Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘Amends’ (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’)

Show: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Season 3, episode 10) Airdate: Dec. 15, 1998 Overview: This episode is the structural midpoint of the franchise; it’s sort of

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In ‘Buffy’ No. 33, Twilight is revealed to be … cough … hack … wheeze … spoiler alert (Comic book commentary)

Almost as entertaining as reading the “Buffy” Season 8 comics is reading Scott Allie’s From the Editor pieces on the Dark Horse Web site. In a January editorial, he

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‘Buffy’ has comic edge, but ‘Angel’ is starting to catch up (Comic book commentary)

If someone picked up the latest issues of Dark Horse’s “Buffy” (Issue No. 32) and IDW’s “Angel”(Issue No. 30) as their introduction to post-TV events, they’d hardly recognize

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Are TV shows getting dumber or am I getting smarter? (Commentary)

Are TV shows getting dumber or am I getting smarter? I’m not talking about TV as a whole, because obviously it’s dumber than it was

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What are your favorite Christmas stories? (Commentary)

My question for this post is: What are your favorite Christmas stories (movies, books, comic books, TV episodes, etc.)? When you think of Christmas entertainment,

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John’s favorite TV shows of the Aughts (Commentary)

Next, here are my top 10 TV shows. Some started in the ’90s, but for this list, I am just showing the years they aired

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John’s favorite entertainers of the Aughts (Commentary)

First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.

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The best TV shows of the Aughts … as it happened (Commentary)

I thought it might be fun to look back on my picks for “best of the year” this decade as those years were ending (mostly

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Dawn. Xander. Kissage. (Comic book commentary)

Even when it seems “Buffy” is doing something for laughs, it might actually have a subtext behind it. For example, when Willow’s doppelganger vampire was humorously gay

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John’s top 10 cutest TV nerds (Commentary)

Twenty-five years after “Revenge of the Nerds,” girl nerds are now represented equally (perhaps more than equally) in pop culture. Inspired by the new Alexis

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