Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
* 8.1 TMDB (2,076)ComedyDramaFantasyScience FictionUnited States
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
49 episodes
Featurettes, Interviews, the Cast Reunion and the unaired pilot
Season 1
12 episodes · 1997
After moving to Sunnydale, California, Buffy Anne Summers just wants to be a normal teenager. Back in Los Angeles, her first Watcher had died; she inadvertently burned down the gymnasium at her old high school; and her parents got a divorce. The move to Sunnydale is supposed to give both her and her mother, Joyce, a clean slate. But then she meets the…
Episode 1. Welcome to the Hellmouth (1)
1997-03-10 · 42 min
When teen vampire slayer Buffy tries to start a new life at Sunnydale High, she discovers that the school sits atop a demonic dimensional portal.
Episode 2. The Harvest (2)
1997-03-10 · 43 min
Buffy and her friends encounter a powerful vampire bent on opening a portal to a dimension inhabited by demons.
Episode 3. Witch
1997-03-17 · 43 min
Buffy suspects she has a witch on her hands when the cheerleading squad falls victim to sudden blindness and spontaneous combustion.
Episode 4. Teacher's Pet
1997-03-24 · 43 min
Buffy's biology teacher is killed by a giant praying mantis that assumes the form of a beautiful substitute teacher.
Episode 5. Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
1997-03-31 · 43 min
With Buffy preoccupied by her date with Owen, Giles is trapped by a group of vampires seeking to raise a powerful leader.
Episode 6. The Pack
1997-04-07 · 43 min
Xander and several other students are possessed by the spirit of a demonic breed of hyenas that wreak havoc at the high school.
Episode 7. Angel
1997-04-14 · 43 min
Buffy discovers Angel's dark secret and hesitates to do anything about it, which could spell danger for someone she loves.
Episode 8. I, Robot... You, Jane
1997-04-28 · 43 min
Willow's new Internet chat buddy turns out to be a powerful demon electronically unleashed from a centuries-old, newly digitized book.
Episode 9. The Puppet Show
1997-05-05 · 43 min
Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.
Episode 10. Nightmares
1997-05-12 · 43 min
A series of strange occurrences lead Buffy and her friends to discover that their worst nightmares have literally become reality.
Episode 11. Out of Mind, Out of Sight
1997-05-19 · 43 min
When an invisible menace starts attacking students and faculty at Sunnydale High, the Scooby Gang traces the problem back to Cordelia.
Episode 12. Prophecy Girl
1997-06-02 · 44 min
Buffy's life may hang in the balance as Giles uncovers an ancient book that foretells not only her death, but also the end of the world.
Season 2
22 episodes · 1997
New vampires Spike and Drusilla come to town along with the new slayer, Kendra Young, who was activated as a result of Buffy's brief death in the season one finale. Xander becomes involved with Cordelia, while Willow becomes involved with witchcraft and Daniel "Oz" Osbourne becomes a werewolf after being bitten by a young cousin who just happens to be a…
Season 3
22 episodes · 1998
Buffy returns from the big city to find her friends have been battling the forces of evil without her. As she struggles to regain her mother's and her friends' trust, a new slayer named Faith arrives in town, quickly winning over all of Buffy's friends. But Faith's arrival is just the beginning of new forces Buffy must face. For a few nights later she…
Season 4
22 episodes · 1999
Buffy begins college feeling completely overwhelmed...but once the monsters show up, it's just like old times. Then she starts dating Riley, a handsome commando battling the same monsters. He's part of a secret organization called The Initiative, and Buffy is all too happy to join the team. But she soon suspects The Initiative may be more dangerous than…
Season 5
22 episodes · 2000
After an unsettling encounter with the Dracula, Buffy asks Giles to once again be her Watcher. Luckily he agrees, for Buffy is about to face mortal problems far more threatening than the undead.
Season 6
22 episodes · 2001
Elated with having Buffy back from the dead, her friends never wonder if she may have been in a better place.
Season 7
22 episodes · 2002
As Buffy accompanies Dawn on her first day at the new Sunnydale High, Giles continues Willow's magic education in England. But while Buffy is surprised to be offered a guidance counselor job, Willow is shocked to experience a horrific future vision of the Hellmouth.
Wow. I mean it unfortunately came out in 97 and ended in '03 which was really the worst possible time for me. That was going to HS and working full time to save for college and then going to college and working two jobs to avoid debt time.
So when it came out I was vaguely aware of it and some people who's opinions on things like this I still trust absolutely loved it... and some actually hated it. Which to me made it a controversial must see for me... but 97-03 was just not the time.
I didn't get to watch it until life calmed down a bit and that was around '09. And, of course, by then NO ONE wanted to talk about i and everyone had moved on to other shows. So I was left in my own Buffy Bubble and it became a sort of private love affair.
So... what you have here is a television series based on B-Movie tropes that then turns them upside down in a way that you will absolutely love... if you love B-Movies and all their tropes.
The cast is across the board hysterical. It's not really a comedy, but you're going to at least chuckle in every episode.
And the pretty blond ditz that dies in every B horror movie is the kick-butt savior. Which is problematic in 2020 because you aren't supposed to acknowledge that women were ever portrayed as heroic before 2016, and, as a result, any mention of this will get you the N , M, and F word labels by people want to say that they are fighting for equality and thus Buffy doesn't fit in their timelines....
... so even today it's controversial... but this time it is controversial by the people that SHOULD like it... because it was made before 2016 so they don't.
Point being, it is awesome from start to finish... I'm one of the freaks that didn't take any issue with Dawn...and if you have one of the better teachers you are going to learn all about how it forever changed the English language... so there you go, if the title is the reason you don't like it, you got that academia link.
But, who cares, it's just fun to watch and isn't that the point?
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