Tag: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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The Best Single-Season TV Villain Nearly Unleashed Hell on Earth
While many of the best moments in Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolve around individual “monster of the week” style threats that Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends faced, it was clear at the beginning of the first season that each new installments in the show would introduce a new “Big Bad” for the…
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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Cast and Character Guide
It’s been twenty years since the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) aired on television. It was one of the first supernatural drama series on TV and spawned generations more like it, with the likes of Charmed and franchise spinoff Angel following shortly after. However, Buffy still reigns. For fans who grew up…
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This Is Still ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Most Underrated Season
The first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer felt like a breath of fresh air when they first began airing. Unlike other science fiction and fantasy shows at the time, Joss Whedon’s coming-of-age drama series found a way to balance its complex mythology within compelling characters that transitioned into adulthood. Buffy the Vampire Slayer…
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The ‘Burn Notice’ Prequel Saw Pedro Pascal Face Off Against Bruce Campbell
Prior to becoming one of the hottest and most in-demand actors on the planet with The Mandalorian and The Last of Us, actor Pedro Pascal was a working actor on many television projects. Pascal appeared in notable shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, Nurse Jackie, and a little show called…
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The Best Episode of Each Season of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the greatest teen shows of all time; it works as both a compelling drama series about the stress of being a young adult and a terrific fantasy adventure with a great mythology. While the show has been more difficult to rewatch in recent years due to the controversy…
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One Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Most Popular Characters Was Supposed To Die Early
Most early episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” kick off the same way — a new evil rolls into town, and by the end of the week, the slayer turns it to dust. Some villains last a whole season and become the Big Bad, while others meet their ends more quickly. But one antagonist was…
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Two Buffy The Vampire Slayer Actors Starred In A Musical Before Once More With Feeling
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” musical episode rules. This was true when it debuted in 2001 and it’s still true today, despite the ambivalence that now comes with being a “Buffy” fan in light of series creator Joss Whedon’s extensively documented bad behavior. It took me a few years after allegations against Whedon dropped to…
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These ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Episodes Were Pulled From Broadcast
To say that the legacy of the coming-of-age fantasy horror adventure series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been a controversial one would be a dramatic understatement. The series was seemingly doomed to fail from the beginning; showrunner Joss Whedon had desperately tried to gain interest in his vampire universe in the wake of the failure…
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Scariest Episode Was Inspired By Two Horror Classics And A Simpsons Villain
“Buffy The Vampire Slayer” season 4 is one of the show’s more contested runs, but episode 10, “Hush,” is a fan-favorite. When silent, grinning demons called the Gentlemen come to Sunnydale and rob the characters of their voices, the series makes a rare turn into outright horror.Series creator (and controversial figure) Joss Whedon, who personally…
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One Of Paul Reubens’ Funniest Cameos Drew From Buffy The Vampire Slayer (And His Infamous Arrest)
I’ve been pretty vocal over the years since joining Team /Film that Paul Reubens’ performance as Amilyn in the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” movie is my favorite of his outside of Pee-wee Herman, evening going so far as to declare his character’s dramatic death scene as one of the best non-Marvel post-credits scenes in cinema…