Dawson's Critique: A Dawson's Creek Podcast

This episode gives us literally every single thing that we want from Dawson's Creek—friend moments, great Pacey/Joey content, Jen/Joey/Andie girlfriend bonding time, Jack/Andie brother/sister time, and of course, the greatest character: Drunk Joey! Join us as we just gush about how much we fucking love this episode. Join us for this deep dive into the 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek! Thank you so mu...

It's the last beautiful day of the season...or so Pacey thought. The Perfect Storm done Capeside style, this episode is action packed. We have Jen and Pacey in danger on the True Love; Joey, Dawson, and Drue thrown together for a school project; Dawson being totally oblivious to Joey's increasing panic. This is a great one, and showcases not only everything that we've been begging for for multiple...

It's the first day of senior year, and Pacey is officially not a senior, but he's not going to tell Joey because he's embarrassed. Mitch tells Dawson this for some reason and Dawson goes to Joey to tell her and it's a real nightmare. Meanwhile, Jack breaks up with Jen for Henry who has proven that he was not worthy of our time last year, and all in all, senior year is not starting great. We hope e...

What happens after you sail off into the sunset? That's what we're talking about in Season 4 of Dawson's Creek. This week, Joey and Pacey come back from their trip and immediately start fighting, but is this the greatest fight ever? We love it. Dawson has the worst hair ever, and also is still hurt, but maybe has moved forward. Jen, Andie, Jack, and Dawson have been hanging nonstop this summer and...

In part 2 of our Season 3 recap,we're taking your questions, pontificating wildly, and just having a good discussion about Dawson's Creek and life. We hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and sane. Hope we help you get through this week. Join us for this deep dive into the 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek! Thank you so much to Killya for our amazing theme song. Find them on Instagram @gofreakingcr...

In this week's episode, we start the first of our two part recap of Season 3. We're taking your questions, pontificating wildly, and just having a good discussion about Dawson's Creek and life. We hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and sane. Hope we help you get through this week. Join us for this deep dive into the 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek! Thank you so much to Killya for our amazing th...

At last the ship that launched a thousand ships is sailing into the sunset. Dawson tries to remind Joey of what they had before literally telling her she's free—and this is somehow not the end of their friendship. Jen, Jack, Andie, and Grams go on a wild Carpe Diem road trip so that Jen can apologize to Henry. Jack also goes to Ethan to kiss him and tell him that he's ready but it doesn't go as pl...

We remember everything about this episode where Jack is discriminated against for being gay, Joey and Andie are great allies, and Dawson is a dick, but somehow makes this prom happen as if he's a hero? Ugh. A classic episode of tv, and one of the best of Dawson's Creek, this episode is full of drama and the most romantic scene in tv history. My god we love this one. We remember EVERYTHING. Subvert...

Everyone behaves like utter garbage in this episode that deals in the aftermath of everyone finding out about Pacey and Joey. Dawson is the worst, but everyone behaves poorly except for Will Krudski, who we say good-bye to in this ep. But you know what it means when everyone acts like garbage—this is a long one. Put on your life preservers and remember to ask permission before boarding. We're in f...

Holy shit! This episode blew our minds in 2000, and remains one of the best episode of the entire series. We follow each character as they come to discover the truth about Joey and Pacey. It's a ride, each and every time, and we love every second of it, even when Dawson is being awful—and we wanted to give him so much slack. Also, stay for the repeated lines, and the Watergate assignment in which...

Cue up Daydream Believer, because we are here! Joey feels alive, as does Erin. Julia is dead and by the end of this episode we're so in love with Pacey Witter and his looking for consent that we can barely hold it together. In other news, this is one of the few episodes where we find Jen difficult to really root for. While Mitch and Gail have some deep conversations about what they mean to each ot...

Ya'll in 2000, after waiting weeks to find out what happened after Pacey kissed Joey, we came back to this episode, which was NOT what we expected. Now, it's one of our favorite episodes. Andie, Jen, and Joey FINALLY learn that maybe they should have some female friends in a way that has us cheering. Meanwhile, Pacey and Dawson go camping, where Pacey tries to tell Dawson about his feelings for Jo...

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Pacey kissed Joey and the world of Dawson's Creek has started to right itself. But first we have to endure an entire episode with A.J. where we learn that A.J. is the Dawson (this tracks) to his friend Morgan's Joey, and Joey ends up the Jen in this situation. We also spend time at Gail Leery's restaurant, which is in utter chaos just a week before opening and we are stressed...

