We need to talk about what Dan Humphrey is doing to his hair.
I say “Dan Humphrey,” because I am wondering if it’s a character choice — like, now that we’ve been told Dan is North America’s most throbbing new writing talent, maybe he’s growing out his hair because he’s going to embark on a really pretentious artsy phase, and he has no friends left to tell him that he looks like a cross between John Mayer and Even Stevens.
This dispiriting, delinquent shrubbery is the second-most mystifying thing on Gossip Girl this season, the first being the fact that they found and hired a bunch of French actors with real French accents that inexplicably sound faker than Ed Westwick’s insistence on speaking only inside his own throat (you are not Kiefer, Mr. Bass, and this is not 24. PROJECT).
Actually, wait, there was one thing more perplexing, or at least equally furrow-inducing:
What the hell is this dress they have on Serena? For one thing, she looks like an Orange Julius that got impregnated by a block of ice, and for another…
We KNOW, from lots of experience, that Boobs’ boobs do not take kindly to this sort of behavior. They’re being tamped down and pasted to her torso like a kindergarten art project. Even her hair looks sort of dry and stringy. Is there munity afoot aboard the S.S. Legsly?
Oh, and ANOTHER thing:
Since when does Blair Waldorf dress like she’s skating her short program to Aladdin’s “A Whole New World”? On the plus side, this photograph pleases me — it looks like the end card on a deliciously retro sitcom’s credits, like Growing Pains or Family Ties, except clearly a show about a family that hires an angry French au pair who’s being forced to live in America because of a debilitating addiction to old Love Boat reruns. It’s like The Nanny, except with less foghorn. I would watch. Well, once, anyway.
Comments (37):
I don’t mind the curly hair. Rock what God gave ya, Dan.
I don’t mind the hair, either, but then again, I’m very old and came of age in the 70s when ALL guys had long hair, so maybe that explains it.
I love the curls too! Purrrrrrrrrrrr
Isn’t he going to play Jeff Buckley? I bet the hair is for that.
um seriously? I have fostered a deep love (bordering on obsession) with Jeff Buckley since I was in college and now I want to weep..
There are about 40 Jeff Buckley moves in the making, so maybe you’ll get a Jeff who won’t make you weep. I am warming up to the idea of Penn as Jeff.
As soon as I saw the ill-fitting yellow dress on Serena I thought “I hope the fug girls fug this dress”… It looks horrible on her. Poor Boobs!
Oh my goodness that hair is dying for me to just grab and run my fingers through it.
Also, Serena’s dress should be burnt in a fiery pit of Hell.
Somewhere, an Occupy Together drum circle is missing its lead bongo boy.
HA!
I quit watching “Gossip Girl” because it was getting way too ridiculous for me, so I have no idea what’s going on nowadays! But, these outfits aren’t great!
The hair is fine if it is for the Jeff Buckley movie, but it needs to be even longer to be truly Buckley-esque! He looks so much better her, though: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm496534528/nm0046112
Gossip Girl is fantastic this season, no lie. Best season in ages.
I actually like this hair? Maybe because I first discovered Penn on The Mountain and he was rocking an awesome long curly mullet. This reminds me of that, but less mullet-y.
At least we don’t have to read Dan’s book, the most unintentionally hilarious thing about the Gossip Girl books is that Dan is supposed to be a fantastic poet, but since you can actually read his poems you know they are absolutely terrible.
I like Prince Louis a lot on Gossip Girl, but it is obvious he isn’t sticking around because they’ve yet to give him any secrets, backstory or personality.
also the fact that the so-called amazing writer was only able to change the names serena to sabrina, eric to derek, and WORST of all, chuck bass to… CHARLES FISH. that killed me worse than any fashion
I actually really like his hair. I’ve always been bored with the male standby of the cut close, nearly buzzed thing. It’s so yawn while this is an explosion of bouncy curls like he is the new spokesman for pantene. I mean that in the best way possible.
I heard the Muppet Head is because he’s been cast as Jeff Buckley? I have no idea what follicular choices Mr. Buckley made, but on Dan Humphrey it looks wretched.
He NEEDS to be cast as Brian May in the Queen biopic (with Sasha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury). He’d be perfect!
@Carrie: totally agree with you on this season. I’m loving it! And I’m a Dan fan so I can deal with the hair
I LOVE curly hair. I world without hair-straighteners would be fine with me.
My husband had this exact hair back in his undergrad days. His nickname was Bowl o’ Grapes. Adorbs!
I totally misread your comment to read “this exact back hair”…like he had Penn’s hair, on his back.
Maybe the gods are smiling on me and they are FINALLY making the John Tucker Must Die sequel! I loved “the other Tucker” and his manly white-boy ‘fro, but this hair on Dan… Not so much.
When I saw that first picture I wondered why you’d put in a Donna Martin shot from the original 90210.
He likes tennis, right ? I think this is an homage to John McEnroe in his Bjorn Borg battlin’ days.
I don’t mind curly hair in general, I just think it looks weird on him — he can’t stand up to it, really.
I agree Heather – I usually die for long curly locks on a man but this looks a bit fey. Maybe he’s in that awkward growing out phase and it’ll look better in a few months.
It’s not cute but I really want to touch it.
Huh. It’s really interesting how few men with curly hair let their grow out these days–those I can think of are all musicians. Maybe it’s too hard to care for, or maybe it comes off as unwelcomely feminizing? Robert Plant managed to rock the long flowing curls and women’s blouses on stage, but it *was* the 70s.
I love the curls on Humphrey and like a lot of you, I really want to touch it.
Love the curls, but the best curly hair ever was sported by Gene Wilder as the immortal Victor Frankenstein.
I’m not sure if somebody already mentioned it, but I’m almost positive his hair looks like that because he’s in the new Jeff Buckley biopic. (Now listen, I actually dig Penn Badgely. I think he’s a fun actor sometimes. He is NOT Jeff Buckley material, though.)
I do not think of myself as a violent or aggressive person, but this hair provokes an irrational urge in me to SLAP THE SNOT OUT OF HIM.
I love curls, but I don’t like his “I’m so very, very cool” photo op here.
I am watching this season (GG has been my consistent guilty pleasure partly BECAUSE it conflicts with football), and snorted when Blair made a throw-away comment about Lonely Boy’s mop.
I want to know what’s happening to his FACE! He used to look a lot less like Legolas
I can’t dash the hair. One of my friends has it in red and I do adore it.
But it did make me think of Darren Criss’ AVPM/AVPS hair.
Maybe he’s channeling Harry Potter? Mentally photoshop in some glasses and it kinda works.