Whatever the outcome, you know Buffy’s coming for you.
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We Know Which "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Villain You Are
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Here's What You Should Watch On Netflix During The Blizzard
Relax, we’ll do the work for you, it’s Blizzard Day.
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We Know What You Should Binge-Watch On Hulu
Time to Hulu and chill.
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16 Classic Sci-Fi And Fantasy Shows Reimagined With People Of Color As The Lead Roles
Let’s take a trip to an alternate universe.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A young girl tasked with battling the forces of evil tries to balance high school life in a small town with maintaining her secret identity. With the weight of all of intersectional feminism on her shoulders, her white classmates rarely take notice of her daily trials.
Mike Hinson / Warner Bros.
Doctor Who
The legendary Doctor — finally having regenerated as a person of color — finds himself leaning heavily on his white companion to be listened to throughout history.
Mike Hinson / BBC
Battlestar Galactica
When an old enemy resurfaces, one crew is tasked with protecting what remains of humanity while seeking the lost colony of Earth. Can they flip the script on the entire history of colonialism? Eh.
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Charmed
Three prophesied sister witches battle the white supremacist patriarchy every day of their goddamn lives.
Mike Hinson / Warner Bros.
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16 TV Moments That Helped People Through Their Depression
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.” – Doctor Who
We've also published a film version, which you can read here.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: When Jacqueline bursts into tears and Kimmy tries to console her.
"Kimmy Schmidt has kept me from falling back into that depression hole that I so desperately, barely crawled out off. It has helped me improve. It so greatly portrayed that message of 'shit happens and you can choose to rise above it.'"
– lujanelujane
Netflix / 3 Arts Entertainment
BoJack Horseman: When BoJack receives this piece of wisdom when he is having difficulty running.
"That quote from BoJack Horseman hit me. Long live BoJack."
– leilaa4ffefddeb
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Parks and Recreation: When Chris Traeger decides to see a therapist to treat his depression.
"It felt so real and genuine to me that this bubbly character could feel terrible and needed help, too."
– melaniem4a8088074
Deedle-Dee Productions / NBC
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9 Celebrity #TBT Photos You Need To See This Week
A Donna and Eric from That ’70s Show photo kicks off this week’s #ThrowbackThursday.
Lauren Prepon shared a photo of herself with her That '70s Show co-star Topher Grace.
Sarah Michelle Gellar celebrated the 19th anniversary of the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by posting this pic from her Sunnydale High School days.
Sarah Michelle Gellar / Via instagram.com
Lena Dunham posted this adorable photo of herself enjoying a Coca-Cola.
Lena Dunham / Via instagram.com
Seth Green took us back to 1999, when he filmed this scene with Jerry Springer for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Seth Green / Via instagram.com
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Gave A Touching Tribute To "Buffy" On Its 19th Anniversary
“I am and forever will be #grateful.”
Yesterday marked 19 full years since Buffy Summers, Chosen One and Number One Slayer, first graced our television sets on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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You remember Buffy, yes? The most important show of the '90s and early '00s?
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The show that would, over the course of seven seasons, make us feel every emotion on the human spectrum?
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Since those days, Buffy (AKA Sarah Michelle Gellar) has grown up and taken on lots of different roles and projects...
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16 Fictional Characters Who Actually Portray Mental Illness Accurately
“I loved that she had thoughts that I thought only I had.”
Channel 4 / BuzzFeed
"It wasn't made when I was a teenager but when I watched the show it reminded me so much of myself at 16. Rae is relatable because of her insecurities, her tendency to compare herself to those around her and her self-abhorrence. Also I loved that she had thoughts that I thought only I had."
Submitted by chloet1991.
"Rae, with her struggles to accept herself, helped me grow to love and respect who and what I am during the most difficult time of my year. Rae means the world to me and I hold her very dearly in my heart."
Submitted by Iona Bulloch, Facebook.
"Similar to Charlie, I was sexually abused as a child by a very close relative. I was too young to understand it, but the vague memories I have suppressed still haunt me. I had depression as a teenager, and the abuse was something that I would always go back to in my mind. I have yet to tell anyone about it. Reading Charlie's emotions on paper really helped me in seeing that my post traumatic stress was valid."
Submitted anonymously.
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27 Things You Won't Understand Unless You Went To High School In The Late '90s
You had mail, but you had to wait ’cause your mom was using the phone.
Having your parents begrudgingly agree to allow you to have a pager.
And then learning pager code:
3579 : This is weird
1423: I want to die
143: I love you
187: I want to kill you
Via 90s90s90s.com
Rocking a JanSport backpack, which you, of course, one-strapped and would customize with a Sharpie or Wite-Out pen.
And maybe, if you had to, an Eastpak. MAYBE.
Via etsy.com
Using your TI-83 graphing calculator basically just to play Space Invaders with.
Of course, occasionally pulling it out to do a math problem.
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9 Celebrity #TBT Photos You Need To See This Week
A photo of Justin and Selena kissing kicks off this week’s #ThrowbackThursday.
Justin Bieber posted this photo of him and his ex, Selena Gomez, during happier times.
Justin Bieber / Via instagram.com
Kirsten Dunst took us back to the 1994 premiere of her film, Little Women, where she posed on the red carpet with her co-stars Christian Bale and Winona Ryder.
Reese Witherspoon also took us back to 1994, to the premiere of True Lies where she rocked some serious '90s mom jeans.
Jenny Lewis remembered her cult classic film, Troop Beverly Hills.
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23 Of Buffy Summers' Most Iconic Lines
“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.”
When she laughed in the face of death.
Warner Bros. / Via sunnydales.tumblr.com
When she knew some dude wasn't necessary in her life.
