We’ve all been there: putting off watching the last episode of our favorite TV show then finally sucking it up, watching it, sobbing our eyes out and feeling like there’s nothing else to look forward to. Right?
Maybe that’s a tad dramatic, yet the message stays the samewhat do you do when the show you love ends? Probably mope for a few days before bingeing another. And then what if the show is turned into a reboot, a la Gilmore Girls, Queer Eye and Roseanne? TV revivals have been all the rage in modern media, and there’s a chance we’ll see a reboot for Dawson’s Creek—or will we?
The cast of the now 20-year-old series reunited on Entertainment Weekly for a cover shoot, where they discussed the possibility of a reboot for the popular show. A few of them had mixed emotions, especially Michelle Williams, whose character was killed off in the finale. Kerr Smith, though, offered that Williams play the grown-up version of the daughter they were left to raise at the end of the show.
Fellow cast member Katie Holmes, however, wasn’t sure if a reboot might be the best idea. “What I love about this show is that it existed at a time pre-social media, pre-internet, and it was nostalgic when we were shooting it,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “So I really like it where it is, to be honest.”
Dawson Creek’s creator, Kevin Williamson, agreed with Holmes about the struggle to place an older show in the modern day—but still showed support for the idea. “Dawson’s Creek was me expressing myself at that point in time. And here I am, at another age, at another point in time,” he explained. “I don’t know what I could emotionally bring to the table. I can’t wait for someone else to do it. I don’t think it’s going to be me. But I’ll be happy to watch it.”
Dawson’s Creek was a popular American drama series that premiered in 1998. When the show ended in 2003, Jen (Michelle Williams) had died from a heart attack and her daughter was left in the care of Jack (Kerr Smith) and Doug (Dylan Neal). The rest of the cast had their bows all tied up: Dawson (James Van Der Beek) met his role model, Steven Spielberg, and Joey (Katie Holmes) and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) were living together in New York.
You can watch the cast’s full sit-down discussion about a possible reboot, and more, over at People TV!