Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |
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Created by | Joss Whedon |
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Theme music composer | Nerf Herder |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 144 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 42–51 minutes[11] |
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Network | The WB |
Release | March 10, 1997 May 22, 2001 | –
Network | UPN |
Release | October 2, 2001 May 20, 2003 | –
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. It is based on the 1992 film of the same name, also written by Whedon, although they are separate and otherwise unrelated productions.[12] Whedon served as executive producer and showrunner under his production tag Mutant Enemy Productions.
The series premiered on March 10, 1997, on The WB and concluded on May 20, 2003, on UPN. The series follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a succession of young women known as "Vampire Slayers", or simply "Slayers". In the story, Slayers, or the "Chosen Ones", are chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Buffy wants to live a normal life, but as the series progresses, she learns to embrace her destiny. Like previous Slayers, Buffy is aided by a Watcher, who guides, teaches and trains her. Unlike her predecessors, Buffy surrounds herself with a circle of loyal friends who become known as the "Scooby Gang" – a reference to the animated franchise Scooby-Doo that features a group of friends solving mysteries together.
The series received critical and popular acclaim, and is often listed among the greatest television series of all time. Original airings often reached four to six million viewers.
The success of Buffy has led to hundreds of tie-in products, including novels, comics and video games. The series has received attention in fandom (including fan films), parody, and academia, and has influenced the direction of other television series.[1][17] Buffy was part of a wave of television series from the late 1990s and early 2000s that featured strong female characters, alongside Charmed, Xena: Warrior Princess, La Femme Nikita, Dark Angel, and Alias.[18] The series, as well as its spin-off series, Angel, and extensions thereof, have been collectively termed the "Buffyverse".
Premise
Characters
Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the "Slayer", one in a long line of young women chosen by fate to battle evil forces. This mystical calling grants her powers that dramatically increase physical strength, endurance, agility, accelerated healing, intuition, and a limited degree of precognition, usually in the form of prophetic dreams. She is known as a reluctant hero who wants to live a normal life. However, she learns to embrace her destiny as the vampire slayer.[19][20]
Buffy receives guidance from her
Buffy also receives help from the friends she meets at Sunnydale High: Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon). Willow is originally a wallflower who excels at academics, providing a contrast to Buffy's outgoing personality and less-than-stellar educational record. They share the social isolation that comes with being different, and especially from being exceptional young women. As the series progresses, Willow becomes a more assertive character and a powerful witch, and realizes she is a lesbian. In contrast, Xander, with no supernatural abilities, provides comic relief and a grounded perspective. Buffy and Willow are the only characters who appear in all 144 episodes, with Xander appearing in 143.
The cast of characters grew over the course of the series. Buffy first arrives in Sunnydale with her mother,
At Sunnydale High, Buffy meets several other students besides Willow and Xander willing to join her fight for good, an informal group eventually tagged the "Scooby Gang" or "Scoobies". Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), the archetypal shallow cheerleader, reluctantly becomes involved. Daniel "Oz" Osbourne (Seth Green), a fellow student, rock guitarist and werewolf, joins the group through his relationship with Willow. Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte), Sunnydale's computer science teacher, joins the group after helping destroy a demon trapped in cyberspace during season 1; she later becomes Giles' love interest. Anya (Emma Caulfield) is a former vengeance demon called Anyanka who specialized in avenging scorned women; after losing her powers she became Xander's lover, then joined the Scoobies in season four.
In Buffy's senior year at high school, she meets
Buffy gathers other allies throughout the series:
Buffy featured dozens of major and minor recurring characters. For example, the "Big Bad" (villain) characters were featured for at least one season (for example, Glory is a character who appeared in 12 episodes, spanning much of season five). Similarly, characters who allied themselves to the group and characters who attended the same institutions were sometimes featured in multiple episodes.
