Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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17. TV’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The 1992 film version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a modest box-office success (especially on home video), but aside from a few devotees, hardly anyone thought screenwriter Joss Whedon needed to expand his world of high-school cliques and horrific night-stalkers. Yet by the end of the first season of the Buffy TV series, it was clear that Whedon had found the right medium to spin stories about the burdens of a teenager chosen by fate to fight vampires. The show had an almost terminal case of the cutes in the early going, but it developed into a complex, often heart-rending study of growing up and taking responsibility—without losing its sense of humor or creepy thrills. As a movie, Buffy is just a one-note idea. As a series, it’s an epic.

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