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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
The ForeMother of Horror Genre Shows
Before there was Buffy there were very few horror genre shows on network television. It was then several good shows horror shows weren't given the chance (Brimstone being cancelled after a few episode is an example), people thought horror genre shows, much like horror genre films weren't money makers. Boy, did Joss Whedon prove them wrong. His show not only had the basics of every great genre horror show (the hot girls, the hot buff guys, not to mention the sex and violence) his show proved that you could mix the unbelievable and still tell relevant heart wrenching stories about a teenage girl who had extraordinary powers, who with the strenght of her friends, family, and mentor helped her save the world from evil time and time again.
The chemistry between the whole cast was the reason this show lasted as long as it did. As a fan I found myself sometimes more interested in the interactions between the characters each week than I was the overall story. Buffy as a character sometimes wasn't my favorite, and I think that that was one of the reasons I still watched, because I cared about her character so much that when she did screw up I felt as angry with her as the other characters. Joss Whedon's writing made you feel like you were apart of the "Scooby Gang"( aka Willow, Xander, Giles).
I wish it would have made it to ten seasons, but I rather the show go out on an up swing than on a down. I think the creators of the shows we have today like "Heroes" and "Battlestar Galactica" really do owe Joss Whedon a drink. Buffy paved the way.
She-Wolf of London (1990)
A show ahead of it's time
I loved She Wolf of London. The main characters had fantastic chemistry and the stories though sometimes campy weren't silly. The showed gelled incredibly well when it was over in Europe. Unfortunately after the European backers dropped out and I suspect most of the creative team went as well the show lost it's intelligence and turned into a crazy spoof of itself. The main storyline about Ian and Randi falling in love and never being able to consummate their relationship because of her "curse" was played up in Love and Curses, but the resolution fell flat when the (and I'm assuming here) American writers wrote around the curse and put them together...which turned the series into Moonlighting after David and Maddie got together. Or like Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman when Clark and Lois got together. With the main plot device gone...there was nowhere else for them to go.