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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is more in the production than the actor. At the time every WB show seemed to have some J Crew, Gap, Nuetrogena ad campaign going. Joey’s hair looked like crap in the last two seasons because she was hocking hair dye and fried it from all the coloring.

I thought Joey was styled well the first few seasons but then around season 4 branding seemed to take over. [/quote]

I never watched Dawson's Creek but a lot of TV shows ruin class issues in the writing because TV production is allergic to actual lower and middle class people.

For example, the book Big Little Lies takes place in Australia and has some really nuanced friction between characters based on class. On the TV show, they portray every single character as disgustingly rich with a multimillion dollar house right on the water and a designer wardrobe and highlights that clearly require an $800 salon visit every month, plus there's one lower class single mom who lives in a condo and everyone feels sorry for her. In the book it's way more complicated than that. There are a couple extremely wealthy families but most other families are more middle or UMC class. The single mom is an outlier because she's new, very young, and a single mom, but many of the other moms relate to her strongly because they are not so far removed from her situation financially. There are these interesting dynamics between one of the main characters and her ex husband that are rooted in their respective finances, and the book is really thoughtful about how these are portrayed.

But on the show, they obviously wanted to offer up a bunch of coastal real estate porn and make all these famous actresses look as rich and perfect as possible, and they totally flatten out all this nuance to the point where it's completely pointless. The story is just a soap opera of idle rich people behaving badly instead of a more complex dance of people with various power dynamics and insecurities tied to their relative socioeconomic positions and histories.

TV ruins things a lot.[/quote]

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