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Trust us: Picking just 20 episodes was no easy feat for a show that helped pave the way for genre fare in the mainstream. But luckily we weren’t under […] Buffy's 20 Best Episodes, Ranked!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series created by Joss Whedon that premiered on March 10, 1997. It concluded on May 20, 2003, after seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode. The first five seasons aired on The WB, and in 2001, it transferred to UPN for its final two seasons. [1]
Vox ranked it at #142 on their "Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best" list of all 144 episodes (to mark the 20th anniversary of the show), writing, "The internet is possessed by a demon robot, and wow are we in 1997. 'I, Robot' is the first episode to really spotlight Willow, and she's such a lovely and complex character that saddling her ...
Rolling Stone ranked "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" at No. 132 on their "Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best" list, nothing the "challenge of Buffy balancing her life as a Slayer and her life as a teenage girl who wants to date will continue to play a greater role in the show, but its first exploration begins here," adding that "the ...
Vox ranked it at #132 on their "Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best" list of all 144 episodes (to mark the 20th anniversary of the show), writing, "By 1997, the student/teacher love affair was already a well-worn teen soap trope, and "Teacher's Pet"'s twist of having the teacher be a literal predator is only mildly clever." However, "the ...
Vox ranked it at #80 on their "Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best" list of all 144 episodes (to mark the 20th anniversary of the show), writing, "One of the earliest examples of Buffy making someone’s figurative demons literal, this episode makes a neglected girl disappear, leaving her to wreak havoc on the school at will.
According to Erin Waggoner, "Beauty and the Beasts" is an example of a Buffy episode that condemns aggressive masculinity. It shows a male student hoping to appear more virile by using a potion, resulting in a Jekyll and Hyde -style change of character and the physical and verbal abuse of his girlfriend.
Vox ranked this episode at #113 out of the 144 Buffy episodes, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the show's ending, calling it "a weird, weird episode... [Sid] spends the first half of the episode skittering around creepily, and then in the second half he turns out to be secretly heroic and gets a poignant death scene.