Best Episodes Countdown #5: ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ — “Once More, With Feeling”
Check back with TV Insider daily as we countdown the 10 Best Episodes of the 21st Century, including picks from favorites like The Sopranos, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more.
It’s all leading up to the top pick reveal on Tuesday, April 10. Stay tuned, and sound off on our choices in the comments below!
Season 6, Episode 7
Many have attempted the Very Special Musical Episode, but few have hit such exhilarating high notes as creator Joss Whedon’s masterfully tuneful, Broadway-ready pastiche of pop ballads, anthems and earworm show tunes.
In 2001, we described the hour as “a wildly ambitious, sensationally entertaining and unexpectedly moving experiment in form.” Holds true on repeated viewings. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and the Scooby Gang, under a tap-dancing demon’s spell, reveal their darkest thoughts and deepest longings, culminating in the soaring song “Where Do We Go From Here?” Into the genre history books.
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"Hush" is my favorite for BtVS- it's the most genuinely scary episode of television I've ever seen. This episode was really good, too, though, and is definitely the benchmark for measuring all musical episodes.
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Greatest episode of any show ever- and I am not even a Buffy fan! My list has this, then Happy Days Christmas, then Mary Tyler Moore Chuckles the Clown, Lucy Vitametavegimen, Sports Night about Jeremy and the hunting trip and Honeymooners Chef of the Future.
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