Buffy The Vampire Slayer

`Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ collection has all 144 episodes of show

You don’t come across many casual "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fans, which is why there is indeed a market for the new 40-disc "Chosen Collection." Because to love "Buffy" is to LOVE it.

The Chosen Collection features all 144 episodes of the show, lovingly bound in a "rare artwork case" and including a collectible book and letter signed by creator Joss Whedon.

"Buffy," which focuses on the titular heroine (Sarah Michelle Gellar), her group of high school friends (including Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon) and her forbidden love with semi-reformed vampire Angel (David Boreanaz), has always been widely dismissed as a genre show, or, maybe worse, a teen-skewed show. That misconception gets plenty of attention on "Back to the Hellmouth: A Conversation with Creators and Cast," an hourlong roundtable discussion replete with candles and wine.

(Brendon, Emma Caulfield and Charisma Carpenter, who went on to the spin-off "Angel," are the only lead actors who deigned to show up. Gellar, who may never do work as nuanced and stunning as she did on "Buffy," might want to remember that she once starred in the movie "Simply Irresistible," and then get right on over herself.)

The bonus disc is rounded out with a quartet of featurettes, all about 10 minutes each. None disappoints (with the possible exception of the one about stunts, which seems tailor-made for boys).

The joy is in reliving your favorite moments with the people who helped create them, and hearing, even for the millionth time, the reasons the show worked so magnificently — the metaphor, used so literally here, of how being a teenager truly can be hell.