HBO Max’s Gossip Girl season two is welcoming back original cast member Michelle Trachtenberg, reprising her role as Georgina Sparks. And the first three official photos from the upcoming second season even includes one showing Michelle as Georgina!
In an interview with Teen Vogue, showrunner Joshua Safran explained what Trachtenberg’s Georgina will add to the mix.
“What she brought to the original series was anarchy,” stated Safron. “She’s an anarchist. She’ll just do anything and just for any reason she decides. So we brought that energy to the first show, and then we brought that energy back to this one. She’s the same, and that’s what I think is so fun, that Michelle is older, we’re all older, Georgina is older yet has the exact same energy. She’s out of time.”
HBO Max confirmed season two will premiere on December 1, 2022.
The season two cast includes Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, and Emily Alyn Lind. Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak, Savannah Lee Smith and Grace Duah also star.
Based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s bestselling novels, the new Gossip Girl was developed by writer, executive producer, and showrunner Joshua Safran. (Safran was a writer and executive producer on the original series.) Additional executive producers include Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage as well as Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.
The Season 2 Plot:
It’s the second semester of Junior year, and Gossip Girl is leaving no stone unturned in her effort to control the scandalous lives/spin the scandalous lies of Manhattan’s elite. She’s learned a thing or two from her first go-round — namely what her audience wants, they shall get. It’s time for her to turn the heat up on what’s been simmering (Julien, have you met Monet?) as well as look at her own impact, and how she can make it more catastrophic than it was before. Even if that means lying to do it.
Old enemies, new allies, constantly shifting sands — this semester, there can only be one queen, and by the end of the school year, everyone will know where the bodies are buried, and just who was holding the shovel.
