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The Noughties teen star renaissance is officially underway

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The Noughties teen star renaissance is officially underway

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Everywhere you look, another Noughties teen star is back on top. While Blake Lively and Michelle Williams have been A-list more or less since their breakout hits, their co-stars’ ascents have been slow but steady for the past 20-ish years. But after some almost-hits and good faith missteps, they’re once again atop the TV pyramid. Millennials, we’re winning.

The number one show on Netflix is Nobody Wants This, a breezy but touching interfaith rom-com starring the always charming Adam Brody (forever The OC’s Seth Cohen in our hearts) and Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell. Bell found plenty of movie success post-Veronica (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Frozen), and her NBC show The Good Place was well-received but quickly disappeared from cultural memory.

Nobody Wants This makes the best use of Bell’s talents in years. As Veronica, yes, she solved crimes and took names, but viewers fell in love with her quippy sarcasm. As self-deprecating podcast cohost Joanne on NWT, sassy Bell is back!

Meanwhile Brody’s wife, Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl fame, is joining the cast of The Buccaneers for season two, in addition to being attached to Bottoms co-writer Rachel Sennott’s buzzy HBO pilot. She, too, is connected to Bell, who was the voice of Gossip Girl herself.

GOSSIP GIRL, Leighton Meester, ‘Belles de Jour’, (Season 4, ep. 401, aired Sept. 13, 2010). 2007-. photo: Giovanni Rufino / © The CW / Courtesy Everett Collection

©CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection

Meester’s previous post-GG foray into television, Single Parents, was underrated and fun, but frankly, her part could have been played by any brunette with an improv background. The Buccaneers, on the other hand, features luxurious period costumes, schemes and secrets. The skills she honed as Blair Waldorf make Meester the best addition the show could have asked for.

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