Gossip Girl Mania season 1

Season 1

Serena van der Woodsen unexpectedly returns to New York from her mysterious absence to a boarding school in Connecticut. She is initially unwelcome by her best friend Blair Waldorf, who was perplexed by the lack of contact during Serena's absence, and has assumed the position as queen bee of the Constance Billard junior class. Having discovered that her longtime boyfriend Nate Archibald slept with Serena a year before, Blair is unwilling to continue their friendship. Serena then meets the outsider Dan Humphrey and begins a relationship with him. At the same time Dan's father Rufus and Serena's mother Lily rekindle their past relationship. Because of Blair's wrongful public defamation of Serena and the realization that Eric van der Woodsen had attempted suicide and was receiving treatment, Serena and Blair mend their friendship.
While Dan is adamant about keeping a distance from the upper east side, his sister Jenny desperately attempts to fit in, performing menial tasks in order to be a part of high society. Despite Blair's attempts to rectify and mend her relationship with Nate, it slowly begins to fail. When their relationship ends, Blair sleeps with Chuck Bass, a womanizer and Nate's best friend. Chuck eventually develops feelings for Blair and resolves to prevent her from reviving her relationship with Nate by threatening to tell him of their shared intimacy. Throughout the year, Serena and Dan's relationship is continually tested by the elite class and the return of his best friend Vanessa Abrams. Yet, despite such problematic situations, their relationship grows stronger. During a date, Serena tells Dan that Blair has slept with Chuck and Nate within the same week because of a pregnancy scare that Blair and Jenny overhears this. Her desire to become a part of the upper east side coupled with her hatred of Blair's belittlement compels her to tell Nate of Blair's transgressions.
Nate then publicly confronts Chuck while the entire school watches, destroying Blair's reputation as being perfect and 'dethroning' her as the queen bee. In Blair's absence, Jenny begins to ascend the ranks at Constance Billard but is later defaced by Blair through Gossip Girl. The closing of junior year is accompanied by Serena and Dan's relationship beginning to erode. Georgina Sparks returns to the upper east side, wanting her and Serena to restart their friendship. Serena is unwilling to and Georgina meets Dan under the alias of Sarah. She then befriends Dan and Vanessa, later threatening to reveal Serena's sordid past. Although initially resistant; Serena reveals to Blair, Chuck, Nate and later Dan that she left New York because her involvement in the death of a drug dealer and the truth about Georgina Sparks. While they attempt to fix their relationship, Dan is unable to cope with the lies and class differences that separate him from Serena; they break up at the Bass wedding. Blair and Chuck rectify their broken relationship at the Bass wedding but later fails because he is unwilling to commit himself to Blair.