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Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art


Facebook Twitter Pinterest The one-in-every-generation girl chosen by fate to be the vampire slayer and fulfil her world-saving destiny … Buffy. Facebook Twitter Pinterest When Angel rejects Buffy, teenage girls everywhere nodded, sighed, and wished that they too could simply stake their first loves through the heart. And when Buffy sleeps with her ensouled-vampire boyfriend, he turns into a different person overnight and rejects her the next morning. Facebook Twitter Pinterest If the snappy one-liners had ever let up you would have collapsed under the weight of the philosophical complexity … Buffy. Several TV generations have elapsed since it ended, but we have not yet seen the Slayer’s deft, clever, moving, thrilling, funny, feminist like again.


Source: The Guardian March 10, 2017 06:45 UTC



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