The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side first learn that notorious party girl Serena Van Der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives–from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. Serena’s closest friend, Blair, is just as surprised as everyone else to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. The tension between Blair and Serena isn’t lost on Gossip Girl, who is determined to uncover and fuel any and all scandals. Does it involve Serena’s younger brother Eric, Blair’s boyfriend Nate or Nate’s buddy Chuck? Maybe it has something to do with Dan and his sister Jenny, whose middle-class background keeps them on the fringes of this exclusive clique who live for fashion, shopping and partying–along with gossip.

橘子郡位于美国加利福尼亚州南部，是一个富裕慵懒的港湾城镇，也是一个阳光灿烂的旅游胜地。
问题少年瑞恩（本杰明·麦肯锡 Ben McKenzie 饰）在贫民区长大，一日在哥哥教他偷车的时候，被警察抓住。公设辩护队律师桑迪·科恩成了他的监护人。因负责监管瑞恩的生活桑迪让他住进了自己位于纽 波特海滨的家中。桑迪的妻子凯斯顿对瑞恩的到来并不欢迎。她担心瑞恩会对自己年少的儿子塞斯（亚当·布罗迪 Adam Brody 饰）产生不良影响，只同意让瑞恩住一周。在与科恩家相处的第一个晚上，瑞恩遇见了科恩家隔壁的女孩玛丽莎（米莎·巴顿 Mischa Barton 饰），并对她一见钟情。
就这样，瑞恩贸然闯进了这个陌生的富人世界，却被他的同类排斥在心门之外……