Dawson's Creek

TV Show • 1998 • Drama  

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This tv show contains 14 potentially triggering events.
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Does an animal die?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Jakethegirl
Fake spiders in season 1 episode 11
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Jakethegirl
Rubber snake in season 1 episode 11
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Jakethegirl
Fake bugs in season 1 episode 11
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
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.
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LauraMcG
A main character has a drug overdose and nearly dies.
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LauraMcG
A main character ends up in rehab after months of alcohol abuse. This proves successful for her.
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Anonymous
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
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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.
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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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LauraMcG
A character has a drug overdose and has a seizure from it. She survives.
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WFarkas
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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S6
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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LauraMcG
A dad dies in a car crash, not shown. The emotional aftermath is lengthy.
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jojox
S1
During season 1 dawson’s mother is revealed as having an affair with her co-anchor
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S1
 E13
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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Are there razors?
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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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Anonymous
S6
Oh, season 6. Seth Rogen guests in "Rock Bottom" and farts in the car
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Jakethegirl
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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jojox
S2
 E5
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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LauraMcG
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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LauraMcG
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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LauraMcG
Multiple characters die in hospitals throughout the show
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Jakethegirl
A character has a mental health crisis at the end of season 2.
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ChinanuOkoli
There is mention of death by suicide during the second story of the season 5 Halloween episode.
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jojox
S2
Andie, Jack and her mother are all traumatised from the death of older brother Tim
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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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jojox
Mostly during season 1 when Joey’s niece is born
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LauraMcG
A prominent character in S4 reveals that she had a miscarriage before her appearance on the show.
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Abee
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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LauraMcG
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.
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Jakethegirl
Season 2 episode 15, season 4 ep. 19
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
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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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there BDSM?
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Anonymous
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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LauraMcG
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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LauraMcG
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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LauraMcG
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.
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jojox
Spoilers…. Abby drowns s2 e18 due to drunkenness
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