Buffy used to be my favorite show when I was about 13 years old. Since we are in 2020 and escapism is the new black, I am rewatching the full show after this whole time, and I am doing that to revisit and check if the feeling survives after all these years. Now I am on season 3 and guess what? It has not been a miss so far!!!

First of all, we need to recognize the quality of the production: it's a teen show in the late 90s, so do not expect The Avengers' special effects. The Blu-ray remaster is a miss, so go for the original in 4:3 instead of the widescreen experience (to understand, watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo&ab_channel=PassionoftheNerd THERE ARE SPOILERS ALL OVER THE VIDEO!).

I remember watching it and now I think about how much it interfered in the way I looked at being a teenager. The show has such a great positive influence on how we deal with our emotions at that age, that I feel as if it was one of my therapeutic tools through adolescence. Also, being a gender non-conforming myself, the queer representativity was very important for me. When we talk about social issues, we can see there is a great effort in making things fairer to women, including: a badass female protagonist kicking misogynous asses off, her badass single mother being a great parent on her own, a badass female bisexual-witch-nerd best friend, male characters who need to be saved by women several times and literal sarcastic commentaries about the patriarchal structures all the time. This is as far as it gets in this department, for there could have been a few more representations of plural women. Also, black representativity could have gone WAY FURTHER than the stereotyped Kendra. Still, it's progress in the late 90s for teens while there were American Pie and Scary Movie going on.

If you are considering watching it, you have my blessing: WATCH IT!
If you have already watched it in the past, you have my recommendation: WATCH IT ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING!