EPISODE
SEASON
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 1
Buffy is a Slayer, one in a long line of young women chosen for a specific mission: to seek out and destroy vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. The series follows Buffy as she deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
5 November 1949, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
11 December 1956, Pasadena, California, USA
8 April 1975, Sacramento, California, USA
6 November 1972, Glens Falls, New York, USA
11 October 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
November 22, 2017
Buffy is done with a sly yet generous humor that lets you forget the pain of its premise -- hence its appeal. The show manages to be sweet without offering any hope whatsoever.
November 21, 2017
Buffy's metaphorical punch gives the show its place in the intellectual life of the English-speaking world.
November 17, 2017
But a little Valley-speak goes a long way. The dialogue is riddled with phrases like ''totally dead,'' ''morbid much'' and ''way extracurricular.'' Someone should take a stake to the script.
November 22, 2017
The cases of the week were fairly stereotypical, and the low budget meant that the effects looked laughable, especially today.
November 17, 2017
For fans of youth shows, occult shows and action shows, this new, weekly "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is the right program at the right time.
November 22, 2017
The establishment of the Hellmouth and the season's overall arc with the Master and his flock of deeply religious vampires was actually quite well done despite [being a short season].
November 22, 2017
Being the first season, it was *very* rough around the edges in the early stages. The villains weren't particularly memorable, and the work on the vampires and demons wasn't that strong then and certainly doesn't hold up now.
November 22, 2017
Buffy - both the show and the character - gave me the strength and confidence I needed to begin living my young life anew in a world that often thought of women as weak, defenseless creatures. I now had a super cool heroine to look up to.
November 22, 2017
But damn did it take chances with its storytelling, and more importantly it became the gold standard for how to make a supernatural show so deeply connect with what it means to be human.
November 21, 2017
Look - early Buffy is important.