Setting and filming locations
The show is set in the fictional California town of Sunnydale, whose suburban
Most of Buffy was shot on location in Los Angeles, California. The high school used in the first three seasons is actually Torrance High School, in Torrance, California, the same high school used for Beverly Hills, 90210.[22] The show was initially very dependent on location shooting, because the production budget allowed for few permanent sets to be built.[23] In the first season this was limited to the interior of Sunnydale High (the library, hallways, and classrooms), Buffy's bedroom, and the Master's underground lair. Starting in the second season, more permanent sets were built, including the full interior of Buffy's house, Angel's mansion, and Giles's apartment, as well as extensions to the high school set (the addition of a dining hall and commons area).[23] A driveway area near the gated entrance to Fox Studios was transformed into a graveyard.[23] In the third season the Sunnydale "Main Street" was constructed on the backlot, which would be a staple location for the rest of the series.[24] When the show transitioned to college in the fourth season, the hallway sets from Sunnydale High were remodeled to appear as the interior hallways of UC Sunnydale.[25]
Some of the exterior shots of the college Buffy attends, UC Sunnydale, were filmed at
Format
Buffy is told in a serialized format, mixing complex, season-long storylines with a villain-of-the-week conflict revolving around Buffy and her friends as they struggle to balance the fight against supernatural evils with their complicated social lives.[29] A typical episode contains one or more villains, or supernatural phenomena, that are thwarted or defeated by the end of the episode. Though elements and relationships are explored and ongoing subplots are included, the show focuses primarily on Buffy and her role as an archetypal heroine. Gellar described the show as "the ultimate metaphor: horrors of adolescence manifesting through these actual monsters. It's the hardest time of life."[30] Each season's storyline is broken down into season-long narratives marked by the rise and defeat of a powerful antagonist, commonly referred to as the "Big Bad".
While the show is mainly a
In the first few seasons, the most prominent monsters in the
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||
1 | 12 | March 10, 1997 | June 2, 1997 | The WB | |
2 | 22 | September 15, 1997 | May 19, 1998 | ||
3 | 22 | September 29, 1998 | September 21, 1999 | ||
4 | 22 | October 5, 1999 | May 23, 2000 | ||
5 | 22 | September 26, 2000 | May 22, 2001 | ||
6 | 22 | October 2, 2001 | May 21, 2002 | UPN | |
7 | 22 | September 24, 2002 | May 20, 2003 |
Plot summary
Season one exemplifies the "high school is hell" concept. Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale after burning down her old school's gym and hopes to escape her Slayer duties. Her plans are complicated by Rupert Giles, her new Watcher, who reminds her of the inescapable presence of evil. Sunnydale High is built atop a Hellmouth, a portal to demon dimensions that attracts supernatural phenomena to the area. A mysterious man, Angel, warns Buffy of upcoming danger. She eventually discovers that he is a vampire cursed with a soul, which prevents him from feeding off living humans. Buffy befriends two schoolmates, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, who help her fight evil throughout the series. Buffy, her Watcher and friends later start to collectively call themselves the "Scooby Gang". Their first major threat is the Master, an ancient and especially threatening vampire, who was trapped in the hellmouth underground. When he escapes, Buffy defeats him and saves Sunnydale.
The emotional stakes are raised in
After attempting to start a new life in Los Angeles, Buffy returns to town in season three. Angel has been mysteriously released from the demon dimension but is close to insanity due to the torment he suffered there. He recovers, but he and Buffy realize that a relationship between them can never happen and Angel leaves Sunnydale at the end of the season. Giles is fired from the Watchers' Council because he has developed a "father's love" for Buffy and he is replaced by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Towards the end of the season, Buffy announces that she will no longer be working for the council. Early in the season, she meets Faith, the Slayer activated after Kendra's death. She also encounters the affable Mayor Richard Wilkins III, who secretly has plans to "ascend" (become a "pure" demon) on Sunnydale High's graduation day. Although Faith initially works well with Buffy, she becomes increasingly unstable after accidentally killing a human and forms a relationship with the paternal yet manipulative mayor. The rivalry between Buffy and Faith eventually lands Faith in a coma. At the end of the season, after the mayor becomes a huge snake-like demon, Buffy, Angel, the Scooby Gang and the entire graduating class destroy him by blowing up Sunnydale High. At the end of the season, Angel and Cordelia leave the series to star in the spin-off series, Angel.
