About

We are three English majors who started this blog in August of 2015 to indulge our respective penchants for criticism: of books, TV, movies, even music videos. We were raised on Television Without Pity and Stephen Fry, Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones, Emily Dickinson and Taylor Swift; and this blog aims to turn the same level of scrutiny and critical thinking on everything from the high-brow to the very, very low-brow.

Janes

Janes’ real name is Meredith, but she also answers to Janey, JT, Jane-Jane, Feminazi, the Emasculator, and the opening lick to “Janie’s Got a Gun.” She loves Milton, the Oxford comma, nineteenth-century novels, and nineties pop music. She is a firm believer that the word “summer” should never be used as a verb, that epic poetry should stage a comeback, and that the perfect date is April 25th, because you only need a light jacket.

Interests: Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, metaphysical poetry, John Milton, irreverent TV shows, movies about singing/dancing/cheerleading, depressing Russian literature, UnREAL, The Affair, The Americans, You’re the Worst, jokes about rich people, social justice, Grimms’ fairy tales, Joss Whedon, sci-fi without the word “star” in it, philosophy written by terminally maladjusted humans.

Keets

Keets heard his middle-school English teachers when they said that there wasn’t one right answer in literature, he just didn’t believe them. Now he works with computers, so that the only right answer is to stop trying, and in his spare time writes 5% as many blog posts as either Janes or Nerdy Spice.

Interests: John Milton, 17th-century lyric poetry, Latarian Milton, movies with explosions, TV shows with explosions (but really just 24), TV shows with wiseasses (but not Scrubs), criticism in general, philosophical criticism in particular, untenable conservatism, Yeats, Keats.

Nerdy Spice

Nerdy Spice (formerly kht) grew up playing Disney-movie-based games with her baby sister Janes. She majored in English in college, got a graduate degree in creative writing, and then found herself earning a living as a software engineer. She’s working on her second novel and querying agents for her first. She eats home-cooked meals only when her husband Keets makes them for her, and he is still trying to teach her how to turn on the oven.

Interests: Victorian novels, modern MFA novels and she’s not ashamed of it, super-long novels that aren’t by David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon, Claire Messud, Henry James, feminism, movies with Robert Downey Jr. in them, TV shows with Connie Britton in them, Pacey Witter, 90s teenybopper movies with training montages, The Good Wife, Homeland, Tina Fey’s entire oeuvre, Mindy Kaling’s entire oeuvre, shows from the WB/CW circa 2004, and JJ Abrams.

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    1. Unknown's avatar

      We’re so glad you’re enjoying the Dawson’s posts! We’ve been posting every week and season 6 is next! Keep an eye out for our post about episodes 1-3 of season 6 early next week 🙂

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    Reading through the posts, can’t help but feel that we’d have been friends had we met irl! Love the posts! I’m so glad I found this blog 🙂

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  4. Unknown's avatar

    I’m rewatching all of Dawson’s Creek right now (I find it so relaxing during the pandemic), and stumbled across this blog when I Googled something like, “Pacey Witter’s face chubby in Season 4?” I spent more time tonight reading your blog posts than actually watching the show! These posts are perfect and make me laugh out loud. Thank you for taking the time to write them in such detail. I’m with Aks above…I feel like we could be friends irl!

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    hi girls!

    I was wondering if you could help me with something. It’s been six years (!) sinds my rewatch and I’m starting to crave some Pacey/Joey. But I CANNOT relive all those frustrating terrible moments (mostly: Dawson, but also those women Pacey dates in seasons 5 and 6?! argh). Anyway, since you are crazy Dawson’s obsessives (and I mean this in the best possible way): what episodes should I watch? If I google it I can only find like the ten best P/J episodes. But I want all the episodes! (so that I can pretend the show consists of nothing but the Pacey/Joey romance, you get it)

    From memory I know the one in season 1 with the science project; then all of seasons 3 and 4. And then..? Somewhere in season 6 I think it is they have a short fling. And of course the series finale.

    Could you help me out or am I wrong in thinking that you guys can just name these episodes by heart including episode-number and sound track? ;D

    Hoping you are well and wishing you all the best,

    Dianne

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      Haha, you know, Janes actually does this! She’ll just skip episodes in her rewatches. I’m more of a purist — I will even sit through season 5 with the creepy professor. HOWEVER, I am happy to rise to this challenge. I’m going to try to do this from the top of my head and see how well I do compared to the real episode numbers!

      Season 1:

      • Double date (1×11?)–that’s the one with the science project
      • the pilot where Pacey and Joey bicker
      • The Kiss (1×07?) has one cute scene
      • The season finale (1×13) has a very wonderful P/J subplot
      • Updated after googling the season: Double Date is 1×10, The Kiss is 1×3, and I had forgotten the amazing Breakfast Club episode, 1×7. I’ll give myself a C+

      Season 2:

      • Almost nothing, except the second-to-last or third-to-last episode where the restaurant burns down (2×21?)
      • Update after googling the season: it’s actually the last episode, 2×22

      Season 3:

      • Everything. EVERYTHING

      Season 4:

      • Ditto, except the final episode

      Season 5:

      • 5×01, when Pacey comes back
      • the episode after Dawson’s dad dies (5×03?)
      • the spring break episode (5×20?)
      • Highway to Hell (5×17?) where they go on a road trip with Charlie
      • Also, there’s a great deleted scene between them from the dinner party episode (5×10?)
      • Update after googling the season: it’s 5×03 when Pacey comes back, not 5×01; the episode after Dawson’s dad dies is 5×04; and spring break is 5×19

      Season 6:

      • Everything from 6×14 (Clean and Sober) to the end, except 6×19
      • there’s also a cute flirty scene in an early episode (I want to say 6×07?)
      • [Update after googling: The flirting is actually 6×01]

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    Oh my God Nerdy Spice, you are my hero!

    (you already were but now even more so)

    Thank you so much!! I am going to have a blast.

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    almost at the end!

    but, I watched ‘Highway to Hell’ and the spring break one as you suggested and… why?? Pacey is not his best self in these and has almost no Joey interaction…

    i did watch the dinner party episode (not sure if you recommended it or just the deleten scene) because I remember living it, and they do have a sweet scene together there!

    so for next time, I think I’ll skip those mwah ones.

    PS started reading some of your recaps of the episodes I’m watching and again, laugh-out-load, my-point-exactly, putting-my-thoughts-on-paper fantastic :).

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  9. Unknown's avatar

    …and ep 20 and maybe 21 and 22 can be skipped as well! Especially 20, I don’t want to see Joey with Eddy and Pacey with that terrible reporter woman… 😦

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  10. Unknown's avatar

    Ooh! So, I love to watch those bits where Pacey & Joey aren’t together but their chemistry shines through anyway (like in Highway to Hell when he and Joey sit by the pool? Idk, I love that bit!) However, I concede if you’re watching the whole episode it can be a bummer, so I should have provided timestamps lol!

    That said, every romcom has those moments where the main characters aren’t together anymore and you have to suffer through it till they reunite. So, I consider it all part of the journey 😀

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    true!! and I loved it who are we kidding. but now I know even better what episodes to get back to when I need a fix.

    God those two…

    Wishing you all the best!

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