As I kick off Season 6 of this blog, I think it's only fitting to shout out to my favorite six-season show, Dawson's Creek. This was the first show I ever obsessed over, and I learned all of my life lessons from it, too - for better or, more likely, worse.
Most of the cast of Dawson's Creek has gone on to bigger and better (or just weirder) things: Michelle Williams is an Oscar-nominated actress, Joshua Jackson is the star of a hit TV show, and Katie Holmes... has a really stylish daughter? James Van Der Beek's post-Creek success, on the other hand, has been, well, lacking. But recently it has come to my attention that he is, at least, aware of this. Perhaps as an antidote, he has jumped on the Funny or Die bandwagon. In doing so, he has (redundantly) demonstrated that he is not quite as clever as Joshua Jackson, but he did show some gumption.
In another video, Van Der Beek says: "If you're under the age of 20, odds are you know me best from a five-second clip of me crying." He is referring to this viral video which has frighteningly easily eclipsed his only professional success-story. While the early work of other TV stars - like Neil Patrick Harris or any of the Judd Apatow crew - might also be forgotten by the younger TV-watching generations, the difference is that embarrassing YouTube clips don't dictate their current Hollywood status.
But don't worry, James, it could be worse: you could be David Hasselhoff.
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