During
At the beginning of
During
Production
Origins
Writer Joss Whedon says that "Rhonda the Immortal Waitress" was really the first incarnation of the Buffy concept, "the idea of some woman who seems to be completely insignificant who turns out to be extraordinary".[31] This early, unproduced idea evolved into Buffy, which Whedon developed to invert the Hollywood formula of "the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie".[32] Whedon wanted "to subvert that idea and create someone who was a hero".[32] He explained, "The very first mission statement of the show was the joy of female power: having it, using it, sharing it."[33]
The idea was first visited through Whedon's script for the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which featured Kristy Swanson in the title role. The director, Fran Rubel Kuzui, saw it as a "pop culture comedy about what people think about vampires".[34][35] Whedon disagreed: "I had written this scary film about an empowered woman, and they turned it into a broad comedy. It was crushing."[36] The script was praised within the industry,[37] but the movie was not.[38]
Several years later,
Executive producers
Joss Whedon was credited as
Writing
Jane Espenson has explained how scripts came together.[52] First, the writers talked about the emotional issues facing Buffy Summers and how she would confront them through her battle against evil supernatural forces. Then the episode's story was broken into acts and scenes. Act breaks were designed as key moments to intrigue viewers so that they would stay with the episode following the commercial break. The writers collectively filled in scenes surrounding these act breaks for a more fleshed-out story. A whiteboard marked their progress by mapping brief descriptions of each scene. Once breaking was complete, the credited author wrote an outline for the episode, which was checked by Whedon or Noxon. The writer then wrote a full script, which went through a series of drafts, and finally a quick rewrite from the showrunner. The final article was used as the shooting script.
Music
Buffy features a mix of original, indie, rock, and pop music. The composers spent around seven days scoring between fourteen and thirty minutes of music for each episode.[53] Christophe Beck revealed that the Buffy composers used computers and synthesizers and were limited to recording one or two "real" samples. Despite this, their goal was to produce "dramatic" orchestration that would stand up to film scores.[53]
Alongside the score, most episodes featured indie rock music, usually at the characters' venue of choice, The Bronze. Buffy music supervisor John King explained that "we like to use unsigned bands" that "you would believe would play in this place".
Special effects
Buffy features a variety of monsters and supernatural creatures. Monster suits were created by John Vulich and his special effects company Optic Nerve, while blending and beauty makeup was created by makeup supervisor Todd McIntosh.[68] McIntosh is credited with creating the iconic vampire face Buffy is known for, inspired by McIntosh's love for shows like the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.[69]
Inspirations and metaphors
During the first year of the series, Whedon described the show as "My So-Called Life with The X-Files".[70] Alongside these series, Whedon has cited cult film Night of the Comet as a "big influence",[71] and credited the X-Men character Kitty Pryde as a significant influence on the character of Buffy.[72] The authors of the unofficial guidebook Dusted point out that the series was often a pastiche, borrowing elements from previous horror novels, movies, and short stories and from such common literary stock as folklore and mythology.[73] Nevitt and Smith describe Buffy's use of pastiche as "postmodern Gothic".[74] For example, the Adam character parallels the Frankenstein monster, the episode "Bad Eggs" parallels Invasion of the Body Snatchers, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" parallels The Invisible Man, and so on.
Buffy episodes frequently include a deeper meaning or metaphor. Whedon explained, "We think very carefully about what we're trying to say emotionally, politically, and even philosophically while we're writing it... it really is, apart from being a pop-culture phenomenon, something that is deeply layered textually episode by episode."[75] Academics Wilcox and Lavery provide examples of episodes dealing with real life issues portrayed as supernatural metaphors:
In the world of Buffy the problems that teenagers face become literal monsters. A mother can take over her daughter's life ("
The love affair between the vampire
Buffy struggles throughout the series with her calling as Slayer and the loss of freedom this entails, frequently sacrificing teenage experiences for her Slayer duties. Her difficulties and eventual empowering realizations are reflections of several dichotomies faced by modern women and echo feminist issues within society.[77]
In the episode "Becoming (Part 2)", when Joyce learns that Buffy is the Slayer, her reaction has strong echoes of a parent discovering her child is gay, including denial, suggesting that she tries "not being a Slayer", before ultimately kicking Buffy out of the house.[78]
Casting
Katie Holmes and Selma Blair were in the running for the role of Buffy in 1996.[79] Natasha Lyonne was also offered the role but declined it due to not wanting to commit to a series at the age of 16.[80] Other actresses who originally auditioned for the role of Buffy and got other roles in the show include Julie Benz (Darla), Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison), Julia Lee (Chantarelle/Lily Houston), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase) and Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall).[81] Bianca Lawson, who played slayer Kendra Young in season 2 of the show, originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia before Carpenter was cast in the role.[82]
The title role went to
A talent agent spotted David Boreanaz on the sidewalk walking his dog.[85] He immediately contacted casting director Marcia Shulman, saying that he had found Angel.[85]
Anthony Stewart Head had already led a prolific acting and singing career[86] but remained best known in the United States for a series of twelve coffee commercials with Sharon Maughan for Taster's Choice instant coffee.[87] He accepted the role of Rupert Giles.
