DC S04.E01: Coming Home

Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210

Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After three months at sea, Joey and Pacey are finally returning to Capeside just in time for their senior year of high school, and a lot has changed in their absence. Dawson's taken up photography. Dawson and Jack have started a house painting business. Jen is trying a long-distance relationship with Henry, who got recruited from football camp to a fancy private school. Doug and Pacey's sister Gretchen (Sasha Alexander, the future Isles of Rizzoli & Isles!) has taken a year off from college, and taken Pacey's spot on Doug's couch. Bessie has made the B&B profitable, perhaps in part by renting out her sister's room. Here's what hasn't changed: Dawson still sucks. Pacey and Joey decide how best to strategize about their reunion with Dawson (and boy, THAT'S probably something they didn't miss doing all summer) with an assist from Jen, trying to salve her guilt over her part in how Dawson found out about Joey and Pacey in the first place by easing Joey and Dawson back into each other's proximity. Does Dawson deserve this kid-glove treatment? You already know the answer! Deep in the background, Andie meets and flirts with a couple of French guys, one of whom looks a LOT like that gay kid Danny from the then-most recent season of The Real World in New Orleans! Prepare to dock for our episode on "Coming Home"!

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0:00.0	Still here, huh?
0:04.0	Yeah, I was just, thank you.
0:06.0	Highly overrated activity, if you ask me.
0:08.0	Hello everybody, this is again with this, Dawson's Creek. Today's episode is season four, episode one, coming home. And now here are your host. Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:35.3	Hello, Tara Aronio and Dovecale.
0:40.6	Hi.
0:41.3	Hello, listeners.
0:42.7	Before we get to what's happening on Patreon this week, we have an announcement.
0:46.9	Please listen.
0:47.5	This is something new.
0:48.9	Listeners to our sister podcast, Extra Hot Great, know that we have been running a campaign over there to boost our Patreon
0:54.6	numbers and unlocking new perks as we do. And we are going to be doing something quite similar over
1:00.5	here. It's true. Our starting point on the Patreon as of this taping on May 22nd is around $2,000.
1:09.3	So to entice those of you who aren't already in the Patreon to join us,
1:14.0	we are going to design an exclusive set of stickers. When we hit the 3,250 mark, those will go out
1:22.7	to all Patreon members who request them. You can see the designs and the show notes for this episode.
1:28.5	At $4,000, we will bring you a special one-time bonus episode. And that's an interview with
1:33.8	Gina Fator, who wrote, truly, most of the best episodes of season three and beyond. She also went on
1:39.9	to write on shows like Gilmore Girls, Parenthood, Better Things, and Unreal, and is currently in
1:45.5	pre-production on a new show. What is it? Who knows? We'll talk all about it with her when we hit
1:51.2	that $4,000 goal. Indeed. When we hit $4,500, we're going to sit down for a chat with Dave Holmes.
1:58.7	You may know Dave as a former MTV Vijay, an Esquire contributor, and a podcast host in his own right.
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