DC S05.E01: The Bostonians

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

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joey is working hard to deserve her spot at Worthington -- not just studying but grade-grubbing, particularly with her creative writing instructor Professor Wilder (Ken Marino!), and getting a reputation as an enemy of fun with her free-spirited roommate Audrey (Busy Philipps!). Over at Boston Bay College, Jack is trying to stay faithful in his long-distance relationship with Tobey while trying to find a guy for Jen for the first time since Henry, yes really. A chance invitation to a frat party puts Jen in the path of Charlie (Chad Michael Murray!), the cute bass guitarist in the party band, and makes Joey realize she really might be stuck in the past. She could have been even FURTHER stuck there, however, since Dawson was supposed to visit this weekend until he got an internship starting immediately. But excited as he was to work under hotshot director Todd, the lessons Dawson learns are tougher than the Capeside wunderkind is used to. Park your arse in Harvard Yard (sorry) and enjoy our episode on "The Bostonians"!

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0:00.0	Hey, scowling can be fun.
0:11.1	Hello everybody.
0:12.8	This is again with this Dawson's Creek.
0:16.0	Today's episode is season five, episode one, the Bostonians. And now here are your host. Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:32.1	Hello, Sarah. Hello. Hello. Hello listeners. We're so glad you're here.
0:38.4	We want to tell you while you are here.
0:40.3	But what's happening over on our Patreon, dropping this Friday, December 12th, it's going to be again with again with this 267.
0:47.7	Let's watch Katie Holmes in Go.
0:50.4	Katie Holmes and about five dozen other people that want to be hugely famous like Timmy the Elephant, Sarah Bolly, Scott Wolf, Jay Moore, I guess, Taye Diggs, the rest.
1:04.9	Damn, see.
1:06.2	Melissa McCarthy?
1:07.2	Yeah, it's a great movie, great Christmas movies.
1:10.1	So if you haven't seen it before,
1:12.1	you can rent or purchase it on Amazon. We'll link that in the show notes. And you should,
1:16.4	because, you know, irrespective of its connection to the show, it kind of rules. Let's get into
1:22.1	our only storyline. The Boston kids are settling in at school while Dawson meets an adult in L.A.
1:28.4	Who doesn't think he's a Wunderkind? We open on Joey and Dawson where we left them,
1:34.1	silhouetted on his bedroom window shade kissing, while Ken Marino, of all people, reads a story about
1:40.0	the moment. It is narrated in the third person, but it's from the girl's perspective. So obviously
1:45.9	this work is by Joey in a creative writing class at Worthington. And what we hear tells us she
1:52.4	really should have stuck to the visual arts, clip two. And then just like that, they were kissing.
2:00.1	She didn't know how they got there.
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