Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Tuyet Nguyen: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I’ve always liked horror movies. I didn’t have many (okay, any) friends my first year of middle school—my parents had recently split, and I got moved across town—so every weekend, my dad would take me to the video store and let me pick out whatever I wanted. He felt guilty, I think, so no title was off-limits for me. Almost every weekend, I would beeline it to the horror section. And so, at an early age, I was hardening myself to stomach lots of bloodied bodies and gory violence. (These days, incidentally, real violence makes me sick; movie violence still makes me laugh.) But the one thing I could never handle, then or today, is parent-death. In season five of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in the episode “The Body,” Buffy’s mom dies in the opening sequence. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard at a TV show. The episode is stark and eerily quiet, beautifully stripped down to the true banality and mechanics of death. It’s heartbreakingly straightforward, while also showing how nonsensical death feels in the immediate aftermath. I love my parents, even through the guilt-trips and drama of their relationship. And watching this episode—every single time—floods me with my absolute worst fear: that someday my parents will die too.

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