A big old hustle to track down Gossip Girl in the flesh results in a few fun twists, but ultimately this show-changing finale is as relaxing and pointless as a week after high school graduation, when you realize nothing substantial actually happened... And that you're pretty much okay with that. If the problem with last year's denouement was compression from the strike, this season's last stretch has been wobbly from inflation, with an extra three-ep pod that muddied the waters and handed us a Sunset flashback that could have been its own episode, or at least happened before Georgina showed up. It closes loops and sets up the next season admirably, but makes some pretty blasé gamechanger decisions without a lot of reasoning behind them, just like last week.

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