Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Unless you’re a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan (you’re rolling your eyes, I know), you probably don’t know that Buffy was an ordinary girl with extraordinary powers who completely changed the horror genre and the definition of an action hero. She was the kind of pretty, tiny girl who used to walk down a dark alley … cue scary music and screams. But in Buffy, which still gets exhaustively studied in universities and books, Buffy is the tiny, pretty girl who kills the vampires, ghouls and other evil, then goes home to help her sister (they’re orphans) study for a science quiz.

She kicked vampire and sexist butt, and in so doing, became a kind of postfeminist hero(ine) and icon. As the creator, Joss Whedon explained, "The very first mission statement of the show was the joy of female power: having it, using it, sharing it." That’s worth 42 minutes.

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http://www.alternet.org/story/143457/10_tv_shows_you_have_to_watch_to_understand_the_world