As opposed to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, which I quite ecumenically also enjoy and like. It is difficult to hate a comedy with Donald Sutherland and Rutger Hauer in it, although Joss Whedon certainly seems ready to give it the old college try. At any rate: the Buffy show has been around now for twenty years, and we are all old.
On the plus side: this is a great deal for the TV series. Almost suspiciously so, in fact. What’s the catch, I wonder?
I was watching Season 1 of Buffy when my daughter came home from work and asked what was on. I told her and she laughed at me. In a few weeks she was hooked.
I never watched “Buffy”, so I didn’t get old.
(No I didn’t have anything against it. It was just on a network I couldn’t receive so I never got that bug. Aamof, I never got into much TV at all because reception was so bad a cable and satellite just cost too much. I was, and am, all about books 😀 )
Paul Reubens is in the movie too. Look it up.
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I hated the TV show.
Like almost every series, it was stronger when it remained episodic and flamed out when it tried for overarching storylines
About the time the series ended, Alyson Hannigan’s mom was selling my house.
Adored this show. At its best, it was terrifically funny and clever, and occasionally heartbreaking. It went downhill in later seasons (Season 6 was horribly dark…showrunner Marti Noxon was going through bad personal stuff, and BOY does it show). Season 7 pulled out of the nose dive but concurred with Whedon’s canonization as Feminist Icon so it went all-in in Grrrrrl Power, with all the tedium that brings.
The spinoff, Angel, was even better, though equally uneven at times.
Well, ‘The Body’ was one of the greatest TV episodes ever made. This is a known thing.
*nods* It is known.
So was ‘Hush’, for that matter. The Gentlemen are one of the creepiest villains ever, IMHO.
Liked the show. Although I’m old enough, watched it in reruns rather than when it first came on. Liked the movie- I may even have it on VHS somewhere. Liked the general idea of Angel, but never got into it, and really didn’t like some of the things they did.