All 22 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 3 (1998-99), ranked
TV review” “Buffy” Season 3 is about the end of a first love, and it also marks my first love: the first time I was hooked on a whole TV season.
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Oh my god, they killed Otis! (and thoughts on falls to the dark side) (TV and movie commentary)
Kind of a jerk move by Shane to kill Otis on Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), huh? But also a shocking and fascinating one, and something that could set up […]
All 22 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 2 (1997-98), ranked
TV review: “Buffy” transitions from good to great to elite over the course of its classic second season.
Joss Whedon and ‘Buffy’ Season 9 get back to basics … basically (Comic book review)
Since the beginning of “Buffy,” I’ve found myself liking the characters more and more and the world they live in — the “mythology,” in geek-speak — less and less. (I’m talking in generalities; obviously, Angel’s […]
All 12 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 1 (1997), ranked
TV review: Joss Whedon’s high-school-is-hell epic begins in promising fashion with the 12-episode first season of “Buffy.”
‘Buffy’ Season 8 was an interesting, instructive failure; bring on Season 9 (Comic book review)
More than a decade ago, I declared Joss Whedon my personal god for creating “Buffy” Season 3, still arguably the greatest TV season ever. But one of the reasons I still admire him today is because […]
Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘Amends’ (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’)
Show: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Season 3, episode 10) Airdate: Dec. 15, 1998 Overview: This episode is the structural midpoint of the franchise; it’s sort of a backdoor pilot for “Angel” and it introduces the First […]
In ‘Buffy’ No. 33, Twilight is revealed to be … cough … hack … wheeze … spoiler alert (Comic book commentary)
Almost as entertaining as reading the “Buffy” Season 8 comics is reading Scott Allie’s From the Editor pieces on the Dark Horse Web site. In a January editorial, he apologized profusely to fans for Dark Horse’s accidental leakage of […]
‘Buffy’ has comic edge, but ‘Angel’ is starting to catch up (Comic book commentary)
If someone picked up the latest issues of Dark Horse’s “Buffy” (Issue No. 32) and IDW’s “Angel”(Issue No. 30) as their introduction to post-TV events, they’d hardly recognize these worlds. The story has certainly moved forward in comic-book […]
John’s favorite entertainers of the Aughts (Commentary)
First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.