- John Hansen
- November 28, 2011
All 22 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 3 (1998-99), ranked
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 3 (1998-99, The WB) is about the end of a first love (Buffy and Angel’s romance), and it also marks my
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- John Hansen
- November 2, 2011
Oh my god, they killed Otis! (and thoughts on falls to the dark side) (TV and movie commentary)
Kind of a jerk move by Shane to kill Otis on Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), huh? But also a
- John Hansen
- October 16, 2011
All 22 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 2 (1997-98), ranked
Usually, I’m more interested in the journey than the ending, so I don’t have much sympathy when someone says “Well, it was good, but then
- John Hansen
- September 16, 2011
Joss Whedon and ‘Buffy’ Season 9 get back to basics … basically (Comic book review)
Since the beginning of “Buffy,” I’ve found myself liking the characters more and more and the world they live in — the “mythology,” in geek-speak
- John Hansen
- September 11, 2011
All 12 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 1 (1997), ranked
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 1 (1997, The WB) stands apart from other shows’ first seasons in that it hits the ground running — Joss Whedon
- John Hansen
- February 21, 2011
‘Buffy’ Season 8 was an interesting, instructive failure; bring on Season 9 (Comic book review)
More than a decade ago, I declared Joss Whedon my personal god for creating “Buffy” Season 3, still arguably the greatest TV season ever. But one
- John Hansen
- December 25, 2010
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
- John Hansen
- March 27, 2010
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
- John Hansen
- March 1, 2010
‘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
- John Hansen
- December 11, 2009
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.