DC S05.E05: Use Your Disillusion

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

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Having apparently exhausted his usefulness at home, Gale sends him to Worthington to hang out with Joey for a couple of days. Given Dawson's lack of interest in her when she was home for the funeral, she is nervous as hell about how the visit's going to go. Once he gets there, he doesn't seem especially psyched to watch a movie on her tiny TV even before they get to a scene that too closely mirrors recent events in his life. When she mentions a party at Professor Wilder's house, he's eager to go...until he actually gets there and immediately feels trapped. What is happening to Dawson's emotions and why? (...We all know, but it's 2001; they hadn't heard of trauma yet back then.) Pacey's in the middle of telling Jen all about his amazing new mentor Danny and crush Karen when Jen happens to spot Charlie through the window of a restaurant: he told Jen he had a shift at the radio station that night, but here he is dining with ANOTHER GIRL?! While Jen comes to terms with Charlie's possible trampiness, Pacey starts to get inklings that Danny isn't all he's cracked up to be. Tobey comes to town to surprise Jack on what unfortunately happens to be Hell Week for the frat pledges. Can Jack balance his obligations to his new friends with the attention he needs and wants to pay his boyfriend? Use your ears to enjoy our episode on "Use Your Disillusion"!

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0:00.0	What if I mess up and I say all of the wrong things?
0:03.1	And at the end of the day, I'm not enough.
0:14.6	Hello, everybody.
0:16.1	This is again with this, Dawes' Creek.
0:19.7	Today's episode is Season 5, 5, used your disillusion.
0:25.9	Delicious. And now here are your host. Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:35.5	What if indeed, Joey?
0:38.2	Hello, Tara.
0:38.8	Hey!
0:40.4	Hello, listeners. Before we get into whatever this was, quick programming note for our sister podcast, again with again with this, dropping this Friday, January 16th, it's AWAWT 272.
0:57.8	Let's watch Christine or Christina, however she's being billed, Belford in the Golden Girls. Finally, an excuse to watch that. Season 1,
1:04.3	episode 16. It is on Hulu, if you would like to watch along. And we would love to have you
1:10.7	along for all these extra episodes.
1:13.5	We have a lot of fun. And so we think would you?
1:16.6	Yes, we chose it this week because Christine Belford is turning 77 on January 14th. So celebrate her and we celebrate the Golden Girls.
1:26.5	Also happening on Patreon this Thursday, January 15th, it's going to be a supersized again with them covering the last Friday of November.
1:36.4	If they do an episode that week, which they may not, that is Black Friday.
1:40.4	All December, as much of January as has happened thus far, we of course cannot tell you what is going to be in this episode because it has not happened yet.
1:50.1	But in our timeline, that is.
1:52.0	But we look forward and then a question mark to finding out what kind of holiday madness descends on the hosting team.
2:00.4	If you had to predict what we would find out between now and then, what would have transpired, what's the top note?
2:09.3	Well, there's definitely going to be more menopause talk because it's inescapable.
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