After what seemed like an unending string of doomed relationships, Nate Archibald finally found his ultimate love interest in the show’s finale. In the final episode, Nate was seen dating a woman named Sage Spence (Sofia Black-D’Elia).

Later on, as Buzzfeed reported during an appearance at New York Magazine's Vulture Festival in the fall of 2019, Joshua Safran, an executive producer who took the reins in later seasons, said that after the plan to make Eric Gossip Girl was scrapped, they seriously considered Nate, but eventually settled on Dan.