Back in the day, when it was still on Netflix, I used to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i> as a regular habit. Whenever I would get to the end of season seven, I would start again from the first episode of season one.<\/p>\n
It was like rereading a favorite novel — Lord of the Rings<\/i> or The Once and Future King<\/i>, but on video. In this way, I managed to get through over 30 seasons of Buffy before Netflix finally pulled it.<\/p>\n
The thing about BtVS, as you may know, is that it ushered in the concept, within the U.S., of a TV series as a single coherent story with a narrative arc, a novel in serial form. Charles Dickens had done it in England in the mid-1800s for books. But in all the time since, nobody had ever really done it properly for American television.<\/p>\n
And the great thing about that is that every time I rewatched it, I would understand it better. Ideas that were planted in seasons one or two might finally reach their fruition in seasons five or six.<\/p>\n
Recently I purchased a DVD player for my MacBook, and I’ve started watching it again — from the beginning. And I am reminded all over again what a groundbreaking work of genius it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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