I’m actually bummed that Sarah is gone. Don’t get me wrong, she is the fucking worst, but my uncle is law partners with Sarah’s father in law, so I always looked forward to getting some good gossip off of him at family gatherings. (Did you know that the rest of the Sanders clan are democrats and hate Trump?)

Mila going off on a pro-democracy rant in fluent Russian would be the highlight of the weekend.

Yes, and as much as I hate to give them even a small portion of credit, Jared and Ivanka were likely fine with that -- it would be awkward af to sit with the likes of Katy Perry and Diane Von Furstenberg knowing they think you’re complete trash (correctly, of course). 

I never read babe again after the so-called Aziz Ansari hatchet job. That story was a mess - a poorly considered piece by an unprincipled and crusading editorial staff.

I’ve gone back & forth on this. Part of me wanted it to continue, but man, it’s just a perfect gem as it is... I dunno.

I get most of the authors here are young and come at things from a different perspective, but please don’t discount us “olds” who saw this show in real time and really wished something like it existed much earlier. Had I seen this type of show when I was 14 (1982) my life might be much different now.

Eliza Dushku never gets the cred she deserves. She’s a ball out actress who takes what could be unlikable characters and makes us fall in love. Season 2 was great because of Dru and Angelus, but season 3 was way more emotional. 

Season 3 is definitely the most consistently strong season of Buffy, but even at its very best, it still doesn’t manage the same emotional extremes that peak season 2 draws out of me. Also, as I said, I’m a big sucker for the less polished, grainier, darker look of the first two seasons; I love how often characters’…

“Passion” remains in my top 5 series episodes of all time. What a damn gut punch. 

The best of Angel is far better than the best of Buffy.

By the same logic, there’s no way she’s coming down from her ivory tower to negotiate how much cake to give to the masses for the privilege of letting her shoot at their location. She has people to do that and her people are the ones to blame.

Needlessly? I need to read this. To me, Faith was both extraordinary (she likes sex! She isn’t apologetic about it!) and all too real (the poverty, the broken home, the struggle to control the people around her, with sex being one of her tools for control, but at the same time so terrified of being rejected she was…

I used to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, and once in a while they would feature an a show’s entire episode guide and synopsis. I read the entire Buffy issue..THEN I started watching it on FX.

I will add also that while Beer Bad is widely regarded as one of the worst episodes, I think it has a few really excellent moments. And it gave us some great gifs.

The end of Innocence is one of my favorite moments of television ever. I just thought the way they set the Judge up and then took him down with all the “no weapon forged” stuff was so clever.

I remember being on some college break my Freshman year, channel surfing, and stumbling upon the scene from the season 2 Halloween episode where temporary-ghost Willow scares the crap out of Giles at the card catalog. I enjoyed the hell out of whatever it was I was watching and didn’t realize that it was Buffy until…

I still consider Buffy the greatest television show ever made, but sometimes I’m not sure if it’s my biased of having grown up with the show showing through. Like you, I was the same age as Buffy as the show was aired - as she was dealing with high school drama, so was I. When I had difficulties adjusting to going…

God, Anya’s such a great character that kind of gets forgotten in these convos so I’m glad you gave her a shout out at the end. She’s so good at being the blunt logic and asking “why?” She’s a demon who never fully had to live, understand, or even like humans and then suddenly she has to with no guidance. The gang…

I am Buffy’s exact age. We grew up together. I felt everything that happened to her so deeply in myself. It seemed like anything I was going through, she was also dealing with in such a realistic, authentic way. Like her, I was the leader of my group and frequently was called upon to deal with things that were…

Yay! Buffy talk! Remember the racist “Inca Mummy Girl” episode from Season 1? Also the representations of the first slayer always bothered me: the dark skinned, animalistic woman from obviously darkest Africa and the conflation of the first slayer with demonic qualities. Ugh.