Holy crap! And this from a show which is SO committed to verisimilitude!
“Cities like Toronto have often served as not-entirely-convincing locations for movies and TV shows set in New York.
But New York as a substitute for New Haven?
OMFG!
The cast and crew of Gossip Girl took over part of the campus of Columbia University in upper Manhattan on Tuesday.
Two black stretch limos were part of the props. Tres chic. Very meta, even, given that the girls have overtaken American culture.
But here is the rub: The scene is supposed to take place on the campus of Yale. Anyone who knows anything about academia knows that the neogothic architecture at the New Haven campus of Yale looks nothing at all like the neoclassical campus at Columbia.”
