I think Alex Danvers is having a hell of an arc over on Supergirl, which is the only one I watch.

I like iZombie a lot more than Veronica Mars, personally, but I'm kind of a sucker for the sort of cannibalistic-adjacent black comedy the show indulges in a little - if iZombie has a Buffy debt, it's mediated via Pushing Daises.

Wasn't Whedon miffed at the show, thinking its title was cribbing from Angel? Anyway, somebody was. Maybe his fans.

I mean, I did a module on TV in college, and Buffy Studies is definitely a thing, so I think it's kind of a big deal - just one that's been over for over a decade, so the passion for it has faded.

I think this is more because she's Kristen Bell than anything relating to how she's written.

This is incredible, thanks for the heads up.

I can almost count on one hand the amount of times I know of, offhand, that the AV Club broke a story. (Basically: Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show. Nothing else is coming to mind.)

I wonder - has she said anything neoliberal on the show? I mean, yes, she supported Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, and neoliberal has often been used as inference of the difference between the two candidates, but I don't recall her, for example, offering a full-throated defense of the Trans Pacific Partnership…

Right. It was a bit strange to see John Oliver address this specific issue (with a shocked 'hey, it turns out that this isn't just the deep South') without mentioning his former colleagues even in passing - but then again, unsurprising he wouldn't.

Of the four late night shows I watch, it's definitely the one I'm the most ambivalent about. They've had their moments, though, like that Werner Herzog parody thing they did early on. And they interviewed someone familiar with how Russia's handled their media, which was pretty interesting.

Exactly. Plus Breitbart has regularly taken the AV Club to task (though not as regularly as vice versa, likely because one of these sites literally has the ear of the current administration and the other one's fortunate if SNL name-drops them.)

I don't think it's stealing a joke so much as it is going to the most obvious well. I've noted a number of late night shows often saying the same hacky line after an event - like for the protests at JFK, both Colbert and Noah trotted out the feigned shock that people would want to inconvenience themselves by going to…

Well when they started these Netflix shows, they weren't a sure thing - Daredevil's runaway success was a little unanticipated (if one contrasts to the lukewarm reception of SHIELD, and the low viewing figures of Carter.) I guess it makes sense to not risk Punisher in addition to Daredevil on that project, at least…

I'd bet good money the reviewers are going to trash Marvel's Iron Fist (my evidence is pretty much every Iron Fist review to come out thus far this week.)

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Spawn specifically, maybe not, but but a dark, edgy superhero movie? Which also has a black lead? This is probably very sellable.

Sure, as an idea, but the existence of a successful Xena show - it was a big deal in syndication - may have made selling Buffy easier.

Good stuff. If CW remakes it, they'd better get Melissa Joan Hart as one of the aunts.

I watched the first two seasons of Buffy and part of the third and it never clicked for me. If the show doesn't work for you by season two, don't do what I did, which was stick it out hoping eventually this damn thing becomes likeable.

Absolutely, but the significance was it was prime time. It moved the story telling of soaps to a glossier, higher budget framework - which is then repeated, with further prestige sheen, by HBO.