Thursday, October 22, 2009

Episode 6, Part 2: Love and Hate on the Upper East Side


Why does love always feel like a battlefield?

Serena and Nate are trying to help Carter pay off his debt so he doesn’t have to go work on the Buckley’s oil rig in Texas. This seems so stereotypical. Really, the rich Texans are having Carter work on their oil rig? Anyways, Nate wants Serena to play Bree’s brother in poker because he says he played with Bree’s family before and knows how Bree’s brother plays and what he says when a hand is hot. Apparently Bree’s brother did something unexpected and Serena lost Nate’s money and couldn’t pay off Carter’s debt. Nate also betted a photo of his cousin Tripp Van der Bilt at a batchelor party doing drugs and since Serena lost he gave the photo to Bree’s brother. Later Serena overhears Nate talking to his grandfather about the poker game. Nate told his grandfather that the photo of Tripp was edited and the real one didn’t have a bong in it. Nate planted the photo to discredit the Buckley’s name and make Tripp win the upcoming election. Serena realized that Nate used her to help his family; he didn’t care about Carter at all!

Even though Nate shouldn’t have used Serena, I understand that he is mad at Bree and the Buckley’s for using him to get to Carter. I kind of feel bad for Nate right now because he seems to have such bad luck with relationships. He dated Blair, who slept with his best friend. He always had feelings for Serena, but when he finally told her she was dating Dan. Then, he got between Jenny and Vanessa’s friendship when he tried to date both of them on Season 2, so that didn’t work out. Nate also dated an older, married woman in exchange for money and now the mess with Bree. How can anyone have such relationship problems?

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