Nicholas Brendon, unlike other Buffy regulars, had little acting experience, instead working various jobs—including production assistant, plumber's assistant, veterinary janitor, food delivery, script delivery, day care counselor, and waiter—before breaking into acting and overcoming his stutter.[88][89] He landed the role of Xander Harris following four days of auditioning.[90] Ryan Reynolds and Danny Strong also auditioned for the part. Strong later played the role of Jonathan Levinson, a recurring character for much of the series run.
Alyson Hannigan was the last of the original six to be cast. Following her role in My Stepmother Is an Alien,[91] she appeared in commercials and supporting roles on television shows throughout the early 1990s.[91] In 1996, the role of Willow Rosenberg was originally played by Riff Regan for the unaired Buffy pilot, but Hannigan auditioned when the role was being recast for the series proper. Hannigan described her approach to the character through Willow's reaction to a particular moment: Willow sadly tells Buffy that her Barbie doll was taken from her as a child. Buffy asks her if she ever got it back. Willow's line was to reply "most of it". Hannigan decided on an upbeat and happy delivery of the line "most of it", as opposed to a sad, depressed delivery. Hannigan figured Willow would be happy and proud that she got "most of it" back. That indicated how she was going to play the rest of the scene, and the role, for that matter, and defined the character.[92] Her approach subsequently got her the role.
Opening sequence
The Buffy opening sequence provides credits at the beginning of each episode, with the accompanying music performed by Californian rock band Nerf Herder. In the DVD commentary for the first Buffy episode, Whedon said his decision to go with Nerf Herder's theme was influenced by Hannigan, who had urged him to listen to the band's music.[93] Janet Halfyard, in her essay "Music, Gender, and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel", describes the opening:
Firstly ... we have the sound of an organ, accompanied by a wolf’s howl, with a visual image of a flickering night sky overlaid with unintelligible archaic script: the associations with both the silent era and films such as Nosferatu and with the conventions of the Hammer House of Horror and horror in general are unmistakable.[94]
But the theme quickly changes: "It removes itself from the sphere of 1960s and 70s horror by replaying the same motif, the organ now supplanted by an aggressively strummed electric guitar, relocating itself in modern youth culture ..."[94] Halfyard describes sequences, in which the action and turbulence of adolescence are depicted, as the visual content of the opening credits, and which provide a postmodern twist on the horror genre.[94]
Broadcast history and syndication
Buffy the Vampire Slayer first aired on March 10, 1997 (as a mid-season replacement for the series
While the seventh season was still being broadcast,
In the United Kingdom, the entire series aired on
In August 2014,
The series became available on Disney+ (under the Star brand) beginning February 2021,[108] and was added to Comet's digital network in 2022.[109]
Spin-offs
Buffy has inspired a range of official works, including television shows, books, comics, games, and podcasts. This expansion of the series encouraged use of the term "Buffyverse" to describe the franchise and the fictional universe in which Buffy and related stories take place.[110][111]
The franchise has inspired Buffy action figures and merchandise such as
Continuations
The story line was continued in a series of comic books produced by Joss Whedon and published by Dark Horse Comics, which serve as a canonical continuation of the television series. The series began in 2007 with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and was followed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine in 2011, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten in 2014, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven in 2016, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Twelve in 2018.[112]
Joss Whedon was interested in a film continuation in 1998,[113] but such a film has yet to materialize.
