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Pilot: Directed by Steve Miner. With James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes. In the peaceful coastal New England town of Capeside, Massachusetts, Dawson Leery, a 15-year-old film buff, lives a fantasy life of movies and filmmaking with his lifelong friends, tomboy Josephine "Joey" Potter and the outgoing and ...
- (756)
- Drama, Romance
- Steve Miner
- 1998-01-20
As he's forced to work on a rival's film, Dawson plots to record his own first kiss with Jen; Joey misleads a wealthy suitor as Pacey uses his failing grades to get Tamara's attention. Discovery. S1 : E4 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.10.98.
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Aug 25, 2020 · The first ever episode of Dawson's Creek! Let's meet the gang. From Season 1 Episode 1, 'Pilot'. Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Joey's (Katie Holmes) relationship is changing and comes...
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—Joey to Dawson
Pilot is the series premiere and first episode of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.
EMOTIONS IN MOTION -- At the onset of their sophomore year of high school, Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) and his best friend, Josephine "Joey" Potter (Katie Holmes), battle with the knowledge that their lifelong friendship may be changing. Adding to Joey's confusing emotions is the arrival of the radiant Jennifer Lindley (Michelle Williams), wh...
Dawson Leery and Joey Potter finish watching E.T. in Dawson's bedroom on the Saturday night before they begin high school as sophomores. Now that they're fifteen and in the full throes of puberty, Joey feels she needs to go home and sleep. Dawson disagrees, pointing out that they're just friends and that she's been spending the night in his room since they were seven. He is convinced that they will maintain their friendship as it is. Joey spends the night.
The next day on the dock behind his home, Dawson is shooting a scene for his student horror film Sea Creature From the Deep (which he plans to enter in the upcoming Boston Film Festival). Things go wrong when Joey (playing the heroine) and Pacey Witter (playing the monster) start bickering. Suddenly a cab pulls up in front of the house right next to the Leery residence, and beautiful blonde Jennifer Lindley emerges. Dawson does not recognize her as his neighbors' granddaughter from New York until Jen introduces herself. She has come to help her grandmother care for her grandfather, who has recently had major heart surgery, and she'll be starting school with them tomorrow as a sophomore. Dawson and Pacey speculate on Jen's virginity as they head into Dawson's house, and interrupt Mitch and Gale Leery, Dawson's parents, making out heavily in the living room. Gale collects herself and heads out to her job as co-anchor of the evening news at the local television station. Dawson and Pacey head over to their part-time jobs as clerks at Screen Play Video. After being put in his outsider place by haughty Nellie Olson, the daughter of the store's owner, Pacey is overwhelmed by a sexy thirtysomething woman who enters the store. She is Tamara, new to Capeside, and she playfully flirts with Pacey while checking The Graduate out for rental. Arriving home from work, Dawson joins Jen sitting on the dock by their homes and invites her up to his room, a shrine to Dawson's idol, Steven Spielberg. Joey climbs up the ladder to Dawson's bedroom, which is her regular means of entrance (and exit) to the Leery home, in time to listen unseen to the getting-to-know-each-other banter of Dawson and Jen. After Jen leaves, Joey enters Dawson's room to find him scrutinizing video of his mother's newscast to support his new theory that she is having an affair with her co-anchor Bob.
Over breakfast the next morning, Jen's Grams, a church-going woman of strong faith, warns her curious granddaughter that Dawson and Joey (non-churchgoers both) are "the wrong element." Jen shocks Grams by declaring herself a devout atheist. At Capeside High, Dawson eagerly helps Jen get situated, while Joey shows little response to Jen's overtures of friendship. When asked directly, Joey assures Jen that she and Dawson are just friends, and adds that she sees how much her friend is attracted to the new girl. Dawson suffers his first high school disappointment when he is denied enrollment in Mr. Gold's film class on the technicality that he is a mere sophomore, but is soon elevated when Jen agrees to go on a "semi-date" with him to the movie house that night. This excursion has come about due to Pacey's happy discovery that Tamara from the video store the day before is Ms. Jacobs, his English teacher. Pacey flirtatiously asks her if she wants to rent "Summer of '42", but her response is that she's going to the movie house. With thoughts of "losing his virginity in a high-level fantasy fashion" racing through his head, Pacey corrals Dawson into the movie house outing. Dawson in turn, once Jen is locked, convinces a reluctant Joey to make the evening a foursome.
Tension mounts before the movie as Jen and Grams quarrel over Jen attending church, Dawson has a heated discussion with Mitch about the recent over-emphasis on sex that has been placed in the Leery household, and Bessie Potter teaches her tomboy younger sibling the art of applying lipstick. At the Rialto movie house, Pacey quarrels with Mr. Gold, Tamara's companion, and ends up punched in the face by an annoyed moviegoer; and Joey succeeds in creating discomfort by asking Jen if she is a virgin (Jen replies "yes") and later, after observing Dawson nervously taking Jen's hand as the movie begins, if Jen is a size queen (this question goes unanswered). An angry Joey tells an angrier Dawson that he needs to grow-up, stop living his life as if it were a movie, and start seeing the reality in front of him.
What is with this When-Harry-Met-Eighties crap? It doesn’t apply to us. We transcend it
—Dawson to Joey
Dawson – Show some respect man, she's somebody's mother
Pacey – I have it on pretty good authority that mothers have excellent sex lives
•Dawson's House
•Jen's House
•Joey's House
•Capeside High School
•Screen Play Video
•Rialto Theater
•Nellie's dad owns the video store where Pacey and Dawson work.
•Dawson and Jen met before, when they were kids
•Tamara kisses Pacey
•Dawson asks Joey jokingly if she has a crush on him and she lies
•Joey discovers Dawson's mom is having an affair
•Joey and Dawson have the same conversation about Spielberg and the Oscars in the season four finale.
WATCHED E.T. (1982)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
REFERENCED Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Psycho (1960)
The Graduate (1967)
Summer of '42 (1971)
hey pretty girl | BODEANS
jen arrives
as i lay me down | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
dawson joins jen on her dock
tubthumping | CHUMBAWAMBA
jen meets nellie in school; pacey in class
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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 for six seasons from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003.
Mar 30, 2018 · You feel strongly, watching the Dawson’s Creek pilot, that Dawson will grow up to direct a Jurassic Park reboot, or a Godzilla reboot that steals all the best bits from Jurassic Park. (Or...
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