“Sunnydale may be ashes, but from them a new Buffy is rising”

BETH WEBB ON WHY A BELOVED VAMPIRE SHOW DESERVES A FRESH START

A HEAD OF THE release of I Saw The TV Glow last year, I dived into the film’s influences with director Jane Schoenbrun. Unsurprisingly, given its homage to ’90s and ’00s YA TV, Buffy The Vampire Slayer came up. “I cared more about who the characters on Buffy were going to the prom with than I did about my own prom,” they told me enthusiastically. Because, to many, Buffy — which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003 — was a show that offered comfort and strength through its band of demon-offing oddballs. And now, with a Sarah Michelle Gellar-fronted reboot pilot episode lined up with Chloé Zhao at the helm, the people who loved it can rejoice once more. “Thank you to all the fans who never stopped…

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Empire (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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