Planned reboot
In July 2018,
At the time of Buffy's 20th anniversary in 2017, Whedon expressed fear of reboots, commenting that when "something [is brought] back, and even if it's exactly as good as it was, the experience can't be. You've already experienced it, and part of what was great was going through it for the first time. You have to meet expectations and adjust it for the climate, which is not easily [done]."[118] Similar concerns were expressed about the decision to reboot the series, rather than to revive it or further expand the Buffyverse.[115][119] Reports that a black actress was to assume the iconic role of Buffy,[114][117] rather than having a new character or slayer created, have been met with questions and concerns.[115][119][120] Vox noted that "the original series already had multiple characters of color who could factor into an 'inclusive' reboot–including the black slayer Kendra and the 'First Slayer'" – leaving fans wondering "why a reboot has to racebend Buffy, when it could simply focus on a different character".[120] A Twitter message posted by Owusu-Breen on July 26, 2018, was interpreted by media outlets as indicating that the new series would not recast the role of Buffy and instead would focus on a new Slayer.[121] In August 2022, executive producer Gail Berman announced that the series was put "on pause" indefinitely.[122] In January 2024, Dolly Parton stated that the producers were still working on the reboot and were "revamping it."[48][123]
Slayers: A Buffyverse Story
In September 2023, an audio series titled Slayers: A Buffyverse Story was announced, to premiere on October 12, 2023, on Audible. The series is set 10 years after the events of the series finale and the story is led by Spike (James Marsters); also returning are Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, James C. Leary, and Danny Strong. The series was written by Benson and Christopher Golden, and directed by Benson, Golden, and Kc Wayland.[124]
Angel
The
The series was given a darker tone, focusing on the ongoing trials of Angel in Los Angeles. His character is tormented by guilt following the return of his soul, punishment for more than a century of murder and torture. During the first four seasons of the show, he works as a
In addition to Boreanaz, Angel inherited Buffy series cast regular
Other actors that appeared in both the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series but as different characters include: Bob Fimiani as Mr. Ward, a head of the Department of Defense in Buffy and Glith-roo, a Codger Demon in Angel; Carlos Jacott as a demon named Ken in Buffy and a different demon named Richard Straley in Angel; Jonathan M. Woodward as a vampire and former classmate in Buffy named Holden Webster and Knox, a Wolfram and Hart scientist in Angel; and Andy Umberger who played a demon named D'Hoffryn in Buffy and a predator named Ronald Meltzer in Angel.
The storyline has been continued in the comic book series
Expanded universe
The series' fiction has been officially expanded and elaborated on by authors and artists in the so-called "Buffyverse
Five official Buffy video games have been released on portable and home consoles.[129] Most notably, Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Xbox in 2002 and Chaos Bleeds for GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2003.[130]
Undeveloped spinoffs
The popularity of Buffy and Angel has led to attempts to develop more on-screen ventures in the fictional 'Buffyverse'. These projects remain undeveloped and may never be
Ripper was originally a proposed television show based upon the character of
In 2003, a year after the first public discussions on Buffy: The Animated Series and Ripper, Buffy was nearing its end. Espenson said during the time spin-offs were being discussed, "I think
Dushku declined the pitch for a Buffyverse
Finally, during the summer of 2004 after the end of Angel, a movie about
In September 2008, Sci-Fi Wire ran an interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar in which she said she would not rule out returning to her most iconic role: "Never say never", she said. "One of the reasons the original Buffy movie did not really work on the big screen–and people blamed Kristy, but that's not what it was–the story was better told over a long arc", Gellar said. "And I worry about Buffy as a 'beginning, middle and end' so quickly. ... You show me a script; you show me that it works, and you show me that [the] audience can accept that, [and] I'd probably be there. Those are what my hesitations are."[143]
Legacy and cultural impact
Academia
