You know you love me.

Anyone who is acquainted with me knows that I like to read. Novels of any sort will do: classics, memoirs, fiction – it doesn’t really matter. Anyone who REALLY knows me will know that I have one literary guilty pleasure: Gossip Girl.

So when I heard they were making it into a movie. I got super-pumped, it would be a great movie, this I knew. But then it was announced that Lindsey Lohan was supposedly playing a main character. This was not okay. But the movie was canceled, and although sad, I knew that was for the best.

And then the Gossip Girl TV show came to light. I wasn't sure how this was going to work. I knew that unlike a movie, a show would have to be fundamentally different from the books. There is no way to tell the story in 42 minute segments once a week.

Anyway, the first episode of the series aired this week. Of course I immediately downloaded and watched it. My thoughts: a very pleasant surprise. Yup, it's different than the books. But man, the writers/creators have done their homework.

Casting is spot on with every single character, it's just how I imagined them. The wardrobe is fantastic and obviously extensively planned and thought out. And the music. Wow. It was perfect, a classic mix of the current hits (Timbaland owns me). Plus, who can resist the fact that Kristen Bell (aka Veronica Mars) is the Gossip Girl, narrating the whole show without ever being seen.

I can't see the series lasting to be honest. It will probably crash and burn like The OC did. And it has that ever present "is-it-an-adult-or-teen-show?" since the whole main cast are teenagers but there is a rampant use of drugs, underage drinking and a surprising amount of sex. DON'T DO IT, KIDS. THOSE PEEPS ARE JUST ACTORS PRETENDING THEIR COOL.

In the end? I give it four glasses of [gin and] juice out of five.