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Why a ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Revival Is So Exciting — and So Terrifying
The return of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" with Sarah Michelle Gellar is at once a thrilling and terrifying idea.
There are all the TV history reasons, of course: Dismissed when it premiered on the nascent network The WB in 1997 as a mid-season replacement, “Buffy” rapidly roundhouse kicked itself into the vanguard of both television form and content. “Supernatural,” “True Blood,” “Alias,” “Once Upon a Time,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Veronica Mars,” “Teen Wolf,” “The Magicians,” “Jessica Jones,” “Orphan Black,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Wynonna Earp,” “Riverdale,” “Wednesday,” “Game of Thrones” — none of these shows, and many more besides, would be what they are without “Buffy.” Those sequel comics, by the way, were largely overseen, and often written, by Joss Whedon, who first created Buffy when he wrote the 1992 feature film of the same title, starring Kristy Swanson.
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