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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ still great 21 years later
Twenty-one is the last birthday that many people look forward to. Yeah, you’re an adult when you turn 18, but you don’t get to enjoy the full freedom of it until you can actually buy booze on your 21st birthday.
This year, those people born in 1997 will be turning 21.
Another thing turning 21, though, is a TV science fiction/fantasy show that made a big impact on the genre, launching some of its actors to stardom and its creator, Joss Whedon, to head one of the biggest comic book-based movie franchises ever — the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
That show? Well, it’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which premiered March 10, 1997.
Missing out
I have to admit, that I never watched Buffy until earlier this year. Sure, I caught an episode or two back in the day when it was having its first run on the WB, but I never really got hooked. And admittedly, I was kind of put off by its name. After all, what says “ditzy cheerleader” more than a name like “Buffy?”
I would not have bothered with the show, which I’ve binge-watched along with its spinoff “Angel” on Netflix, had it not been for some spurning from someone who told me I was missing out.
