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Hot for Teacher (Pt 1): Dawson’s Creek’s Weird ‘Romance’

Hot for Teacher (Pt 1): Dawson’s Creek’s Weird ‘Romance’

FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett


Hot for Teacher (Pt 1): Dawson’s Creek’s Weird ‘Romance’

FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

It was 1998 and teenage Jessica was crammed onto the couch in the basement of a friend’s house in Seattle, swooning over the hot-and-heavy “love affair” between Pacey and Tamara on “Dawson’s Creek.” The only thing: Pacey was 15, and Tamara – aka Miss Jacobs – was his 38-year-old high school English teacher. Ew?
Guests:

Rosie Bancroft, Jess’s middle school pal and current middle school mental health counselor

FOR MORE:

‘Dawson’s Creek’ at 20: Inside the Teen Drama’s Deepest Secrets (Hollywood Reporter)
Dawson’s Creek and That Troubling Storyline (Medium)
‘In Retrospect’ – The Playlist (Aren’t you dying to hear the Dawson’s theme song?) (Spotify)
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Released:
Oct 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (37)

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it. Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.