Buffy the Vampire Slayer never posed a false choice between the preferences and stylistic tics that made Buffy who she was as a person and the skills and sense of obligation that made her who she was as a Slayer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer always took Buffy’s romantic and sex life seriously. In later seasons, as Buffy started a relationship with another vampire, Spike (James Marsters), the show deepened its explorations of sex, rage and grief. RelatedI think about Buffy the Vampire Slayer a lot, sometimes as a marker for how much pop culture has evolved and more often as an indicator of how much farther it has to go. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer helped some of us learn how to do all of those things at once and in “stylish, yet affordable boots.”

Source: National Post March 10, 2017 18:11 UTC