Buffy Season One Episode Three: Walter Brennan

What's working for me through three episodes: the banter. That's the show, really. The high school world is referred to rather than actually created. The vampires/witches so far are so what. The relationship between Buffy and her mom is played for laughs (Mom thinks Buffy is a typically inscrutable teen, whereas Buffy can't let Mom in on what's happening since it's all about vampires and witches and dead people); it's potentially touching but isn't something I feel yet.

( Psyches, danger, Stumpy )

(No spoilers, please.)

"Something really horrible is going to happen, but then things'll get better again"

I mentioned to a couple of youngsters in their late teens that I was starting to watch Buffy, and they weren't quite able to stop themselves in dousing me with spoilers. I kept having to remind them, for instance, that Spike hadn't shown up yet. Nor Tara.