“All he wants for Christmas is redemption for two hundred years of killing.” The original WB trailer for Amends, first aired in 1998. Holiday episodes are a dying art form in the televisual world of 2023. With the domination of on-demand streaming services, the exact airdate of an episode has come to matter less andContinue reading “A New Kind of Bad, Just In Time For Christmas (Amends)”
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No-One Ever Dies and Everybody Lives Happily Ever After (Passion)
Part One: The Body “Sorry, Jenny. This is where you get off.” There is a moment in the timeline of every piece of media – every show, book, film series, comics run, radio play – where it declares its relationship to death. Sometimes this happens in the opening seconds. You put on an episode ofContinue reading “No-One Ever Dies and Everybody Lives Happily Ever After (Passion)”
The Bestest Buffy Birthday Bash In a Big Long While (Surprise)
At the climax of What’s My Line? Part Two, Drusilla rises from the ashes of a destroyed church, restored to full strength in a floor-length black dress – a true gothic phoenix. She carries Spike in her arms, Pieta-style, in the same manner as he carried her back in Part One, which makes the meaningContinue reading “The Bestest Buffy Birthday Bash In a Big Long While (Surprise)”
Instead, You Go All Dumbledore On Me (The Dark Age)
The final scene of Lie To Me left us with a promise of increasing complexity for the show – and increasing adult awareness for Buffy – as we head into the second third of season two. This promise is brought into reality through a process of deconstructing the mentor figure – and parental figure forContinue reading “Instead, You Go All Dumbledore On Me (The Dark Age)”
Have You Googled Her Yet? (I Robot You Jane)
The 90s were a weird time. Music was pretty awful, everyone got into Tamagotchis, and the Satanic Panic of the 80s moved on from fearing Dungeons and Dragons to a new boogeyman that threatened to steal our children’s souls and destroy society as we know it: a little-known fad called the Internet. (They also fearedContinue reading “Have You Googled Her Yet? (I Robot You Jane)”
Insect Reflection 