time with Bill Maher' and continue to count the days until 'Mad Men' is back on.

posted by vivalalinzi

Jun 24, 2009 12:36PM

As posted before, supposedly Sacred Heart sent a mass e-mail telling their students not to support the show. I'm sure after watching the first episode this will come easy.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:39PM

That show is terrible. My bad tv indulgence happens to be housewives of whatever and daisy of love.
But this, it's disgusting. The kids are hideous and I have no interest in watching spoiled children scrutinze the world and go out with equally hideous kids to parties.
I refuse to watch it in protest and hope they cancel it.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:44PM

honestly i have to say coming from a private school on the west. We were no way this rediculous. Yes people have money but no one was trying to show it off. it was more like ok so we are rich, but what else you got? I also blame the new generation of kids wanting to be fabulous and famous. It's the "real world" effect. But think about it what are the kids gonna do when they grow up? They will never be taken seriously again and like much of the "real world" people they might just end up doing gontlets for the rest of their lives trying to make money.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:47PM

Ughhh this show! Of course I'll be watching it every weeek though. Also...did anyone catch at the end of the episode when they were like "this season on NYC Prep and show clips from future episodes? And they were at a funeral? Did one of the main characters DIE? If so, that would be so sad.

Also...Camille is my absolute worst nightmare.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 12:48PM

not everyone can become a LC and do you even really want to be?

posted by ShopMBgirl

Jun 24, 2009 12:58PM

The thing is, the REAL elite or whatever you want to refer to them as....UES kids would NOT want any part of or be on a show like this! I have family, all girls, that went through the typical UES lifestyle and were lifers at top private schools and being on a show like this would be the last thing they would ever do. They do live in million dollar apartments, travel, have summer homes, wear designer clothes at a younger age, and go to ivy league schools-what they don't do is have stylists along with many of the other crazily over-romanticized things done and mentioned on the show so far. SORRY! Most of these kids wouldnt want part, just like you wont find Tinsley Mortimer on RHofNY, you get to watch more of a wannabe attention whore crowd....I'll still watch every week though 0:)

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:05PM

I hope this is the first and last post on this show.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:12PM

These are new money kids, which explains sans class.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:25PM

Definitely agree with #22. As a one-time prep schooler myself, I know plenty of kids with deep "old" (money) backgrounds that you would never know based upon a conversation with them. In other words, I went to school with kids who have much more impressive pedigrees than these people, yet are way more modest, private, and down-to-earth.

That in comparison to the NYC Prep kids who seem so incredibly insecure that they have to constantly flaunt and talk about the cost of things and their/their parents bank accounts. In addition to the brain cells they're missing, they're also missing any sense of class.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:32PM

BTW guys, I'm not sure about the rest of the kids..but PC isn't "new money". Hate him as much as you want, but he comes from a pretty powerful family. They're like billionaires. Google Pete Peterson. And apparently, his step-grandmother created Sesame Street! WOO!

posted by calvinshowblogspotdotcom

Jun 24, 2009 1:41PM

I love Gossip Girl but will I watch this, you ask?

"Fictional romps on GG = good. Real kids acting like a-holes, not so much. Note: PC, sir, you are no Chuck Bass."

You said it yourself right there in your own post. I wouldn't care if these kids were new money, old money, recycled money, eco-friendly money. Being underage in high school on a "reality" show raving about hooking up with people = trashy. As far as I'm concerned, talking about all of your hook ups/hooking up oodles on reality TV is trashy altogether. I watched the preview Bravo aired a week or so ago and wanted to kill myself so there's no way I could watch a whole season of these entitled brats trying to be cooler than FICTIONAL television characters.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:53PM

PC is ridiculously gay. I was rolling when he announced he preferred to be jessie's bff because that meant there was no sex.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 1:59PM

#26, thank you for bringing that up, ahha! i think every single guy they show is in the closet actually... but PC without a doubt!

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 2:03PM

I am an avid Bravo fan, but what bothers me most about this show is that they all have this shaded view of what "maturity" is. They think that it's partying and acting like adults, when in reality maturity comes with accepting responsibilities, good or bad.

posted by EWhacK

Jun 24, 2009 4:25PM

When i left (was politely "asked to withdraw")a NYC private high school a few years ago, Gossip Girl was still just a book craze. The books were exciting and glamorous for people who had no contact with that world, and sort of fun and silly for those of us who supposedly lived in it.

What I've noticed (mostly through my high school senior sister and her friends, and through non-drop out classmates) is that since the tv show began, some kids from the NYC private schools seem to have started believing that GG is really their world. Maybe it's the familiar street shots and bits of local color. Maybe it's easier to buy into a skewed, exciting vision of your own life that someone else writes than to face up to the fact that life is confusing and awkward and tough a lot of the time, and that the ups and downs you experience really aren't drama, they're just things that happen. Maybe it's just that everyone in Gossip Girl looks so good, so why wouldn't you want to emulate them?

