Warning! Spoilers about the Gossip Girl reboot season 2 episode 7 ahead.The Gossip Girl reboot struggled for a while to establish its own protagonist-led feud, but it might have found the perfect rivalry after 2021’s Gossip Girl season 2 episode 7. While the original Gossip Girl famously portrayed multiple outrageous showdowns, with Blair and Serena’s rifts usually causing more trouble than others, the Gossip Girl reboot hadn’t yet found the perfect pair of frenemies that could deeply care for each other and just as easily stab each other in the back. The Gossip Girl reboot season 1 initially tried to pin Julien (Jordan Alexander) and Zoya against one another, but their fights would stop as quickly as they started.

Then, 2021’s Gossip Girl season 2 saw Monet’s rise up Constance Billard’s food chain, which could have threatened Julien had she wished to actually oppose Monet. Instead, just like Julien’s rivalry with Zoya,...