Buffy is notable for attracting the interest of scholars of popular culture, as a subset of
Critics have responded to the academic attention the series has received. For example, Jes Battis, who authored
The Whedon Studies Association produces the online academic journal Slayage and sponsors a biennial academic conference on the works of Whedon. The sixth "Biennial Slayage Conference", titled "Much Ado About Whedon", was held at California State University-Sacramento in late June 2014.[156]
Fandom and fan films
The popularity of Buffy has led to the creation of websites, online discussion forums, works of Buffy fan fiction, and several unofficial fan-made productions.[157] Since the end of the series, Whedon has stated that his intention was to produce a cult television series and has acknowledged the "rabid, almost insane fan base" that the show has created.[156][111] In 2016, Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo began the Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast, recognized as one of the top podcasts in production by Time and Esquire magazines.[158][159] In 2017 the 20th anniversary of the show attracted even more writers to create their own adventures of the series' characters.[160]
Buffy in popular culture
The series employed pop culture references as a frequent humorous device, and has itself become a frequent pop culture reference in video games, comics and television shows. The series has also been parodied and spoofed. Sarah Michelle Gellar has participated in several parody sketches, including a Saturday Night Live sketch in which the Slayer is relocated to the Seinfeld universe,[161] and adding her voice to an episode of Robot Chicken that parodied a would-be eighth season of Buffy.[162]
"Buffy" was the code-name used for an early
In March 2017, in honor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 20th anniversary, Entertainment Weekly reunited Joss Whedon and the whole cast for their first joint interview and photo shoot in over a decade.[164]
U.S. television ratings
Season | Timeslot (ET) | Network | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | TV season | Viewership rank |
Avg. viewers (millions) | ||
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Date | Viewers (millions) |
Date | Viewers (millions) | |||||||
1 | Monday 9:00 pm | The WB | 12 | March 10, 1997 | 4.8[165] | June 2, 1997 | 4.0[166] | 1996–97 | 144 | 3.7[167] |
2 | Monday 9:00 pm (1–13) Tuesday 8:00 pm (14–22) |
22 | September 15, 1997 | 4.4[168] | May 19, 1998 | 6.4[169] | 1997–98 | 133 | 5.2[167] | |
3 | Tuesday 8:00 pm | 22 | September 29, 1998 | 7.1[170] | September 21, 1999 | N/A | 1998–99 | 133 | 5.3[167] | |
4 | 22 | October 5, 1999 | N/A | May 23, 2000 | N/A | 1999–2000 | 120 | 5.1[167] | ||
5 | 22 | September 26, 2000 | 5.8[171] | May 22, 2001 | 5.2[172] | 2000–01 | 120 | 4.6[173] | ||
6 | UPN | 22 | October 2, 2001 | 7.7[174] | May 21, 2002 | 5.3[175] | 2001–02 | 124 | 4.3[176] | |
7 | 22 | September 24, 2002 | 5.0[177] | May 20, 2003 | 4.9[178] | 2002–03 | 140 | 3.9[179] |
Buffy helped put The WB on the ratings map, but by the time the series landed on UPN in 2001, viewing figures had fallen. The series' high came during the third season, with 5.3 million viewers (including repeats), possibly due to the fact that both Gellar and Hannigan had hit movies out during the season (Cruel Intentions and American Pie respectively). The series' low came in season one at 3.7 million. The series finale "Chosen" pulled in a season high of 4.9 million viewers on the UPN network.[180]
The WB was impressed with the young audience the show was bringing in, and ordered a full season of 22 episodes for season two. Buffy was moved from Monday at 9:00 pm to launch The WB's new night of programming on Tuesday, starting with the episode "Innocence", watched by 8.2 million people. Due to its success in that time slot, it remained on Tuesdays at 8:00 pm for the remainder of its original run, and became one of the network's highest-rated shows.
In the 2001–2002 season, the show moved to UPN after a negotiation dispute with The WB. While it was still one of the highest rated shows on their network, The WB felt that it had peaked and thus declined a salary increase to the cast and crew. UPN then picked the series up for a two-season renewal,[181] dedicating a two-hour premiere to help re-launch it. The following season premiere attracted the second highest rating of the series, with 7.7 million viewers.[182]
Impact on television
Commentators of the entertainment industry including
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer—not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us."
