The Buffy the Vampire Slayer effect is still felt in pop culture.
I mean, can you honestly picture a thirty-year-old horror film in your headwithouta helpless blonde female victim?
In my world, thats not how I roll.
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one.
She is the slayer.
Sarah Michelle Gellar played Buffy Summers and changed the face of womanhood in pop culture.
I was more broody, less sure of myself and mega-awkward.
Buffy served as my awakening and it wasnt until the show started airing that I actuallygrewup.
I now had a super cool heroine to look up to.
And I wasnt the only one.
Girls everywhere were growing up alongside me and watchingBuffyreligiously every Thursday night at eight oclock without fail.
Any audience, no matter its age demographic, can relate to this show.
I like to give it a re-watch at least once every couple of years or so.
Instead, each player is rewarded with stupendously intricate storylines and poignant personal growth arcs.
Have I mentioned how innocent and pure I was growing up?
No, it was love like I had never seen before and it pretty much changed television.
Its been referred to as The Buffy Effect.
BeforeBuffy, whod have ever thought that something like this could ever happen?
Face him and pummel him into the ground, just like Buffy taught you!
