10 TV Shows To Watch If You Love Gossip Girl and Where to Stream Them
Hey Upper East Siders! Looking for a show to fill that Gossip Girl shaped hole in your heart? Dive back into the inner circle of the rich and the powerful with these 10 TV shows brimming with high society scandal, whirlwind romances, and shocking betrayals, and find out where to stream them online:
Imagine if your favourite Upper East Siders moved to a fancy suburb after settling down. Desperate Housewives does just that. The series begins with the unexpected death of one of the most successful neighbours on the block, an event that leads to several other dark truths and secrets spilling out on the rest of the neighbourhood.
Like Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives also has an ominous narrator keeping you at the edge of your seat at all times. If you grew up watching Gossip Girl, and are now looking for a grown up series that delivers the same level of bite and drama, Desperate Housewives checks all the boxes. It’s addictive, full of darkly humorous twists, and has plenty of scheming, making it one of the most easy to binge entries on this list.
Before she was the ‘Carrie Bradshaw’, she was just a simple and sweet girl trying to make her way in the competitive world of news. This coming-of-age prequel to Sex and The City offers a more hopeful, wide-eyed optimistic take on Carrie’s life in a high-school setting similar to Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars minus all the cattiness and scheming, making it a comforting choice for viewers who want all the charm of New York without the darker scheming and scandals.
The Carrie Diaries is not only the perfect follow-up for fans of Sex and the City, and Gossip Girl but also anyone who loves a stylish, female-centric feel-good show with a charming, and ambitious heroine at the centre, like Call Me Bae or Emily In Paris.
A spin-off to the popular teen-drama series, Beverly Hills 90210, 90210 began airing just a year after Gossip Girl, and features almost just as many episodes. It’s got the same cocktail of love triangles, betrayals, and over the top teen indulgence, only set against the sun-soaked backdrop of Beverly Hills instead of Upper Manhattan.
Unlike Gossip Girl, however, the series leans a little more into classic soap opera theatrics like The O.C., making it ideal for anyone who enjoyed the melodrama but wants something slightly lighter and sunnier in tone.
Although the series isn’t set in high school, Four More Shots Please keeps up the same octane of scandal, betrayal, and love by following the lives of four tight-knit women navigating work, romance, and societal expectations in Mumbai.
Four More Shots Please is less about malicious plotting and more about navigating the chaos of friendships and relationships in your 20s and 30s. If you're looking for a more grown-up and edgy take on scheming and complicated relationships, like Desperate Housewives and Made in Heaven offer, then Four More Shots Please will deliver on all counts for you. But if you’re interested in watching something more fun and youthful, check out 90210 instead.
Four teenage girls go up against a mysterious narrator threatening to expose all their secrets. Pretty Little Liars follows a group of close-knit friends who try to unmask “A”, a shadowy figure who begins blackmailing them after their fifth best friend mysteriously disappears. It’s the perfect throwback show for fans of modern YA mystery shows like Riverdale and One of Us Is Lying.
Released around the same time as Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars carries the same 2000s teen-drama energy, only trading the skyscrapers of New York City for the charm and intrigue of small-town America. It’s a lot more suspense-driven and brooding, think Gossip Girl meets Desperate Housewives. If you’re into murder mysteries and want an easy-to-binge 2000s throwback, with the comfort of multiple seasons and 40-minute episodes to keep you hooked for a while, Pretty Little Liars is a great follow-up to Gossip Girl.
Ever wondered what Gossip Girl would’ve been like before the age of cellphones? Just check out Bridgerton, a regency era romance-drama that swaps out Upper East Side’s fast-paced drama for London’s high-society. Like Gossip Girl, the show features a mysterious, all-knowing narrator, known for getting involved in the romantic scandal of its characters.
Created by Shonda Rhimes, each season of the series focuses on the love story between one of the members from the Bridgerton family, and their unconventional love-match. It trades Gossip Girl’s teenage scheming, and high-flying New York lifestyle for covert period romances, and high-society drama making it a fitting choice for fans of Jane Austen adaptations like Emma, and Little Women.
A series that perfectly describes every parent’s worst nightmare. Sam Levinson’s dark, messy, and semi-autobiographical series about Rue, a recovering addict, coping with the pressures of high-school alongside her group of toxic friends is the perfect binge-watch for viewers who couldn’t get enough of Chuck Bass’ debauchery and self-indulgence in Gossip Girl. Like Gossip Girl, Euphoria plays around with the same themes of sex, drugs, and teen-excess but it does so with very little filter, making it a more visceral and unsettling choice that fans of shows like Class might enjoy.
If you’re looking for a glossy, escapist drama, Euphoria probably isn’t the right fit for you. But if you don’t mind the explicit content, heavy themes, and raw emotions, you’ll find it to be one of the most daring and unflinching teen dramas on television. It’s messy, provocative, and Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney deliver powerhouse performances at the center of it all, pushing the boundaries of how teen stories are told with a new sense of vulnerability.
If you truly want an inside look into the lives of the rich and powerful in India, check out what happens at their weddings. Created by Zoya Akhtar, Made In Heaven exposes all the lies, secrets, and dramas that are often hidden behind the glitz and glamour of Big Fat Indian Weddings. The series is interesting in the way it handles its storyline.
Each episode covers a different wedding, which gives the series an anthology-like feel while still tying back to the larger arcs of the planners’ lives. Much like Why Women Kill, which explores betrayal, secrets, and the darker side of relationships across different timelines, Made In Heaven shines a light on the prejudices, taboos, and culture shocks in its world, making it a lot more serious and weighty in tone compared to Gossip Girl. Made In Heaven is more suited for older teenagers and adults who grew up watching Gossip Girl, rather than the show’s current fans.
If Gossip Girl was based on just one billionaire family, you’d get Dynasty. Created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the makers of Gossip Girl and The O.C., Dynasty follows Blake Carlington, a high-profile billionaire who lands himself in a world of drama after marrying a woman his entire family despises.
Where Gossip Girl thrived on teen drama, secret romances, and the bite of social media, Dynasty swaps it all for high-stakes power struggles, boardroom feuds, and family backstabbings. It’s a lot more flashier, and soapier than Gossip Girl, think Succession but with more scandal, glamour, and camp making it a solid pick for fans of shows with heavy drama, juicy rivalries, and over the top characters. If you’d rather watch something more gritty and grounded, check out Class or Euphoria instead.
