What's not to love about this series? Granted, particularly in this season the heroine is getting a good deal too full of herself, but she's more than offset by some of the most well-grounded and sympathetic supporting characters around: curious, sensitive, broadminded Willow, just beginning to discover her own strengths; sweet, self-effacing, humorous Xander, just beginning to understand and compensate for his own weaknesses; and of course brilliant, passionate, self-sacrificing Giles, reinventing his persona for.. what is it .. the third (or fourth) time now? Add to that as sharp and savvy a set of scripts as I've ever seen, constantly changing directions for all of the characters, terrific music, both original and borrowed, and by far the best choreographed action sequences on T.V. today, and you have the only series I watch now on a consistent basis. Apropos of nothing, I am also firmly not in the twentysomething set who seems to be the primary audience for this show; I'm closing in on fifty faster than I'd like, and am so grateful for a show that features an array of types, and doesn't portray adults as de facto idiots or Nazis or teenagers as de facto saints or trendsetters. I'm definitely looking forward to what Joss Whedon has planned next.
Review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(1997–2003)
Who would have thought a title this goofy could head a series this good!
25 July 2000