The cast of "Dawson’s Creek" reunited to mark the 20th anniversary of the show’s inaugural season, doing a spread for Entertainment Weekly and a video interview for PeopleTV.com.
Creator Kevin Williamson and actors James VanDerBeek (Dawson), Katie Holmes (Joey), Michelle Williams (Jen), and Joshua Jackson (Pacey), along with others from the cast sat down on March 12 to do the interview and photo shoot looking back on the teen drama that aired from 1998 to 2003.
The actors said the "Dawson's Creel" shooting location in Wilmington, North Carolina, made the cast like a close-knit family because of its isolation from New York and Los Angeles, where most other television shows were made.
“It was like growing up together,” Meredith Monroe, who played Andie McPhee, said.
Although the show had its share of love triangles and rectangles (even the cast said they weren’t really sure who Joey would end up with in the last episode), it also dealt with cutting-edge teen issues like masturbation, affairs between teachers and students, and coming out as gay (which in 2003 had not been done on a teen-oriented show).
The show was sometimes criticized for making the kids sound too smart or be too introspective, but Jackson said he loved the fact that “Kevin never insulted the audience and never insulted [the actors] by dumbing us down.”
"It was really wholesome and it was really Americana," showrunner Greg Berlanti told EW. "I think if people want a perfect snapshot of what it was like to come of age in the '90s and be a young person in that moment, 'Dawson's' will always be a time capsule of that."
The cast and Williamson agreed there would probably not be a reboot of the show, since they already wrapped it up and showed where everyone would be five years later, and one of the principal characters (Williams) was dead.