Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210

It’s Halloween, and what do you know: the stage where Todd’s shooting his movie has spooooooky lore. Never mind that this is clearly all taking place in a warehouse that was MAYBE built in the mid-70s: a flash of an old screen test in some of Todd’s dailies leads him and Natasha to tell Dawson the story of Melanie Ray, a 50s movie star whose co-star husband found out she was having an affair with her director and strangled her to death on camera. “That sucks,” says Dawson, and probably regrets his understatement when he starts seeing someone who looks a lot like Melanie flitting around the stage, eluding his attempts to chase her down. Is it just a costume party guest paying tribute to the late Melanie, or her actual ghost?! Speaking of the costume party: Pacey and Audrey also attend, dressed as Sid and Nancy, but the camaraderie of a couples costume can’t paper over the widening cracks in their relationship. Also present but almost entirely in their own silo are Jack and Jen, the former convincing the latter to invite CJ. When he shows up with a friend Jen immediately decides is not just gay but CJ’s boyfriend, Jack hatches a plan for them to split the two up and figure out their deal, but ends up wishing he hadn’t. Joey negotiates Eddie’s re-admission to Hetson’s class by agreeing to babysit his daughter that night, assuming she’s the 5-year-old in the photo on his desk. In fact, she’s a crabby teenager who’s not happy Hetson’s dumped her on a stranger so he can go on a date instead of honoring their Halloween tradition and taking her to a scary movie. Once she meets Eddie, she manipulates him into glomming on to their plans, but if you remember how similar plans went when Brandon Walsh and Emily Valentine weren’t quite a couple yet but still ended up looking after a kid on Halloween…well, things take a similar turn here. Two living girls have brought you an episode on “Living Dead Girl”: listen!

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Two pairs of sparring partners are still trapped in emotional tar pits: Joey can’t stop being hostile to Eddie, while even the Series 7-obsessed Pacey can’t help noticing that Audrey seems preoccupied by something, though he’s got so much studying to do that when she says she doesn’t want to talk about it, he’s only too happy not to press the matter. Joey is shaken out of her assumptions about Eddie when he defends her from another attack by Hetson, and Hetson turns his acid on Eddie instead, hinting at a secret Eddie probably doesn’t want everyone to know. Meanwhile, Audrey’s singing in Pacey’s shower convinces Emma that Audrey could front Emma’s punk band in its début performance. Todd is less concerned than Dawson that the slasher flick is already days behind schedule, though that changes when Heather the studio executive descends on the set to yell at him and threaten to fire Natasha. (Remember Heather? Played by Nicole Bilderback? S05 premiere?) Todd is apparently unable to defend his own choices, so it’s a good thing the 19-year-old CHILD he currently employs as his assistant is there to fix everything. Jack gets his first paper back in Freeman’s class, and wonders whether his unimpressive grade might have been a few notches higher if he’d positively responded to Freeman’s overture at the end of the last episode. We’re talking about all the false faces in our episode on “The Impostors”!

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We’re off this week but we bring you two Again With Again With This episodes from the club vault.
AWAWT 201: Let’s Watch Michelle Williams In The Station Agent!
Peter Dinklage plays a train enthusiast recovering from potentially terminal loneliness. An adorable blonde library staffer helps him on his journey.
AWAWT 246: Let’s Watch Michelle Williams In Dick!
In addition to a bunch of thinkpieces about the 25th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, 1999 also brought us Dick (lol) — in which teen BFFs played by Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst bumble innocently through a constitutional crisis, while wearing a series of excellent period outfits. Should you revisit Dick(snerk) — or try Dick for the first time (heh)? Listen to our deep discussion now! (…haha)

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Dawson is back on set in Boston for the first day of shooting, and things aren’t going great. For one thing, Todd fired the PA who was supposed to pick up the leading lady at the airport, and someone who was already “a handful” to begin with doesn’t get any more mellow after being made to wait an hour. Back at Hell’s Kitchen, Eddie goes from a lecture about On The Road from Joey to a huge catering order. Could it be from– But no, it couldn’t. COULD IT?! (It is.) Pacey is very responsibly begging off a night with Audrey to study for his exam when Rinaldi orders him to come out clubbing with some of the big bosses. Audrey, Jen, and Jack are on their way to a house party when they round a corner just as some guy is bellowing about hitting up a strip club next. Could it…okay, yeah, it is. Lucky for Jack, this doesn’t change his plans, because what might be waiting for HIM at the party is destiny. We’ve given you exactly what you deserve: our episode on “Instant Karma!.”

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Joey’s got a lot of big feelings about how she and Dawson left things at the end of the previous episode, and she decides the best way to get them to him is via email. Then she sends it without noticing she has sent it not to Dawson but to “Campus Wide,” as in the entire Worthington student AND employee email list, because she clicked “send” WITH HER EYES CLOSED. Aren’t students at Fake Harvard supposed to be smart? Shamefully embarrassing though this is, nothing is helped by Professor Hetson not just piling on but using class time to do it. The only saving grace is that her nemesis Eddie isn’t present to witness it, but don’t worry: Joey, the most important person in the city of Boston, tells him all about it — bitchily, of course. Pacey starts at Rinaldi’s stock brokerage, discovering that no one is going to hold his hand through the job and that sometimes people who work in finance are unethical; sorry if this episode description is how YOU found that out. Jack pursues every possible avenue to get face time with Professor Freeman, who either really doesn’t get why Jack is so interested in making himself known, or is just less reckless than Professor Wilder was. Learn The Importance Of Not Being Too Earnest with our latest episode!

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