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Bob's Burgers
Gossip Girl
The Chicago Code
How I Met Your Mother
Glee
Parenthood
Modern Family
Community
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock
Fringe
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Show of the Week: JUSTIFIED

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Glee
The Chicago Code
How I Met Your Mother
Gossip Girl
The Good Wife
Glee
Modern Family
Friday Night Lights
Community
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Archer
Portlandia
1:04:49-1:17:21
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Show of the Week: JUSTIFIED

When you live in the world of Gossip Girl, where backstabbing is a fact of life and everyone has a hidden agenda, it must be pretty hard to trust people.  However, this episode suggests, you might be a better person if you do.

Issues of distrust and suspicion hounded most of our main characters Monday night.  I'll start with, and likely spend the most time on, the most interesting one.

The budding friendship between Blair and Dan since the winter break has been a surprising element on a show that has largely run out of those in its fourth year.  The surprise comes not just from existend of the relationship but also from the fact that it's been interesting and engaging for the viewer.  There have been no suggestions of things getting physical, only of a touching bond growing between two intelligent people with similar tastes.

Which is why is was so heartbreaking, though probably inevitable, that in this episode, Dan couldn't be sure enough of his newfound friendship to trust that Blair wasn't going to sabotage his internship and took it upon himself to sabotage hers.  It's a part of Dan's ongoing tragic arc of slowly becoming one of these people but it also serves as an immediate lesson that he'd have been better off in both his social and professional lives, if he'd just had some faith in the first place.

Meanwhile, Nate is unable to trust that his father is mature and rehabilitated enough to accept an honest corporate job (boy, that's not a common phrase at all) and Chuck is unable to trust that his new fuck buddy's motives for hiring said father are on the level.

In the end, Nate's relationship with his father takes a blow just as it was starting to strengthen.  And Chuck's access to hot sex with an equal has been denied, though probably just temporarily.  I mean, he is Chuck Bass.

Finally, the point of the episode is driven home by one story that is the inversion of the others.  Rufus, the most endlessly trusting person on the show - I mean, who else on the planet would've stayed with Lily this long? - chooses to place his faith in Ben and open his home to him.  In its final moments, the show suggests, with a justifiable but still scary violent outlash and a lingering look, that this might not be wise.   Gossip Girl is not a show that does subtlety often but this ending proved it can do it well.

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Bob's Burgers
RuPaul's Drag Race
Gossip Girl
Friday Night Lights
Cougar Town
Community
The Office
30 Rock
Archer
Onion News Network
Portlandia
Fringe
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Show of the Week: PARKS AND RECREATION