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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs)

starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, James Marsters
directed by: Joss Whedon

: Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GELLAR,SARAH MICHEL
EAN: 0024543212904
Format: Box set, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 40
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Sales Rank: 1155
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1997



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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 19-SEP-2006
Media Type: DVD

Amazon.com:
From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its boxed set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.)

First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is.

Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon).

Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a 'normal' girl. On a lesser note, with the boxed set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability.

In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ('I Robot' in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Show - 5 stars, the rest of it - 3 stars...
I have to say Buffy as a show is awesome. I love how much fun it is, how it never takes itself too ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Seven Seasons of Excellent Television
If you like anything else Joss Whedon has made, buy this. If you've watched the show, buy it because ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Beware the extras
The show is even better than I remembered, but beware of the extras, some of them contain spoilers, so ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - one of the best shows in TV history
I am a die-hard Buffy fan and proud of it. I have been a fan since day one, even recruiting my mom and ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Late to the party but lucky nonetheless
I was never a Buffy fan when the show was on the air. I had seen the movie and did not think much of it. ... Read More

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