One could applaud the producers of this show for not initially duplicating the 90210-style formula of substituting annoying interpretations of social issues among teens for actual storywriting. However, they managed to come up with something even more irritating: grossly miswritten dialogue littered with poorly worded run-on sentences. One can indeed picture Kevin Williamson and his gay male thirtysomething associates shuffling through their thesauruses trying to link obscure-sounding words together. What's worse, the avoidance of issue-based themes was quickly done away with when the writers ran out of ideas. Soon we were dealing with Jen being "sexualized at a young age" or Jack coming out of the closet in an essay which his teacher sadistically read to the entire class. I much preferred the unrealism of Pacey's affair with his teacher or when Pacey later spits in another teacher's face and not only goes completely unpunished, but actually gets the man fired! (we all know it takes an act of congress to remove any teacher from their job). But since this a WB show, none of us should expect too much.
Review of Dawson's Creek