Whatever the reason, kids seem to think more and more that reality tv is a model for behavior in the real world, and that if a popular TV show says that it portrays NYC private schoolers then that's what that life must be like. The idiots on NYC Prep are prime examples of this mentality, and seem to have gained an even greater sense of self-importance and entitlement than privileged kids are already prone to having due to their school/city/socioeconomic class fictionalized and sold to millions of viewers every week.

The funny thing is, this the new reality. So I guess I, too, would rather live in fiction.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 4:42PM

nycshoe gal is better than all of us.

posted by shharvin

Jun 24, 2009 6:19PM

Did any one else notice that on of the girls pronounced Rodarte wrong on the preview episode? Baha.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 6:36PM

#24 having a rich grandfather does not old money make.

Vanderbilt/Whitney, Rockefeller, DuPont, Kennedy's even are more apt examples of OLD money.

But that's neither here nor there since we're all so classy that we don't talk about money ;)

posted by soilikethelike

Jun 24, 2009 8:20PM

haha, what was up with the "party" that one chick (Kelli?) threw? i mean i get that they are in high school, but a bunch of girls sitting around a table is hardly a party, ugh and that girl Jessi, the one that loves fashion dresses horrendous.

posted by justcallmemarge

Jun 24, 2009 8:39PM

I completely agree with EWhacK. I attended a private prep school in the period when GG was transitioning from the book craze to the television series that everyone cancelled all plans to watch. I would see girls slowly try and emulate the style of the girls on the show and suddenly everyone's designer clothes and accessories started popping up at school (when it was previously acceptable to sport ugg boots and tie-dye tees). GG made everyone feel the need to flaunt their wealth way more than they ever have.

And shharvin, after watching the preview episode online and hearing that mispronunciation as well as the sense that the whole show was just a TrueLife episode gone wrong, I turned it off.

posted by guest

Jun 24, 2009 8:46PM

Thank you, #33. What was with that opening scene where PC and Jessi are in a bar dressed for a cocktail party for a conversation that lasted all of five minutes? WHO DOES THAT?! And at that awful dinner party, Jessi was wearing THAT colorblock Alexander Wang dress with a patterned tights, a Fiona Paxton necklace, and a boyfriend blazer. Trends in moderation, honey.

"Purple is my favorite color."
"Purple is one of the colors of my school."

Plus, It's so clear that these kids aren't even naturally friends. To answer your question: if I stumble upon this show, I will watch it- just as I do Daisy of Love...

posted by RashomonRebel

Jun 24, 2009 11:28PM

#6, I'm trying to push this show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRGCRiCioI&feature

posted by guest

Jun 25, 2009 12:14AM

None of those kids go to any of the top private school. Like seriously wtf is the Ross School?

posted by rickeyg303

Jun 25, 2009 1:25PM

doesnt anyone think that camille is a LITTLE pretty?!

posted by guest

Jun 25, 2009 3:53PM

i attend a private school on the ues and most of my friends either didn't want to be on the show or couldn't get their parents to sign off. for me it was the latter. they couldn't let me "ruin the family name by associating myself with reality television."

anyway, the people they picked are lame. i knew of 'PC' (heard he was gay), but who the hell is jessie? taylor is low class, sebastian's hair flips are annoying and the only cast choices i can agree with are the pretty one and the one that actually represents private schoolers on the ues. the one who got a really high SAT score and is planning on Harvard (and aspiring to use her castmates to her advantage - jessie to get on a charity's board). she's the only one worth watching

posted by guest

Jun 25, 2009 5:16PM

Camille is cross eyed

posted by rickeyg303

Jun 26, 2009 12:52AM

also, i doubt jessie has ever even heard of this website / most things fashionable.

posted by guest

Jun 26, 2009 2:12AM

oh my gosh, the red head needs to stop buying prada and louis vuitton and invest in a nose job and some dermal fillers in her cheeks, talk about ugleh!

posted by deathofadame

Jun 26, 2009 10:24AM

I can't believe Bravo even invested in this show. Such a fake ass GG! These kids..which is SO much of what they are is ridiculous to watch. I could see if the showed was aired on E or something but Bravo... I love TRHW of whatever...but they over did it with this one...really.

posted by guest

Jun 26, 2009 3:53PM

@ #39: Taylor is low class?!? Is that because she's a social climber or because she goes to public school? If you believe it's for the latter reason, your very wise parents did you a very big favor by not letting you participate in this debacle and exposing your ignorance and repugnant classism to the rest of the nation.

posted by guest

Aug 05, 2009 6:00PM

http://www.manhattancupcake.com/2009/08/nyc-prep-tastic-ex-girlfriend.html