The Waterfront premiered on Netflix on June 19, 2025 with all 8 episodes being released simultaneously. The official synopsis of the show as per Rotten Tomatoes reads,

Kevin Williamson, best known for 'Scream' and 'Dawson's Creek,' based the new drama on his own dramatic upbringing in North Carolina.

I always write about what I know,” Kevin Williamson, creator of the new Netflix series The Waterfront, told Tudum in June 2025. That’s an ideology he employed while creating his hit 2000s series Dawson’s Creek and Vampire Diaries,