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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    May 9, 2022
    60
    Tripe, maybe, but watchable tripe. [02 May 1998, p.83]
  2. Reviewed by: Terry Kelleher
    Jun 26, 2013
    58
    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.
  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    May 9, 2022
    50
    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]
  4. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    May 9, 2022
    50
    The WB series is well-acted but runs its coming-of-age theme into the ground. [20 Jan 1998, p.D1]
  5. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Jun 12, 2013
    50
    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.'
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    May 9, 2022
    42
    It's basically an oversimplified, teeny-bopper version of nighttime soap operas like "Knots Landing" and "Falcon Crest." [20 Jan 1998, p.C1]
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    May 9, 2022
    40
    Dawson's Creek doesn't cut it when measured against other adolescent coming-of-angst series.
  8. Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    May 9, 2022
    40
    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.
  9. Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    May 9, 2022
    40
    We can only hope that the target teenage audience isn't the collection of sappy sitting ducks that Williamson thinks it is.