
Jen and Jack attend another college in the Boston area, with Jack joining a fraternity and embracing life as an openly gay college student. Pacey finds himself adrift after working on a yacht all summer but enters the restaurant business. Dawson attends USC Film School while Joey stays on the East Coast and attends college in Boston. The fifth season follows the characters leaving their small town to begin new lives in big cities. Dawson starts to date Gretchen, Pacey’s older sister who has moved back to Capeside. The incident fractures Jen's friendship with Jack. Andie almost dies in an accident at a rave when she takes ecstasy that was in Jen's possession. Jen learns that Henry wants to break up with her. Their relationship is tested by differing post-high school plans, Joey’s friendship with Dawson, and Pacey’s insecurity. The fourth season takes place during the characters’ senior year of high school and deals with Joey and Pacey’s ups and downs as a couple. Jen is pursued by freshman football player Henry Parker and initially finds him immature, but grows to return his feelings. Joey tries to repair her friendship with Dawson, but at the end of the season, Dawson realizes he doesn’t want to hold Joey back, so he urges her to go and join Pacey who is sailing down the coast for the summer. Dawson and Pacey become rivals for Joey’s affection. When Dawson discovers his two friends have become a couple behind his back, he is dejected and angry. The friendship later blossoms into romance, and the two begin a relationship in secret. The third season saw the beginning of a friendship between Joey and Pacey, apart from Dawson. Dawson must deal with the divorce of his parents, Mitch and Gail. Jen befriends "bad girl" Abby Morgan and goes down a path of self-destruction. Joey finds herself drawn to Jack, who initially reciprocates her feelings, but comes to realize he is gay, which puts him at odds with homophobic classmates and an intolerant father. In return, Pacey becomes a rock for Andie as it is revealed she struggles with mental illness. The type-A achiever Andie becomes romantically involved with Pacey and helps him to become more motivated. In the second season, twin siblings Andie and Jack McPhee move to Capeside.

Dawson must cope with the news his mother Gail is carrying on an affair. Pacey aims to lose his virginity and tries to seduce a new teacher at Capeside High School. Jen's reasons for moving to Capeside are revealed. Some episodes featured homages to movies such as The Breakfast Club or referenced Kevin Williamson’s work on Scream. The first season covers a love triangle between Dawson, Joey, and Jen, which some critics compared to the love triangle between Archie Comics characters Archie, Betty, and Veronica. Main article: List of Dawson's Creek episodes Season 1: 1998
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The series explores the characters’ coming-of-age, dealing with topics such as first love, loss, coming out, homophobia, class differences, mental health, and divorce. Dawson and Joey dance around a growing attraction to one another, but their dynamic shifts with the arrival of Jen Lindley, who has moved to Capeside from New York City to live with her grandparents. Dawson works at a video rental store with his other best friend Pacey Witter, an underachieving class clown who occasionally squabbles with Joey. Tomboy Joey, who lost her mother to cancer and whose father is in prison for drug trafficking, lives with her older sister Bessie, who runs the restaurant The Icehouse. Since childhood, he has been best friends with Josephine “Joey” Potter, who routinely comes over to his house through a ladder into his bedroom for movie-watching and platonic sleepovers. ĭawson Leery is an introspective 15-year-old and aspiring filmmaker in the small New England town of Capeside, Massachusetts. It has also been credited with kicking off a boom of teen-centered shows in the late 1990s that continued into the 2000s.
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90 on Entertainment Weekly 's "New TV Classics" list in 2007. Īlong with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek became the flagship show for The WB and launched its main cast to international stardom. It was produced by Columbia TriStar Television (renamed Sony Pictures Television before the sixth and final season) and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and debuted on The WB on January 20, 1998.

The series starred James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery, Katie Holmes as his best friend and love interest, Joey Potter, Joshua Jackson as their fellow friend Pacey Witter, and Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a New York City transplant to Capeside.

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003.
