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Buffy the
Vampire
Slayer |
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Best:
Season 3
Unrated, 16
hrs., 30
mins.,
1998-99
(Fox) High
school is
hell —
that's the
essential
conceit
underlying
the
adventures
of Buffy
Summers and
her Scooby
Gang. While
the college
years
certainly
yielded
brilliant
television
(''Hush''
and ''The
Body'' stand
out), what
truly
informs
creator Joss
Whedon's
clever
insights
costumed as
campy horror
throwaway is
the
universal
experience
of
adolescence:
battling
derisive
cool kids
(possessed
by evil
hyenas) and
fancying
unavailable
brooders
(because sex
can turn
guys into
monsters).
Best at
embracing
the charm
and terror
of high
school on
the
Hellmouth
was the
slayer's
senior year,
when a
briefly
telepathic
Buffy braved
a sea of
teenage
insecurities
to prevent
school
violence
(''Earshot'')
and Willow
resisted
lesbian
advances
from the
vampire
version of
herself (''Doppelgangland'').
All this
built to the
explosive
Big Bad
battle with
the OCD
serpent
mayor and
his frisky
sidekick,
Faith, on
''Graduation
Day.'' But
no number of
stakes could
ever slay us
as
profoundly
as Buffy's
wrenching
last dance
with Angel
at ''The
Prom.''
Worst:
Season 7
Unrated, 16
hrs., 30
mins.,
2002-03
(Fox) If
Buffy's
brilliance
hinges on
innocence
lost to the
hellishness
of growing
up, what
happens when
the Scoobys
reach
adulthood?
Buffy takes
a desk job?
Xander gets
hitched? Why
not open the
Buffy
Summers
School of
Slaying, for
girls about
to enter
their own
adolescent
hell? (Wait,
we're
kidding.)
Without the
silly
mockumentary,
''Storyteller,''
and poignant
series
finale,
''Chosen,''
the Slayer's
last season
would have
met a
tragically
limp demise. |
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