Regression Obsession: Joey Potter
Posted at 4:00 PM Feb 11, 2009
By Sharon SteelJoey Potter: Dawson's BFF turned lovah. Girl next door. Pre-Tom Cruise. The Pacey/Josh Jackson Years. Those odd yet wonderfully charming strands of hair she always hand hanging around her face. The way she would use SAT words in common conversation like they meant something. And a few other things, most notably about her turn as Eponine in a season one beauty pageant that almost sent her packing to Paris! (She didn't go. Because Dawson finally kissed her. Of course.)
1. I still do NOT understand why she sang this in a baby-voice. Who are you, Paris Hilton? NO. NO. You are Joey Effing Potter. Act like it. Get down with your Creek self.
2. "All my life, I've only been pretending." This belt was butchered in a way that would make Simon Cowell throw a shiv made from a Pepsi can straight into her face. Don't tell me you signed off on this, Kevin Williamson. Where were you?!
3. The brown cowl-neck sack dress looks like poo, and she's wearing the make-up of a 40-year-old woman who lost everything to Bernie Madoff and is living in some Great Expectations crazytown fantasy. I blame it on Jen.
4. Remember five years later when Joey sang Cheap Trick all sex-kitten-like and Chad Michael Murray's character was totally impressed?
5. One day Suri will find this on the Internet and will refuse to read Victor Hugo at her fancy private school for "personal reasons."
