buffy the vampire slayer
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I was actually pleasantly surprised at how hard this challenge was. There are many, many bad episodes of Buffy. I mean, the show spanned seven seasons, so naturally, there have to be at least a few turds in that salad. I can’t really say there are any episodes I won’t watch on principle. (Wait, that’s not entirely
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Yep, I’m still using my “how often do you watch this” criteria here, for consistency’s sake, I suppose? Anyway, unlike yesterday’s challenge, my answer did not change from the one I gave five years ago, so I’m not even going to hide it behind a cut: “Restless,” the season four finale, is still one of
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Over seven seasons, you’ve got great villains, like yesterday’s Mayor Wilkins, Season Five’s Glory, or Season Two’s Spike, Drusilla, and Angel. They strike fear into the Scoobies. The viewers honestly don’t know how the good guys will manage to triumph, but they partially don’t care because the villains are just so … fascinating. You may not
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I know you probably guessed that this would be Xander, and normally, you’d be right, because fuck Xander and the fragile masculine toxicity he rode in on. Well, you’d be incorrect! You know how on Parks and Recreation, there’s Mark Brendanewicz for the first two seasons? And how he disappears and the show gets better? And
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I went back and read my initial foray into this question and again found myself disagreeing with the words I wrote. Well, not all of them, because most of my problems with Season Seven (race, consent, misogyny, unresolved plot holes, constant monologues, etc.) are still valid, and trust me when I say I will