In fact, tone is a distinct problem in this show. In anothe repisode, 15 year old Dawson Leery is moping around his ritzy Boston suburb house, and his mom, in an attemt to ask what's wrong, has to take a deep breath to deliver this clunker: "You've never been good at disguising that look of preoccupation you get when something is bothering you." Given that Dawson's Creek is a series from the laptop of the hottest young screenwriter in Hollywood, Kevin Williamson, dialogue like that is a big red warning flag that something is amiss. All the pop culture self-conscious Williamson's horror flicks so refreshing, too often proves a didactic drag here.
Dawson is the starry eyed center of Creek, a dreamy, sensitive soul, whose motto is, "I reject reality." An aspiring filmmaker, his ambition is to make sensitive soul movies in the manner of his hero, Steven Spielberg. Van Der Beek has handsome features to a face shaped like a cereal box. His Dawson is puppydog ethusiastic for film making and horndog hot for girl net door Jen, a sloe eyed blond who favors loose sundresses.
Dawson also has two best pals. There's Joey, a darkly pretty tomboy who
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In a line up at least a few of the things that are wrong with the years most antcipated show, Dawson's Creek, one character says to the blond boy bombshell hero, "Dawson, fasten your seatbelt, it's going to be a bumpy life." The All About Eve reference- a camp quip rendered tired and trite from overuse-is all wrong for the tone of this drama, a teen soap opera that wants to be equally fresh, earnest, and hip.
