Dawson's Creek
TV Show • 1998 • Drama
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Your Triggers
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Needs More Answers
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Abuse
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One of the main characters is verbally and emotionally belittled constantly by his family, especially his father.
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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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Is someone stalked?
29 supporters
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During another Halloween episode, a main character is stalked while studying in the library with the threat of being attacked.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
29 supporters
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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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Does someone abuse alcohol?
24 supporters
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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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A main character has a drug overdose and nearly dies.
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Animal Death
Does a dragon die?
53 supporters
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There are no dragons in Dawson's Creek
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Animal Phobia
Are there snakes?
26 supporters
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Rubber snake in season 1 episode 11
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Appendages
Is there amputation?
53 supporters
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In the first season, the main characters are creating a horror movie, which crudely depicts are character being beheaded.
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Children
Does a kid die?
112 supporters
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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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Does a baby cry?
26 supporters
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Mostly during season 1 when Joey’s niece is born
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Death
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
43 supporters
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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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Family
Does a parent die?
39 supporters
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A dad dies in a car crash, not shown. The emotional aftermath is lengthy.
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Does a family member die?
31 supporters
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S1
E13
S1 E13 Jen’s grandpa dies off screen of a stroke
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Does someone cheat?
28 supporters
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S1
During season 1 dawson’s mother is revealed as having an affair with her co-anchor
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
96 supporters
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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 ghosts?
9 supporters
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The “ghost” of a supporting character appears in the episode following her death.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
180 supporters
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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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Is there farting?
20 supporters
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S6
Oh, season 6. Seth Rogen guests in "Rock Bottom" and farts in the car
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Does someone spit?
17 supporters
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A character spits in an abusive teacher’s face.
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
76 supporters
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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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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
40 supporters
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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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Does someone have cancer?
26 supporters
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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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Is there a hospital scene?
22 supporters
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Multiple characters die in hospitals throughout the show
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Mental Health
Are there anxiety attacks?
27 supporters
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A character has a mental health crisis at the end of season 2.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
61 supporters
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Season 3 episode 7 is partially shot in the style of The Blair Witch Project.
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
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S1
E6
Season 1 Episode 6 “Baby”. Joeys nephew is born. It’s a long, natural and traumatic birth. The baby arrives healthy but there are fears beforehand for mum and baby.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
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Season 2 episode 15, season 4 ep. 19
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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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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Is there hate speech?
39 supporters
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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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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
45 supporters
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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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Sex
Is a minor sexualized?
139 supporters
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The characters are 15 (from season 1, progressively aging). In season 1, a boy has a relationship with a teacher. It’s consensual in the show but it in reality this is predatory, so this could be triggering for some. The kid is 15 and the teacher is early 40s
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Is there sexual content?
80 supporters
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Some and discussed a lot but never explicitly shown
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Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
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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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Sexual Assault
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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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Is there pedophilia?
168 supporters
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In season 1, a highschool boy has a relationship with a teacher. It’s consensual in the show (portrayed as romance) but it in reality this is predatory, so this could be triggering for. The male is 15 and the female teacher is early 40s.
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Is rape mentioned?
123 supporters
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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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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
31 supporters
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S4
Supporting character has terminal illness, roughly episodes 11-14
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
31 supporters
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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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Does a car crash?
30 supporters
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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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Violence
Does someone drown?
46 supporters
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Spoilers…. Abby drowns s2 e18 due to drunkenness
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Whole Body
Is there shaving/cutting?
56 supporters
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S6
Plot-relevant shaving scene in season 6 "Castaways"
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