Welcome to New York’s Upper East side where the wealthy and connected mingle at benefits and try to deal with their always dramatic love lives, not to mention picking colleges. Blair Waldorf is the so-called toast of adolescence in her world; she and her friends, Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates, go to a prep school and fancy parties with their rich parents. Blair is envied by her adversaries because she is thought to have the perfect life, not just because of her gorgeous boyfriend, Nate Archibald, but because she’s also planning on getting into her dream college,Yale. With everyone worried about college(or procrastinating on worrying, which everyone seems to be doing), and senior year dragging along, her seemingly perfect life is interrupted by her ex-best friend, the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, coming back into town after getting kicked out of boarding school. Serena comes back into her life, and into the eyes of Blair’s boy friend. When everything Blair knows starts to fall apart, everyone will realize that her life is far from perfect. Will life in the the Upper East Side redeem itself of what it’s really supposed to be? Or will the false facade reveal that the rich have the same problems as the not so rich Jenny and Dan Humphrey, if not more. And just maybe Jenny and Dan are all the more happy with their simple, not so expectant lives.

Nate is a wealthy, good-looking lacrosse player at St. Jude’s school. He is described as having wavy golden hair and sparkling emerald green eyes. His mother is a French socialite and his father is a former Navy captain. He smokes copious amounts of marijuana and was once caught and sent to rehab for buying a dimebag in the park. He has dated a number of girls including Jenny Humphrey, Serena, Georgina Spark, and Lexie, but his only serious relationship has been with his on again/off again girlfriend Blair. Due to the fact he stole his lacrosse coach’s Viagra, he only got his diploma with the help of Blair and her alumni father’s connections. Although he was originally planning to attend Yale University for his lacrosse-playing abilities, he eventually left sailing across the world with his father’s Navy mentor, Captain Chips White, to figure his life out.