Dawson's Creek: The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)

As someone who is experiencing the "Dawson's Creek" phenomenon for only the second time I can see how people got hooked on this show as it has everything "90210" ever had minus the über-sex-scandals (so far) and major soap opera drama, but it did have enough of that to keep the curious adolescent mind tuning in every week.

Now things aren't the same, people aren't tuning in unless it is for a rebroadcast, now DVD sets are the way to go and the fourth season of "Dawson's Creek" is here and so is senior year. The first time I saw this show was only a few months ago when I reviewed season three and boy does this one take a leap from there, adding a few changes all for the better.

First off Dawson is still the biggest pansy around, Pacey is too tough for his name, Joey goes a bit slutty, Jen is a bit careless with her drugs and Jack is the biggest actor out of them all. Really the best thing about season four compared to the third season is that the vocabulary was toned way back. Jen is no longer spouting off riddles that only people with a thesaurus would be able to figure out or even care to understand and the annoying Andie McPhee (Meredith Monroe) gets very little exposure as she is shipped off to Italy after a bout with ecstasy.

As for the set itself, there isn't much besides some commentaries on select episodes, a boring trivia game that takes far too long to move through and the international opening theme song "Run Like Mad" by Jann Arden, but I think once you get to the fourth season in a series the special features have pretty much hit a minimum and viewers aren't exactly buying it to go behind the scenes again.

If you are a "Creek" fan this is a no-brainer, this is just one more good season in the continuing saga of teenagers with adult problems that love to complain and then blame their issues on their "close" friends before making up with them type of scenario, in other words good times, good fun, good "friends."

Enjoy!