I have something to confess to you.
'Dawson's Creek' was a series in the late 90s that I always enjoyed returning to.
Honestly, I was probably a little too old for it in my early twenties, but my friends and I would curl up under the covers on the couch on Sunday mornings after a night out, curing our hangovers with a cup of tea and an episode of an American teen series.
We may have laughed at the characters' unrealistic monologues, but deep down we wished we had that perfectly polished response for the guy who disappointed us.
This hit series was created by Kevin Williamson, who was also behind the franchise 'Scream' i 'I know what you did last summer.', who previously described work on 'Dawson's World' as a "fascinating experience".
The series followed a group of teenage friends living in the fictional small town of Capeside, Massachusetts, struggling with the ups and downs of adolescence.
Dawson Leary, played by James van der Beek, He died at the age of 48, but he was always the heart of the series that ran from 1998 to 2003.
The young aspiring director with a haircut that fell over his forehead could be sensitive but manipulative, likable but irritating.
And Van der Bik completely appropriated that role.
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"It was a series that wasn't afraid to show emotion, with characters openly discussing their feelings (and how they felt about each other).
She didn't underestimate the audience and had acting skills that were more rounded than those of her rivals."
And indeed, parental figures were extremely marginalized.
Joey's mother had died and her father was in prison; Dawson's parents had become preoccupied with divorce; Jen lived with her grandmother, and Pacey had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic father.
The teenagers seemed almost too self-conscious, which at times caused us to roll our eyes at certain lines of dialogue.
But because there were very few adults with whom they could learn emotional literacy, the children had no choice but to try to develop it themselves.
The heart of the drama was, of course, the love triangle between Dawson, Joey, and Pacey.
Dawson "ugly crying" allowing Joey to be with Pacey is a scene that is still extremely popular among fans today.
We may have been outraged, but as Anita Singh wrote in the Telegraph on Wednesday:
"It's a testament to Van der Beek's skill that he kept the character popular and at the center of the series. No one wanted this hero to get a girlfriend, but they wanted him to be happy."
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The cast reunited for a cancer charity event last year; Van der Beek was too ill to attend, but sent a video message 'Dosonov svet' was also revolutionary in another way.
It featured one of the first prime-time gay kisses on American television – certainly the first between two teenagers – when Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) and Ethan (Adam Kaufman) locked lips in season three.
Television in the 1990s and early 2000s rarely featured LGBT characters, so the scene in which Pacey protects his friend Jack from a teacher who forces him to read an intimate poem in public felt like a real seismic shock.
The series creator told Entertainment Weekly in 2018: "I just went through the process of coming out to my parents in my twenties."
"I've been through that whole journey, and I wanted a character on the show who would represent that journey and represent that side of me."
Speaking about his own role in his first interview about 'Dawson's World' After joining the series at the age of 20, Van der Beek said:
"I'm reliving all my teenage nightmares, the girls who dumped me, the lonely nights in the middle of school dances. They're all coming back to haunt me now!"
"But I'm having a great time," he recalled. "This is what I wanted to do."
Additional reporting: Kate Moore.
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