Quote from: DoomRulz on Jul 09, 2013, 05:04:52 AM
Thinking back to shows I used to watch as a kid, I was a Buffy fan. Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot of course but the showed I genuinely enjoyed.
I still think of that as one of the three best shows of all time, alongside The Wire and The Sopranos. They form kind of a triumverate - The Sopranos combines gritty naturalism with a layer of subtext and deeper interpretation, The Wire is virtually all realism, and Buffy is almost entirely metaphor for its first couple of seasons.
But yeah, it's very smart, very watchable, funny, sexy and generally brilliant. Lots of constantly developing characters and long-term writing. I do feel they let it slip starting from the finale of the penultimate season though, and that last year I didn't enjoy much at all. Probably a symptom of Joss Whedon splitting his time between so many different shows at that point, but at least Jane Espenson's episodes remained bright points.