Gossip Girl

“What works with Dan and Blair becoming so close is how wonderfully
each complements the other. Chemistry between characters is a magical
thing and impossible to predict. Some claim to see chemistry between
Blair and Chuck, but I’ve never been able to detect any. Perhaps this is
due to my being older than the show’s target audience. Perhaps their
magic is undetectable by anyone old enough to have a healthy adult
relationship. But for me—and I’m hardly alone in this—both Dan and Blair
became more interesting characters as they began to spend time
together.

Unlike Blair and Chuck, who only have their dysfunction to keep them
together, Dan and Blair’s ongoing friendship is grounded upon their love
of film, art, and books, and, of course, conversation. No two
characters on television are as much fun to listen to as Blair and Dan.
If Blair and Chuck’s scenes feel like they come off the pages of really
bad romance novels, Dan and Blair remind one more of Howard Hawks’s
screwball comedies or Nick and Noral Charles in the Thin Man movies.”

Robert Moore