For the last two days I’ve been talking about go-to movies. I mean the kind of movie you enjoy so much that you have watched it over and over, to the point where you no longer have any idea how many times you have seen it.<\/p>\n
TV series are different, because they are longer. In the U.S., a successful television series lasts about seven seasons — enough time for the network to accumulate enough episodes for syndication. After that the show lives on in a sort of perpetual twilight afterlife of reruns and rentals.<\/p>\n
Which leads me to today’s topic.<\/p>\n
I am now in my seventeenth year of watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>. That is, I have viewed the entire series, all seven seasons, twice through, and am now on my third time around.<\/p>\n
So at the moment I am once again in season three — for the third time.<\/p>\n
I suppose you could say that for me Buffy is a go-to TV series. At what point, I wonder, does that become true. Is it after the first time you’ve seen the entire series through, and are now jumping in for your second time around? Or do you need to be watching for at least the third time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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