What is Dawson's Creek about?
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
Earnest teens navigate intimate high school dramas with melancholy hearts and measured emotional growth.
A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Hulu and Tubi (free).
Dawson's Creek parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, which is more than most TV-14 titles carry. Beyond that, some strong language and no real violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Created byKevin Williamson
StarringJames Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Kerr Smith, Busy Philipps
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Dawson's Creek is on our Romance on Hulu and Romance on Tubi lists.
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