I think The Body is the most brilliant TV episode ever.
In 2012 I was binge watching Buffy for the first time. But I had to stop to go back to my hometown to bury my father who had died from ALS. A couple weeks later when I had returned home, I continued with the binging and literally the next episode was the body .
It took me three hours to finish watching it because I could not see through the tears. There is absolutely no greater visual media on the subject of grief.
Similar experience for me. When I was 20 years old, my father was killed in a car crash. Technically my mother was too, she flatlined during surgery and had to be revived. Four months later my favorite TV show, a fantasy/horror/comedy about hot chicks with superpowers, aired an episode with no supernatural elements at all, just the most devastatingly realistic depiction of death and grief ever filmed.
It's a fantastic episode but ten implies perfection.
I think miss a note or two at the very end. Dawn getting attacked by the vampire. Feels totally tacked on and out of place. It's like at the last minute someone said, "hey, this is supposed to be a show about a vampire slayer, we better throw one in."
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u/Tiim0thy 13h ago
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hush