One of the strangest episodes of Dawson’s Creek is Season 2: Episode 5: Full Moon Rising. All of the characters seem to be infected with a superstitious determinism, blaming anything and everything on the full moon. Joey’s in a bad mood? Well, weirder things have been known to happen around this point in the moon cycle. Jack … Continue reading »
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Making (Non)Sense of Teen Drama
How this works: I run a random number generator to pick an episode. I watch the episode. I fill in the gaps. Random Number: 65 Episode: “You Had Me At Goodbye” As I watched this episode, I really tried to find each character’s trajectory and the driving forces that brought them all together. There is … Continue reading »
I Love You, Man: Pacey and Dawson
Verbose and seriously flawed: these words describe both Dawson Leery and Pacey Witter of the famed nineties teen drama, Dawson’s Creek. As a sixth grader, with no life clearly, watching Dawson’s Creek every weekday during the summertime for a whopping two-hour block of drama dripping with overly loquacious teens instilled in me the idea that … Continue reading »
How Dawson’s Creek Almost Got a Clue
For those of you who missed the 90s, Dawson’s Creek is your typical teen soap concerned with sexual awakening, divorce, homosexuality, and other issues real teens face. On the surface, it looks to be nothing more than the type of mindless TV any 15-year-old girl in 1996 would spend hours watching in her parent’s basement … Continue reading »