If Dawson’s Creek gave The WB its focus on YA programming (a thing that was brand new, at that point), Felicity helped to expand that idea by exploring a part of life that, up until that point, lacked dramatic representation on TV. Smart writing and unexpected cinematic storytelling made Felicity an outlier.ĭrawing comparisons to the likes of Ally McBeal, which premiered a year earlier, Felicity set itself apart by exploring the often confusing and emotional time period between high school graduation and college life when a young person transitions between their teenage years and being an adult.
Throughout its densely plotted four-season run, Scott Foley’s Noel Crane offered the additional conflict as the third corner of the show’s central love triangle. Keri Russell starred as Felicity Porter, a shy high school student who, after graduation, decides to scrap her plans to attend Stanford and follow her high school crush Ben ( Scott Speedman) - a boy she hardly interacted with - to the University of New York. Abrams success and fame - and long before Matt Reeves turned Robert Pattinson into The Batman - the duo brought this character-driven college drama to television. Before television shows like Alias and Lost brought J.J. Felicity star Keri Russell (Photo by Andrew Eccles /© The WB Television Network / Courtesy Everett Collection)įelicity premiered on September 29, 1998, and was another title in The WB’s growing lineup of teen-focused dramas.
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