Rebecca and Tori reflect on Season 1 and bestow some WITS awards for their favorites and bests. We cover the gamut of topics from The Divine Comedy and Shakespeare to "Night of the Comet," the heroines journey, and post-feminist theory.

Citations

Galati, C. A. (2022). Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter...High School? Dante’s Commedia and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Journal of Popular Film and Television, 50(2), 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2022.2057406

Owen, A Susan. 1999. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampires, Postmodernity, and Postfeminism.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 27 (2). Washington, D. C: Taylor & Francis Inc: 24–31.

Stratton, Jon. 2005. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It.” Television & New Media 6 (2). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications: 176–99. doi:10.1177/1527476403255828.

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