DC S04.E10: Self Reliance

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

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Everyone is abuzz about the big kiss at the party in the previous episode. What did it mean? Was it strictly mistletoe-related, or should everyone be monitoring Dawson and Gretchen for couple-iness? Joey is clearly preoccupied yet also unable to talk about it like an adult, biting Pacey's head off when he tries to bring it up and finally kicking him out because he's...being too nice and offering to take household responsibilities off her hands (like the care of Alexander while Bessie and Bodie are out of town). Joey's martyr complex has the worst possible consequence: she beefs an English test! OH NO!!!!! Meanwhile, when Dawson himself isn't dodging questions about the kiss and insisting that he and Gretchen are just friends, he's doing what everyone has been dying for: making another movie! He's excited to learn more about Mr. Brooks for his documentary project, but a little concerned that Mr. Brooks seems to be losing his grasp on movie trivia. Is Mr. Brooks...okay? In another silo, Jen gets an extremely reluctant Jack to join her for a trip to Provincetown for a Gay-Straight Alliance meetup. Jack instantly clashes with Toby (David Monahan), the seeming leader of the group, for daring to care about his and his friends' rights -- not that Toby helps himself by dismissing Jack as a straight-passing jock. You can rely on us for an episode about "Self Reliance"!

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0:00.0	Well, your point.
0:02.5	I thought you might have one.
0:13.1	Hello, everybody. This is again with this Dawson's Creek.
0:18.0	Today's episode is Season 4, episode 10, self-rely.
0:24.0	And now here are your host.
0:25.4	Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:33.5	Thank you, Mr. Burns. Hello, Sarah.
0:37.0	Thoreau. I mean, hello. Hello, listeners. Thank you, Mr. Burns. Hello, Sarah. Thoreau! I mean, hello.
0:40.1	Hello, listeners. Thank you for being here. Before we get into this episode, we want to tell you what's coming up on our Patreon.
0:47.6	Again with again with this episode, 253 is dropping Friday, August 22nd.
0:53.9	Let's watch Joshua Jackson in Cruel Intentions.
0:59.2	It's a biggie. I went through the whole cast and was like, surely he's not the only person
1:04.7	relevant to us who's in it. But he is. It's just he's not the only WB star in it because there was
1:10.1	also, of course, a certain Sarah Michelle Geller. But I'm excited to revisit this one. And I don't think you and I have ever really talked about it. But it's a biggie. He and his frosted tips. Yes. Right. So yeah, just ahead of back to school. Let's go back to the pervious school there is and cruel intentions. You can find it streaming on Prime Video. We'll link that in the show notes. And you can join us at any level and hear that. Again, with this podcast.com slash club. Get in there. Join the ranks. Help us get to that first campaign milestone of stickers stickers
1:48.0	stickers are great we love yes all right let's get into this episode starting with our b plot
1:53.3	gays and straights make an alliance after a throwaway reference in the cold open to jen dragging jack
2:00.6	to a gay straight alliance meeting in Provincetown, we open at said meeting. It's in a huge coffee shop. Jack babbles nervously that this isn't his scene and Jen and her kerchief try to talk him down, reminding him that his scene consists of herself Dawson and Grams
2:17.6	and that he can't spend his entire life around straight people.
2:20.7	A cute blonde guy in glasses and I assume faux dog tags approaches them.
2:25.8	Clip two.
2:26.9	Hey, you here for the meeting?
2:29.0	Yes, we are.
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