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“Did you miss me?” Kristen Bell’s voice asks, almost threateningly, in the trailer of the new “Gossip Girl.” “I know I have missed you.”

And just like that, the TV drama that turned the schemes and betrayals of a group of elite kids at a private school in Manhattan’s Upper East Side into a cultural phenomenon is back. Sort of.

Today, HBO Max is premiering the reboot of the iconic 2007-2012 CW series — dubbed at one point “The Greatest Show of Our Time” by New York magazine — with a 12-episode season that picks up a decade later, relies heavily on Instagram (that’s where Gossip Girl does all her dirt-dishing gossip now), and has been hailed as G.G. 2.0.

In layman’s terms, that means a revival tailored to the more sensitive and socially aware tastes of today’s Gen Z: less about teens destroying one…

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