Over the top! This is my first time watching Dawson's Creek, but I know of Greg Berlanti in the present-day, so once I saw he was Mr. Agenda Pusher was the writer of this episode with this type of subject matter, I knew no good could come of it. I knew he wouldn't be able to control his pen. A teen boy reads a poem aloud in class. From said poem, rumors start that girls may not be his dating or mating preference. He's humiliated. What follows is a sadistic teacher who tries to force him to reread it in class! Slurs painted on his locker! Salacious flyers distributed! A student spits in the before-mentioned teacher's face! This is too much for 1999 New England. This is not 1950s New England or 1960s Alabama! Get a grip, Mr. Berlanti!
Review of To Be or Not to Be...