In our special extra episode, we talk to our listener Jay who talked to us about Asperger's and their relationship to Dawson as someone who may have Asperger's. It's a fun conversation that has spoilers and discusses this mind-blowing fan theory. Enjoy! And stay safe this election week. Put on your life preservers and remember to ask permission before boarding. We hope everyone is staying safe, he...

Well, we're always going to be bummed that this is Obba Babatunde AND Bianca Lawson's last episode, but man does this one hit different in 2020. The racists of Capeside run the Black principal and his daughter out of town, and even though our whole gang fights, they still lose. It's hard to watch. Except for that ending, which is one of the most amazing endings of all time and introduces us to the...

Joey paints a pretty culturally insensitive mural, but that's not the story, the story is that someone defaces it and Pacey gets in a fight defending Joey's honor. Pacey and Dawson argue over how best to help Joey. Andie quits the disciplinary committee and tells Jack and then Principal Green about cheating on the PSATs. Pacey gets kicked out of his house and moves in with Doug, and while moping a...

It's Valentine's Day and most of our crew is headed to a fucking RAGER at the golf course, with Jack's ex-girlfriend in tow. Most importantly, we find out Jack's nickname is Jackers before everyone goes off and gets drunk before being thrown in the drunk tank by Doug Witter. Meanwhile, Jen is on a date from hell with Henry, who has sold so much blood he passes out. Please don't get us started on t...

The Northern Lights are able to be seen in Capeside so A.J. comes from Boston to take Joey to a party where they will watch them. But that means that Joey is missing Pacey's big night with the opening of his star turn in Barefoot in the Park. Meanwhile, Andie is saving the day on the play, and Jack helps his sister out, and they have a really nice moment. This is our favorite storyline of the epis...

This is a big one, y'all. Pacey brings in a travel writer and B&B critic (who knew that was a thing) to review the Potter B&B on its first weekend...and things don't exactly go swimmingly. Dawson is mad at his parents for playing a happy couple to help the Potter B&B, but he helps and apologizes to Jen, when she comes to him, nervous about what Henry might think about her past. And of course, we g...

There's a huge music festival in Capeside that none of our teens have heard about, but Ethan, the guy Jack met on the train in the last episode, is attending and Jack drags Jen along to camp (ugh). Jack ditches Jen to hangout with Ethan and when he does, she finds Henry, who is as horrid as ever. Please run away from him, Jen. Meanwhile, Andie has signed on to be the assistant director for the sch...

Dawson, Joey, Jack, and Andie all go to Cambridge, MA, to an unnamed university (hmm...wonder which one), where they get their first taste of college life. Dawson gets knocked down a peg or two when his movie bombs at a film festival, but we are introduced to Bianca Lawson's character Nikki Green, and we are not mad about it. Joey gets put in a room with a real dick named A.J. and we are definitel...

It's the turnaround episode of season 3, and we're here for it. Pacey needs Joey's help in math and she makes him learn how to ballroom dance to help her win a scholarship in return for her help in school. When Dawson finds a condom in his room, he makes the wrong assumption that Pacey and Joey are sleeping together, but it all comes to a head when everyone catches Pacey and Jen making out in the...

It's Thanksgiving 1999 and shit is a mess. Jen and Pacey's burgeoning non-sex life is being thrown off course by Grams's Thanksgiving plans, which includes a surprise visit by Jen's mom, Helen. And in a not super happy turn of events, Helen confesses to Jen that she has a half-sister. Meanwhile, the McPhees show up to the Thanksgiving, making Pacey and Andie uncomfortable and necessitating a conve...

The original four—Pacey, Joey, Jen, and Dawson—get out of writing a paper on The Crucible by traveling to Witch Island and making a documentary that is definitely not a rip-off of The Blair Witch Project. Jen and Pacey decide that they're going to try to be friends with benefits (or is it that the love potion Jen made actually works?). Meanwhile, Joey and Dawson realize that they kind of aren't fr...

This is a hard one, ya'll. Andie is sexually assaulted by Rob and Joey goes to bat for her. Pacey takes care of Andie but reminds her that he doesn't want to be in a romantic relationship with her. Meanwhile, Jen takes Henry to the Homecoming Gala, which is being cohosted by Constance Freckling, a VERY hoity toity lady from the Mayflower (which she will tell you the instant she meets you). Jen, in...