DC S04.E02: Failing Down

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

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

School is back in session for the gang's senior year. Joey is excited to get through this to what's next, and Pacey's just excited to be around her. That only lasts until the end of the first day, when new temporary guidance counselor Mitch -- apparently on leave from his job as general manager of the restaurant -- calls Pacey in to tell him that instead of on the True Love he should have been in town making up the three junior classes he failed in summer school. Mitch alerts Dawson that Pacey's in big trouble, and though Dawson is a bitch about it, he does hear it when Mitch suggests that he pass the news on to someone who does care if Pacey lives or dies. Speaking of whom: Joey needs a job, and Andie recommends that she apply to wait tables at the yacht club, which is full of cute rich boys and big tips...here at the end of the tourist season. Never mind: Joey takes Andie's advice and lies about connections to big wigs on the club board, getting her hired on the spot, and putting her in the path of "Owen Ross," scion of the family she claimed to know. Jen is starting to get antsy that she hasn't heard from Henry in a while, but no, his email account isn't offline: he gets in touch with Jack just fine, wussily asking HIM to tell Jen Henry wants to take a break. Don't YOU take a break on us: things are looking up with our episode on "Failing Down"!

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0:00.0	Do you know what, can we just for tonight pretend like we're one of those couples that can consume a meal in blissfully dysfunctional silence?
0:32.5	Hello everybody. This is again with this Dawson's Creek. Today's episode is Season 4, Episode 2, Failing Down. And now, here are your host. Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:39.0	Hello, Tara and Dave. Oh, hi. Hello, listeners and Dave.
0:39.9	Oh, hi.
0:41.1	Hello, listeners. Welcome back to early season four before we get into this episode, a little update about what's going on in the Patreon.
0:48.9	Again, again with this episode 244, can you believe it?
0:52.8	That drops Friday, June 20th. Let's watch Denise Dows, Gregory
0:57.3	Ittson, and David Newsom. Yes, they were all in Starburst Properties in The Mentalist.
1:03.4	It's a season one episode. That's season one episode for Ladies in Red. You can find it on Hulu.
1:09.9	It will be in our show notes.
1:11.9	This and every other of the gazillion, it seems like, episodes for Again With Again with This that we've done are available at again with this podcast.com slash club.
1:22.2	If you join us at any level, and we hope you do.
1:24.7	We have a really good time.
1:26.0	So true.
1:26.6	Let's get into this episode first with
1:28.6	the caveat that everyone be aware. I am sick. That's why my voice sounds like this. I'm sorry. I know
1:33.8	it's not pleasant. It's not pleasant for me either, but we're going to get through it. Let's start
1:37.4	with our B plot. He may be a sophomore, but Henry's still a freshman at heart. We open this storyline with Jack calling Jen out for spending the day compulsively checking
1:47.0	and rechecking her email, and after she half-assedly denies it, she admits that based on
1:51.6	his online silence, she thinks that Henry is seeing someone else. Jack assures her when she
1:57.4	frets about it that he's sure she is a very generous cybersex partner,
2:01.7	ho-boy.
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