Dawson's Creek: Best moments from the series

Dawson’s Creek… The 90s cult classic that defined a generation, introduced us to the hormone-riddled and lexically-advanced adolescents of Capeside, and taught us about the mind-bending, heart-shattering rawness of teen love, lust and crucially angst is back as EVERY SINGLE EPISODE is available on All 4 from today.

Back in 1998, when Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) worked in Screenplay Video and could only dream about getting the girl (let alone the invention of digital boxsets) the first series began on Channel 4 and, along with Joey (Katie Holmes) and Jen (Michelle Williams), we became embroiled in the love triangle of the decade.

As Andie (Meredith Monroe) and Jack (Kerr Smith) joined the cast of Kevin Williamson’s hit show it saw some of the biggest TV moments of its era and paved the way for all teen dramas that followed. From coming out and the first gay kiss on American screens to the struggle with sex, losing your virginity, drug addiction and mental health to coping with the death of a parent and having an affair with a teacher, the creek kids covered it all… complete with infamous cry faces that broke our dial-up internet.

In celebration of its return we’re looking back at some of the most totes emosh episodes that rocked our lives, and theirs, and gave us all the feels in a time before “Cruise control”, Oscar noms and The Affair… *Warning*… Spoiler Alerts aplenty…

Series 2, episode 1 – When Dawson and Joey kissed, repeatedly… We’d waited an entire series for it to happen but they had waited 15 (yes, they were only 15 at the time) lustful years. The episode that also led us to meet The McPhee’s was responsible for the now CONSTANT lip-locking of our two childhood best friends. After finally realising their feelings for one another Dawson and Joey made up for lost time and there were puppy dog eyes, damp bangs, slo-mo walking and as Joey and Dawson kissed in the rain (they apparently hadn’t realised it was raining either) we were sweetly serenaded by the backing track of Billie Myers “Kiss the Rain”…. Meta.