"Marcos and I were sitting there going, 'Who are we going to get to do this little opening bit,'" Williamson tells Entertainment Weekly. "And we asked [Roerig and Davis], they were in Atlanta, and they came up to do it.

The main characters in Kevin Williamson's Netflix series are a multigenerational cast of adults whose lives are glossier and grittier than what audiences remember from the 'Dawson’s' gang.

For anyone who regards “Dawson’s Creek” as creator Kevin Williamson’s crowning achievement, Williamson’s new Netflix series “The Waterfront” (streaming now) might initially seem like a homecoming. Like “Dawson’s Creek,