Buffy's effect on programming was quickly evident. Autumn 2003 saw several new shows going into production in the U.S. that featured strong females forced to come to terms with supernatural power or destiny while trying to maintain a normal life.[188] These post-Buffy shows include Dead Like Me, Joan of Arcadia, Tru Calling, Veronica Mars and Teen Wolf. Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me, said that "Buffy showed that young women could be in situations that were both fantastic and relatable, and instead of shunting women off to the side, it puts them at the center."[188] In the United Kingdom, the lessons learned from the impact of Buffy influenced the revived Doctor Who series (2005–present),[189] as well as its spinoff series Torchwood.[190]
Several Buffy alumni have gone on to write for or create other shows. Such endeavors include
Meanwhile, the
Show characters Willow Rosenberg and Tara Maclay were one of the first lesbian couples to be shown on public broadcast television. This was important representation at the time, as it challenged many social stereotypes about gay women. It did not over-sexualize them and instead allowed them to be seen as independent people in a fairly healthy relationship.[194] Creator Joss Whedon has said in interviews that he was initially told by the network he could not include a bisexual character in the show,[195] however, in later seasons as cultural opinions on LGBT issues began to shift, he was allowed to introduce Willow and Tara as being in a relationship with one another. At first they were only seen talking and holding hands as they were not allowed to be shown kissing, until in 2002, the show showed the girlfriends in bed together, which though not a sex scene was considered the first scene of its kind for a broadcast network series.[196] The following year, the show featured the first lesbian sex scene in broadcast TV history.[197]
Awards and nominations
Buffy has gathered a number of awards and nominations which include an
It was nominated for
"Best of" lists
- Ranked #2 on Empire's "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time"
- Ranked #2 on Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best Teen Shows of All Time"[209]
- Voted #3 in 2004 and 2007 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever"[210]
- Named the third Best School Show of All Time by AOL TV[211]
- Ranked #7 on TV Guide's list of "The 60 Greatest Sci-Fi Shows of All Time"[212]
- 27th on The Hollywood Reporter's "Hollywood's 100 Favorite TV Shows"[213]
- Ranked #38 in 2016 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time[214]
- Ranked #38 in TV Guide's list of the "60 Best Series of All Time"[215]
- Ranked #40 in Screen Rant's "The 50 Best TV Shows Of All Time, Ranked"[216]
- Ranked #40 in Variety's "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time"[217]
- Ranked #41 on TV Guide's list of 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
- Ranked #49 by Writers Guild of America on their list of the "101 Best Written TV Series Of All Time"[218]
- Listed in Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time"[219]
- Included in TV Guide's 2013 list of "The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time"[220]
- Included on Syfy's list of "The 25 best fantasy series of the past 25 years"[221]
Home media
By 2004, before the release of the final season, the series earned $123.3 million in sales.[222]
DVD | Release date | ||
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United States/Canada[223] | United Kingdom | Australia | |
The Complete First Season |
January 15, 2002 | November 27, 2000 | November 20, 2000 |
The Complete Second Season |
June 11, 2002 | May 21, 2001 | June 15, 2001 |
The Complete Third Season |
January 7, 2003 | October 29, 2001 | November 22, 2001 |
The Complete Fourth Season |
June 10, 2003 | May 13, 2002 | May 20, 2002 |
The Complete Fifth Season |
December 9, 2003 | October 28, 2002 | November 29, 2002 |
The Complete Sixth Season |
May 25, 2004 | May 12, 2003[224] | April 20, 2003 |
The Complete Seventh Season |
November 16, 2004 | April 5, 2004[225] | May 15, 2004 |
The Chosen Collection (Seasons 1–7) | November 15, 2005[226] | – | – |
The Complete DVD Collection (Seasons 1–7) | – | October 30, 2005 | November 23, 2005 |
See also
- Vampire film
- List of vampire television series
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Further reading
- Michael Adams: Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, ISBN 0-19-516033-9
- Lorna Jowett: Sex and the Slayer. A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. ISBN 0-8195-6758-2
- Andrew Milner: "Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency", Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2005, pp. 103–116
- James B. South and William Irwin: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court Books, Chicago 2003, ISBN 0-8126-9531-3
- Gregory Stevenson: Televised Morality. The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hamilton Books, Dallas 2003, ISBN 0-7618-2833-8
- Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery (ed.): Fighting the Forces. What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ISBN 0-7425-1681-4
- Valentina Signorelli. "L'Essere-per-la-Morte in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - analisi ontologico-esistenziale dell'universo audiovisivo creato da Joss Whedon". Roma, Universitalia Editore, 2012, ISBN 978-88-6507-309-4
External links
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer at AllMovie
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer at IMDb
- Buffyverse Wiki - an external wiki at Fandom.com