Dawson's Creek
TV Show • 1998 • Drama
ReportThis tv show contains 14 potentially triggering events.
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Fake spiders in season 1 episode 11
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Rubber snake in season 1 episode 11
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Fake bugs in season 1 episode 11
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From season 1, one of the main characters is sent to live with a grandparent because their parents are fed up with behavioral issues, while another has am absent parent in prison. From season 2 we have characters whose father abandoned the family when things became difficult who dips in and out.
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ChinanuOkoli
During another Halloween episode, a main character is stalked while studying in the library with the threat of being attacked.
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LauraMcG
One of the main characters is verbally and emotionally belittled constantly by his family, especially his father.
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LauraMcG
One of the main characters' family routinely denigrates him, telling him how much of a screw up he is, and that he won't ever become something. It has a huge emotional toll on him.
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One character's parent is an alcoholic starting season 1. Another character struggles with alcohol abuse (though not specifically addiction) in season 2. Another character drinks excessively in season 5 (also not addressed as addiction in show).
Direct discussions of alcohol (and some vague drug) addiction and rehab in season 6.
Direct discussions of alcohol (and some vague drug) addiction and rehab in season 6.
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LauraMcG
A main character has a drug overdose and nearly dies.
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A main character ends up in rehab after months of alcohol abuse. This proves successful for her.
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Surprise kisses abound, if that bothers you.
Season 1- one character details their sexual history, which we now understand is a situation in which they were too young and too intoxicated to consent (but it is not treated as rape in the world of the show).
Season 3 - in one episode a character calls for support after an attempted date rape. The episode plants a seed of doubt as to whether this character fabricated the encounter and this is never conclusively resolved.
Season 6 - highly intoxicated character taken to private room at a party, strongly implied threat of sexual assault but they are intercepted and extracted in time
Season 1- one character details their sexual history, which we now understand is a situation in which they were too young and too intoxicated to consent (but it is not treated as rape in the world of the show).
Season 3 - in one episode a character calls for support after an attempted date rape. The episode plants a seed of doubt as to whether this character fabricated the encounter and this is never conclusively resolved.
Season 6 - highly intoxicated character taken to private room at a party, strongly implied threat of sexual assault but they are intercepted and extracted in time
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Season 1- one character details their sexual history, which we now understand is a situation in which they were too young and too intoxicated to consent (but it is not treated as rape in the world of the show).
Season 3 - in one episode a character calls friends for support after an attempted date rape. The episode plants a seed of doubt as to whether this character fabricated the encounter and this is never conclusively resolved.
Season 3 - in one episode a character calls friends for support after an attempted date rape. The episode plants a seed of doubt as to whether this character fabricated the encounter and this is never conclusively resolved.
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S6
Plot-relevant shaving scene in season 6 "Castaways"
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S2
E18
A character drowns
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LauraMcG
In the first season, the main characters are creating a horror movie, which crudely depicts are character being beheaded.
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A character has a drug overdose and has a seizure from it. She survives.
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Season 2 episode 18 a character gets drunk and drowns, you see her body at the end of the episode. The next episode talks about her death.
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A few times in season 6 (can't recall in previous seasons but may be used earlier). Used matter-of-factly by people we like too. It's a real yikes.
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A dad dies in a car crash, not shown. The emotional aftermath is lengthy.
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During season 1 dawson’s mother is revealed as having an affair with her co-anchor
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S1 E13 Jen’s grandpa dies off screen of a stroke
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LauraMcG
Throughout the show there are multiple halloween type episodes where the characters prank each other with horror effects and jump scares, such as falling "dead" out of a closet.
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ChinanuOkoli
The “ghost” of a supporting character appears in the episode following her death.
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LauraMcG
A character spits in an abusive teacher’s face.
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S6
Oh, season 6. Seth Rogen guests in "Rock Bottom" and farts in the car
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Season 2 episode 2 at 36:49. Season 2 ep. 8 during a fight at a party. Season 2 ep. 16. Season 3 ep. 13. Season 4 ep. 12. Season 4 ep. 18. Season 4 ep. 20. Okay, I'm gonna stop, there's a lot.
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One character has 2 family members in law enforcement. Show sometimes depicts them as awful people but other times puts a lot of stock in cops and "the law" especially in last couple episodes of season 2. In final season one cop becomes sweet and benign after a history of being terrible.
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No slurs but s2 e5 a man describes an encounter with a drag queen that could interpreted as transphobic especially because of the reference he makes to “the crying game”
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A secondary character who is beloved reveals that she has cancer, she does not die during the run of the show.
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A main character experiences a breakdown and goes away to live in a mental institution. It's a very positive change for her.
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Multiple characters die in hospitals throughout the show
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A character has a mental health crisis at the end of season 2.
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There is mention of death by suicide during the second story of the season 5 Halloween episode.
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Andie, Jack and her mother are all traumatised from the death of older brother Tim
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Jakethegirl
Season 3 episode 7 is partially shot in the style of The Blair Witch Project.
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ChinanuOkoli
Usually when the characters go to parties. Scenes often fade out to white, if that counts as “flashing.”
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Mostly during season 1 when Joey’s niece is born
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A prominent character in S4 reveals that she had a miscarriage before her appearance on the show.
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Season 1 episode titled “baby”
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One character has a coming out arc in Seasons 2- 3 and the f-word is used on several occasions, especially in a football-heavy episode in season 3
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The word "re**rded" is used multiple times throughout the show.
A main character with a trauma and mental illness is called "crazy" in a derogatory way multiple times.
A main character with a trauma and mental illness is called "crazy" in a derogatory way multiple times.
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Season 2 episode 15, season 4 ep. 19
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Starting with the pilot, many characters lust after and/or have relationships with much older characters (one such relationship is statutory rape). Notably season 1, season 5 (two different relationships! Though one is a one-night-stand), and season 6 teases one but our character shuts it down after several eps
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It's a teen show so we follow them all as they lose their virginity. Joey's virginity is discussed so much that it's almost its own character.
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jojox
Some and discussed a lot but never explicitly shown
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Not quite either of these conditions, but in season 2 a character's parent has an unspecified problem after a trauma that causes her to confuse people for other people and be kind of unaware of time/unable to distinguish reality from memory
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S4
Supporting character has terminal illness, roughly episodes 11-14
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One of the main characters is revealed to have a heart condition in the final two episodes, and dies in the finale.
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In s5 e15 a man mugs a main character, and then as he's leaving gets hit by a car, which speeds away. He later dies in the hospital.
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The father of a main character dies in a car crash, off screen.
Another character drives a car through the side of a house. She's drunk and passes out after, but appears unhurt.
Another character drives a car through the side of a house. She's drunk and passes out after, but appears unhurt.
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Spoilers…. Abby drowns s2 e18 due to drunkenness
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