Warner Bros. / Via chloegemel.tumblr.com
When she let Giles know it always came down to her.
Warner Bros. / Via buffygif.tumblr.com
When she lost her memory but quickly realized she was a badass.
Warner Bros. / Via watcherspet.tumblr.com
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Eliza Dushku's Ass-Kicking Days Are Not Over
Dushku at New York Comic-Con in October 2015.
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Eliza Dushku was raised by a feminist mother alongside three brothers; she believes that upbringing infused her with an innate sense of strength. And that strength has been an asset that helped lead casting directors to dish her roles as “the badass” in “a sexist Hollywood world” of male-only ass-kickers, as she explained to BuzzFeed News.
Best known for playing Faith Lehane on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dushku has occupied the tough-as-nails niche for years — in comedies (2000’s Bring It On), horror movies (2003’s Wrong Turn), and post-Buffy TV shows (Tru Calling in 2003–2004 and Dollhouse in 2009–2010). From a reluctant cheerleader to a deeply flawed vampire slayer, these are gigs that could easily — and simplistically — be corralled into the “strong female character” trope. But Dushku sees them as more than that; as she said on a chilly day in Midtown New York late last year, “There are so many different meanings of ‘strong.’”
Dushku on Buffy.
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“Does it mean she [can] bench-press 240? Does it mean she is physically strong? Does it mean she is so tough that she's always walking around with a chip on her shoulder? A strong female character is deeper than that,” she said. “Unfortunately, a lot of people think that all it takes to make a strong character [is] to throw her in a couple of fight scenes and show her flipping a car. But the strong female characters that I know — from Joss and from Sigourney Weaver characters and from Meryl Streep characters — are so many things at the same time.”
Dushku happily played these roles, in part because she was having a blast, but mostly because she quickly saw the impression these characters left on young viewers.
“When I played Faith, I started getting letters from young women — and men — that said, ‘Your character made me confront my abuser’ or ‘Your character made me feel for the first time like I was strong, because you are strong,’” recalled Dushku, her leather pants–clad legs curled underneath her. “That was such a shift for me. I couldn't turn my back on that.”
On April 1, Dushku will add another ass-kicking character to her résumé when she joins the cast of Cinemax’s Banshee as Agent Veronica Dawson, a mysterious new character that quickly makes her mark on the town. “Nobody comes to Banshee without some serious fucking skeletons in their closet,” she said, with a laugh. “She's got her skeletons, she's got her demons, she's got her habits — and she's got some bad ones — but she’s also really cunning and smart. She's a profiler that gets into people's heads using a lifetime of fucked-up experiences to make her really, really good at what she does. It's who she is, it's how she deals, it's what she does … and she's not going to apologize for it.”
Dushku on Banshee.
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While filming Banshee in the summer of 2015, Dushku balanced a second role: college freshman. After delaying college in 1998 to star on Buffy, she returned to her hometown of Boston in 2014 and re-enrolled in undergrad with an emphasis on sociology. “I'm a 34-year-old freshman — loud and proud,” she exclaimed. More specifically, she plans to study addiction and recovery. “You don't meet one person today who isn't connected to addiction in some way. It's like cancer: Every single person walking this earth now has somebody in their life that's suffering with it. … So it’s about erasing the stigma of addiction. That’s somewhere I think I could make a difference.”
Dushku at the Banshee premiere in March 2016.
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She was quick to quash rumors that she’s quitting acting, but equally swift to acknowledge that it’s risky to step away from Hollywood for an extended period of time to immerse herself in school. “If it happens, it happens,” she says of leaving acting behind — or, conversely, acting leaving her behind. “Being an actress was an unexpected turn for me — not a mistake, but an accident. It's like I tripped and fell into it when I was young.”
Many in her position might balk at the idea of stepping outside Hollywood’s intoxicating bubble. While acting has afforded Dushku an embarrassment of riches, she’s hoping the same fans that looked up to her ass-kicking characters will see her decision to make education a priority as equally kick-ass.
“I've been a part of such awesome things: Bring It On and the Buffyverse and working with Joss Whedon three times, and now Banshee. At the end of the day — whether it's through playing these strong female characters that made other women feel strong or being a 34-year-old freshman in college — this is my story, and if my story inspires you, fucking right on.”
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Which Season Of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Is Your Soul?
Search your insides.
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Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, And Anne Rice Are Appearing In A Vampire Documentary
Juliet Landau has recruited Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, Anne Rice and many more to share their vampire tales.
Juliet Landau, who played the iconic (and wonderfully insane) Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is creating the ultimate vampire insider documentary.
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"The project, A Place Among the Undead, has been percolating since working on Buffy and Angel with Joss," Landau told BuzzFeed.
"The movie transcends the idea of a traditional documentary. It has interlinking narrative films inspired by the conversations."
Place Among the Undead
Place Among The Undead
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How Well Do You Know The First Episode Of "Buffy"?
“Gym was cancelled, due to the extreme dead guy in the locker.”
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Which Famous Vampire Should You Date Based On Your Zodiac Sign?
These hotties are to die for.
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25 Badass '90s Female TV Characters Who Were Total Role Models
“I’m a damsel, but not the distressed kind.” — Topanga, Boy Meets World
The WB / UPN
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15 Years Ago, This Is What TV Looked Like
The year was 2000, and Dawson Leery made The Face.
In 2000, we were first introduced to Stars Hollow and the Gilmore Girls.
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And no on even knew who Jess was yet.
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Over on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Scoobies were still navigating college...
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And Buffy was dating Riley.
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How Well Do You Know Season One Of "Buffy"?
Are you an expert?
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Which "Buffy" Episode Should You Watch Based On Your Mood?
There’s an episode for every mood your could ever possibly be in.
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