Love in the Time of Season One

This drama, which began airing in 1998 and ran for six years, is hailed as the 'textbook for American youth growth'. "Dawson's Creek" is set in a seaside town called Capeside near Boston, Massachusetts, and follows the story of four good friends—two boys and two girls—navigating their way through adolescence to adulthood. 15-year-old Dawson (played by James Van Der Beek) is a hopeless dreamer obsessed with Spielberg, while Joey (played by Katie Holmes), who lives downstream from Dawson, exudes the vibe of the natural, wholesome girl next door. Dawson's 'troubled' friend Pacey is always daring enough to make some outrageous moves, and the new girl from New York, Jen, who moves in next to Dawson, has a wild and untamed heart beneath her cute appearance. This establishes the four main characters of the first season of "Dawson's Creek". Over the next five years of airing, although there were slight changes to the main cast, such as the later addition of the gay character Jack, the four friends remained the center of the story. They met and got to know each other, graduated from high school, entered college, and went their separate ways, experiencing various complex friendships, family ties, and love entanglements that are still fondly remembered by many fans.