On March 10, 1997, the WB debuted Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Picking up shortly after the 1992 movie of the same name left off, the series—created by Joss Whedon—followed Buffy Summers, a 16-year-old girl just trying to make friends in a new town... all while standing as the lone force, chosen by the powers-that-be, to…
SheKnows, a community that “empowers women,” decided to interrogate Sarah Michelle Gellar about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and frankly, I don’t feel very empowered after watching it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer rocked our world, and it remains one of the all-time greatest TV shows. The story of a fated vampire-hunter who tries to live a normal life in high school, Buffy still has few worthy successors. And it has so much to teach us about good writing.
Nicki Minaj is (probably) engaged! The goddess just Instagrammed a photo of her left hand wearing a gigantor heart-shaped diamond ring, (possibly) confirming rumors that she and boyf Meek Mill got engaged. The goss started last night with a shot of her and Mill stepping out with her wearing what appeared to be a…
Some heroes bare their souls in the midst of their epic adventures. And some heroes just bare, well, everything. Science fiction and fantasy is full of hilariously weird moments of naked truth — and here are the 19 funniest nude scenes of all time. It's work-safe!
And now, let's take a moment to imagine an alternate history in which Alison Brie and Jennifer Lawrence both got started on a television show titled Not Another High School Show, circa 2007. (Yes, like Not Another Teen Movie.) The project got as far as shooting a pilot, and thanks to YouTube you can now watch a…
It shouldn't be any harder to write strong (as in, fully-wrought and believable) female characters than it is to write strong male characters because women, just like men, are people (not that not being a person has ever prevented a character from existing in the first place). Still, the very idea that a popular male…
Psychologist Christopher Ferguson has done the empirical research, put in the legwork and figured out that Buffy is awesome, which I absolutely could have told you. More specifically, his piece in the Journal of Communication chronicles the results of 150 Texas A&M students' screenings of three disparate types of…
Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte have listed their favorite episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, whom they call "one of the most powerful female characters ever developed." Included are Season 2's "Passion," and "Becoming" (the one where she kills Angel), Season 3's "Consequences" and "Prom," Season 4's silent…
Halloween: The time of year when all your favorite TV characters don crazy costumes and become involved in totally nonsensical plots, just for the sake of a holiday-themed episode. I love bad television just as much as I love good — and as such here's a collection of the best/worst Halloween episodes the idiot box has…
Action heroines are rare creatures. The earliest were female versions of pre-existing male heros, like Wonder Woman, BatGirl and SuperGirl. Some more recent heroines have their roots in fantasy or sci-fi, like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Selene from Underworld, or Alice from Resident Evil. But while there are plenty of …
Marti Noxon was a producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and now she's coming back to superpowered teenagers with the movie I Am Number Four, coming next month. She talked to us about aliens, super-violence, and dealing with internet haters.
Yesterday, it was announced that a new Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie is in the works. Good news! Oh, wait: Bad news. Buffy creator Joss Whedon is not involved.
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Today's New York Times has a "Thursday Styles" section story about a "trend with teeth": Vampires.
So remember yesterday when I warned Edward Cullen about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer? Turns out I was a little late—their epic battle has already taken place, and it is quite a sight to see.
OMG. Scoobies, Spuffy, Hellmouth, how I have missed thee. [TV Overmind]
