"The Serena Also Rises" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American teen drama television series Gossip Girl, which originally aired on The CW on September 29, 2008.

In the midst of Fashion Week, a furious Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) plans on sabotaging Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) after Serena claims her Queen Bee status and rejecting her for New York socialite Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman), during her mother's fashion show.

Blair designs a seating plan for Eleanor's fashion show and attempts to get back in favor with the girls at school by presenting them with front row tickets.

When Blair finds the seating plan changed, she sees it as a personal insult from Jenny and Serena, who normally watches the show backstage with her.

(In fact, Jenny did not know Blair did the plan and Lily accepted Eleanor's offer without telling Serena.)

Dan meets his new mentor, Noah Shapiro, who is unimpressed that all his stories involve a sheltered boy from Brooklyn with girl troubles.

He feeds Dan pills and shots, takes him to a strip club and then leaves him by the side of the road with no shoes.

Lily has hired an art dealer to redecorate the apartment and asks her to buy a nude photo that Mapplethorpe once did of her.

Lily is shocked he got a private investigator to do a file on her past and claims she has nothing she wants to hide from her children...until Bart shows her one of the things he dug up.

Jenny tells Blair that she wanted to be her friend because they both work hard for things, rather than gliding through life like Serena.

In the lock-up, Chuck thanks Dan and says Bart always hated him because his mother died in child birth.

[4] Jacob from Television Without Pity, gave the episode an A+, citing positive reviews on Chuck and Blair's performances.