I don't watch Gossip Girl. I did happen to see the pilot episode while working as a professional teevee watcher back in New York, and the show wasn't nasty and dirty enough to sell me on it. I was hoping for Cruel Intentions meets Brett Easton Ellis, and it seemed like another teen soap opera.

But the billboards that have been up in LA all summer might make me give the show another shot. I can't speak for the show, but these ads, which match sexy images with quotes from the show's harshest critics, is beautiful trash at its finest.