Rewatch- Pacey and his teacher

This is so creepy! I literally remember my friend and I watching this in 1998 when I was like 14 and thinking it was romantic/exciting. The whole “forbidden love” thing. Now , watching it as an adult around the age Ms. Jacobs, I find it so creepy. I actually don’t have so much an issue with this being portrayed bc it does happen and tv should be able to show bad things in life, but the fact that Pacey is not presented as the victim that he was. She not only gets away with it but it’s presented as that he did the right thing by lying for her. It’s shown as more a passionate forbidden thing that had to end. They should had at least had her apologize to him for what she did and acknowledged that it was wrong, not just “this is illegal, I could get in trouble “ but that she groomed and took advantage of a boy. It’s also really sad bc it’s clear that Pacey was seeking the validation of an adult as the ones in his life had let him down. It didn’t just seem to be him wanting to sleep with an attractive older woman. She groomed him and then broke his heart, that realistically would have had terrible effects on him mentally.