- Network: WB , The WB , TWB , Warner Brothers
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 20, 1998
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Smartly written and utterly fantastic. [20 Jan 1998, p.E10]
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It's one of the most textured dramas to hit TV in quite a while. [20 Jan 1998, p.C]
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It's an unabashed, out-there, boldface teen drama that makes the stuff in Washington look like "The Wonder Years." [30 Jan 1998, p.C1]
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It’s an accomplished pilot with tons of promise that introduces so much that it doesn’t have time to reveal many retrograde or complacent attitudes (not to mention fashions).
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Dawson's Creek offers a lesson in the dangers of overhype. But Mr. Williamson does seem to have written hit all over it.
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It's a good drama, one filled with an enjoyable, watchable cast, lovely and textured writing, and catchy original and previously recorded alternative music. [20 Jan 1998, p.3]
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You don't have to be a lonely teenager to relate. [18 Jan 1998, p.6G]
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Underneath, Dawson's Creek seems not so much about sex as about growing up in a culture obsessed with sex. It's a subtle difference, but one that could make this newest prime-time soap a cut above the rest. [20 Jan 1998, p.4E]
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If it doesn't get weighed down by its pedigree, its iffy network or its own rather far-reaching aspirations, Dawson's Creek may be worth a long and winding run. [20 Jan 1998, p.C7]
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An addictive mixture of soap opera aond coming-of-age saga, one that fans of shows like "Party of Five" and "My So-Called Life" -- and good TV in general -- should certainly sample. [20 Jan 1998, p.D3]
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Dawson's Creek also shines with some terrific performances that illuminate honest attempts to get at the true nature of decent contemporary kids. It's worth a look. [20 Jan 1998, p.67]
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Tripe, maybe, but watchable tripe. [02 May 1998, p.83]
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Attractive as well as articulate, all these high schoolers qualify for some sort of advanced placement. They're easy to watch, just a little hard to believe.
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It would be a lot easier to like the kids from Dawson's Creek if they'd just put a sock in it now and then. [20 Jan 1998, p.C8]
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The WB series is well-acted but runs its coming-of-age theme into the ground. [20 Jan 1998, p.D1]
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Dawson's Creek needs less cleverness and more emotional spark. As the 16-year-old in my house said after watching three episodes, 'It's like My So-Called Life without the life.'
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It's basically an oversimplified, teeny-bopper version of nighttime soap operas like "Knots Landing" and "Falcon Crest." [20 Jan 1998, p.C1]
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Dawson's Creek doesn't cut it when measured against other adolescent coming-of-angst series.
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Dawson's Creek is "My So-Called Sex Life," a hyperventilating soap that finds hit-making horror scribe Kevin Williamson pigeonholing the adolescent experience as a Freudian misadventure of boiling libidos and roaring psychobabble.
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We can only hope that the target teenage audience isn't the collection of sappy sitting ducks that Williamson thinks it is.
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