![]() ![]() "I'd never finish my doctorate," Nussbaum writes. But she was right: her demons were real." What got Nussbaum was how the show treated Buffy not as eye candy but as the hero of her own story: "Like plenty of teenagers, Buffy believed what was happening to her was the end of the world. The particular episode featured a group of high-schoolers possessed by hyenas who eat - yes, eat - the principal. ![]() It was also bad for you - in "the much-quoted (although possibly apocryphal) words of '90s comic Bill Hicks," it was "a spiritually harmful act, like 'taking black spray paint to your third eye.' "īut Buffy "spiked my way of thinking entirely," Nussbaum writes. In 1997, Emily Nussbaum was a doctoral student at NYU, studying literature and "foggily planning on becoming a professor," when an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer changed her life.Īt the turn of this century, television was still considered unserious, "a disposable product, like a Dixie Cup," Nussbaum writes. ![]()
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