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In the series fifth season, the gang makes the transition from
adolescence to adulthood as they embark on their first year of
college. Joey, Jen and Jack all move to Boston for college and
try to adjust to life in the big city while Dawson pursues his
dream of attending film school in Los Angeles and Pacey stays
behind in Capeside to work. The fifth season also featured
regular guest appearances by Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill),
Sherilyn Fenn (Darkness Falls) and Busy Phillips (Freaks and
Geeks). During its six year run, Dawsons Creek was honored with
the GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding Dramatic TV Series,"
nominated for a TV Guide Award for "Favorite Teen Show" and
garnered three wins at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards.
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It's goodbye to Capeside, hello to Boston in Dawson's Creek's
fifth season (a.k.a.: Dawson's Creek: The College Years). While
the end of the fourth season ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002RQ3MK/${0}
) sent the five friends their separate ways--Dawson (James Van
Der Beek) to USC Film School, Joey (Katie Holmes) to Worthington
College, Jen (Michelle Williams) and Jack (Kerr Smith) to Boston
Bay College; and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) to the high seas--it
doesn't take them long to find themselves together again. That's
a good thing, especially when tragedy strikes a family member and
threatens to tear the survivors apart.
More than anything, the fifth season seems to be about falling
into bad relationships. Jen dates a cute but sleazy musician
(Chad Michael Murray, One Tree Hill), Pacey gets a job in a
restaurant where he pursues a woman (Lourdes Benedicto) already
having an affair with a married man, then fends off a vampish new
boss (Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks). Joey is drawn to her handsome
English professor (Ken Marino). And Jack joins a frat, becomes a
jerk, and starts a devoted relationship with his bottle.
Dawson meets an eccentric young filmmaker (Jordan Bridges) which
in turn leads to a meeting with his favorite Boston film critic
(Meredith Salenger). And Joey's new roommate, the
annoyance-with-a-heart-of-gold Audrey (Busy Phillipps), becomes
the newest major addition to the cast. The factor is
high this season, a couple of "Joey is threatened" interludes
don't have the punch that they could have, and in the season
finale, the inevitable resolution of the show's central
relationship doesn't really resolve anything at all. But viewers
who have followed the Capeside crew for four seasons will still
want to see what happens in the fifth.
The fifth season is the first to have no DVD extras at all, and
it continues the music-replacement strategy (which, since the
second season has replaced much of the music, and since the third
season has replaced Paula Cole's theme song, all due to licensing
expenses). In addition to the usual background-music switches,
some scenes have been edited (for example, the episode "Highway
to Hell" has cut two of the performances on-stage at the Drunk &
Dead). Also, the opening credits of "The Long Goodbye" and
"Downtown Crossing" had originally used instrumental versions of
"I Don't Want to Wait," which had underscored the emotion of
those episodes. In the DVD set, those have been replaced by the
standard version and an instrumental version, respectively, of
"Run Like Mad." --David Horiuchi