Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210

After three months at sea, Joey and Pacey are finally returning to Capeside just in time for their senior year of high school, and a lot has changed in their absence. Dawson's taken up photography. Dawson and Jack have started a house painting business. Jen is trying a long-distance relationship with Henry, who got recruited from football camp to a fancy private school. Doug and Pacey's sister Gretchen (Sasha Alexander, the future Isles of Rizzoli & Isles!) has taken a year off from college, and taken Pacey's spot on Doug's couch. Bessie has made the B&B profitable, perhaps in part by renting out her sister's room. Here's what hasn't changed: Dawson still sucks. Pacey and Joey decide how best to strategize about their reunion with Dawson (and boy, THAT'S probably something they didn't miss doing all summer) with an assist from Jen, trying to salve her guilt over her part in how Dawson found out about Joey and Pacey in the first place by easing Joey and Dawson back into each other's proximity. Does Dawson deserve this kid-glove treatment? You already know the answer! Deep in the background, Andie meets and flirts with a couple of French guys, one of whom looks a LOT like that gay kid Danny from the then-most recent season of The Real World in New Orleans! Prepare to dock for our episode on "Coming Home"! NEW CLUB CAMPAIGN! 🌡️ Check out the stretch goals on our Club Booster Campaign. Stickers! Exclusive episodes! New show coverage! [https://againwiththispodcast.com/campaign/] JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 💬 Access to the AWT Discord [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 🚫 Ad free episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site [https://againwiththispodcast.local/dawsonscreek/coming-home-2/] 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids [https://www.patreon.com/posts/129158136/] 🪦 Final Destination on Max [https://play.max.com/movie/0ae3ced5-06ed-444d-b29f-4157e7871fa1] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. [https://againwiththispodcast.com/subscribe/] 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods [https://throughmethods.com/] 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book [https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/very-special-90210-book_9781419747465/] ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

After all the heightened emotion of Season 3, we thought we should take a breath...to take your calls! Get ready to hear us -- and your fellow listeners -- muse about such topics as what sorts of local violence might have been visited upon Dawson during his summer in Philadelphia, how best to support friends and loved ones who loved Dawson when the show was first on, what it was like to work at a Dawson's-affiliated retailer at the turn of the millennium, and much much more! (Don't think YOU'RE getting off the hook, Sugarman.) Climb onto the nearest sailboat and listen! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 💬 Access to the AWT Discord [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 🚫 Ad free episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site [https://againwiththispodcast.com/special/we-take-your-calls-vi/] 🕊️ "Jennie Garth on How BH 90210 Cast Is Finding Peace After Shannen Doherty Death (Exclusive)" fromEntertainment Tonighton YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRhFdHKI4g] 🛍️ Busy Tonight S02.E01: "Michelle Williams" at QVC [https://plus.qvc.com/series/busy-this-week/VmlkZW9fVmlkZW9TZXJpZXMKZDY1ZjFjOTcwZTc3ZDg5MTlhODE1ODZkYQ==/streams/busy-this-week-michelle-williams/VmlkZW9fVmlkZW9TdHJlYW0KZDY4MDJiYjMyZDMwZjhkOTM4YzA2ZWY4Yw==] 🥼 "Joshua Jackson Hopes Dr. Death Makes You Mad As Hell" at Vanity Fair [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/joshua-jackson-dr-death-tv-show-interview?srsltid=AfmBOoq7xUBqCAT3tBdnZ-yC6JPEaCPVCbgcKMdOh6G00ZrTTh-E4oAe] 🤳 Picture of Joshua Jackson and friend [https://againwiththispodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/art-awt-special-calls-06-jj.jpg] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. [https://againwiththispodcast.com/subscribe/] 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods [https://throughmethods.com/] 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book [https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/very-special-90210-book_9781419747465/] ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Since Gale and Mitch's second marriage is, let's face it, fake, they've thrown a ceremony together in a matter of days. They're also throwing Dawson and Joey together, because Gale -- (a) an adult woman who (b) works with one of Dawson's other very close friends -- has asked Joey to be her Maid Of Honor, meaning she and Best Man Dawson keep seeing each other on various nuptial errands. Even Dawson, however, is having an increasingly difficult time pretending that Joey wouldn't rather be elsewhere, particularly once she finds out about Pacey's plan to spend the summer sailing to Key West on the True Love. She's still so oppressed by her supposedly beautiful friendship with Dawson that she won't admit what she really wants. Will Pacey's choice to paint "ASK ME TO STAY" on the wall he rented for her change her mind? Jen is still pouting so much about Henry daring to go to football camp that Grams gets sick of it, throws Jen in the car with the McPhees, and hits the road to try to run down his bus so Jen can get over herself and kiss Henry before he goes to Ohio. It's a good start, but isn't Grams's other boarder Jack also carrying a torch for someone who might want a smooch from him...? It's no lie: we made all our sweethearts (you) a new episode about "True Love"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 💬 Access to the AWT Discord [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 🚫 Ad free episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site [https://againwiththispodcast.local/dawsonscreek/true-love/] 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids [https://www.patreon.com/posts/128896637/] 💔 Casualties Of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story on Tubi [https://tubitv.com/movies/100006157/casualties-of-love-the-long-island-lolita-story] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. [https://againwiththispodcast.com/subscribe/] 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods [https://throughmethods.com/] 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book [https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/very-special-90210-book_9781419747465/] ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

