"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Decisions"

Dawson's Creek
"Decisions" (formerly "Breaking Away")

Season 1 Finale

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A contentious episode, the Season 1 finale gives Joey a tough dilemma: take the opportunity to spend a semester in France, or stay and explore a relationship with Dawson?

Dawson and Joey have a self-referential conversation about TV cliffhangers (since the finale is one). Dawson thinks they keep people interested, but Joey thinks that they trick the audience into thinking something different will happen when it won't. Just like their lives, she says, they're so predictable.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Beauty Contest"

Dawson's Creek
"Beauty Contest" (formerly "Pretty Woman")

Season 1

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A pretty classic episode in the Dawson's Creek canon, "Beauty Contest" is the episode that makes Dawson realize Joey is actually, you know, a girl. An attractive one at that. As Pacey says, "At last, the moment of truth! Well, thank god, Dawson, maybe we can all go home now."

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Double Date"

Dawson's Creek
"Double Date" (formerly "Modern Romance") - Season 1

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This is the first of many Pacey-and-Joey episodes, though the primary storyline is Dawson not being able to get over Jen. Or Joey. Or Jen.

Dawson is obsessing that Jen hasn't tried to hang out with him post-breakup. Joey rubs it in a little, pointing out that Dawson will be able to see next-door neighbor Jen's every date and new kiss from his window, and he will now be known as "the guy Jen dropped". She also tries to prepare him for the "friend" speech, all the while still nursing her own crush.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Boyfriend"

Dawson's Creek
"Boyfriend" (formerly "Escape from New York") - Season 1

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Dawson is engaging in an age-old pastime - trying to make out what's on the scrambled adult channels - when a sleep-deprived Joey comes through the window. Her new nephew's sleeping/crying schedule is taking its toll on her, so she needs to crash at Dawson's. He laments the loss of classy guys like Gary Cooper; she falls asleep. One of the less verbose episode intros.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Detention"

Dawson's Creek
"Detention" (formerly "The Breakfast Club") - Season 1

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The opening of this episode, like the opening of almost every other episode this season, is fraught with Joey/Dawson awkwardness, but in this episode, they actually share their first kiss.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Baby"

Dawson's Creek
"Baby" (formerly "Look Who's Talking") - Season 1

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High school gossip can be pretty destructive. In this episode, Pacey and Dawson's conversation about Tamara is inadvertently overheard by a stoner hiding in the school bathroom. The rumor about Pacey and Tamara's relationship is all over the school in what seems like minutes, and Tamara is brought before the school board. Even though she breaks up with Pacey and refuses to speak to him, Pacey throws himself to the wolves by telling the school board there is absolutely no truth to the allegations, and he made it all up. Tamara is obviously grateful, and blows off Pacey's brother Doug when he tries to badmouth his brother afterward.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Review - "Hurricane"

Dawson's Creek DVD
"Hurricane" (formerly "Blown Away")

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This is, in my opinion, the best episode of the season. Just about everything hits the fan during a hurricane in Capeside.

Everyone's packing things away out of the storm, and Jen, Grams, Joey, Bessie, and Bodie all shack up at the Leery household. Dawson makes it known to Gail that he knows what she's being doing with Anchorman Bob, and won't listen when she tries to explain. Instead, he blows up on similarly non-monogamous Jen.

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"Dawson's Creek" Summer DVD Reiew - "Discovery"

Dawson's Creek
"Discovery" (formerly "Carnal Knowledge")

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As the title foreshadows, this is an episode of many revelations. The first is Dawson's discovery of the Pacey/Tamara sex tape, inadvertently created in the last episode. Of course, he and viewing companion Joey don't know who the guy with the "brown hair and throbbing neck muscles" is. In fact, they're so clueless that they go on to mock Pacey's interest in the tape, thinking it's rooted in jealousy. Pacey breaks into Dawson's room to find the incriminating tape, and then comes clean when Dawson finds him. That's Big Boom #1.

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"Dawson's Creek" DVD Review - "Kiss"

Dawson's Creek
Kiss (formerly "Prelude to a Kiss")

DVD Season 1

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This is one of my favorite episodes, and it has nothing to do with Dawson and Jen's first kiss, or Pacey and Tamara's scandalous videotape. It's purely because I adore Anderson Crawford and it breaks my heart that he never showed up again.

Anderson Crawford (Ian Bohen) is the violin-playing Gap-ad-pretty rich boy who gives Joey her first kiss. But that happens later. After some witty banter when they meet, Joey pretends to be a Choate-educated tourist named Deborah Carson. She dresses up and they go sailing. She gets an inadvertent guilt trip when Anderson talks about how much he values honesty. She almost gets caught when Anderson shows up at her family's restaurant, The Icehouse, but Jen covers for her. Then she screws up the location of a restaurant, but Anderson lets it go and gives her his number anyway, and her first kiss. Bodie comes to pick her up, and when she discovers her mistake, she tosses the number out the car window. Sigh. 10 years later, that still bugs me.

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"Dawson's Creek" DVD Review - "Dance"

Dawson's Creek
Dance (formerly "Dirty Dancing")

DVD Season 1

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"I cannot and will not kiss that cretin."
In the second episode, Joey is still naively under the impression that Pacey is too repelling to kiss. Ironically, in the first season Dawson is trying to talk her into this (for his movie), while he makes a creepy fake Joey head for the death scene. They talk about Dawson wanting to kiss Jen, and how Joey can always pretend she's kissing someone else (wink wink).

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"Dawson's Creek" DVD Review - "Pilot"

Dawson's Creek
Pilot - Episode 101

DVD Season 1

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"I'll be right here..."
Thus opens the pilot episode of Dawson's Creek, with Joey quoting E.T. on best friend Dawson's bed, where she's spent 8 years of Saturday nights. But this Saturday night is different. They start high school on Monday, and she has breasts! and Dawson has genitalia! and she just can't sleep over anymore. Dawson insists that they've transcended such things - their relationship is purely platonic - so Joey stays.

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Dawson's Creek - Summer DVD Bookclub

Dawson's Creek
Summer Review Intro

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Think back to 1998. Before her chemical cleansing by Xenu, Katie Holmes was everyone's favorite girl from the "wrong side of the creek." Now that she's become Victoria Beckham, what better time to revisit the early days of Dawson's Creek and remember how angsty and wonderfully verbose it all was?

Dawson's Creek is a teen drama created by Kevin Williamson that aired from January 1998 until May of 2003. It was loosely based on Williamson's teen years, and centered on a film-loving 15-year-old named Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek). For years, he and Josephine Potter, better known as Joey (Katie Holmes), have been best friends, but she has a crush on him. This is threatened by the arrival of Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams), who Dawson instantly falls for when she moves in next door. Keeping the laid-back sidekick commentary going is Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson).

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