It's the penultimate episode of the season on a high school show, so of course it's time for the big dance! Dawson dredges up some long-ago pact that if he and Joey were both single, they'd go together as friends, and she agrees to honor it even though she clearly knows friendship is the last thing on his mind. Andie pretends to be entertaining several invitations to save face with Pacey. After making a huge production about how retrograde the prom concept is, Jen invites Henry. And Jack is planning to bring Ethan, until the ticket-selling troll tells him it's not allowed. Andie and Joey are ready to boycott the event, but then Dawson gets the idea that they throw a competing dance for the two gay guys and everyone else who'd rather be on their side. When Pacey does finally invite Andie, the stage is set for Dawson to rub Pacey's face in Dawson's continuing ability to control Joey. Oh and also Gale and Mitch are fooling around again, but we're trying so, so hard not to acknowledge them at all. Even though most people have an anti-good time at the event, you should still listen to our episode on "The Anti-Prom"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 💬 Access to the AWT Discord [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 🚫 Ad free episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site [https://againwiththispodcast.com/dawsonscreek/the-anti-prom/] 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids [https://www.patreon.com/posts/127759670/] 🐣 When We Were Young at the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/when-we-were-young-1989] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. [https://againwiththispodcast.com/subscribe/] 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods [https://throughmethods.com/] 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book [https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/very-special-90210-book_9781419747465/] ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

The summer tourist season is kicking off in Capeside with a regatta. This might have been a low-key race for new sailor Pacey and the True Love, the little boat that could, if it were happening a couple of weeks earlier. Unfortunately, we're in the post-discovery era, so Dawson has to Dawson all over it. Leery's Fresh Fish is sponsoring the True Love? Fine: Dawson will just enter Joseph McPhee's boat, the Carpe Diem; THEN ask the McPhee siblings if he may use it; THEN pay the sponsorship fee himself but sail on behalf of the Potter B&B. When will he have time to learn the rules of sailing? Great question: he won't, and that's going to be a problem. In the far background, Jen has been giving Henry the silent treatment ever since he tried to fool around with her when Grams wasn't home, so he's been holding a silent vigil everywhere she goes, holding up a sign asking her to forgive him. No one is sufficiently annoyed by this behavior, least of all Jen. Show US love by listening to our episode on "Show Me Love"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 💬 Access to the AWT Discord [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 🚫 Ad free episodes [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast [https://againwiththispodcast.com/club/] NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site [https://againwiththispodcast.com/dawsonscreek/show-me-love/] 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids [https://www.patreon.com/posts/127699485/] 👯‍♀️ Sisters S05.E03: "I Only Have Eyes For You" on Prime Video [https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DPGGTX7L] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. [https://againwiththispodcast.com/subscribe/] 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods [https://throughmethods.com/] 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book [https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/very-special-90210-book_9781419747465/] ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237 EXISTING MEMBERS: YOUR CLUB PERKS 🎁 Check out how to get all your club perks on the Pinned Patreon Primer Post [https://www.patreon.com/posts/58034604]